Take This Waltz

Sarah Polley's sophomore film, starring Michelle Williams and Seth Rogen, is an inquiry into commitment and carnal desire, and the hard choices we make when the two don’t align.

"...guise serves her character well in the very fine Take This Waltz, a fully adult inquiry into commitment and..."

Aug. 17, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

'The Last Waltz'

Michael Schliefke's final art show in Austin prompts reflections on the art scene here

"...is opening his final show in Austin. "The Last Waltz" displays his recent work, and after it comes down..."

May 30, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Don't mistake the move to Central Texas as a signal of..."

June 18, 2021 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...engage race, sexuality, police brutality, and resistance to authoritarianism. "Take one Black man sitting on his own front porch/..."

Dec. 18, 2020 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Waltz Across Texas

Is the Broken Spoke being edged off South Lamar?

"...sawdust-free dance floor of the Broken Spoke early on this summer Saturday night, led by Terry White, one of..."

Aug. 2, 2013 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...dynastic when stacking an ecstatic catalog that kicked into this millennium on Sony with Into the New. What followed,..."

Nov. 6, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Lucinda Williams, Ray Prim, and Curved Light lead the pack

"...yore begins by showing off Butch Norton (d), Stuart Mathis (g), and David Sutton (b), her Crazy Horse. Produced..."

Aug. 21, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

UT Faculty Composers: All-stars take the field

A concert of works by Donald Grantham, Russell Pinkston, Bruce Pennycook, Dan Welcher, and Yevgeniy Sharlat will be a veritable home-run derby of music by UT's compositional heavy hitters

"...grants, and commissions. If you had a list like this on, say, a baseball team, you'd have the pennant..."

March 23, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Walker Lukens’ The Last Walt and More Crucial Concerts This Week

From Explosions in the Sky to CAPYAC’s Far Out Fest

"...Looking for the best shows happening in Austin this week? Check out the Chronicle music team’s handpicked “Crucial..."

Dec. 15, 2023 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...folky sing-along celebrating carnivorous living), "Throw Away Freely" (a waltz that sounds like a failed audition for a Dr...."

April 2, 2021 Music Feature by Michael Toland

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Dallas Acid blows some bubbles, KUTX remembers the Armadillo, and more music for the moment

"...containing a separate world. It's a far-out structural theory, this blobby multiverse, and even more fringe to think that,..."

Aug. 14, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Day makes for a memorable cleanup project in CenTex this year. An obelisk celebrating the Confederate Army and a..."

Jan. 15, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"..."I can listen to you sing this song all night," Ingram says before Lambert's stunning "Ghost,"..."

May 14, 2021 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Think about that. Simply being born into this world with opposable thumbs makes you wicked, a ludicrous..."

Oct. 16, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Double Take

Austin Scribe Lawrence Wright Tackles Noriega -- Twice

"...and General Manuel Noriega are both eligible for freedom this year. With the release of the Showtime movie Noriega:..."

March 10, 2000 Screens Feature by Cary L. Roberts

From the Vaults: Good Golly, Sarah Polley

Sarah Polley writes and directs her second film, 'Take This Waltz'

"...Take This Waltz, the second film written and directed by..."

Aug. 17, 2012 Screens Post

Stories We Tell

Canadian filmmaker and actress Sarah Polley goes looking for her biological father and comes homes with a wise and poetic documentary about the nature of truth.

"...Acknowledging all this, Sarah Polley plunges ahead with Stories We Tell –..."

June 7, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

You Don’t Even Have to Go to the Movies Anymore

You really shouldn’t stop going to the movies

"...broke, so don’t fix it. But that model doesn’t take into account the VOD sea change or the fact..."

Aug. 16, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Day Party Crawl

"...Love." Laura Gibson added a little old-fashioned instrumentation to "Take this Waltz." Buck 65, a Canadian rapper, read "A..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature by Dan Oko

Leonard Cohen

Lonesome Heroes, Bird on a Wire

"...Leonard Cohen performing his homage to the Spanish poet, "Take This Waltz," on Austin City Limits in the late..."

Dec. 3, 2010 Music Review by Austin Powell

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal

"..."I was born like this," sang Leonard Cohen with a shrug. "I had no..."

July 4, 2008 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

We Have an Issue: The Weekend Forecast Is Hot. Very, Very Hot.

The 32nd annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival is here

"...power our way through them for weeks to come. This year the script got flipped, and Chronicle staff and..."

Sept. 9, 2022 Column by Kimberley Jones

Bruce Robison & Kelly Willis Step Into Their Third Act

Chronicle Hot Sauce headliners look ahead to the next waltz

"...Even so, the reason the Pershing reaches capacity this Tuesday night is Robison. And Shakey Graves. The heartthrob..."

Aug. 23, 2019 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

The Legend of Tarzan

This new take on Tarzan, with its CGI jungle animals, isn't half bad

"...Starring: Alexander Skarsgård, Margot Robbie, Samuel L. Jackson, Christoph Waltz, Djimon Hounsou and Jim Broadbent...."

July 1, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Inglourious Basterds

In this World War II movie, Quentin Tarantino weaves together multiple storylines that coalesce into a literally explosive finale that daringly rewrites history.

"...Directed by: Quentin Tarantino. Starring: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Mélanie Laurent, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Michael Fassbender, Daniel..."

Aug. 21, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary

Visionary Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin films the Royal Winnepeg Ballet’s rendition of the Dracula story.

"...about? Dracula: Pages From a Virgin’s Diary is Maddin’s take on the old fangstuffer’s waltz and has all the..."

Aug. 29, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Odd Couple II

"...Baranski, Barnard Hughes, Jonathan Silverman, Jean Smart and Lisa Waltz. Thirty years later, Felix Ungar and Oscar Madison (Lemmon..."

April 10, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Alex Cross

Stretching out of his Madea comfort zone to play James Patterson's FBI profiler is a courageous but misguided move on Tyler Perry’s part.

"...in Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider. This time, however, the role is taken on by the..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bats Left, Sings Right

With help from Esther's Follies, Austin Lyric Opera turns Strauss' Viennese waltz into a Texas two-step

"...to Johann Strauss. And you can relish the results this week when Austin Lyric Opera premieres a new version..."

May 30, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Film Adds Midnighters and More

Horror lineup announced, plus shorts and more

"...Booking a film festival is about whittling. This year, the SXSW Film Festival staff received about 1,500..."

Feb. 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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