The Brothers Quay

Influential animators honored with retrospective and Christopher Nolan doc

"..."Just call us Quay. It will make your life easier and ours more..."

Sept. 18, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Animated Films by the Brothers Quay

"...Directed by: Brothers Quay. Animated Films by the Brothers Quay includes video screenings..."

Nov. 15, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Institute Benjamenta

"...Directed by: The Brothers Quay. Starring: Mark Rylance, Gottfried John, Daniel Smith and Alice..."

April 19, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

"The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb"

"...and Mike Gifford. Like a cross between the Brothers Quay, Jan Svankmajer, and David Lynch, Tom Thumb is a..."

April 7, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Faust

"...who loves the grim, surrealist humor of the Brothers Quay will find in Svankmajer a kindred spirit, full of..."

Oct. 14, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes

Like a dream, the Quay Brothers' The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes is wispy and ethereal; like a nightmare, it lodges in your hindbrain and gnaws away with gleeful abandon.

"...Directed by: Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay. Starring: Amira Casar, Gottfried John, Assumpta..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Illustrated World at AFS Cinema's New Season of Animation

There’s more to animation than Disney and Miyazaki

"...from a movie. Saturday, July 6, 3:30pm. The Brothers Quay in 35mm (UK, 2015)..."

July 5, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

‘Doctor Who’ Watch

7.5: "The Angels Take Manhattan"

"...base camp is a scary-Gothic building called the Winter Quay, conveniently located in eyeshot of New York’s biggest, baddest..."

Sept. 30, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

'The Territory' Schedule

Keeping one eye on television and the other on pop culture.

"...min.: This animated work in the style of the Quay Brothers presents a surreal dreamscape of dolls, bugs, and..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Screens Column

2016 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animation

Watch and prepare for your Oscar pool

"...flawless and recalls the work of both the Brothers Quay and Jean-Pierre Jeunet...."

Jan. 29, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pinocchio

"...conveys the phantasmic eerieness of avant-creep icons, the Brothers Quay, with hideously made-up characters furtively struggling to lend a..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

Austin Studios and the new offices of the Austin Film Society were unveiled this week on the site of the old Robert Mueller Airport.

"...a quartet of short films by the legendary Brothers Quay as part of the group's bimonthly meeting. The event..."

Nov. 17, 2000 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Indie Shorts on Display

The Territory Begins New Season

"...style of the great European animators and expatriates, the Quay Brothers. (Included are excerpts from works by the Quay..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Screens Feature

"Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life"

"...Richard E. Grant. Like a cross between the Brothers Quay, Jan Svankmajer, and David Lynch, Tom Thumb is a..."

April 7, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Austin's Airport Art Program Makes Every Flight a Trip to the Gallery

Got some time at AUS? There's many distractions in plane sight.

"...Jordan Terminal] – Josef Kristofoletti, Beili Liu, and Kat Quay are the next artists in there."..."

Sept. 2, 2022 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Czech That Film Festival Returns To Austin

Celebration of Czech cinema includes virtual, drive-in screenings

"...influence for names like Terry Gilliam and the Brothers Quay, his stop-motion work is some that has reverberated through..."

April 12, 2021 Screens Post by Trace Sauveur

SXSW Short and Sweet: “Love is Only Just a Death Away”

Bára Anna Stejskalová gives stop-motion life to a lonely worm

"...I also deeply admire the work of the Brothers Quay, Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski. But when it comes..."

March 19, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Review: Junk Head

Visionary stop motion joy from Japan

"...an animator, Hori's precursors seem clear: Jan Svankmajer, the Quay Brothers, Kihachirō Kawamoto, Adam Jones (guitarist and director for..."

Sept. 30, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Dead Ringers

Re-examining Cronenberg's overlooked masterpiece now on Blu-ray

"...there is also the dry humor of Institute Benjamenta-era Quay Brothers (notably in the glacial black-and-white photography, and the..."

Nov. 30, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Review: We Are the Flesh

Visceral horror probes the necessity of morals

"...atavistic and misshapen troll more likely carved by the Quay Brothers than born. Indeed, it's his charismatic anti-Messiah that..."

Sept. 24, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Interactive Announces More Featured Speakers

J.J. Abrams, Susan Glasser, Winklevoss twins, Geena Davis top the list

"...Julie Anne Quay and Elliot Tebele..."

Feb. 8, 2016 Screens Post by James Renovitch

SXSW Eco 2015: The Future of Hyperloops

First full track will likely be in Africa or Asia

"...be here too. However, HTT decided to go with Quay Valley in California, and has already announced that the..."

Oct. 6, 2015 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Critics Table Awards 2013

Arts writers raise their glasses to outstanding art in list of nominees

"...João Beira, Marta Ferraz, and Yago De Quay, "3D [Embodied]"..."

May 24, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Beautiful Bitter

The heartachey animation of Don Hertzfeldt

"...that close, might be Jan Švankmajer and the Brothers Quay.) His films are uneasy dreams, more often than not..."

Nov. 11, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

SXSW 2011 Film Reviews

"...Aesthetically, it recalls both the shuddersome stop-motion of the Quay Brothers and the jittery mechanical cacophonies of Mark Pauline's..."

March 18, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Irish Whiskeys I Have Known and Loved

Taking pulls with local buyers

"...in Ireland, sitting at a bar on a meandering quay. But wouldn't it be nice if restaurants would carry..."

March 14, 2008 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Winners

"...recently appeared in pacificREVIEW, Dark Recesses Press, Ugly Accent, Quay, and SUB-LIT. She lives in San Marcos with her..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Books Feature

Fiery Furnaces

Record review

"...on a test course. From purposefully teeth-gnashing, off-key synths ("Quay Cur") to swinging drums and bouncy piano ("My Dog..."

Aug. 20, 2004 Music Review by Darcie Stevens

Short Cuts

SXSW Film Festival 03 update

"...Inch Nails videos to the work of the Brothers Quay, as well as, we kid you not, MTV's cut..."

March 14, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Cinescape

Cinescape offers a weekly home to microcinema.

"...rivals Eraserhead and the animated films of the Brothers Quay for dark, elemental power...."

Sept. 20, 2002 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

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