AFF Review: The Blue Orchid

Danish fever dream mixes Cronenberg and Carruth

"...Festival 2020 Dark Matters jury award winner) The Blue Orchid a film to be absorbed rather than explained...."

Oct. 29, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid

A Hollywood vessel of doom hunts for the Big Squeeze.

"...scientists into Borneo’s rainy season in search of an orchid rumored to extend cellular life – and potentially promise..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Adaptation.

"...reverberate long after the movie ends. All this from orchids? Susan Orlean's bestselling book The Orchid Thief provides the..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Upstream Color

Shane Carruth's film is arthouse science fiction at its most compelling yet cryptic.

"...my full comprehension, but they fit somewhere within Carruth’s orchid-pig-human continuum that governs his fractured story. Upstream Color is..."

April 19, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tous les Matins lu Monde

"...created his own marvelous hybrid. And, like an exotic orchid, it is beautiful, but not everyone's favorite...."

March 5, 1993 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

A Chinese Ghost Story III

"...dreaded Tree Demon within the confines of the moldering Orchid Temple. Flash forward 100 years, and a similar priest/acolyte..."

Feb. 19, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Being Charlie Kaufman

Will the real Charlie Kaufman please stand up?

"...Charlie, an adaptation of a best-selling book called The Orchid Thief. Only Charlie isn't listening. Instead, he's off on..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Orchid Flotilla

Glass Half Full Theatre reveals moving artistry in silence, smallness, and subtlety

"...The Orchid FlotillaSalvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Rd., 512/474-7886 Through Sept...."

Sept. 19, 2014 Arts Review by Adam Roberts

Colombiana

A professional assassin by day, a vigilante by night: Zoe Saldana is Luc Besson's latest femme fatale.

"...this killer signs her bloody work with a lipstick-scrawled orchid: the Cattleya orchid, to be specific...."

Sept. 2, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Day Trips

"...Among the gardens' many holdings is perhaps the largest orchid collection in Texas open to the public...."

April 14, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Gay Place

Louisa Spaventa's Night of Queer Performance fosters education, support, and celebration for the queer community

"...array of Austin's most talented QTs (including Foxxy Blue Orchid, Drew Riley, Nikki DaVaughn, and more), the evening is..."

April 28, 2017 Column by Sarah Marloff

Swimming 'Upstream'

Shane Carruth on pigs, money, and being a control freak

"...narrative" in a haunting life cycle that includes pigs, orchid harvesting, and mysterious worms. Complex? Maybe. But when it's..."

April 19, 2013 Screens Feature by Patrick Courtney

Yogurt Shop DNA Saga Continues, Pt. 3

Is there enough evidence to set Robert Springsteen free?

"...those additional tests, completed by experts with the company Orchid Cellmark (Dallas and elsewhere), have revealed two additional unknown..."

June 19, 2009 News Post by Jordan Smith

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, March 21-27

"...but if only they are in the vicinity of orchid bees, their sole pollinators. And orchid bees thrive in..."

March 21, 2025 Column by Rob Brezsny

Day Trips: South Texas Botanical Gardens and Nature Center, Corpus Christi

Expansive horticulture park offers fun for everyone

"...The Bromeliad Conservatory and Orchid Conservatory are two large greenhouses filled with colorful flowers...."

Feb. 25, 2022 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Austin Film Festival Announces 2020 Award Winners

Austin-linked films Blinders, Horton Foote win

"...by Fernando González Gómez Dark Matters Feature: The Blue Orchid written by Carl Marott and Hans Frederik Jacobsen, directed..."

Nov. 2, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival Announces 2020 Lineup

Dave Not Coming Back, Golden Arm this year's headliners

"...Matters (including Carl Marot's intriguing SF drama The Blue Orchid); Comedy Vanguard ((such as including Marshall Cook's look at..."

Oct. 1, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Booksellers

Tale of New York antiquarian booksellers is the Reader's Digest version

"...impact on manuscripts as an time - as The Orchid Thief author Susan Orlean describes it, the perils of..."

April 17, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

After Words

Marcia Gay Harden stars as a lonely woman on vacation in an exotic locale

"...is subtly handled – she becomes a delicate jungle orchid nurtured by the respectfulness of a sincere man who..."

Aug. 21, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...Hinsley, who is studying for a Ph.D. in the orchid trade at the University of Kent, there is a..."

May 8, 2015 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Top 10 Theatre Duos & Trios of 2014

Remembering a year in theatre in which performers distinguished themselves in twos and threes

"...8) CAROLINE RECK & GRICELDA SILVA IN THE ORCHID FLOTILLA (Glass Half Full Theatre) No words could describe..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Arts Feature by Adam Roberts

Top 10 Reasons (+3) I Stayed in Love With Theatre in 2014

Valentines to theatre and comedic craft played a large part in making 2014 a memorable year in theatre

"...12) THE ORCHID FLOTILLA (Glass Half Full Theatre) Caroline Reck, crouched in..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

All Over Creation: I Was Meant for the Stage

To learn which actors were destined for the theatre, watch how they hold the stage alone

"...was transfixing viewers at Salvage Vanguard Theater in The Orchid Flotilla, was explaining how he was "meant for the..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Orchid

"...OrchidThe Zodiac Sessions (Nuclear Blast)..."

March 14, 2014 Music Review by Michael Toland

2012 Austin Critics Table Awards

For the 20th time, a big hand for the nominees if you please

"...The Orchid Flotilla, Glass Half Full Productions..."

May 25, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Yogurt Shop Murder Defendants Set Free

Prosecution not ready for trial

"...those additional tests, completed by experts with the company Orchid Cellmark, revealed what could be yet another unknown male..."

June 26, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Improvisation on Four Legs and a Seat

Eighty Texas artists accept Damian Priour's invitation to riff on the idea of chair

"...a cat, the moon and the sun, or an orchid, all while still remaining seating."..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Cutthroat Counterprogramming

Saturday night's the right night to like books in Austin town

"...Kaufman film loosely adapted from her nonfiction piece The Orchid Thief. Alamo programmer Lars Nilsen will conduct a Q&A..."

Oct. 30, 2008 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Shopgirl

Steve Martin's latest stands out as an elegant work, one that provides a welcome look at love, romance, and heartbreak without the encumbrances of the usual Hollywood folderol.

"...attempt to start her life. She’s something of an orchid herself, with a beguiling, though partially hidden, allure yet..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cookbooks

Gift guide

"...natural vanilla comes from the fruit of a climbing orchid, or that it has recently surpassed saffron as the..."

Dec. 17, 2004 Food Feature by MM Pack

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