The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller

Yo La Tengo soundtracks homage to the noted futurist

"...Sam Green’s “live documentary” Thursday at the Stateside Theater on..."

April 18, 2014 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

It's a Wonderful Life

The Austin Film Society presents an evening in celebration of Sam Fuller.

"...Sam Fuller was the stubborn exception through the end, a..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

White Dog

With typically blunt, disturbing, combative, unconventional storytelling, Fuller tackles the disease of bigotry with this story about a racist dog.

"...Directed by: Samuel Fuller. Starring: Kristy McNichol, Paul Winfield, Burl Ives, Jameson..."

July 10, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The End of Violence

"...Rosalind Chao, Frederic Forrest, Henry Silva, Udo Kier and Samuel Fuller. Not reviewed at press time. German film auteur..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

La Vie De Bohème

This film honors the romantic notion of the starving artist while simultaneously mocking its illusions and pretensions.

"...Didi, André Wilms, Kari Väänänen, Christine Murillo, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Samuel Fuller and Louis Malle. Oh, to be a starving..."

Dec. 3, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Imaginary Crimes

"...support work by Lynch, Cassel, and D'Onofrio. Film director Sam Fuller even makes a small appearance in the film...."

Dec. 9, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Guncrazy

"...based on Joseph H. Lewis's 1950 film of the same name, Guncrazy has been rescued from the obscurity of..."

March 12, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Emotion Pictures

Toward a Fuller Understanding of Sam

"...That's American movie director Samuel Fuller talking. Appropriately, this famous Fuller dictum is presented..."

June 28, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Getting the Shot

Cinema Club and Louis Black celebrate Samuel Fuller's centenary with 'Forty Guns'

"...Forty Guns is one of the great Sam Fuller's best movies, and it is being presented this..."

Nov. 16, 2012 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Like a Hurricane

Jim Jarmusch + Neil Young + Crazy Horse

"...Was Never Made, which Jarmusch made with his beloved Sam Fuller, the legendary film director who died just last..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

'The Austin Chronicle' and Richard Linklater

The beginning of a beautiful friendship

"...The Cinema-Fist, Sam Fuller cover of Vol. VI, No. 14, March 27,..."

Oct. 3, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

'Shock Corridor' and 'The Naked Kiss'

Sam Fuller had the inside scoop on American culture

"...Sam Fuller had the inside scoop on American culture. The..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Screens Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Richard Linklater's Diamonds in the Rough

The legendary Austin filmmaker provides a guided tour through three years of a formative decade

"...Sam Fuller's White Dog is a "film completely out-of-time. It..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two

"...singing. I'm not sure exactly how it goes in Samuel Fuller's Shock Corridor, a 1963 film about a journalist..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Column by Louis Black

Bye Bye, Love

"...Directed by: Sam Weisman. Starring: Matthew Modine, Paul Reiser, Randy Quaid, Amy..."

March 24, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Page Two

"...traffic jam in Austin was three cars at the same stoplight. It isn't that way anymore. But all these..."

Nov. 28, 1997 Column by Louis Black

The Great Buster: A Celebration

Peter Bogdanovich sketches the outlines of the life of Buster Keaton

"...most reminiscent of Adam Simon's sadly underseen biography of Sam Fuller, 1996's The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie..."

Nov. 2, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Pickup on South Street

"...of 1953 grifter standard Pickup on South Street, commando Sam Fuller's 20th Century Fox debut was also the pistol-packing..."

April 23, 2004 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Geek Out!

Recipient of a Purple Heart, plus Bronze and Silver Stars in World War II as a member of the U.S. Army infantry, Fuller suffered neither cowards nor introspectives gladly

"...The First Films of Samuel Fuller: Eclipse Series 5Criterion Collection, $44.95..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Shortcuts

"...two choruses): Part One -- A Farewell Toast to Samuel Fuller. "Film is like a battleground. Love. Hate. Action...."

Nov. 28, 1997 Screens Column

Letters at 3AM

War movies are back ... but they don't make them like they used to.

"...is a coward. Everyone is a hero. At the same time. Just by virtue of being there. And no..."

Feb. 22, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Love. Hate. Action. Death. eBay.

Samuel Fuller's White Dog comes to DVD

"...the oddity pictured above. It's the French one-sheet for Samuel Fuller's lost masterpiece White Dog. Needless to say, we..."

Jan. 14, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Scanlines

James and the Giant Peach

"...into film of his favorite children's book of the same title, refused to sell the movie rights for years...."

Nov. 15, 1996 Screens Feature

Warfare

Brutally realistic depiction of a real-life mission in Iraq

"...of Full Metal Jacket, updated and executed with that same level of brutal, blood-splattered accuracy...."

April 11, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Other Side of Hope

Searching for a better tomorrow in Aki Kaurismäki's droll tale of immigrants and restaurants

"...influences of silent comedians, Robert Bresson, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Sam Fuller, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Renoir, and more. Kaurismäki, along..."

Jan. 5, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Oldboy

Spike Lee maintains the shuddery, visceral punch of the South Korean original, but something gets lost in translation.

"...Spike Lee. Starring: Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Sharlto Copley, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Imperioli, Pom Klementieff and James Ransone...."

Nov. 29, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Letters at 3AM: Katniss Everdeen's Grandmothers

Katniss Everdeen's Grandmothers

"...at the head of her gang of gunfighters in Sam Fuller's Forty Guns (1957). Stanwyck's Jessica Drummond is praised..."

May 4, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Restrepo

This documentary, which chronicles the 15-month deployment in Afghanistan of about a dozen U.S. soldiers, is an example of photojournalism at its finest.

"...make him seem almost like a character in a Sam Fuller war movie, was raised by a “hippie mom”..."

July 30, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Shutter Island

Martin Scorsese's new thriller is set in 1954 in an institution for the criminally insane.

"...paranoid grip on the truth is straight out of Sam Fuller's Shock Corridor. Shutter Island may feel, on the..."

Feb. 26, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous

No medals will be awarded for this Sandra Bullock follow-up, although the actress proves herself an ever-game comic actress.

"...(Williams in a thankless role) and her assigned partner, Sam Fuller (King), a tough and humorless agent with a..."

March 25, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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