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"Joe Swanberg's Quiet City"
"...That can't be right. Aaron Katz wrote and directed Quiet City, which premiered yesterday and will play two more..."

March 13, 2007 SXSW Post by Spencer Parsons

Cum On Feel the Noize
The New Dessau Music Hall
"...George Devore photograph by John Carrico The Dessau Music Hall used to stand in the middle..."

April 24, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

The Eight Mountains
Touching depiction of male friendship in the Italian Alps
"...platonic male friendship have to be mired in trauma? Whether it's Mean Streets, Lukas Dhont's Close or Guardians of..."

May 12, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Aiko, Jurassic 5’s Soup, Quiet Light, and More Reviews From Monday of SXSW
Music fest kicks off with a bang
"...All South by Southwest goers pass the same phrase around as they mill about Downtown each..."

March 11, 2025 Music Post by Miranda Garza

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week
Quiet Light, One Be Low, a few July 4th traditions, and more recommended shows
"...Quiet Light Album Release Hole in the Wall, Saturday 1..."

June 30, 2023 Music Column by Wayne Lim

The Courier
A forgotten Cold War spy story gets a very British, very tragic retelling
"...it's a revelatory glimpse at an overlooked figure in the history of how close we came to nuclear apocalypse,..."

March 19, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Souvenir
Joanna Hogg's dreamlike memoir of love and loss in 1980s London
"...late. In Joanna Hogg's tender, terrible, heartbreaking love story The Souvenir, the fall starts gently enough, a drop so..."

May 31, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

A Quiet Passion
A biographical sketch of poet Emily Dickinson
"...Keith Carradine, Emma Bell, Jodhi May, Joanna Bacon and Catherine Bailey...."

May 5, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

A Quiet Southside Holigay Wish
"...Eve?" [Arts, Dec. 27] is a meaningful privilege, but the queer scene doesn't necessarily have room for everyone in..."

Dec. 30, 2024 Postmarks

"Welcome Home" to the Kerrville Folk Festival
Five neighborly artists to see onstage at Quiet Valley Ranch
"...Going to the Kerrville Folk Festival is less like attending a concert..."

May 26, 2023 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

The Good Music Club Part 2: Quiet Company
Week 2 of TGMC video
"...Last week, Earache debuted the first video drop from The Good Music Club. For..."

Feb. 16, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Coffeehouse Chronicles
Cafe Mundi
"...Crowd: undercaffeinated morning workers, quiet smoking poets..."

June 16, 2000 Food Column by Pableaux Johnson

At the Intersection of Appalachia and Experimental Folk Broods Little Mazarn
Otherworldly duo pulls attention through mesmeric, emotionally charged minimalism
"...intimate dance or eavesdropping on a hushed, private conversation. Their music doesn't so much demand deep attention as inspire..."

May 31, 2019 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

The Lovers
Breaking the doldrums of marriage
"...Lost in the doldrums of a marriage that long ago curdled into..."

May 19, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Good Music Club
First meeting/taping of the Good Music Club
"...local bands to videotape for online segments. Monday at the ND, the pair's first four-act taping as the Good..."

Jan. 18, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Cry of the Owl
Based on the 1962 Patricia Highsmith novel, this mood-heavy film contemplates what happens to a stalker when the object of his obsession returns the favor.
"...and Gord Rand. This mood-heavy Canadian/German co-production, based on the 1962 Patricia Highsmith novel, contemplates what happens to a..."

March 19, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Dukes
Character actor Robert Davi directs and co-stars with Chazz Palmintieri in this movie about a former doo-wop group that tries to recapture its glory days.
"...Frank D’Amico and Bruce Weitz. You might not recognize the name Robert Davi, but there’s very little chance you..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tim Burton's adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim classic shows just how dull violent retribution can be when it's all someone ever talks (or, in this case, sings) about.
"...Jamie Campbell Bower, Laura Michelle Kelly and Jayne Wisener. There are a few reasons why you'd probably want to..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Leon Russell & the Bob Dylan Rumor
Outlaw era deejay Woody Roberts helped produce Willie Nelson's first Fourth of July picnic in this excerpt from his new memoir Horse Racing & Rock 'N' Roll
"...Bobbie, outlaw era radio deejay Woody Roberts returns to the scene of the time with a chapter from new..."

Dec. 25, 2020 Music Feature by Woody Roberts

The Third Murder
Japanese legal procedural puts the justice system on trial
"...The investigation begins, suitably, with a murder. A man is..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Family Fang
Jason Bateman directs and co-stars in this dark comedy
"...fervently sung by two adolescent siblings eager to please their mom and dad, reverberates throughout the tonally shifting dramedy..."

May 6, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Spectacular Now
An outstanding cast and eloquent storytelling shape this delicate film that becomes a dark study of a budding, young alcoholic.
"...story. Screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber prefaced their breakout film (500) Days of Summer with that warning,..."

Aug. 16, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Girl
David Riker's indie drama stars Abbie Cornish as a Texas woman, who finds maturity while smuggling Mexicans across the border.
"...In The Girl, writer/director David Riker returns to many of the..."

April 5, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Gatekeepers
Six retired directors of Israel’s domestic intelligence agency candidly reflect.
"...The rule of surveillance is to keep quiet and let..."

March 22, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Although this sendoff to the young leads feels a little thin, the culmination of the Harry-and-Voldemort show more than satisfies.
"...Ralph Fiennes, Alan Rickman, Michael Gambon, Helena Bonham Carter, Matthew Lewis, Tom Felton, Kelly Macdonald, Evanna Lynch and Maggie..."

July 15, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Merry Gentleman
Michael Keaton directed and stars in this glum story about a suicidal hit man and the woman who may save him or prove to be his undoing.
"...Cannavale, Darlene Hunt and Guy Van Swearingen. This dark, quiet, but mildly stirring movie about a laconic hit man..."

July 17, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Express
The story of Ernie Davis, the first African-American Heisman Trophy winner, is full of heart-pumping stadium heroics and quiet acts of dignity.
"...and your World War II sharpshooters. For my money, there’s no juicier role out there for an actor than..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Animation Show 4
Mike Judge is back with a brand new collection of short animated films, and it's premiering here in Austin.
"...on a stack of Syd Fields that causality is the building block of good narrative, and the artists on..."

April 25, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

After the Wedding
An expat Danish aid worker in Mumbai returns to Copenhagen to meet with a benefactor, only to discover that the world is even smaller than it seems.
"...Ida Dwinger and Mona Malm. What is it with the Danish and their suffocating domestic dramas? In Breaking the..."

May 25, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Cave of the Yellow Dog
Shot on location in Mongolia with a real nomad family, The Cave of the Yellow Dog blurs the line between documentary and fiction and, in doing so, creates its own singular dramatic language.
"...Nansalmaa Batchuluun and Babbayar Batchuluun. For a movie lover, the wait between truly original cinematic experiences can be years...."

Dec. 29, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

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