The Other Stars in the Galaxy

"...will give it a go with their Wild Wild West, hoping to repeat their success a couple summers ago..."

May 21, 1999 Screens Feature

The Babadook

Tyro helmer Jennifer Kent conjures a disturbing spook story about a mother, a son, and an unnerving presence in their house

"...Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Hayley McElhinney, Daniel Henshall, Barbara West and Ben Winspear...."

Dec. 5, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Damsel

Austin's Zellner brothers head out to demolish myths of the Old West with Robert Pattinson

"...mainstays the Zellner brothers have managed to make a Western genre film appropriate for the #MeToo era’s audience. As..."

June 29, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

David and Nathan Zellner Deconstruct the Cowboy Myth in Damsel

Two of Austin’s most quirky filmmakers venture west

"...If David and Nathan Zellner were to remake a Western, it should be They Call Me Trinity, the 1971..."

June 22, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Legends of the Fall

"...The story is ensconced in the romance of the West caught between the inheritance of the past and the..."

Jan. 13, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Freetown

The director of The Saratov Approach is back with another true Mormon epic

"...president and current crimes-against-humanity convict Charles Taylor and then-President Samuel Doe’s government forces. As Monrovia, the capital, collapses around..."

April 10, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The New Age

"...by: Michael Tolkin. Starring: Judy Davis, Peter Weller, Adam West, Patrick Bauchau, John Diehl, Paula Marshall, Corbin Bernsen and..."

Dec. 9, 1994 Movie Review by Alison Macor

On Chesil Beach

Desire and desperation in Ian McEwan's pre-sexual revolution novella.

"...Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Billy Howle, Emily Watson, Anne-Marie Duff, Samuel West, Bebe Cave, Adrian Scarborough, Jonjo O'Neill and Philip..."

June 1, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Hyde Park on Hudson

The film gets big points for casting Bill Murray as FDR but its vision gets muddy after that.

"...Directed by: Roger Michell. Starring: Bill Murray, Laura Linney, Samuel West, Olivia Colman, Elizabeth Marvel, Olivia Williams and Elizabeth..."

Dec. 21, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Idolmaker

"...Christopher Hampton; with Emma Thompson, Jonathan Pryce, Steven Waddington, Samuel West, Rufus Sewell, Penelope Wilton. VHS Home Video..."

Sept. 20, 1996 Screens Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...Great Hills, Lake Creek, Lincoln, Movies 12, Northcross, Riverside, Westgate..."

Dec. 8, 1995 News Feature

Reissues

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

"...4 stars --Jeff McCord Dr. Samuel J. Hoofman and the Theremin..."

June 25, 1999 Music Feature

Jackie Robinson's Austin

The All-American, Major League star and human rights hero spent a few youthful months on the east side of our city's 'Mason-Dixon Line'

"...Drug Store on East 12th Street, half a block west of Chicon. Jackson, who's now 87 and lives in..."

Feb. 21, 2014 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Remembering 'Easy Rider' and 'The Last Movie'

CinemaTexas program notes

"...of cleansing, growth and discovery has traditionally involved movement westward: the days of the pioneers, the first illegal (according..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature

Friggin' Genius

SXSW Film announces feature film lineup

"...Texas – February 4, 2010 – The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival is thrilled to announce..."

Feb. 4, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Bygone Buildings

Right in the booming heart of Austin, folks can still find evidence of times past. Devin Greaney explores some of Austin's abandoned haunts.

"...Along a tree-lined stretch of Jefferson Street, off of West 35th and Bull Creek Road in Central Austin, a..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Devin Greaney

The World as He Knows It

H.W. Brands? The Age of Gold is just the latest in a long line of well-crafted history.

"...the great Francis Parkman. Thirty years ago, it included Samuel Eliot Morison and Barbara Tuchman. Today, we think of..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Books Feature by Tim Walker

El Cid

"...typical of the grand-scale productions of the era. Producer Samuel Bronston was one of the maestros of the movie..."

Sept. 10, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

Gay Place: Get in Here!

Check our Ho-rizon: Your hot, gay summer is about to kick off, big time

"...Third Fridays of the month, 7pm. The Q, 3408 West, 420-8557. Free. www.theqaustin.org...."

May 18, 2012 Column by Kate X Messer

Culture Flash!

Ballet Austin's Dance Education Center gets some financial help to the finish line, and UT's Ransom Center gets an extra helping of Samuel Beckett materials

"...needed to pay for the $10.3 million facility at West Third and San Antonio. Construction has been under way..."

May 18, 2007 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Will Shill for Nukes

At UT and elsewhere, academic scientists are only too happy to lend their names and reputations to the nuclear power industry

"...None but a blockhead, Samuel Johnson said, writes for free. Ted Besmann is no..."

April 16, 2004 News Feature by William M. Adler

Food-o-file

New and Noshworthy

"...the Sustainable Food Center, 472-2073 (Fax: 472-2075). - P.E. Samuel Adams Beer Dinner at Granite Cafe Granite Cafe, 2905..."

May 12, 1995 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Beer Flights: News on Austin Brews From Alpine to Munich

A roundup of local beer news

"...Steve Ander­son is packing up for Alpine, out in West Texas, to start a new production brewery. "I'm there..."

May 11, 2012 Food Column by Lee Nichols

Gay Place: Work It

Working out with Erica Nix may not make you gay, but it'll sure make you gayer

"...Third Fridays of the month, 7pm. The Q, 3408 West, 420-8557. Free. www.theqaustin.org...."

May 11, 2012 Column by Kate X Messer

Gay Place

Come peer through our rainbow-tinted glasses at this week's doin's

"...get started. Sat., April 21, 10am-2pm. The Q, 3408 West, 517-8202. Free. www.transtexas.org, www.qboyz.org...."

April 20, 2012 Column by Kate X Messer

Naked City

"...• Speaking of renewable energy, the South by Southwest Music, Film, and Interactive Festival, co-founded by Chronicle Editor..."

Feb. 16, 2007 News Feature

Song of Life on Death Row

How Dead Man Walking came to be an opera -- and to be produced in Austin before almost every other city in the world -- reveals the great risks and rewards in developing new works for the modern operatic stage.

"...though, McNally called him. Inspired by a performance of Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 by Renee Fleming --..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Further Reflections

SXSW Film Festival

"...Dir/Scr: Stephen Winter; Prod: Jason Kliot, Joana Vicente; Co-Prod: Samuel-Moses Jones, Jordan Flaherty; Exec Prod: Charles Rosen; DP: Chris..."

March 21, 1997 Screens Feature

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...a six year break from movies, SXSW regular Ti West (The Innkeepers, In a Valley of Violence, House of..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Nabs Latest Derrickson-Cargill-Hawke Horror Collab The Black Phone

Keira Knightley dark comedy Silent Night to close fest

"...Senegal in Jean-Luc Herbulot’s cool and kinetic genre-shifting thriller. SAMUEL’S TRAVELS..."

Sept. 9, 2021 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

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