Siberia

Dafoe and Ferrara head to the frozen north

"...grizzled and self-challenging Dafoe was the driving force behind Siberia, a magical realist excursion through the dying mind of..."

June 25, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Tommaso

Abel Ferrara’s (self-)portrait of the artist in (self-)martyrdom

"...character in Ferrara’s upcoming meditation on death and dreams, Siberia. The middle of a triptych that began with 2014's..."

June 5, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

Werner Herzog focuses on Siberian fur trappers in his latest documentary.

"...ethnographic study of fur trappers in the heart of Siberia, Vasyukov’s four-part television series documents in detail the customs..."

March 1, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Over the Wall

Echo & the Bunnymen's guitarist Will Sergeant didn't much care for Donnie Darko.

"...and Sergeant are in fine icy form on 2005's Siberia. The guitarist recently reflected on nearly three decades of..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Echo & the Bunnymen / The Go-Betweens

Record review

"...Siberia (Cooking Vinyl)The Go-Betweens..."

Sept. 9, 2005 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Casting the Net

"...had been spending his time producing a show called Siberia for airing on the Brown University-based U-Network, a national..."

June 18, 1999 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Red Sparrow

Erotic spy thriller is Fifty Shades of Gorky Park.

"...every actor: Channeling her inner Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia, Rampling's cut-rate exploitation camp commandante smirks through her delivery..."

March 2, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Muppets Most Wanted

This re-energized franchise has found its second wind: The Muppets' eighth movie proves that eight is not enough.

"...wicked amphibian with a puffed-up ego the size of Siberia (Putin-esque, in fact) and an accent as thick as..."

March 21, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

From Russia, With Love

More than 20 years after the Soviet Union fell, Austin finally experiences some culinary glasnost

"...states and what's considered "Euro­pean Russia"; and the West Siberian Plain, which includes the arctic tundra to the north..."

Feb. 7, 2014 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

The Way Back

In this film set in 1940 and directed by Peter Weir, seven multinational prisoners in a Siberian labor camp escape and walk 4,000 miles to safety in India.

"...of nations" escaping the ice-and-lice-encrusted hell that was Stalin's Siberian gulags circa 1941, pretty much defines the story's stoic..."

Jan. 28, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

MacGruber

Here's an idea that hasn't been tried in a few years: Turn a Saturday Night Live skit into a feature film.

"...MacGruber's cold open is a poker-faced sequence set in Siberia involving a hijacked nuclear warhead and a grim villain..."

May 28, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Rachel Getting Married

Anne Hathaway tears up the screen in Jonathan Demme's new film about a self-absorbed woman who wreaks family havoc while out of rehab to attend her sister's wedding.

"...another; in contrast, Kym purses her lips in symbolic Siberia, working her brain over how best to wrangle the..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Lady and the Duke

"...of a grounded manatee. It's slower than syrup in Siberia and filled with the sort of historical facts that..."

June 28, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Letter Never Sent

"...filmed this fact-based drama about a geological expedition to Siberia...."

Nov. 19, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Whipped

"...the man who conceived them) in a bunker in Siberia and promise to never, ever inflict them on moviegoers..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Austin Biotech Startup Colossal Wants to Bring Back Lost Species

A moonshot for the mammoth (and that's just the start)

"...is Pleistocene Park, a nature reserve located in Russia-controlled Siberia. Given Russia’s recent invasion of former soviet territory Ukraine,..."

March 11, 2022 Features Feature by Tom Cheredar

New Documentary The Orange Years: The Nickelodeon Story Tunes in to the Channel That Changed TV

Shorts, Dudes, and Good Burgers

"...minutes from your old life was like moving to Siberia. "The way we stayed friends was that we would..."

Nov. 13, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Austin At Large: Chronicles of Deaths, Foretold

The coronavirus works for free and cares not about its approval rating

"...our ruling regime to whatever nasty wilderness awaits them. (Siberia may actually be an option.) I continue to believe..."

May 22, 2020 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

SXSW Music Rolls Out Second Artist List

Wire, Jucee Froot, plus 207 real acts and one Hollywood contrivance

"...Sounds of Siberia (Yakutsk, Russia)..."

Nov. 13, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...on isolated Wrangel Island (off the coast of far-eastern Siberia) until 1650BC...."

May 10, 2019 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Boyfrndz Back With “Gone”

Post-rock experimentalists foreshadow new LP Impulse

"...Hikes, Residual Kid) June 7: New Orleans, La. – Siberia (w/ Residual Kid) June 8: Baton Rouge, La. –..."

May 9, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Explosions in the Sky

Live Shot: Paramount Theatre, March 25

"...a massive explosion in the sky permanently impacted remotest Siberia. Austin's own Explosions in the Sky managed the same..."

April 1, 2016 Music Review by Richard Whittaker

Peter and the Wolf Go to Texas

Lionheart Youth Theatre's new adaptation unites the music of Mother Falcon with the puppets of Glass Half Full Theatre

"...and winding road through grrrl power, punk rock, a Siberian labor camp, native Texas wildlife, and long-distance collaboration. But..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

UT Football: How Soon Is Now?

Recapping the season ahead of Saturday’s matchup against Kansas State

"...I have prime real estate to show you in Siberia...."

Oct. 23, 2015 Sports Post by Kahron Spearman

Sharks in the Water

American Sharks kick off tour on Pau Wau’s party barge

"...Hundred Visions tour dates: 8/11 New Orleans, La. – Siberia 8/12 Atlanta, Ga. – 529 8/13 Raleigh, N.C. –..."

Aug. 10, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Ten Minutes with Sally Timms

Brit-punk siren on her band’s new documentary and longevity

"...a living from making music and he lives in Siberia...."

April 16, 2015 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

The Suicide

The title may sound heavy, but this is a black comedy, given an artful and playful new staging by Paper Chairs

"...banned by Soviet authorities, the playwright was exiled to Siberia, and the influential director, Vsevolod Meyerhold, was executed amid..."

May 23, 2014 Arts Review by Stacy Alexander Smith

Downton Abbey: The Holy and the Broken

There, there, Anna – you'll feel better before the hour's up

"...Yorkshire, banishes everyone but Branson and Baby Sybbie to Siberia, and begins a slow march of domination across the..."

Jan. 27, 2014 Screens Post by Melanie Haupt

SXSW Wednesday Picks and Sleepers

"...low simultaneously borrows from multi-pitch Tuvan throat-singing born of Siberia. Bolstered by pals Ryan Chavez and Geoffrey Muller, and..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

After a Fashion: The Dish

Your Style Avatar gets all guidance counselory and might have gotten snubbed...

"...to ours ... in the back. "What is this, Siberia?" I asked. Matt smiled and said, "But you're in..."

Oct. 12, 2012 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

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