The Great Escape

Chain Gangs! Cast Aways! Kung Fu! Chocolate! ... It's Time for the Holiday Film Previews

"...Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels director (aka "Mr. Madonna") Guy Ritchie, Snatch, a crime thriller with a spider-web..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Qmmunity: Glam, Gore, and More

Fill your homosexual calendar with a b-day ball by House of Lepore, Hyperreal Film Club’s Aughts horror screening, and more.

"...Sundays are for resting (honk-shoe, honk-shoe) but Mondays are for movies: Hyperreal Film Club..."

May 6, 2022 Column by James Scott

The Bee's Knees

Andrew Bujalski's uncommon process

"...Andrew Bujalski shoots on film and edits on a Steenbeck, which makes him..."

March 13, 2009 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Leave Her to Heaven: Iconically Gene Tierney

"...listened." And how. It's not every day a studio film director says that to a teenager touring the Warner..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Review: The Lion King Roars Strong

The Disney theatrical adaptation is a Bass hit

"...story of Hamlet is over a millennium old. The Lion King or Disney's Hamlet on the veldt, is not..."

April 12, 2022 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Meow Wolf Pounces Into the SXSW Fray

The Santa Fe-based art collective debuts newest creation and new film

"...Yes, the international art sensation that's based in Santa Fe, N.M. The..."

March 9, 2018 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

In Defense (and a Mea Culpa)

"...Good morning to all, and welcome to our first-ever Film Fight. Not sure what I'm talking about? Go here..."

July 7, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Car That Flies

"...already know that Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was the creation of Ian Fleming, you might get a clue from..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Scan Lines

"...Dunaway in Kevin Spacey's directorial debut Albino Alligatior Fast Money..."

Aug. 1, 1997 Screens Feature

The Devil and William Friedkin

The director's journey from The Exorcist to a real exorcism

"...William Friedkin sits back on a couch in the Four Seasons and stares at..."

Jan. 5, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Gettin' Busy

The South by Southwest Film Festival means everybody has a full plate

"...been a hectic past few weeks here at the Chronicle offices, as we've been anxiously screening and assigning and..."

March 8, 2013 Screens Feature by Monica Riese

Great Are the Myths

Edward Norton introduces Leaves of Grass to Austin

"...Little Feat. If you're of a certain age and inclination and spent all or part of your youth in..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

SXSW Panel Recap: Immerse Yourself: AR & VR in Museums and the Arts

An odd juxtaposition of VR experience and expert panel

"...VR in Museums and the Arts" panel at SXSW on Thursday – the day after experiencing Michael Jacobs’ five-minute..."

March 16, 2018 SXSW Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

DVD Watch: 'The Stranger'

Orson Welles directs and stars in noir about a Nazi hiding in plain sight

"...Not to be confused with Camus’ 1942 novel, the 1946 film noir The..."

Oct. 15, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Wrestler Rises Again in You Cannot Kill David Arquette

The actor’s return to the ring in search of wrestling respect

"...It wasn’t fair. On April 6, 2000, actor David Arquette became World Championship..."

Aug. 29, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

All Over Creation: The Same but Different

Reruns on TV may be the same old thing, but onstage they show us something new

"...Summer – it's always been the season of dread for the TV junkie in me. That's..."

Aug. 31, 2012 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Res Publica

Good times for good citizens, March 26-April 3

"...For more details and events, see Community Listings. Thursday26..."

March 27, 2009 News Feature

Dance With the Devil

Getting Austin Artists in Step With Their Audience

"...masquerade ball will not be held during the Carnival season -- which runs from Twelfth Night in January until..."

Dec. 27, 1996 Arts Feature by Brett Holloway-Reeves

Special Kaye

Vaudeville, Broadway, TV, film &ndash Kaye Ballard has done it all

"...career. Not Kaye Ballard. This veteran of vaudeville, Broadway, television, cabaret, and film is still at it, and she's..."

Feb. 24, 2012 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Speak Low If You Speak Love

"...you made a good point. The gaudy materialism and ostentation of Luhrmann’s visual aesthetic does go a long way..."

Aug. 19, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

The Slow Magic of Stop-Motion

Henry Selick on adapting Neil Gaiman's Coraline

"...Tim Burton's name might be the one that generally precedes the..."

Feb. 6, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Man Who Hath No Music in Himself

"...First let me say that watching all this Shakespeare is having an odd effect on my brain. There..."

Aug. 20, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

'Chronicle' Mock NFL Draft

"...I keep Patrick Rosal’s collection of frenzied-cool poetry Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive on..."

April 25, 2008 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

Letters at 3AM

Even though 2002 was an exceptional year for American cinema, American art has never been more marginalized, ghettoized, and controlled, than it is today.

"...Our "best-of" lists in the last Chronicle concurred that 2002 was an exceptional year in cinema...."

Jan. 10, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Summer's Easy Readin'

Writers on their go-to books for when their gray cells need a vacay, too

"...That's no knock against books of creative ambition, artfully crafted to engage the mind. In the right..."

June 12, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Five Graphic Gift Books For Your Creative Favorites

Or even for your own holiday-besieged self, right? Potentially?

"...Which makes books more of a special thing, just on the surface...."

Dec. 15, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

TV Eye

After a 16-month hiatus, The Sopranos' fourth season finally arrives, accompanied by a slew of related books.

"...for the main entrée, the baked ziti of all television dramas, The Sopranos. If you're not up to speed..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Day Trips & Beyond: August Events Roundup

Finish out a hot summer with a cool adventure

"...Marfa Lights, a spelunking adventure in New Braunfels, or on the Main Plaza in San Antonio...."

Aug. 3, 2022 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Bittersweet Spotlight

Round Rock's Ellen Marlow is on Broadway (at the age of 10)

"...York City is not living up to its noisy reputation this morning as the animated sounds of early morning..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Arts Feature by Clay Swartz

Yo! MTV Laughs!

The Long, Strange Trip to TV for Three Austin Comics

"...but neither of these terms adequately sums up the combination of ironic detachment, laser-sharp wit, and cultural relevance currently..."

May 30, 1997 Arts Feature by J. C. Shakespeare

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