SXSW Goes Monster Hunting With Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves

Evil Dead Rises and more added to festival lineup

"...American families are on the receiving end of a ransom note. Their journeys reflect how lives are being threatened..."

Jan. 11, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Critics Name Cream of the Cultural Crop

The nominees for the 2017-18 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Wills, Catalina de Erauso Drew Silverman, “A Meditation” Jesse Wilson, with Brandon Guerra, John Clark Gable, and KIVI, Diet..."

May 14, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...props and production documents are stored at the Harry Ransom Center. So schedule a trip to the archives in..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Mad Men Archive Lands at HRC

Matthew Weiner show archive parks its fedora at Harry Ransom Center

"...of the complete Mad Men archive to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, the acclaimed TV..."

Jan. 12, 2017 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Confederate Statue Report Released

UT task force recommends taking action

"...the Blanton Museum, the Texas Memorial Museum, the Harry Ransom Center, the Littlefield home, or an exhibit elsewhere on..."

Aug. 10, 2015 News Post by Mac McCann

Art Par Excellence

The nominees for the 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...“The Making of Gone With the Wind,” Steve Wilson, curator; Ransom Center..."

May 20, 2015 Arts Post

The Making of Gone With the Wind

This account of the cinematic epic's epic creation is as full of drama and memorable characters as the film itself

"...The Making of Gone With the Wind by Steve Wilson University of Texas Press, 352pp., $50..."

Dec. 19, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Screen Play

What to do at the writers' conference

"...In this, the film's 75th anniversary year, the Harry Ransom Center unveiled a world-class exhibit of its vast GWTW..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Making of Gone With the Wind

The Ransom Center's epic retelling of how this epic motion picture came to be

"...As the repository of Selznick's archives, the Harry Ransom Center has what must be the greatest treasure trove..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

Food-o-File

A cupcake caper, and more sweet news

"...the classy little French restaurant, chef and co-owner Teresa Wilson took her time finding just the right spot for..."

June 20, 2014 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Harry Ransom Heads to a Galaxy Far, Far Away

HRC brings former ILM head Thomas G. Smith to Austin

"...The Harry Ransom Center has made some major cinematic acquisitions, but now..."

April 9, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Five O'Clock Land

Closing Encore Records is no walk in the park for Chuck Lokey

"...In used vinyl, Ransom Wilson looks up from his Bach/Telemann suites LP, a..."

Jan. 13, 2012 Music Feature by Adam Schragin

AFF Announces 2011 Lineup

Regional premieres of Shame, The Descendants

"...of Bottle Rocket (which she produced), presented by Luke Wilson and featuring a taped introduction by Wes Anderson. There..."

Sept. 20, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

We Can't Go Home Again

Piecing through Nicholas Ray's archive at the HRC

"...a permanent home at the University of Texas' Harry Ransom Center. Such was the film director's breadth of friends..."

Aug. 5, 2011 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Powers of Tenn

Talking Tennessee Williams' genius with critic John Lahr

"...intensely prolific reviser comes through clearly in the Harry Ransom Center exhibition "Becoming Tennessee Williams," which explores the first..."

Feb. 25, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

History in the Making

A new exhibit at the Harry Ransom Center proves that no job is too small when it comes to 'Making Movies'

"...a permanent home at the University of Texas' Harry Ransom Center. Acquired in 2006 and ranging from early head..."

Feb. 5, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

All Times Through Paradise

Introducing Austin's patron saint of musicians, Saint Cecilia

"...1999, a distant cousin appeared upstairs at the Harry Ransom Center in the heart of UT. Here, Goliath's head..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Austin Film Festival Announces Full Lineup

AFF's finalized lineup

"...Townsend Cast: Ving Rhames, Nicholas Turturro, Stacey Dash, Bridgette Wilson Regional Premiere..."

Sept. 24, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Are You Experienced?

In a new ad campaign, the Blanton redefines 'art,' raising questions about what it means

"...what art is. Yet, from "art is communication" (think: Ransom Center, hieroglyphics, and cuneiform) to "art is teaching" (as..."

June 30, 2006 Arts Feature by Nikki Moore

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...African-American families and their impact on the city. Mary Wilson of the Supremes, whose dress is on display as..."

Feb. 4, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

The Radical Context

The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center's Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1893-1941

"...Film 1893-1941, a 10-part film series that the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center has brought to Austin. HRC's associate..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Screens Feature by Rachel Proctor May

"In a New Light" Programs

"...Over the next several months, the Ransom Center will be offering several programs to help show..."

May 16, 2003 Arts Feature

Cumulative Staff Box

"...Lesley Ramsey, Michael Smith, Anne Vanweddingen, Steve Clarke, Deborah Wilson, Lynn Efting, Jennifer Plemons, Max Heiman, Bart Cromeens, Elaine..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature by Nick Barbaro

Making Gestures

"'You can have my husband but please don't you mess with my man' is my kind of cheek," visiting Michener Center poet Heather McHugh says in an interview with Chronicle writer Lissa Richardson. "And cheek's my favorite part of a Texas anatomy."

"...her public reading on April 19 at the Harry Ransom Center, I learned that she is as friendly and..."

May 4, 2001 Books Feature by Lissa Richardson

The Way of the Gun

"...Geoffrey Lewis, Kristin Lehman, Dylan Kussman, James Caan, Scott Wilson, Nicky Katt, Taye Diggs, Juliette Lewis, Benicio Del Toro..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Shanghai Noon

"...Eric Chen, Xander Berkeley, Curtis Armstrong, Rafael Báez, Owen Wilson, Lucy Liu and Jackie Chan. After more than 70..."

May 26, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Can Tom Zigal Really Say That?

"The truth is, I didn't know a thing about the world of mystery writers and crime publishing," Tom Zigal, the author of three mystery novels, says. Chronicle writer Dick Holland discovers why Zigal might say such a thing and why it may not matter in light of Pariah, Zigal's new installment in the Kurt Muller mystery series.

"...Texas expatriate detective novelist James Crumley and S. Clay Wilson, the raunchiest of the Bay Area underground cartoonists, whose..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Books Feature by Dick Holland

An Eye for History

"...life's work which were recently acquired by UT's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, I realize that the 400 photographs,..."

April 23, 1999 Arts Feature by Sam Martin

Full Gallop: Everything Is Beautiful

"...the Texas premiere of Mark Hampton and Mary Louise Wilson's recent Broadway hit, which finds Vreeland at the nadir..."

March 26, 1999 Arts Review

Restart, Shutdown, Sleep

A Glimpse at SXSW Interactive

"...is my idea of a website! It's for UT's Ransom Center's Gone With the Wind Collection and it is..."

March 27, 1998 Screens Feature

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