Only Lovers Left Alive

In this hypnotic love story, Jim Jarmusch gives us vampires who are bohemian outsiders and not blood-sucking freaks.

"...film that features vampires as the central protagonists, Only Lovers Left Alive is less about matters of blood and..."

April 25, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Oh, Sister

Adelaide, South Australia, sibling city and state of Austin, Texas, is a delicious destination for food and wine lovers

"...Adelaide and South Australia. Texas and South Australia are sister states. Both were founded in 1836; both are about..."

April 21, 2006 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

The Other Sister

"...simple believability. In these movies, of which The Other Sister is a textbook example, disturbed or mentally impaired lovers'..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Sister Aimee

A slightly true story of America's first megapastor on the run

"...McPherson pulls off a small miracle of its own. Sister Aimee is a scrappy period piece that supplants the..."

Sept. 27, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Film Review: Sister Aimee

The true-ish story of the original celebrity hoax

"...McPherson pulls off a small miracle of its own. Sister Aimee is a scrappy period piece that supplants the..."

March 15, 2019 SXSW Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Faster Than Sound – Sex Bomb to Sister Ray: Recapping Levitation’s Second Downtown Go-Round

Scenes from Austin’s marquee independent music fest

"...earlier, joined in on a cover of the Modern Lovers finale "Pablo Picasso." After, Cale reemerged with the Angels..."

Nov. 15, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Final Analysis

"...would have it all: Gere and Basinger as illicit lovers, Roberts as her gangster husband, Thurman as her sister..."

Feb. 14, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

3 Hearts

A French love triangle loses its balance

"...man, one she no longer loves. The two would-be lovers do not see each other again until (once more,..."

April 3, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Pola X

Carax's follow-up to The Lovers on the Bridge is based on Herman Melville's novel Pierre, or the Ambiguities, and is rich in images and ideas. A man who shuffles between the houses of his mother and fiancée becomes involved with a woman who says she is his illegitimate sister.

"...romantic grandeur similar to that of Carax's last film Lovers on the Bridge (which was made in 1991 despite..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Paris

Paris, from the French director of When the Cat's Away, follows a half-dozen-plus Parisians and their interconnectedness.

"...who mostly operate in sets – siblings, exes, new lovers – and occasionally brush past one another on the..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Immigrant

Marion Cotillard and Joaquin Phoenix star in James Gray's latest New York opus, a story about a woman turned out from Ellis Island to fend for herself on the mean streets of New York.

"...(Cotillard), arrives at Ellis Island in 1921 with her sister, but they’re swiftly separated by her sister’s cough. Bruno..."

May 30, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Frankie & Johnny

"...a real joy in watching the courtship of these lovers and the consummation of their undeniable attraction for one..."

Oct. 18, 1991 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Finding Your Feet

Upper class British rom-com plays for laughs.

"...actions of her husband, moves in with her estranged sister, a free spirit whose limited financial means are a..."

April 20, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Big Star 'Third' Concert

Honoring tragic 2010 non-SXSW headliner and Big Star guiding light Alex Chilton

"...a frequently frustrated work released that same year as Third/Sister Lovers...."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature by Adam Schragin

Kabluey

Oddball tale of a directionless young man who moves in with his sister-in-law, whose husband is in Iraq with his National Guard unit, is quirky but unaffecting.

"...in sight and then moves in with his despondent sister-in-law, Leslie (Kudrow), whose husband, a National Guardsman, is stuck..."

July 25, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Only Thrill

"...the same pattern until the fatal illness of Carol's sister in Canada intervenes. Lacking any declaration of love from..."

Feb. 13, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Unloads Headliners

Avett Brothers, Weezer, Wu-Tang Clan plus 134 more

"...a tribute to the Memphis cult heroes 1975 album Third/Sister Lovers. Meanwhile, the music fest also taps roots songstress..."

Feb. 24, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

What's Your Number?

Anna Faris does more nose-scrunching than acting in this abrasive comedy about people acting stupidly.

"...of marrying successfully. So Ally resolves to revisit old lovers, figuring one of them must have matured into marriage..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Law of Desire

"...Antonio Banderas as part of a circle of wacky lovers and friends. Banderas plays a character named Antonio, who’s..."

Jan. 13, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Same Old Song

"...years ago. Same Old Song is one long, extended lovers' knot, although it's fashioned this time as a musical..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Myth of Fingerprints

"...family homestead for the holiday and join their kid sister (Holloman) who still lives at home. Two of them..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Big Stars in Your Eyes

A Q&A with Big Star documentarian Drew DeNicola

"...Big Star was constantly referenced in the music press. Sister Lovers had just been reissued on Rykodisc and was..."

July 18, 2013 Screens Post by Scott Schinder

The Ballad of Big Star

A work-in-progress premiere and supergroup performance pay tribute to the cult band

"...(eventually released in 1978, and later under the name Sister Lovers). Set apart by genius audio production, mysterious frontman..."

March 9, 2012 Screens Feature by Leah Churner

Happy Trails

Thirteen of Texas' Hill Country wineries, all within an easy drive of Austin, are uniting to create a two-day Valentine's celebration of love and wine February 12-13 in the Texas Hill Country Wine Trail. Wes Marshall provides the details on the participating wineries.

"...most expensive wines are like drinking honey. The Two Sisters and the Fort Martin Scott wines are the standouts..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

SXSW Music Live: Big Star’s Third & Friends

Alex Chilton remembered still

"...score for the legendary Memphis band’s cherished 1978 album Third/Sister Lovers...."

March 18, 2017 SXSW Post by Doug Freeman

First Look: Pizzeria Sorellina

Apis team opens casual sister restaurant

"...week’s opening of chef Taylor Hall’s Pizzeria Sorellina, pizza lovers didn’t have a reason to veer right...."

Jan. 25, 2017 Food Post by Brandon Watson

Big Star

Complete Third (Omnivore)

"...Invasion rock with its stateside R&B roots. Third (aka Sister Lovers) remains the Rosetta stone. Recorded the same year..."

Dec. 16, 2016 Music Feature by Michael Toland

SXSW Interviews

Death: Detroit's reunited proto-punks riff on the Motown connection; Big Star: Still shining brightly after 40 years

"...By the time Big Star recorded its third album, Third/Sister Lovers, both Bell and Hummel had quit – Bell..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Off the Record

SXSW news and carryings on

"...before joining Big Star. After the infamous sessions for Sister Lovers/Third, he embarked on a wildly divisive and erratic..."

March 19, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Gilded Palace of Sin

Downtown Mystic isn't only the title of Lomita's second disc

"...a while," admits Jackson, who moonlights in Brothers & Sisters, hesitant to elaborate further. "The whole record's basically about..."

April 27, 2007 Music Feature by Austin Powell

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