Richard Kern's Daydream Nation

Richard Kern and Thurston Moore bed up together … again

"...Richard Kern won’t be winning an Academy Award anytime soon...."

Feb. 7, 2008 Music Post by Darcie Stevens

Richard Rodgers: These Are a Few of Our Favorite Things

Three artists from Austin Musical Theatre's production of The Sound of Music share some of their personal observations about Richard Rodgers and his musical legacy.

"...With Richard Rodgers having had a career that spanned more than..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Transcending Transgression

Richard Kern abandons hysteria for erotica

"...Watching a Richard Kern film is akin to having your eyes replaced..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Aeon Flux

Its heart is in the right place, but Aeon Flux's head is just a little too high to make much sense.

"...title character, an ultra-chic assassin possessed of an Anna Sui-meets-Richard Kern fashion sense and legs that appear lengthy enough..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Best of the New York Underground

"...to leave out such cinema of transgression auteurs as Richard Kern, Lydia Lunch, and Clint Ruin is beyond me,..."

July 29, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Further Reflections

SXSW Film Festival

"...with Jeff Strong, Paula Killen, David Yow, Rex Benson, Richard Kern...."

March 21, 1997 Screens Feature

The Manson Family

Shot over the course of 10 years, underground filmmkaker Jim Van Bebber tells the story we all think we know. This time, however, the story graphically unfolds from the perspective of Charles Manson.

"...underground-filmmaking world. Alongside the NYC cinema-of-transgression icons Nick Zedd, Richard Kern (whose 1985 short "You Killed Me First" is..."

Oct. 29, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Habit

"...transgressive cinema of low-rent New York auteurs such as Richard Kern and Nick Zedd, but minus their sick-puppy theatrics...."

Feb. 27, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

UK Calling

Damon Albarn leads SXSW 07's UK act armada. Again.

"...none of those, although they're named after one of Richard Kern and Nick Zedd's old films, which fits well..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Lydia Lunch: The War is Never Over Finds the Anti-Punk in Full Fury

Beth B blows it all up in new documentary

"...ranging from Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore to transgressive director Richard Kern. But B demonstrates Lunch and her message's continued..."

Sept. 10, 2021 Screens Feature by Tim Stegall

SXSW Film Review: Excess Flesh

Body image horrors mirror a horrifying and hallucinatory L.A.

"...unwarranted, and the whole hallucinogenic affair vibes like a Richard Kern shoot gone terribly wrong. Excess Flesh..."

March 14, 2015 SXSW Post by Marc Savlov

Down By Law

Criterion releases Jim Jarmusch's jailbird gem on Blu-ray.

"...wave art-squall that gave us Steve Buscemi, Lizzie Borden, Richard Kern, and Susan Seidelman (peep Celine Danhier's fine doc..."

July 20, 2012 Screens Review by Marc Savlov

Anatomy of a Scene

New York and No Wave in Blank City

"...the company of Sonic Youth) and her collaborators, filmmaker Richard Kern (Fingered) and director/provocateur Nick Zedd (They Eat Scum),..."

July 1, 2011 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

A Republic of Indie in a Netflix Nation

How Austin's homegrown video stores are faring against the big red giant

"...short films of NYC cinema transgressors Nick Zedd and Richard Kern via I Luv way back in the late..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...they've toured the world and collaborated with Lydia Lunch, Richard Kern, and Marianne Faithfull. Last year's An Evil Heat..."

March 7, 2003 Music Feature

SXSW Film Conference and Festival '98 Further Reflections

"...a hint from Antone himself, who knows where the kernel of truth lies. Not in the words themselves -..."

March 27, 1998 Screens Feature

Cumulative Staff Box

"...Listings Editors: Richard Steinberg, Ben Davis, Julie Weaver, Sarah Hepola, Kim Mellen..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature by Nick Barbaro

Love's Labour's Lost

"...Spall, Matthew Lillard, Adrian Lester, Natascha McElhone, Alicia Silverstone, Richard Briers and Stefania Rocca. Kenneth Branagh did such a..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Reflections

SXSW Film Conference and Festival '98

"...Dir: Mary Cybulski, John Tintori; Scr: Will Kern; Prod: Paul Dillon, Suzanne Dewalt, Jamie Gordon; DP: Hubert..."

March 20, 1998 Screens Feature

Positively Operatic

The Year in Austin Culture

"...1. Oklahoma!, by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Guide to Austin's Musical Theatre Scene

"...was built -- the shows of Rodgers & Hammerstein, Kern, Porter, Lerner & Loewe, Loesser, Bernstein, Willson, Herman, Coleman,..."

Aug. 1, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Box Sets

Herbie Hancock

"...pop music of the century from composers like Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen, Rogers and Hammerstein, George &..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Music Feature

Theatre Critics Table Nominations 1997

"...Dave Steakley, The Gospel at Colonus/Ruthless! Scott Thompson & Richard Byron, Grease/ Peter Pan David Yeakle, A Saga of..."

May 9, 1997 Arts Feature

The Best Things We Saw at Oblivion Access 2023: Earth, BEAK>, GEL, and More

Highlights from year two of the underground Austin music festival

"...Beginning with Richard Linklater’s 1990 debut Slacker, which Busch described formatively discovering..."

June 19, 2023 Music Post by Wayne Lim

They're a Little Odd and Don't Know It

Randy Newman likes Billy Joel?

"...for the blues as the basis for things, whereas [Richard] Rodgers didn't. Jerome Kern a little more. Cole Porter..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Music Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Richard LuckettLooking Like a DoucheDear Editor,..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...upon reason's back," so said Ben Franklin in Poor Richard's Almanack...."

Aug. 25, 2006 Column

Searching for Once Upon a Time

Why Monument Valley – again part of the Netflix / Alamo Drafthouse Rolling Roadshow this summer – is such a magnetic place for me

"...screening of North by Northwest in a field in Kern County, Calif.; and the projection of Planet of the..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Gerard KernBlack Is Just a Tape LoopDear Editor,..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Column

Austin Critics Table Winners 2000-01

"...Director, ComedySarah Richardson, Art..."

June 15, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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