AFS Essential's Blokes 'n' Birds: British Realist Cinema

Sept. 4-Oct. 9

"...film version of Look Back in Anger (1958), starring Richard Burton as the acid-tongued Jimmy Porter and helmed by..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Developing Stories: Where Are They Now?

The latest on this year's big digs

"...in other cities, the latest renderings show Austin getting stark, neo-brutalist architecture. The architect is Atlanta firm Mack Scogin..."

Dec. 29, 2006 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

The 'West' Shall Rise Again

A new generation creates its own take on the show that changed Austin theatre

"...types just itching for something to do; and 2) Richard Avedon. In 1985, the local theatre scene was only..."

April 7, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...RICHARD JULIAN: Based in NYC, Richard Julian just finished a..."

March 7, 2003 Music Feature

Top 10 Onstage Works of Wonder in 2002

Austin Chronicle Arts Editor Robert Faires delivers his list of the Top 10 most memorable productions in the performing arts for 2002.

"...David Nancarrow's sumptuous colored lights, and composer Andre Previn's stark, spiky score. Bold choices by director Brad Dalton made..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Still Life

Whether it is the coterie around the world's most famous photographer or a group of cowboys on a West Texas ranch, Laura Wilson, who peeked inside a reclusive Christian sect for her new photography book Hutterites of Montana, has an instinct for penetrating insular, tightly knit societies.

"...In 1978, Richard Avedon came to Dallas for an exhibition of his..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Reflections

"...Rapaport; DP/co-prod/co-scr: Wolfgang Held; Cast: Edie Falco, Per Myberg, Richard Hell, Tonino Taiuti, Beatrice Roth. 16mm, 58 min., 1998..."

March 19, 1999 Screens Feature

Land Mine

"...Democrat Richard Raymond stumps at the courthouse in LaGrange photograph by..."

Oct. 30, 1998 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

SXSW Film Conference and Festival '98 Further Reflections

"...Dir/scr/prod: Kenneth Jones; Assoc Prod: Carmen Jones; DP: Richard Strain; Ed: Clay Walker; Cast: Maura Gale, Larry Robinson,..."

March 27, 1998 Screens Feature

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...Literal Rip-Off." Mersey! Supernova's buzz says think Devo, Buzzcocks, Richard Hell, but screw the buzz; think super starburst dumbshit..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Everything Old is New Again

The Year in Albums

"...Girls sessions the "No More Fast Numbers" sessions, Keith Richards' smart-ass irony actually informs a whole slew of rock..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Record Reviews

"...RICHARD BUCKNER..."

March 14, 1997 Music Review

Please Kill Me and other ROCK & ROLL BOOKS of 1996

"...high and especially low, talking poetry and films with Richard Hell and Patti Smith, yet relying on John Homstrom's..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Books Feature

Civil War Landscapes and Legacies When Johnny Came Marching Home

"...are especially sobering) would even begin to recover. The stark black-and-white tones, softened just a bit by a faint..."

July 21, 1995 Arts Feature

Green Reading

Environs

"...downstream meant permanent flooding of the Round Valley, where Richard Wilson owned land...."

May 5, 1995 Books Review by Robert Bryce

Environs

Books, Books, and More Books

"...downstream meant permanent flooding of the Round Valley, where Richard Wilson owned land...."

April 28, 1995 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Hairy Situations, Pickle Parties, and More Weekend Events

Some non-SXSW arts and culture recommendations

"...Time Zero interviews artists Trevor Paglen, Rose B Simpson, Richard Misrach, Joanna Keane Lopez, and more, and features an..."

March 7, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Ethan Hawke and the Inner Life of Flannery O’Connor in Wildcat

Finding the drama of an author who laughed at her own biography

"...their passion and sense of self.” That stood in stark contrast to the kind of roles Maya was getting..."

May 29, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Top 10 Most Read Film Reviews of 2021

Which films did you care most about as the pandemic rolled on?

"...to drop it all halfway through the story." - Richard Whittaker..."

Dec. 31, 2021 Screens Post by The Screens Staff

Inside the ProLodges Protecting Unhoused Austinites From COVID-19

"...Amanda Stark, site supervisor for ProLodge 4..."

Dec. 30, 2020 Photo Gallery

Pat Blashill’s Elegant, Extreme Images of Lone Star Punk

Butthole Surfers and Big Boys’ heyday captured in Texas Is the Reason

"...on, photographer Pat Blashill envisioned his book as a stark, aestheticized art piece, inspired by ocular icons like Robert..."

April 8, 2020 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Ending the Gender Divide Behind the Camera

Austin’s chapter of Women in Film and Television International is creating equity and opportunity

"...and women in the film and television industry is stark. Just look at this year's Academy Awards, where a..."

Feb. 21, 2020 Screens Feature by Jenny Nulf

Kinky Friedman

"...Life (2018). Both kicked against the Nashville pricks with stark, strum-and-done temperament. Resurrection bucks too, but this time, the..."

Jan. 3, 2020 Music Review by Rick Weaver

"Rodney McMillian: Against a Civic Death" at the Contemporary Austin

In this thought-provoking exhibition, the Suzanne Booth Deal Art Prize winner asks, “What does an architecture of power look like to you?”

"...have-nots. You better get together." At the end of Richard Nixon's first term, Shirley Chisholm was in the midst..."

March 16, 2018 Arts Feature by Melany Jean

99 Luftballons (International Acts at SXSW Music)

South by Southwest by way of Sudan, Scotland, Colombia, and more

"...Sidewinder Inside, 12mid British alt-rock trio Our Girl meshes stark noise with tender harmonies without it sounding forced. On..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

Reasonable Doubt

Did misleading DNA analysis land an innocent man on death row?

"...there to see him was not his, but rather Richard Burr, a Houston lawyer whose focus is death penalty..."

April 29, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Texas Book Festival Announces Full Lineup

From R.L. Stine to Reza Aslan, 225-plus converge on the Capitol

"...excitement over the Oct. 26-27 event, the stunning and stark event poster by photographer Randal Ford, and the 225-plus..."

Sept. 10, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

From the Vaults: Angry Old Man

Before he was in 'Quartet,' Tom Courtenay was part of a much bigger club

"...discontentment in the British Midlands of the 1950s. Tony Richardson turned it into a film in 1959 with Richard..."

Jan. 26, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Labor Day TV Programming

Got the day off? Time to work the couch

"...That obsession culminates in the film's bravura climax, a stark and silhouetted sequence (in fits it recalls The Cabinet..."

Aug. 31, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Beau Comeaux: Implied Fictions

These manipulated images offer an eerie, more vivid replica of the world

"...top of the tall gate in the darkness, the stark illumination and saturated colors fighting obscurity among the ever-encroaching..."

July 22, 2011 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

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