Death, Grief, and Buddhism in Fantastic Fest’s The Long Walk

Laotian cinema pioneer Mattie Do's patiently ponderous tale

"...where horror movies were banned for decades, she did the impossible: She directed a horror film. Her debut feature,..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Screens Feature by Jenny Nulf

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Idris Elba is spellbinding in this biopic that reveres the man but slights the movement.

"...The planned December release of this biopic about the universally..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two: The Long Scream

The endless Republican nightmare casts its shadow on health care reform

"...Then again"..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Column by Louis Black

A Place at the Long Table

The complex, nuanced, unmistakable taste of Juneteenth, 139 years later

"...peas, roasted red peppers, cornmeal, tofu, and cookbooks through the merchant's pavilion, past the barbecue stands, and into the..."

June 17, 2005 Food Feature by Toni Tipton-Martin

Point Austin: The Perps Walk

FISA, Congress, and the rule of law

"...One of the core, almost religious bases of America's strength is this..."

July 18, 2008 News Column by Michael King

The Memories of the Long-Distance Runner

After surviving a holocaust, Gilbert Tuhabonye runs through life to tell his tale

"...As he lay amid the dead bodies of his schoolmates, Gilbert Tuhabonye vowed that..."

May 13, 2005 News Feature by Rita Radostitz

The Dead Walk by Night

Marathon meeting turns City Council members into zombies

"...Last week's marathon City Council meeting didn't end with the debate and decisions concerning single-member districts, which concluded at..."

July 6, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

In for the Long Haul

Scott Frank speaks about how to sustain a career in screenwriting

"...So says screenwriter-turned-director Scott Frank, the pen behind some of Hollywood's most durably entertaining movies...."

Feb. 27, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Damned in the USA

"...Rev. Donald Wildmon, Jesse Helms, Alphonse D'Amato, Andres Serrano, Luther Campbell and Lou Reed. Finally able to be seen..."

Jan. 15, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Way Back

In this film set in 1940 and directed by Peter Weir, seven multinational prisoners in a Siberian labor camp escape and walk 4,000 miles to safety in India.

"...Ed Harris, Saoirse Ronan, Colin Farrell and Mark Strong. There have been questions raised as to the veracity of..."

Jan. 28, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Meet the New Bosses

Long Center director Cliff Redd and ALO director Richard Buckley compare notes on leading an arts institution, the challenges they face, and being new to Austin

"...Leading an arts institution is challenging under the best circumstances. You can have an established presence in..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Luckiest Girl in the World

An interview with Sissy Spacek, inducted into the first annual Texas Film Hall of Fame on March 9.

"...The voice on the phone is girlish and instantly recognizable,..."

March 9, 2001 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

Star Wars Day: Happy May the Fourth, And a Very Merry Revenge of the Fifth

One man's 35 year trip to a galaxy far, far away

"...I will always remember the first time I saw a Star Wars film. It..."

May 4, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Walk In Closet: It's Time

Silvia Sandoval is fundraising for San Marcos' first gay bar

"...San Marcos has been without an LGBTQ gathering space for too long. What is a city without..."

Nov. 20, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Going With the Flow

The next life of Waller Creek

"...Waller Creek and environs is to live intensively in the modern world and at the same time to be..."

Jan. 11, 2013 News Feature by Ari Phillips

Retirement and the City

Retirement is tough. Living Downtown makes it all better.

"...Like many longtime Austinites, I've watched the Downtown landscape fill up with..."

March 27, 2009 Food Feature by Linda Ball

The Dreamers

The NC-17 rating is revived for Bertolucci's fervent ode to cinema and the idealism of youth.

"...Anna Chancellor. Three kids laze about in a bathtub together, stoned and arguing politics with the typically starry-eyed idealism..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

How Fantastic Fest Is Shaping the Genre Film Scene

Fifteen years in and still fantastic

"...has a simple philosophy: "Unique voices that are telling either unique stories, or telling the stories in new ways."..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Making of Downtown North

The Domain may sound like just another fancy mall – but planners say it's the seed of a second Austin

"...Austinites as a strange, upmarket interloper, more suited for the tonier districts of Dallas or Houston. But if the..."

Sept. 28, 2007 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

City of the Dead

Journeying through the graves of Austin's oldest cemetery

"...I see you standing on the other side...."

April 21, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

'Natural Capitalism' in the Hills

The Crossings' earth- and economy-friendly integration into the Hill Country really is something to feel good about.

"...To get to the Crossings, you drive what used to be a long..."

Sept. 19, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Salon of the West

They may not notice us every time we go to Barton Springs -- after all, they are thinking, passionate men, deep in conversation. But we sure notice them: the men at Philosophers' Rock. Who are they? And why does Austin owe them such a debt of gratitude?

"...On any given evening in the 1940s or 1950s, an old man named J. Frank..."

July 4, 2003 Books Feature by Steve Moore

12 Things to Do With the Family Over the Thanksgiving Break

Give blood, see the circus, do a virtual 5K, and more

"...this year. Many traditions just can’t go on in the same way because of the pandemic, and we’ve all..."

Nov. 20, 2020 Chron Events Post by Katherine McNevins

Hustling Uncut Gems With the Safdie Brothers

How their family history glistens in their New York story

"...Many movies are linear. They're meant to get you from the beginning to the..."

Dec. 24, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Man Behind the Leatherface Mask

Gunnar Hansen signing "Chain Saw Confidential" at Bookpeople Sunday

"...Gunnar Hansen joined a little independent horror film called The Texas Chain Saw Massacre as the hulking butcher Leatherface...."

Sept. 28, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Mushrooms With a View to the Future

Smallhold brings the fruits of fancy fungus to Austin

"...Travis Breihan, manager at Smallhold in South Austin, opens the big walk-in cooler door and I peer inside, mildly..."

March 26, 2021 Food Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

AGLIFF Presses Play on The Capote Tapes

LGBTQIA+ film festival announces online lineup for 2020

"...The All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities Film Festival (aGLIFF) may..."

July 8, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Jill Scott Makes Love to the Moody

All while remaining a church crowd darling

"...in decline, but you’d never know it judging from the sold-out, overwhelmingly black audience that came to groove on..."

Aug. 17, 2015 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

The Prodigy

Childhood possession horror leaves us in two minds

"...Radha Mitchell-esque horror icon) gives birth to Miles (Scott), the baby she and her husband John (Mooney) have been..."

Feb. 8, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Majestic

"...Ogden Stiers, Ron Rifkin, Hal Holbrook and Amanda Detmer. The “Majestic” may be the name of the old movie..."

Dec. 21, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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