“Vivid Strokes: Contemporary Paintings From Vietnam”

In our tumultuous moment, seeing work by artists from nations that have known tragedy our own has not can be enlightening

"...tumultuous times and places. The Asian American Resource Center's "Vivid Strokes: Contemporary Paintings From Vietnam" gives us that opportunity...."

Nov. 25, 2016 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Shay Ishii Dance Company's Dancestry ... Vivid

Audiences gained much from this program's re-creations of historic dances by Isadora Duncan, Loïe Fuller, and Lucia Dlugoszewski

"...respect, not to applaud. As part of Dancestry ... Vivid, a program of historic dances presented by Shay Ishii..."

Jan. 22, 2016 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Post No Williams: A Vivid Section of the Human Animal

A tripartite view of The Collected Stories of Diane Williams

Dec. 24, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Shot Caller's Vivid Look at Crime and Punishment

Local director Ric Roman Waugh offers a brutal look at the penal system

Aug. 18, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Stefanie Distefano's Public Mosaics Mirror Austin's Bright and Vivid Streets

And these good shards aren't hard to find, man

Feb. 27, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Like Someone in Love

The latest film from Iranian filmmaking legend Abbas Kiarostami is set in Japan and looks at some characters playing out approximations of love.

"...that’s obvious and immediate. Tragically, our lives seem most vivid in hindsight...."

March 15, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

1917

World War I drama shows heroism in saving, not taking, lives

"...across no-man’s-land in World War I, is both a vivid re-creation of a time and a film that could..."

Jan. 10, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins

The legend of Texas journalism gets the coverage she deserves

"...Legislature and the powers that be, is restored to vivid and vital life, if not in the flesh than..."

Aug. 30, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Photograph

Indian romance is best in its quiet moments

"...social classes, but nevertheless something sparks. Lacking a typically vivid color palette and bright song & dance routines, Photograph..."

May 24, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Florida Project

Life in the happiest place on Earth

"...acclaim to shoot his last film Tangerine for the vivid range of 35mm in his new film The Florida..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Luc Besson's latest is a kaleidoscopic mess

"...out of this world. It takes you to some vivid places in the imagination of Luc Besson, the polarizing..."

July 21, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

John Wick: Chapter 2

The body count increases exponentially in this new installment

"...frequent body double, Stahelski has burst out as a vivid and creative action director with these two John Wick..."

Feb. 10, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Man Down

A soldier struggles with PTSD

"...“incident,” which the Marine recalls with grudging reluctance yet vivid detail. It’s enough to get a guy shipped back..."

Dec. 2, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Miles Ahead

Don Cheadle stars in and directs this unusual Miles Davis biopic

"...of blue, we wind up with something else that’s vivid purple...."

April 15, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

90 Minutes in Heaven

Faith-based film taken from bestseller is directed by Michael Polish

"...glorious,” he observes. The film opens strongly with a vivid portrayal of the car crash, before loping backward a..."

Sept. 11, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

2015 Academy Award-Nominated Documentary Short Films: Program A

Program A consists of the two longest doc shorts, and they’re among the best of the batch.

"...only the responders’ end of the conversations, but a vivid picture emerges of both sides of the line, their..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Blue Room

Mathieu Amalric directs and stars in this Hitchcockian story of l'amour four.

"...The Blue Room is at its duplicitous heart a vivid, chronologically complex depiction of l’amour fou gone terribly wrong...."

Oct. 24, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Code Black

Shot by a filmmaker/physician over the years of his residency, this doc about ER medicine is immersive and eye-opening.

"...documentary (which has won several festival awards) is remarkably vivid in capturing the sights and sounds of the ER...."

Aug. 1, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2014: Documentaries, Program B

A man carves majestic caves in sandstone rocks, and a prison hospice sees a lifer to the end.

"...extra credit for introducing us to characters who remain vivid after the lights come up in the theatre...."

Feb. 7, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Pacific Rim

When monsters and robots engage in epic battle, puny humans huddle in movie theatres to pay respect.

"...regular cinematographer Guillermo Navarro capture some of the most vivid battle scenes ever recorded in megamonster movies. The script..."

July 12, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Oz the Great and Powerful

Neither a besmirching nor a instant classic, this sometimes clunky prequel in which James Franco plays the Wizard when he was a mere, young huckster also has Sam Raimi's ravishing visuals.

"...Kansas to Oz. Raimi’s Oz is a land of vivid colors, enormous flowers and foliage with tendrils that reach..."

March 8, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Django Unchained

As entertaining and subversive as Django Unchained is, Tarantino's latest also suffers from a certain slackness.

"...the plantation owner to whom she was sold, is vivid and palpable. The revenge drama is violent and bloody,..."

Dec. 28, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Flight

"...the Future, Forrest Gump) shows he still has a vivid visual sensibility and a finger on the zeitgeist. But..."

Nov. 2, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Living an almost feral existence on a wild, low-lying area of the Louisiana coast known as the Bathtub, young Hushpuppy narrates her own vivid life story.

"...known as the Bathtub, little Hushpuppy narrates her own vivid life story in the particular manner of kids. There..."

July 13, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Last Lions

This stunning nature documentary about the vanishing lions of Africa is not your children’s Lion King.

"...camerawork in Botswana’s Okavango Delta is astonishingly up-close and vivid as he shapes a story around the lives of..."

March 18, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Women Without Men

Although this film set in 1953 Iran is visually compelling, its story about four different women is slight and emblematic.

"...walking, hovering, and restraining their self-expression. The images are vivid, their meanings much less so...."

Oct. 8, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Extract

Mike Judge, the writer/director of Office Space, mines the workplace for more satiric comedy.

"...Judge's other movies, stupidity reigns in Extract. It’s a vivid indictment of the way in which we all stumble..."

Sept. 4, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Nanking

This vivid documentary account of the Japanese "rape of Nanking" in 1937 includes the reading of diaries, letters, and other accounts of the exceptionally vicious invasion written by the expats and survivors.

"...press time due to sudden opening date change. This vivid documentary account of the Japanese "rape of Nanking" in..."

March 14, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Iraq in Fragments

This multiaward-winning documentary was two years in the making and tells stories about modern Iraq in the words of civilians of various ethnicities.

"...than naturalistic, but it makes the film far more vivid and emotionally satisfying – more like being there, among..."

March 9, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

American Hardcore

Crammed with grainy, shot-on-the-fly mid-Eighties video footage, recent interviews, and a genuine love for its subject, American Hardcore encapsulates a largely forgotten moment in maximum rock & roll history.

"...overriding do it yourself ethic = good), and a vivid glance back at a pre-Internet, pre-cell phone, post-peace-and-love youth..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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