Moving Pictures

Twenty years on, more than two dozen filmmakers pay tribute to Slacker and a city in transition

"...As he tells me later, he's opted to keep things light, with shots that mirror those in the original..."

Aug. 26, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Troublemaker

Ed Ward's first-hand account of Willie Nelson's Complete Atlantic Sessions.

"...profoundly ill-at-ease with being photographed from the looks of things...."

Dec. 29, 2006 Music Feature by Ed Ward

Prescriptions for Survival

When it comes to going back to school, what will be, will be…

"..."Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)," "Love is a Stranger," and "Que Sera Sera" began clashing in my mind...."

Aug. 8, 2003 Features Feature by Abe Louise Young

Record Reviews

Barbarito Torres

"...Babe," "Panis Et Circneses," and "Baby (1968)," invoking the stranger stylings of the Velvet Underground and showing off far-out..."

July 9, 1999 Music Review

SXSW Film Conference and Festival '98 Further Reflections

"...and Barbie Nation takes a deeper look into all things that come with miniature accessories, whether they be homemade..."

March 27, 1998 Screens Feature

Hard Rain

"...of course, all that water. Director Saloman is no stranger to the wet stuff, having lensed James Cameron's The..."

Jan. 16, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lost Highway

Enigmatic even by Lynchian standards, Lost Highway is a hallucinatory orgy of visual and aural elements and clues.

"...begins to suspect his wife is having an affair. Things take a sidestep into the awful when Renee is..."

Feb. 28, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...ably create an expressionistic quality in her story. Such things as slow-motion shots, rapid camera pans, and striking compositions..."

Oct. 13, 1995 News Feature

SXSW Goes Monster Hunting With Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves

Evil Dead Rises and more added to festival lineup

"...an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the..."

Jan. 11, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Hanging Out With the Dream King

Mathias Svalina delivers slivers from the oneiroi to your front door

"...You are a villain. You do villainous things. But you are unsure what villainous things you do...."

March 1, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

SXSW Announces Film Lineup

Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, and more

"...Daphne is London. Daphne is the crowd of faceless strangers we brush past everyday. Daphne is being young and..."

Jan. 31, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

String of Sexual Assaults Terrorizes North Austin

Six women have been attacked by a masked man since the end of last year

"...This type of assault, committed by a stranger to the victim, is rarely heard of in Austin...."

Feb. 19, 2016 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

SXSW Film Announces Features Lineup

Competitive narratives and docs unveiled, plus more

"...Best and Most Beautiful Things Director: Garrett Zevgetis In a celebration of outcasts everywhere,..."

Feb. 2, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

The Year in Books

Thirty-one titles that got us talking this year

"...The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore (Twelve), which did great things for my vocabulary but plinked another unavoidable prejudice of..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Drawing Interest

Books with graphic value

"...Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditkoby Blake Bell Fantagraphics Books,..."

July 11, 2008 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

FronteraFest 2007: The lowdown

"...Langert. Mundane focus group is visited by a mysterious stranger who knows too much about them (Austin Script Works..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Arts Feature

Letters at 3AM

It takes fierceness to grow old well

"...for so long will begin to look like a stranger's. And you're saying goodbye to the faces of your..."

June 25, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

The Middle of the Night

With its isolated farmhouse and unseen menace, The Middle of the Night may look like a conventional thriller, but playwright Lowell Bartholomee refuses to play by the rules, creating an offbeat drama that keeps us perpetually off-balance by playing against our expectations.

"...banging on the front door, testing the handle. A stranger blasting through the door, bloodied and breathless. We've been..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Dancing About Architecture

Things get so bad in the Live Music Capital of the World that they're citing the 'King of Sixth Street,' Gerry Van King, for busking on the street

"...music issuing from inside a club are "two different things." Since being given the citation, Van King has been..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Color of Justice

A drug bust in tiny Tulia, Texas opens up old racial wounds and raises questions about the veracity of the undercover cop-for-hire who orchestrated it all.

"...According to Coleman's ex-wife, Carol Barnett, things began to go sour in Iraan shortly after their..."

July 28, 2000 News Feature by Nate Blakeslee

SXSW Records

Jeff Beck

"...that as it may, before the Kiss Offs close things out with "The Horrible, Shocking Truth," a ? &..."

March 12, 1999 Music Feature

The Full Monte

"...deal living here. I've been asked to do certain things, but I've said no. I could have had a..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Reissues

"...where he enjoyed success through the mid-Sixties. After that, things went downhill. Drinking heavily, McPhatter went through several more..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Music Feature

The ACM Machine

Assistant City Managers Outlive Rumors of Their Demise

"...selecting the police chief. Not that Conner is any stranger to political hot water. Before the duty changeover, when..."

Sept. 12, 1997 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

Record Reviews

"...Stranger's Almanac (Outpost)..."

July 25, 1997 Music Review

All We Imagine as Light

Three women seek connection in Mumbai

"...a husband working overseas who’s more or less a stranger. Prabha shares her flat with a younger nurse, Anu..."

Dec. 13, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Monster

A Rashomon for today as Kore-eda pulls apart middle school politics

"...How misperceptions accumulate into harmful things is one of the key themes explored in the..."

Dec. 22, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Strangler

Restored French serial killer flick is more Albert Camus than Freddy Krueger

"...a revisionist giallo. But it is none of those things. Paul Vecchiali's newly restored 1970 crime flick is, instead,..."

Nov. 17, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

2023 Oscar-Nominated Short Films – Documentary

Environmental warnings come with mordant humor and sweetness

"...Exiting the natural world, “Stranger at the Gate” tells the story of Richard “Mac”..."

Feb. 17, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

White Noise

Can Don DeLillo's postmodern landmark make it to the actual future?

"...his book is a scathing critique of, among other things, academia, the nuclear family, and the underlying dread of..."

Dec. 9, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

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