My Obsession: Fleabag

Snarky British comedy mines the prick in all of us

"...in a cruel twist of the knife, Dad (Bill Paterson) shacked up with their godmother, an insufferable artist played..."

May 10, 2019 Screens Column by Beth Sullivan

The Man Who Invented Christmas

How Charles Dickens created Ebenezer Scrooge

"...Clark, Ger Ryan, Miles Jupp, Anna Murphy and Bill Paterson...."

Nov. 21, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White

Texas Book Festival 2017: The Full List

Dan Rather, Jeffrey Eugenides, the Bush sisters, and 291 more

"...Ellen Oh – Flying Lessons and Other Stories Katherine Paterson – Brigadista Year Jessica Townsend – Nevermoor Juan Villoro..."

Sept. 12, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Paterson

Adam Driver embodies the poetry of the quotidian

"...Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson is infused with the poetry of the quotidian, and..."

Jan. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Kimberley Jones’ Top 10 Films of 2016

"...Hail, Caesar!; Little Men; Weiner; Paterson; The Nice Guys Most Overrated..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Marjorie Baumgarten’s Top 10 Films of 2016

"...life that's as profound as the donkey Balthazar's. 8) Paterson..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Josh Kupecki’s Top 10 Films of 2016

"...by the Sea), Michael Shannon (Nocturnal Animals), Adam Driver (Paterson), Colin Farrell (The Lobster)..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Fall Film Festival Season Kicks Off With the Toronto International Film Festival

Northern exposure

"...on my must-see list from Cannes was Jim Jarmusch's Paterson, a warmhearted tribute to poetry and the workaday life,..."

Sept. 23, 2016 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Final SXSW List: No. 10

Nas, Vince Staples, Lucius, and 198 more

"...Just Blaze (Paterson, NJ.)..."

March 4, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Music List 10

The Damned, 2 Chainz, War on Drugs, and 242 more added

"...Fetty Wap (Paterson, NJ.)..."

March 6, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Music List No. 9

Spoon, Atmosphere, Charles Bradley, and 243 more added

"...Just Blaze (Paterson, NJ.)..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Music: List No. 8

Big Krit, Cloud Nothings, Brandy, Brandi, and 187 more.

"...The Karma Killers (West Paterson, NJ.)..."

Feb. 20, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The Railway Man

Colin Firth stars with Nicole Kidman in this memoir about a WWII POW in Burma who, in the present day, still suffers repercussions.

"...same feeling of essential decency as Firth.) Screenwriters Andy Paterson and Frank Cottrell Boyce (who wrote many of Michael..."

April 25, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Soccer Watch

How Sweet It Is

"...was pulled down from behind by Chill goalie Steven Paterson. Straight red card to Paterson; PK goal by the..."

Aug. 9, 2013 Sports Column by Nick Barbaro

We Are the Champions!

Aztex win PDL title, set attendance record

"...league MVP Kris Tyrpak got behind Chill goalie Steven Paterson and was pulled down from behind. Straight red card..."

Aug. 5, 2013 Sports Post by Nick Barbaro

Austin Film Festival Unveils Complete Lineup

David Chase's 'Not Fade Away' opens fest

"...FADE - Andy Mundy-Castle (Director) FINDING MERCY - Robyn Paterson (Director) PUNK IN AFRICA - Keith Jones, Deon Maas..."

Sept. 19, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Buried

Buried takes place entirely inside a coffin where a man is buried alive.

"...Directed by: Rodrigo Cortés. Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Robert Paterson, Stephen Tobolowsky, Samantha Mathis and Ivana Miño. Gasp! Choke!..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two: Mad Dreaming

Loud, barely intelligible SXSW incantations

"...– William Carlos Williams, preface from Book One of "Paterson" (Anticipation)..."

Feb. 19, 2010 Column by Louis Black

TV Eye

Forget Lost: The British Survivors starts with a disaster scenario, too, but skips all the hinky stuff

"...On the road, she literally runs into Greg Preston (Paterson Joseph), a former systems analyst who was already set..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Seven Tenths: The Sea and Its Thresholds

Exploring the "notland"-scape and the human condition all at once

"...Seven Tenths: The Sea and Its Thresholdsby James Hamilton-Paterson Europa Editions, 406 pp., $16 (paper)..."

June 5, 2009 Books Review by Sarah Jean Billeiter

Sons & Daughters

"...a forthrightness that borders on the schizophrenic, while Scott Paterson's chimey guitar runs rings around both Bethel and the..."

March 7, 2008 Music Review by Marc Savlov

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Mordecai Richler once remarked that 'the novelist's primary moral responsibility is to be the loser's advocate.' It's difficult to imagine how anyone who takes that dictum to heart could outdo Junot Díaz here.

"...fantasy role-playing games, the late Oscar de León of Paterson, N.J., "was a social introvert who trembled with fear..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Books Review by Rayyan Al-Shawaf

Bridge to Terabithia

This excellent screen version of the Newbery-winning novel is not about fairies and enchanted forests but about kids who feel as though they don't fit in.

"...Bailee Madison. Once again, don’t fear the trailer. Katherine Paterson’s Newbery-winning 1978 novel arrives at the screen inviolate, adapted..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Letters at 3AM

Most of the American soldiers who have died in Iraq came from little places that the 21st century has left behind

"...York City ... Indio, California ... Winchester, Virginia ... Paterson, New Jersey ... Troy, Alabama ... Dresden, Tennessee ......"

Aug. 6, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Even though 2002 was an exceptional year for American cinema, American art has never been more marginalized, ghettoized, and controlled, than it is today.

"...pillars: William Carlos Williams was writing the last of Paterson, Ezra Pound was writing the last of his Cantos,..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Reflections on how Western civilization lost its moral authority.

"...Carl hours before boarding the bus: William Carlos Williams' Paterson. That night I read over and over Lowell's "The..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Crush

"...MacDowell, Imelda Staunton, Anna Chancellor, Kenny Doughty and Bill Paterson. Crush, by first-time writer-director John McKay, is the kind..."

April 26, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Greenfingers

"...Mirren, Adam Fogerty, Danny Dyer, Warren Clarke, David Kelly, Paterson Joseph and Natasha Little. Just into the opening credits,..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Postscripts

The funny people at Modern Humorist have devised a new way to make fun of the President, and upcoming events in Austin's literary life.

"...Georgetown), see www.southwestern.edu/tour/usamap.html … National Book Award finalist and Paterson Poetry Award winner Alicia Suskin Ostriker (The Imaginary Lover,..."

March 23, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

Postmarks

Kudos for the Lost Austin issue, and much environmental ado.

"...time, daring. The great, and often underrated actor, Bill Paterson, I think he really is Scottish, played the Prime..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Column

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