The Lost Arcade and the Loss of Public Play

Doc tells the tale of a New York gaming institution in its final days

"...As personal consoles have taken the place of arcades, the whole idea of arcade culture..."

Nov. 9, 2016 Screens Post by Will McCarthy

Fantastic Fest Review: The Red Turtle

Dutch animator teams with Studio Ghibli for wordless, immersive film

"...Writer/director Michaël Dudok de Wit’s new feature film, The Red Turtle (co-produced by Studio Ghibli), seems a far..."

Sept. 24, 2016 Screens Post by Ashley Moreno

Fantastic Fest Review: The Invisible Guest

Locked room mystery is a nail-biter

"...The trick to a good mystery: Nod to the audience..."

Sept. 23, 2016 Screens Post by Ashley Moreno

The Kiss That Ignited Austin's Punk Scene

Made in Texas occasions a trip down nostalgia lane

"...It all comes back to Raul’s, the tiny nightclub on Guadalupe, where Austin’s punk scene ignited..."

March 15, 2015 SXSW Post by Joe O'Connell

Fantastic Fest Hits the Road

Austin's trademark genre festival goes on tour

"...Missing Fantastic Fest already? Don't worry, the Fantastic Fest Tour will be bringing eight of the..."

Oct. 21, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

From the Vaults: Harry Dean Stanton – Partly Musician

The actor partly reveals himself in song

"...That face makes an impression. Over the decades, Harry Dean Stanton has peered out at us..."

Sept. 28, 2013 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

From the Vaults: 'Spider Baby'

A restored print of 'the maddest movie ever told' screens Sunday

"...The original title of this Jack Hill cult classic was..."

July 26, 2013 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

From the Vaults: Phantasm-ania

Don Coscarelli, Angus Scrimm, and Reggie Bannister talk 'Phantasm'

"..."Call it existential-surrealist horror, and you're halfway there," said the Chronicle's Marc Savlov in 2000 while describing..."

Feb. 22, 2013 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

AFS Hosts ‘Oslo, August 31st,’ One of the Year’s Must-Sees

Joachim Trier’s second film is beautiful and brutal

"...Oslo, August 31st is the second film from Scandinavian director Joachim Trier, following 2008’s..."

Dec. 4, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Ass Paddling the Danish Way: 'Klown'-Style

The 'Klown' Rolling Roadshow Canoe Trip gets crunk, drunk, wet

"...There's nothing rotten in Denmark, or drought-plagued Central Texas, that..."

July 1, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Gathr'ing for 'Before the Mask'

Special screening of the cult horror (but only if you demand it)

"...Ask any serious horror fan, and they'll tell you that Behind the Mask: The Leslie Vernon..."

April 8, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Programming for the Proletariat

Austin-based web platform Tugg in pilot stage

"...Getting a small-scaled movie onto the big screen is an uphill battle for indie filmmakers,..."

Feb. 22, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Fantastic Fest: 'Balada Triste' (The Last Circus)

There's no clowning around in this Spanish parable

"...couple of clowns fight over a girl. But in the Venice Silver Lion winner (for which Álex de Iglesia..."

Sept. 29, 2010 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fantastic Fest: 'The Intergalactic Nemesis'

Austin's own living graphic novel makes a Fantastic debut

"...Fantastic Fest isn't just about films. There are the parties, the Fantastic Arcade, and Jeffrey Comb's..."

Sept. 26, 2010 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest: 'The Life and Death of a Porno Gang'

Sex and death make a bloody mess in Serbia

"...Part of the remit of Fantastic Fest is to shock: And it's..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest: 'Tetsuo: The Bullet Man'

Shinya Tsukamoto returns to his cyber-horror roots

"...your first Tetsuo. Director Shinya Tsukamoto's 1989 industrial classic The Iron Man was a cold, hard slap across the..."

Sept. 23, 2010 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Savlov's Top Ten Redux Part Two: The Bane of Michael Medved

Savlov's Top Ten extras

"...a mouthful of new DVD releases and wondering if they merit inclusion here...."

Jan. 7, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

The Mythos and the Masterpieces

'The Oxford American' Southern Movie Issue

"...Texas purists -- those of the "a country unto itself" camp -- tend to bristle..."

March 29, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Long and the Short of It

The expansive Cinematexas short film festival

"...+ Disney." It's a shame that so few among the mainstream recognize the man's name, and doubly so when..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Long and the Short of It

The expansive Cinematexas short film festival

"...Peter Tscherkassky began his work with "found footage" in the early Eighties, co-opting film from other sources and reinventing..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Luv Doc: Office Cuck

Maybe “Remember Fellatio!” will become the new Texas battle cry

"...a cuck, but I don’t think she’s been unfaithful. Then we are at a work party, and she ended..."

March 1, 2024 Column by The Luv Doc

Fantastic Fest: Behold! The Mad God, Phil Tippett

The stop motion legend's most personal and bizarre movie yet

"...humans. For what is divinity, except breathing life into the inanimate? The art has its pantheon. Willis O'Brien, the..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Nix on the Flix, Farm to Market Shutters, Sazan Hires a Hammond, Taste of Texas Extended

All the news that's fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...Here’s your Food News Buffet for the fourth week of November in the Year of COVID-19,..."

Nov. 24, 2020 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Community Cinema Brings the Drive-In to East Austin

Outdoor projection is nothing new to the Community First! Village

"...Drive-in theaters are booming in a way unseen since before the..."

Aug. 24, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

We Have an Issue: Meet the Interns

COVID may have robbed our summer interns of the hands-on experience of putting out a paper, but they're making the most out of their virtual internship

"...be typing this column from my standing desk at the Chronicle, two feet from Managing Editor James Renovitch, and..."

July 10, 2020 Column by Kimberley Jones

Day Trips & Beyond: Daytripping in the Age of a Pandemic

Statewide updates since Gov. Abbott's "Open Texas" order

"...Gov. Greg Abbott’s plan to reopen Texas allows the state stay-at-home order issued on March 31 to expire..."

May 5, 2020 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

SXSW Selection The Toll Keeps Rolling

As special screenings are added, we talk to the filmmakers

"...Everyone depends on rideshares. But the crushing reality is that, while they are a convenient..."

March 12, 2020 Screens Post by Jenny Nulf

What Odd Circumstance Joins Austin’s L.B. Deyo With Gabriel García Márquez Even Beyond the Ransom Center’s Newly Revealed Archives?

Maybe it’s, what? Love, in the time of measles?

"...discovering ice, citizen, but UT’s Harry Ransom Center has the archives of Gabriel García Márquez on public display for..."

Feb. 3, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Beer Brawl in the “Cleanest Little City in Texas”

In the home of Shiner Bock beer, Karbach Brewing Co. rents out billboards to announce "there's a new Bock in Shiner"

"...In October, Anheuser-Busch – subsidiary of AB InBev SA/NV, the Belgium-based, publicly traded, multinational owners of Houston-based Karbach Brewing..."

Nov. 15, 2019 News Feature by Jessi Cape

SXSW Comedy: The Comedian’s Comedian Podcast Taping with Eugene Mirman

The interview gets to the heart of Mirman's "warm silliness"

"...On his UK-based podcast, The Comedian’s Comedian, Stuart Goldsmith interviews comedians about the art..."

March 11, 2019 SXSW Post by Ashley Moreno

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