Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato Headline SXSW Film 2021 List

Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot

"...three Texas music icons: Guy Clark, Susan Clark, and Townes Van Zandt...."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...accidentally attract a rogues' gallery of intergalactic assassins to small-town suburbia. Cast: Nita-Josée Hanna, Owen Myre, Adam Brooks, Alexis..."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Gets Latest Apatow, Snowpiercer Premiere

Huge lineup includes new docs on St. Vincent, Ozzy, Zappa

"...Talking small-screen, this year's episodic list includes the eagerly awaited TV..."

Jan. 15, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sex, Thugs, and Thanatos

The mad, bad bounty of Fantastic Fest 2009

"...reassuring words of my other favorite cinematic wet nurse, small-business owner, and, um, motherfucker, Mr. Norman Bates: "We all..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Femmes Fatales: Rounding up Austin's Women of Mystery

"...awards, get fan mail, belong to the Sisters in Crime and/or the Austin Writer's League. And they spend a..."

May 2, 1997 Books Feature by Anna Hanks

The Pine Curtain

First-time author Dina Temple-Raston's A Death in Texas pulls the James Byrd Jr. murder out of the East Texas woods.

"...her book A Story of Race, Murder, and a Small Town's Struggle for Redemption, is after...."

Feb. 1, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Odds Against Tomorrow

"...three lay out a plan to knock over a small-town bank a hundred or so miles up the Hudson..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

Fall Film Previews

September

"...the last day of the 19th century in a small town in northern Italy. (Sept. 11)..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Screens Feature

Austin Film Festival Announces First Wave

New films star Melissa McCarthy, Frankie Muniz, Joel Edgerton

"...there's undoubtedly an authorial element in the true life crime dramedy Can You Ever Forgive Me?, starring Melissa McCarthy..."

Aug. 21, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

2 Guns

Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg let the bullets fly in this intricate action puzzle.

"...a companionable groove as the film’s titular guns (no small feat for Wahlberg, since he’s playing against one of..."

Aug. 2, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Last Stand

Arnold Schwarzenegger plunges back into acting in this full-bore action vehicle helmed by the South Korean director Kim Jee-Woon.

"...Ray Owens (Schwarzenegger), who is the sheriff of a small border town in Arizona. Hundreds of miles away in..."

Jan. 18, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

Sundance Announces Competition Slate

Austinite Jeff Nichols will compete in Park City

"...is about "A high school senior in a forgotten town has earned admission to the University of Texas at..."

Dec. 1, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...I work at a Wal-Mart, albeit a small one in a small town, but it's a steady..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...almost nothing but a good idea. They realized that small-town folks seek a broad selection of movies just as..."

Aug. 8, 2003 Column

Country of Exiles?

Country of Exiles: The Destruction of Place in American Life

"...If, as Gertrude Stein once said about her hometown -- "there is no there there," she quipped --..."

July 9, 1999 Books Review

Crimes of Passion and Desperation in Love & Death

In HBO Max's Love & Death, director Lesli Linka Glatter and star Patrick Fugit revisit one of Texas' most infamous murders

"...that led to directing Love & Death, the new true-crime drama from HBO, debuting at this weekend’s South by..."

March 10, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Who Killed Jim and Tina?

Why has the murder of two people in Kyle, Texas, eight months ago not led to a single arrest?

"...and have begun to question the capabilities of the small department. Those same individuals acknowledge the case's inherent difficulties:..."

Feb. 19, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Fantastic Fest Gets 'Looper' For Second Wave

Stage two sees newbie Joseph Gordon-Levitt join FF veterans

"...Gordon-Levitt is bringing his eagerly-awaited time/mind bender Looper to town...."

Aug. 16, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW 2012 Film Lineup Announced

'21 Jump Street' selected as Centerpiece Film

"...he is asked to commit a string of similar crimes in an attempt to get his brother acquitted. Cast:..."

Feb. 1, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

L'Enfant

This Cannes Palme d'Or winner presents a maelstrom of grit, crime, poverty, and bureaucratic gridlock.

"...and Sonia (François), L'Enfant is a maelstrom of grit, crime, poverty, and bureaucratic gridlock, seen through a documentary-style lens...."

May 5, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...Hall of Fame 2019 inductee John Lee Hancock's period crime drama The Highwaymen; and Kathy Griffin: A Hell of..."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Gives Us the Horns

Daniel Radcliffe's latest heads up final wave of films

"...handling pressure within his own department in this gritty crime saga from the director of Tony...."

Sept. 10, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...GeorgetownProblems May Not Be Fault of BayardoDear Editor,..."

July 7, 2006 Column

Santosh

A newbie cop in India navigates a corrupt system and a murder investigation

"...– can even file a report. No report, no crime, even when a 15-year-old girl’s body is dragged from..."

Jan. 31, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Top 10 Festival Films of 2019 You Haven't Seen Yet

Alien invasions, comedy exorcists, and searing commentary

"...coming, and Andrew Patterson's tale of one night in small town 1950s America seemed like the least likely contender...."

Dec. 31, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Four Suspects Charged in Brutal Assault on Gay Couple

Austin police are investigating the case as a potential hate crime

"...is also still being investigated as a potential hate crime, which would increase the severity of the charges...."

Feb. 15, 2019 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Welcome to Marwen

Outsider artist's harrowing true story gets a misguided Hollywood sheen

"...his memories out of him. In his fictional Belgian town, his avatar is Hogie, an American pilot shot down..."

Dec. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Double Jeopardy

The state of Texas jailed Cuban exile Carlos Lavernia for 16 years for a crime he did not commit. Now the INS might send him back to Cuba.

"...Carlos Lavernia, last year he was cleared of the crime that put him away for 16 years. The Travis..."

Feb. 23, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith

Suburban Blight

Austinites' Escape to the 'Burbs Backfires

"...behind - the tract home, the highway strip, old towns swallowed by sprawl - isn't amenable to the sorts..."

March 27, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Misericordia

Repressed desire and a heinous crime in small-town France

"...If the movie version of small-town America can be a hotbed of repressed desire, one..."

April 11, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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