SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...Pumas - 'Colors' / D: Kristian Mercado The Chemical Brothers - 'We've Got To Try' (United Kingdom) / D:..."

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

"...Josh Gad, Leslie Odom, Jr., Titus Burgess, Kristen Bell, Stanley Tucci, Daveed Diggs, Kathryn Hahn (World Premiere)..."

Jan. 15, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Second SXSW 2019 Band List

Black Midi, Jealous of the Birds, Deerhunter, and 247 others

"...Stanley Enow (Cameroon)..."

Nov. 28, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Unleashes Massive Film List

High-concept horror A Quiet Place to open fest

"...to John Cena, plus Austin talents like the Zellner brothers, Ethan Hawke, Andrew Bujalski, Yen Tan, and many more,..."

Jan. 31, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Your Weekend in Film

Staying strong is the best medicine

"...Gook. Friendship between two Korean-American brothers and an 11-year-old black girl blooms during the first..."

Sept. 29, 2017 Screens Post by The Screens Staff

BBC Names Top 100 Comedies of All Time

Film critics poll picks Some Like It Hot for top slot

"...Cold War satire, silent slapstick, romantic comedies, the Marx Brothers, Monty Python, and more. Here’s the list:..."

Aug. 22, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

In Memoriam: Gary Cartwright

Time to "Turn Out the Lights" for the Texas Mad Dog writer

"...case against Fran and Dan Keller, the drug running brothers Lee and Joe Chagra, and pit bulls trained to..."

March 2, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Chronicle Recommends: Restaurant Films

Sweet stories and savory drama abound in these flicks

"...This underrated gem tells the story of two immigrant brothers trying to save their failing Italian restaurant. Primo (Tony..."

May 13, 2016 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

MAD's Greatest Writers: Frank Jacobs

Collecting 50 years of the satire that's made MAD the preferred reading of smarty-pants fifth-graders everywhere

"...with the satirical rag made him to parody what Stanley Donen was to Hollywood musicals, then that's exactly the..."

June 12, 2015 Arts Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Bluegrass Box

"...Music Association. February's Dailey & Vincent Sing the Statler Brothers pays tribute to their country music heroes with astounding..."

April 17, 2015 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Sturgill Simpson Wows Austin City Limits

First of three performances in Austin this weekend

"...the nod at his Appalachian roots in covering Ralph Stanley’s “Medicine Springs” – his authenticity emerges in the ways..."

April 2, 2015 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Pioneers or Settlers?

Balancing renewables and affordability at AE

"...confidence in alternative sources of energy, with the Rockefeller Brothers Fund pledging to divest from its fossil fuel assets,..."

Jan. 16, 2015 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Fantastic Fest Gives Us the Horns

Daniel Radcliffe's latest heads up final wave of films

"...Johnson Crooked cop Michael must deal with machete-wielding Albanian brothers while handling pressure within his own department in this..."

Sept. 10, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Naked If I Want To

Magnum opus on one of rock & roll's Rosetta Stones: 1967's Moby Grape

"...for the first time. Allen Ginsberg chanted as Owsley Stanley handed out hits of acid and Dick Gregory and..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Music Feature by Louis Black

Letters at 3AM: Georges Méliès' Tricks and Treats

Creating the possibility that anything could happen onscreen was the great contribution of Georges Méliès

"...such as Charles Chaplin, Orson Welles, John Cassavetes, and Stanley Kubrick would personally author so many aspects of their..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

The Asylum Street Spankers

"...sense of humor many thought died with the Marx Brothers. As always, lead vocalist Christina Marrs charms the pants..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Gram Parsons

Gift Guide

"...deal with notoriously guarded Grateful Dead soundman Owsley "Bear" Stanley, recovering these long-fabled Flying Burrito Brothers shows from the..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Music Review by Doug Freeman

The Playboy Interviews: The Directors

Cinematic storytelling and technique naturally get plenty of play, but all these long-form interviews roam through detours and diversions that lend a tremendous sense of character

"...interviews with a standard roster of "great" film directors (Stanley Kubrick, Ingmar Bergman, Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, John Huston..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Screens Review by Spencer Parsons

Page Two: The Time of the Toad

The New McCarthyism, or why the way the Dixie Chicks incident passes into history matters

"...wrote on Terror in a Texas Town, Cowboy, The Brothers Rico, The Brave One, The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell,..."

Nov. 3, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Summer Reading

"...is a gifted storyteller whose award-winning 2004 debut, Saving Stanley: The Brickman Stories, mined similar terrain. He is adept..."

June 9, 2006 Books Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Letters at 3AM: Effete!

It's never too late to see yourself as you are

"...I was visiting Stanley and Rose Mary on their farm, in the home..."

April 14, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

Outlaw Onda

If Tejano music isn't on the radio, does it still exist?

"...another T-Bone Burnett, who brought the music of Ralph Stanley and other old-school roots music to renewed prominence in..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Music Feature by Belinda Acosta

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...year, one a Grammy winner with the estimable Ralph Stanley. (Continental Club, 11pm) -- Margaret Moser..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Stanley Gilbert..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Column

Page Two

Leaving us no time to catch our breaths after the Austin City Limits, Pecan Street, and Cinematexas festivals, our little city is graced next with the Heart of Film Screenwriters Conference and Austin Film Festival, unofficially kicked off by a screening (co-sponsored by the Austin Film Society) of Jonathan Demme's new film, The Truth About Charlie.

"...the Shadows of Motown, chronicling the largely unheralded Funk Brothers who drove most of those Detroit hits. Eagerly awaited..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Column by Louis Black

The Pine Valley Cosmonauts

SXSW Records

"...Guthrie's "Hang Knot" isn't included, selections by the Louvin Brothers, Hank Williams, Charley Pride, Johnny Paycheck, Merle Haggard, Johnny..."

March 15, 2002 Music Review by David Lynch

Autumn Tale

What Movies Look Like This Fall

"...Burns' new feature, Sidewalks of New York. Burns (The Brothers McMullen) and former girlfriend Heather Graham, along with Stanley..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Dolly Parton

"...Stuart Duncan on fiddle), Parton takes on the Louvin Brothers' "I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby," Collective Soul's..."

April 27, 2001 Music Review by Jerry Renshaw

The Gram Parsons Legacy, Austin Convention Center, Friday 16

"...and biographer David Meyer, who sat in for no-show Stanley Booth, about whom panel moderator and Rolling Stone Press..."

March 16, 2001 Music Review by Christopher Hess

Immaculate Film

Musicalia at the SXSW Film Festival

"...of the same name. In conjunction with the Coen brothers' film, the artists who performed on the soundtrack put..."

March 9, 2001 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

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