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"...Crahan Denton and Claudio Brook. In 1961, while still working in Mexico, the great surrealist/moralist/atheist filmmaker Luis Buñuel released..."
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Sept. 17, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Star Time
"...a Serial Killer with some of David Cronenberg's early work. Now imagine tossing in a bit of David Lynch,..."
May 21, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Weathering With You
A magical rainy adventure in Tokyo with sympathy for the underdog
"...archetypal Japanese school backpack. Hina (Mori) is a 17-year-old working a part-time job in a burger joint to get..."
Jan. 17, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Sean Dorsey Dance Unpacks Masculinity Onstage
Trailblazing choreographer’s latest dance theatre piece hits Austin
"...question that animates dancer and choreographer Sean Dorsey’s newest work Boys in Trouble is simple: What is the current..."
Sept. 26, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Mac Irvine
Escape Room
Six actors in search of an exit
"...student with a head for puzzles and an empty social calendar. When she receives a cryptic invitation to participate..."
Jan. 11, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle
Leave No Trace
Into the woods in this moving family drama
"...leads to their capture and subsequent entry into the social services system. More accommodating than one might expect, the..."
July 13, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Call Me by Your Name
Tenderness comes in many tongues in this coming-of-age romance
"...and lanky, tends to hang on the outskirts of social situations, testing the waters. The first time Oliver touches..."
Dec. 22, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Public Citizen Tom “Smitty” Smith Looks Back on a Life Well Lived
The man in the white hat's relentless hard work and willed optimism
"...and he credited his audience for providing the activist legwork. All of this was possible, he told the Sierrans,..."
Dec. 16, 2016 News Feature by Michael King
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
Doc doesn't quite capture the spirit of the brilliant iconoclast
"...essence of musician Frank Zappa and his body of work in words is futile, even when the words are..."
July 15, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Out of Her Cage
Micah Magee explores a Texan's teen pregnancy in Petting Zoo
"...As a teenager without a car, Magee walked to work every day past a small petting zoo...."
March 17, 2015 SXSW Post by Amy Gentry
AKA
Eighteen-year-old Brit from an unhappy background re-invents himself as a member of the aristocracy. He's also working out his gay identity. And it's told in triptyches, too.
"...fiction from British writer-director Duncan Roy is an unconventional work. The film tells the story of Dean Page (Leitch),..."
March 5, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Limbo
"...of American life who are as much motivated by social and economic dynamics as by personal demons and ambitions...."
June 11, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Heavy
"...spark that quickens the torpor in an otherwise staid social structure. From the opening scene of Heavy in which..."
Sept. 27, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The People Under the Stairs
Wes Craven mixes social injustice into urban horror
"...of every crevice of this structure. This is the work of the Wes Craven we came to admire in..."
Nov. 8, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Council on Cargill: Not Today
Dais rejects Houston nominee for Bond Election Advisory Task Force
"...believe his appointment would be an obstruction to the work …”..."
June 9, 2017 News Post by Michael King
Food Issue Extra Helpings: 10 Years a Server
The trenches of the service industry are full of lessons
"...Like so many of us, I have had to work service industry jobs to pay the bills. What began..."
Feb. 17, 2014 Food Post by Claire Gordon
Cubicle Consciousness
A symbiotic relationship between socially conscious high tech professionals and community causes is becoming increasingly common, and a few Austin social entrepreneurs are leading the charge.
"..."GENAustin [GEN stands for Girls Empowerment Network] was started several years ago to help inspire girls..."
March 1, 2002 Screens Feature by Michael Connor
The 24 Hour Woman
"...that gets to the heart of women's relationships with social expectations and institutions: in consecutive order, marriage, beauty, religion,..."
Feb. 26, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
All the Vermeers in New York
"...Mansion, Gordon Joseph Weiss and Katherine Bean. This newest work from steadfast American independent filmmaker, Jon Jost, almost breaks..."
June 19, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Belle
Social media and fairy tales meet in this gorgeous, grounded version of Beauty and the Beast
"...Social media is ubiquitous. Yet few filmmakers have really tapped..."
Jan. 14, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Qmmunity: Between a Rock and a Homophobic Place
Plus, Joterias' and Poo Poo Platter's spooky digital drag to chill you and thrill you
"...lawmakers spoke out against the Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners' recent move to slash nondiscrimination protections from..."
Oct. 30, 2020 Column by Beth Sullivan
Bakers Against Racism: Austin
D.C.-born initiative kneads up some tasty local support
"...coalition of professional and amateur bakers raising money for social justice organizations, is being wrangled locally by Stesha Colby-Lynch..."
June 15, 2020 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
Austin's Construction Ban Lifted, but Will Workers Be Safe?
COVID-19 remains a hazard as thousands return to job sites
"...and overruled a portion of Austin’s local “stay home, work safe” orders that prohibited most forms of commercial construction...."
April 3, 2020 News Post by Austin Sanders
Luv Doc: Not Mellow at All
There is an unwritten social contract to indoor plumbing
"...There is an unwritten social contract to indoor plumbing that seems painfully obvious to..."
April 19, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc
Slash
A sweet coming-of-age film set in the world of fan fiction
"...Fifteen-year-old Neil (Johnston) is an introverted social outcast who spends his days holed up in his..."
Dec. 9, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Starving the Beast
Doc exposes big money on campus
"...education in America,” asks Steve Mims’ latest foray into social-issue documentary filmmaking, or maybe that’s better phrased as “wither..."
Sept. 16, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
To Serve Man
Briggo: an Austin company at the crossroads of taste, technology, and social interaction
"...situations where it hasn't been readily available. Think nonstandard working hours; think hospitals, airports, convention centers, universities, office buildings..."
Jan. 20, 2012 Food Feature by MM Pack
Submarine
This British film is a bracingly deadpan coming-of-age story that proudly wears its Wes Anderson influences on its sleeve.
"...because he's known in the States primarily for his work with U.K. cult-television phenom The Mighty Boosh and the..."
June 17, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
'The Working Homeless'
A new art exhibition speaks about and to people living on the streets
"...homeless panhandlers and included them in the exhibition "The Working Homeless," opening this week in the Visual Arts Center..."
Feb. 25, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Caché
In this challenging, tension-agitating film a privileged French couple become vulnerable when menaced by an unseen observer who constantly watches them.
"...award at last year’s Cannes Film Festival for his work on the film. Haneke is well known for his..."
