Movies From the Mount

Sundance Film Festival

"...Buffalo 66 Independent films are all the rage these days. Suddenly, everyone..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Zen of Filmmaking

Letters at 3AM

"...Eighty years ago, Charlie Chaplin was engaged in the improbable business of making people laugh in such a..."

Aug. 1, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

Burn Down the Mission

Darden Smith

"...photograph by Jason Kaplan Divorce. The dissolution of a relationship. Personal or professional, when the..."

April 4, 1997 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Life and Times of an Emotional Transient

Poetry Festival Salutes Albert Huffstickler

"...no country for old men." He meant our country, the world of the living, pulsing with the fury and..."

March 28, 1997 Books Feature by Brett Holloway-Reeves

The Who Bettered, The Who's Best

Reissuing 30 Years of Maximum R&B

"...The music business is a peculiar one. Most employers at..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Music Feature

These Are the Days

Extolling an Exciting New Era of Austin Theatre

"...It's the end of an era. The phrase is uttered so..."

Nov. 1, 1996 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Road to Nowhere

Webberville Aims to Live Forever

"...So, what happened to the Milk Bottle Motel?..."

July 26, 1996 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Politics of Alliances

An Interview with Zapatista Subcommander Marcos

"...I was in the middle of organizing the Nahualli Festival in Austin, when..."

July 12, 1996 News Feature

The Connection of Merce Cunningham and John Cage Chance

"...random things are always happening to Chance Harper on the Fox TV show Strange Luck? But by the end..."

Jan. 26, 1996 Arts Feature

Bill Adler and the Drug Underworld Innocence and Savagery

"...knew if I were caught I would go to the chain gang. But was not my life already a..."

Jan. 26, 1996 Books Feature

The Word Made Song

Gospel Music in Austin

"..."Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. Serve the Lord with gladness;..."

Dec. 22, 1995 Music Feature

The Bio of John Wesley Hardin The Fortysomething Killer

"...The Last Gunfighter by Richard Marohn..."

Sept. 8, 1995 Arts Feature

Humboldt County

This fine ensemble piece – thoughtful and cheering, even giddy in stabs – presents a seriocomic, sympathetic portrait of a pot-growing family operating along the coast of Northern California.

"...Dourif and Madison Davenport. In a perfect world, childhood friends and Humboldt County co-directors/writers Grodsky and Jacobs would be..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Intimate Relations

"...Directed by: Philip Goodhew. Starring: Julie Walters, Rupert Graves, Matthew Walker, Laura Sadler, Holly Aird and Les Dennis. Intimate..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fearless

"...of life and death. Hailed as a hero by the media for rescuing a number of fellow passengers as..."

Oct. 29, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Longhorns, It's Time for Your Close-Up

It's all about attitude from here on out

"...A few days after the Texas Longhorns defense, if not its offense, manhandled Oklahoma..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Sports Post by Joe O'Connell

Tejano

Stone-cold thriller across the Mexican border

"...Javi (Mackie) is a blue-eyed Tejano working with his grandfather (Uribe) on their chicken farm in South Texas, just..."

Jan. 11, 2019 Movie Review by Danielle White

Blue Like Jazz

Based on the bestseller by Donald Miller, this is the story of a Texas-raised Southern Baptist who finds maturity on the liberal campus of Reed College in Portland, Ore.

"...More open-minded than the current crop of come-home-to-Jesus films, Blue Like Jazz is..."

April 13, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Son of Rambow

Amid this endearing story about two boys in Eighties England who join together to make their own Rambo movie, lies an uncommon, unaffected portrayal of young male intimacy.

"...congregant of a strict (and unspecified) religious sect in the early-Eighties, young Will Proudfoot (Milner) is a runty innocent..."

May 16, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Hot Rod

Cross Napoleon Dynamite's endearing optimism with Ben Stiller's total commitment to his goofy characters, and you'll wind up with a character something like Andy Samberg's hapless stuntman.

"...and Chris Parnell. Imagine if Napoleon Dynamite were to pretend to be Ben Stiller, slap on a patently false..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

November

November, starring Courteney Cox, is a dense, dark head-trip of a movie that seems like the bastard offspring of Memento and Mullholland Dr.

"...Nick Offerman and Anne Archer. Harrison couldn’t have roamed farther afield from 2000’s funky Groove, which explored the Bay..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

In Dreams

"...Paul Guillfoyle. Dreams are rarely crystal-clear portents. Images in the sleeper's mind tend toward the vague and confusing, with..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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"...It's boys' town Austin here in the deEP end. We tipped you to Murdocks last fall..."

April 18, 2008 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

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"...debut EP Fort Walnut, San Marcos' Silver Pines keep the embers burning eloquently with Forces, a masterfully paced seven-song..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Music Review by Austin Powell

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deEP end

"...Austin's incredible expanding trend hits the deEP end hard. What was once local..."

May 16, 2008 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

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"...Just in time for the chilly norther comes the anticipated debut of Austin's I..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Music Review by Michael Chamy

Swimming Holes With Nearby Watering Holes

Embrace the endless summer with water therapy and post-swim drinks

"...For the rest of the country, Labor Day marks the end..."

Aug. 29, 2018 Food Post by Emily Beyda

Montana Story

Death in the modern West underlies this poignant family drama

"...The history of pandemic cinema has yet to be written...."

May 27, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

She Hate Me

Spike Lee strikes out with his new "joint" about an unemployed whistle-blower who makes a living impregnating sperm-deprived lesbians.

"...Jim Brown, Ossie Davis, Woody Harrelson and John Turturro. The politest way to assess Spike Lee’s latest polemic is..."

Oct. 1, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Swimfan

"...anything approximating a shiver, this Fatal Attraction retread for the high school set promises thrills galore but delivers only..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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