The Last Picture Show

Untimely Death of the Texas Union Film Program

"...photograph by Jana Birchum The obituaries offered no mention of it as a notable..."

Jan. 23, 1998 News Feature by Walter Cole

The Last Picture Show: Special Edition

"...pure gem and a perfect way to kick off the Paramount's annual summer classics series...."

May 20, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Film Treatment for the Really, Truly (No Kidding This Time) 'Last Picture Show'

The Rolling Roadshow takes over Archer City to screen Bogdanovich's classic among the people who inspired it

"...two-lane highway a few miles from Archer City, Texas. The red dirt on the roadside has been stripped bare..."

Aug. 26, 2005 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

George Hickenlooper's Last Picture Show

Casino Jack opens in Austin

"...October two days after he screened his film at the Austin Film Festival. The Chronicle's Marjorie Baumgarten spoke with..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Book Review: 'The Last Kind Words Saloon'

Jes' Wyatt and Doc and the setting sun in McMurtry's latest

"...than 50 books, has a reputation as tall as the Wild West’s tales. His latest, The Last Kind Words..."

May 22, 2014 Books Post by Jessi Cape

Indie Meme Review: Last Film Show

Astounding paen to movies, childhood, and change

"...The Lumiere Brothers. Eadweard Muybridge. David Lean. Stanley Kubrick. Andrei..."

April 21, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

This Week on The Austin Chronicle Show: The Dirt on Compost

How and why to do it... and what can go wrong

"...discuss Lina's cover story about how composting fits into the city's goal of zero waste by 2040...."

Feb. 21, 2020 Food Post

The Last Word

The Harry Ransom Center opens Norman Mailer's archives

"...There won't be a ceremony, no hullaballoo or doors dramatically..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Big Picture

Taking stock of Austin music's female legacy

"...When Marcia Ball moved to Austin in the early Seventies there were only a handful of female..."

Nov. 28, 2014 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Remembering 'Easy Rider' and 'The Last Movie'

CinemaTexas program notes

"...The following program notes were originally printed in conjunction with..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature

Austin's Comic Strippers: Part of the Big Picture

Divya Srinivasan

"...a piece of your own art? Divya Srinivasan did. The UT student paid $100 of her deposit at the..."

May 12, 1995 Books Feature

The Last Soul Man

Bobby Womack washes up on 'Plastic Beach'

"...opens Bobby Womack, without prompting. “That went well under the circumstances. You have think about things that take you..."

Oct. 21, 2010 Music Post by Austin Powell

The Big Picture

Fall Movie Preview

"...Charlie's Angels The sweetest kittens have the sharpest claws, and this time..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Big Picture

Fall Movie Preview

"...Requiem for a Dream So do we really need another movie about heroin? But wait: Darren Aronofsky, who wowed..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

The Thing Called Love

"...Wilder and Jimmie Dale Gilmore. Miranda Presley (Mathis) takes the bus from New York to Nashville to make it..."

Sept. 3, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

The Cinematic Wisdom of Hank Sr.

The Last Picture Show with your host Hank Williams Sr.

"...The other night, TCB's dreams of one day going to..."

Feb. 14, 2007 News Post by Christopher Gray

The Marble Falls

The demise of one small town's one-screen theatre comes down to cold logic in a big business. James McWilliams reports.

"...Falls finally lost its Marble. Sixty years after opening, the Marble Theatre -- a one-screen icon of picture-perfect Main..."

Aug. 1, 2003 Screens Feature by James McWilliams

The Greatest Stories Ever Told

The 2010 Paramount Summer Film Classics

"...Falling Prey to Cruel­ty or Misfortune: 'The Last Picture Show'..."

May 21, 2010 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

On the Road Again

Texas Monthly teams with Rolling Roadshow for summer series

"...itself a country unto itself, so it’s fitting that the next Rolling Roadshow, set exclusively in Texas, will be..."

May 16, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Stella Adler and the American Theater

UT's Harry Ransom Center, which acquired the complete archive of Stella Adler, celebrates her impact on American acting in the symposium Stella Adler and the American Theater

"...As an actor, the young Marlon Brando was energy and desire set on..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

The Cat's Meow

"...Herrmann and Kirsten Dunst. Bogdanovich's first film since 1993's The Thing Called Love is being celebrated in some quarters..."

April 26, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

AFF Revisits the Perfectly Looney What’s Up, Doc?

Paul Feig presents the 1972 screwball comedy on Sunday

"...Feig told NPR’s Steve Inskeep in 2011, explaining why the 1972 comedy What’s Up, Doc? was so influential. "So..."

Oct. 14, 2016 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Larry McMurtry's Last Book Sale

Archer City's landmark Booked Up to auction 300,000 titles

"...Larry McMurtry is putting two-thirds of the inventory from his Archer City landmark bookstore Booked Up..."

July 16, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

The Greatest Stories Ever Told

The 2010 Paramount Summer Film Classics

"...started writing stories down, we started trying to crack the code on them, from Aristotle's Poetics to Joseph Campbell..."

May 21, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Head to the Hills

The Blanco Film Society presents Texas Movie Month.

"...of film appreciation -- who knew? Well, for starters, the more than 100 members of the Blanco Film Society...."

May 9, 2003 Screens Feature

On-set in The Iron Orchard

New film tackles Texas' oil history

"...hot as sin in Downtown Austin. But even inside the Chateau Bellevue, actor Lane Garrison keeps his hat and..."

Aug. 4, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

One Last Thing …

A 16-year-old with terminal cancer just wants to have sex before dying in this sweet, if overly earnest feature.

"...Mitchell and Wyclef Jean. Two Eighties genre staples – Disease-of-the-Week and Poppin’ the Cherry – meet, shake hands, and..."

May 5, 2006 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Recognizables

One night, one of a kind

"...is a marathon monsoon of movies and guerilla marketing, the Austin Film Society's annual Texas Film Hall of Fame..."

March 10, 2006 Screens Feature by Steve Uhler

The Art of Film Producing

Lynda Obst's Hollywood Survival Manual

"...Hollywood producer Lynda Obst is the author of Hello, He Lied: And Other Truths From..."

Oct. 3, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Double Nickelodeons on the Dime

Plenty of opportunities to catch some classic films

"..."Double your pleasure, double your fun," went the lyrics of the song in the old Doublemint gum..."

May 26, 2017 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

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