Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

Forget it, Jake; it's Sin City.

"...Directed by: Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez. Starring: Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba,..."

Aug. 22, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Frank and Jesse

"...Directed by: Robert Boris. Starring: Rob Lowe, Bill Paxton and Randy Travis...."

Oct. 28, 1994 Movie Review by Brian Baker

Robert Rodriguez Opens Frank Frazetta's Archive for Austin Show

Exclusive first look at special art event during SXSW

"...fantasy artists more influential and yet often overlooked than Frank Frazetta. As the eyes of the creative world settle..."

Feb. 19, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Robert Rodriguez: Future Sins, Fiery Projects

Update from Wizard World on 'Fire and Ice', 'Sin City 2' and more

"...What's Robert Rodriguez up to next? Last Saturday at Wizard World..."

Nov. 29, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Frank Erwin Center: 1977-2023?

UT Medical School will likely shut down tenured arena

"...as, in all likelihood, the eventual demolition of the Frank Erwin Center...."

May 8, 2013 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

In Memoriam: Frank Benge

Remembering the artist, critic, and man of the theatre

"...to need it to breathe. Theatre was oxygen to Frank Benge up to his last breath, which he took..."

March 18, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Diary of Anne Frank

Every element of this UT Department of Theatre & Dance production demands attention and respect

"...Things will not end well for Anne Frank...."

Oct. 16, 2015 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

The Girl Who Met Robert Johnson

Shirley Ratisseau wrote a song with Robert Johnson

"...When she was a little girl, Shirley Ratisseau met Robert Johnson. Kind Hearted Woman Blues..."

Aug. 3, 2012 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Dr. Robert Van Boven, the Whistleblower

Lakeway neurologist battles hospitals, officials, and the "culture of silence"

"...– on getting the opinion of another neurologist, Dr. Robert Van Boven, who had been present during some of..."

April 20, 2018 News Feature by Michael King

How Robert Rodriguez Saved Alita: Battle Angel From the Scrap Heap

After a decade and a half, the legendary manga's battle dreams are made real

"...Robert Rodriguez had touched down in Austin. It was less..."

Feb. 15, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Robert Faires' Top 10 Joys in Dance and Classical in 2019

It was a year in which the bold and the beautiful made strong impressions in dance and music

"...funny fairy tales brought to lurid life from Natalie Frank's art by Stephen Mills' outstanding choreography, vivid design work,..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

His Shadow in the Frame

The Austin Museum of Art exhibition "Robert Frank Photographs" provides an excellent introduction to Frank's career from his early social documentary work to his introspective images of later decades, and shows him always striving in his images to reflect his deeply personal response to the world around him.

"...with the help of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Swiss-born photographer Robert Frank embarked upon a journey across the United States..."

March 28, 2003 Arts Feature by Erina Duganne

Down We Go

Revisiting Renaissance man Robert Thom's prolific and hellish Hollywood visions

"...way to introduce the film but also its maker, Robert Thom, who wrote and directed. If it were all..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Sin City

This ultra-noir adaptation of Frank Miller’s black-and-white cult comic series is a visual feast ripped straight from the original medium’s blood-soaked pages.

"...Directed by: Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller and Quentin Tarantino. Starring: Mickey Rourke,..."

April 1, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Red

Over-the-hill crime-fighters band together to save their own in this smirky, goofy mashup of a rom-com and action picture.

"...Directed by: Robert Schwentke. Starring: Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, John..."

Oct. 15, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Everybody's Fine

Robert De Niro is the father of grown children (played by Drew Barrymore, Sam Rockwell, and Kate Beckinsale) in a family that has trouble communicating.

"...Directed by: Kirk Jones. Starring: Robert De Niro, Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell, Melissa..."

Dec. 4, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Score

"...Directed by: Frank Oz. Starring: Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Marlon Brando,..."

July 13, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Frazetta Up Close

Robert Rodriguez gives Austin a look at some originals by the master of fantasy art, Frank Frazetta

"...have had the impact or been more influential than Frank Frazetta. His cover images of slithering demons, axe-wielding barbarians,..."

March 13, 2015 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Making Trouble Look Good

How Kurt Volk got to be Robert Rodriguez's go-to poster designer

"...to 2005's stylized noir drawn from the comics of Frank Miller. But Volk's not some Robert Rodriguez obsessive completist...."

Aug. 22, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Bringing Out the Dead

"...sorrowful paces. Unlike Taxi Driver's Travis Bickle, this film's Frank Pierce, a third-watch EMS paramedic, is seeking redemption, not..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Spirit

Graphic novelist Frank Miller delivers this film version of Will Eisner's classic comic-book series.

"...Directed by: Frank Miller. Starring: Gabriel Macht, Eva Mendes, Samuel L. Jackson,..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Worlds

A lifelong plunge into adventure with Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert E. Howard is linked by Frank Frazetta

"...It wasn't even that I was conscious of who Frank Frazetta was; something far more intuitive happened when I..."

March 13, 2015 Arts Feature by Louis Black

Motherless Brooklyn

Edward Norton leads a stylish, meandering trip around a corrupt 1950s NYC

"...Bruce Willis, Willem Dafoe, Cherry Jones, Bobby Cannavale, Dallas Roberts, Ethan Suplee, Josh Pais, Leslie Mann, Fisher Stevens, Peter..."

Nov. 1, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Flight of the Phoenix

Sticking closely to the tone of its predecessor, this remake of Robert Aldrich’s 1965 adventure film lacks the tang of the original, and trades the late-vintage Jimmy Stewart for the shirtless Dennis Quaid.

"...players-cum-culinary outsiders epic Alive, and while this remake of Robert Aldrich’s 1965 adventure film of the same name lacks..."

Dec. 17, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Now Serving ... Time

Robert Conran sat down to dinner at Furr's, and walked out in handcuffs. After four years in prison on a shaky conviction, he's got a chance of parole -- then he faces deportation

"...Robert Conran is standing in the inmate visiting room of..."

June 29, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

On the Road, From San Fran to Taipei

Two new film series bebop and globe-hop

"...Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie's memorable short "Pull My Daisy"..."

March 28, 2008 Screens Feature by Raymond Blanton

Taking Pictures

This year, for whatever reasons, Dick Holland writes, we have been blessed with photography books of great beauty and intelligence. Several of the leading figures in the canon of 20th-century photography are represented in this season's unusually rich outpouring, among them Eugéne Atget, Walker Evans, and Edward Steichen.

"...Edward Steichen, but there are notable guest appearances by Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Brassaï, Larry Clark, William Eggleston, Robert..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Sistering the Brothers Grimm

Austin-born artist Natalie Frank makes fables viscerally visual in her exhibition at the Blanton

"...Selections from Natalie Frank's newest series of artworks currently fill several upstairs rooms..."

Aug. 14, 2015 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Looking Over His Shoulder

‘Alex Katz: Small Paintings’ brings you unexpectedly close to the artist

"...lesser-known small works, paired with a mini retrospective of Robert Frank's photographs, including excerpts from "The Americans." Taken together,..."

March 28, 2003 Arts Feature by Madeline Irvine

Glitter

"...about improbable overnight superstardom of musical pop star Billie Frank purportedly based on an “idea” by Patient and is..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Movie Review by Steve Davis

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