Storytelling

"...provocations at his apprehensive audience, then his newest feature Storytelling is certain to win him no new converts. You..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Panel: Film + Storytelling in a Politically-Charged Era

The mission hasn't changed, but the urgency has

"...on Saturday afternoon at a panel titled “Film + Storytelling in a Politically-Charged Era” to discuss how they are..."

March 12, 2018 SXSW Post by Tinu Thomas

SXSW Interactive: Exploring Scent as a Storytelling Tool

Can you smell what the Fest is cooking?

"...the SXSW Interactive panel "Exploring Scent as an Interactive Storytelling Tool," an international group of scent specialists led a..."

March 15, 2016 SXSW Post by Dan Gentile

SXSW Panel Recap: Beyond Podcasting: How Ashley Flowers Redefined True Crime Storytelling

How the Crime Junkie host built a media empire

"...and making positive change for the subjects of her storytelling, but doesn’t just talk about these stories. Her nonprofit..."

March 14, 2023 SXSW Post by Kat McNevins

Four Years of Queer Storytelling

Queer Mountain celebrates their fourth anniversary tonight

"...For a monthly storytelling showcase to survive four years in the Velvet Rut..."

March 29, 2017 Qmmunity Post by Ezra Edwards

Environmental Storytelling

Two SXSW Eco panels, one 'Inconvenient Truth,' and unlimited possibilities for human stories inspiring green change

"...Storytelling is an integral part of human history. "We're hardwired..."

Oct. 11, 2013 Screens Feature by Jessi Cape

Storytelling, a Book Trail, Markets, and More Arts Events

Get reading, go shopping, or just enjoy a gala this week

"...Storytelling and Fantasy Worlds: Ehigbor Okosun With Ali Hazelwood..."

April 26, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

At SXSW, José Andrés Shares How the Power of Storytelling Drives His Mission

Chef announces new cookbook inspired by World Central Kitchen’s work

"...journalist Michele Norris to talk about how stories and storytelling have direct effects on people’s lives...."

March 12, 2023 SXSW Post by Melanie Haupt

Dolly Parton Brought Her Full Self to SXSW (and the Dollyverse) with Unforgettable Set of Storytelling and Songs

Substantial concert followed awkward Q&A

"...corner of the room. Speaking of memories, she peppered storytelling in between songs, tapping into her Appalachian upbringing and..."

March 19, 2022 SXSW Post by Abby Johnston

ATX Television Festival: Shifting Landscapes: The Effect of 9/11 on Storytelling

How the World Trade Center attacks affected TV

"...Festival panel Shifting Landscapes: The Effect of 9/11 on Storytelling. The Jersey shoreline was filling in for Miami, but..."

June 11, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Residential Address: Africa Night's Food, Dance, and Storytelling at Sahara Lounge

Musician Ibrahim Aminou brings West Africa to East Austin every Saturday

Nov. 10, 2023 Music Column by Gary Lindsey

At SXSW, José Andrés Shares How the Power of Storytelling Drives His Mission

Chef announces new cookbook inspired by World Central Kitchen's work

March 17, 2023 Features Feature by Melanie Haupt

Equinox

"...meaning. Departing from the conventionally escapist form of filmed storytelling, director Rudolph (Roadie, Songwriter, Mortal Thoughts) and cast create..."

Sept. 10, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

CAMP Film Fest Brings Online to the IRL Theatre

New event designed to break down career divides comes to the Paramount

"...Online content creation is filled with storytelling innovation, but there's no money in it. Hollywood has..."

April 9, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fireproof

God helps a firefighter, played by Kirk Cameron, to repair his marriage.

"...magnet. Fireproof, in other words, is American Evangelical Christian storytelling at its finest, storytelling for a world entirely devoid..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns

Tyler Perry's latest feel-good drama about African-American family relationships scores its best casting with Angela Bassett in the lead, but otherwise falls prey to Perry's slipshod filmmaking technique.

"...the story but, rather, the slapdash mechanics of Perry's storytelling. His visual style aspires to nothing more than rudimentary..."

March 28, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lights in the Dusk

How does one say “cherchez la femme” in Finnish?

"...his work as any. Kaurismäki’s spare style and economical storytelling are well-suited to this particular story about loneliness, as..."

Aug. 17, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Final Season

A small-town high school baseball team is put to the test in this emphatically inspirational mess.

"...power drama. Kind of Hoosiers: Part 2. But the storytelling is so backassward that it’s impossible to care about..."

Oct. 12, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Open Season

The animated Open Season is long on manic energy and bathroom humor but short on real storytelling, emotion, and characters.

"...manic energy and bathroom humor but short on real storytelling, emotion, or characters. I realize we’re talking about a..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

American Splendor

At the center of its uniquely beating heart, American Splendor is a heartfelt valentine to Everymen (and Women) everywhere

"...hi-definition filmmaking and computer-generated effects that they’ve left plebian storytelling in the dirt somewhere back yonder in the south..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Spirited Away

Spirited Away, about a young girl who is trapped between the real and the ghost-worlds, melds bits of Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz with Eastern-angled spookiness and an outré sensibility that borders on the indescribable.

"...out on the most magnificent combination of animation and storytelling (and these days the two are too often separate..."

Oct. 11, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Focus

"...like a lesson, favoring heavy-handed didacticism over more subtle storytelling techniques. By the time the movie's forcedly hopeful ending..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hoffa

"...who the involved characters are. On a very basic storytelling level, events are startlingly obtuse and in terms of..."

Dec. 25, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Virtual Reality Offers a World Without Rules for Filmmakers

The first rule of VR storytelling is that there are none

"...For experienced filmmakers curious about this new form of storytelling, the prospect of starting over again may be a..."

March 9, 2018 Screens Feature by Matthew Monagle

UT Dept. of Theatre & Dance's In the Red and Brown Water

Multiple storytelling modes make Tarell Alvin McCraney's complex play operate as both theatre and ritual

"...of the play is so different from conventional Western storytelling that it's hard for any marketing blurb to do..."

Oct. 14, 2016 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Blink Twice

In her directorial debut, Zoë Kravitz delivers a distinctive, post-#MeToo thriller

"...Kravitz’s pacing sometimes flags, she emerges as a distinctive storytelling talent determined to prick the comfortable contours of our..."

Aug. 23, 2024 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Alien: Romulus

Fede Alvarez speed runs through earlier Alien films in this uninspired sequel

"...showed more of it here when it comes to storytelling, not just innovative jump scares...."

Aug. 16, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful

The fashion photographer's contradictions, from the glamazons who knew him

"...honest. His dismissiveness of photography as insightful, his enigmatic storytelling, and the great contradiction of his work, of how..."

July 24, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Spies in Disguise

This kid-friendly animated spy romp is for the birds

"...going to accuse Spies in Disguise of being Pixar-quality storytelling. Suffice it to say that by the end of..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Don't Let Go

Sci-fi crime drama gives a cop a chance at redemption

"...but its earnest melding of crime drama and backwards-forwards storytelling still touches the heart...."

Aug. 30, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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