Batman: Gotham Knight

Six animated visions of the Caped Crusader, as envisioned by six unique animé directors and six different writers

"...original direct-to-DVD release in the DC Universe Original Animated Movies line loosely weaves the divergent pieces into a coherent..."

July 18, 2008 Screens Review by Rick Klaw

Indiana Jones: The Adventure Collection

The world's favorite whip-wielding archaeologist gets a new DVD reissue

"...of the fourth installment, Paramount has reissued the three movies as Indiana Jones: The Adventure Collection, available separately or..."

May 23, 2008 Screens Review by Rick Klaw

First Ladies: Early Women Filmmakers

Kino celebrates female filmmaking pioneers

"...as in Where Are My Children? and The Blot, movies that addressed birth control and class inequality, respectively. In..."

May 16, 2008 Screens Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Media Watch

The Statesman's getting smaller, but for what?

"...Life & Arts section for local coverage of music, movies, or theatre, the Statesman is sticking in TV listings..."

March 21, 2008 News Column by Kevin Brass

Nosferatu: The Ultimate DVD Edition

One of the most influential films of all time, it's almost superfluous to discuss the film itself and its considerable merits

"...most ambitious of seven supernatural (and since lost) Murnau movies was a time-traveling triptych concerning Old Scratch himself –..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Screens Review by Wells Dunbar

Dear Pillow

An 85-minute tribute to erotic confusion, the locally made Dear Pillow is both fascinated by and hostile to the absurdities of our culture's Puritanism and takes obvious joy in poking holes in them

"...Films, a small distributor of horror, cult, and exploitation movies looking to expand its market share, stepped in, and..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Screens Review by Josh Rosenblatt

WR: Mysteries of the Organism and Sweet Movie

"...on the need for a traditional screenplay … except movies like these can't be made with screenplays. In "Hole..."

July 13, 2007 Screens Review by Spencer Parsons

'Monsters and Madmen'

The Haunted Strangler, Corridors of Blood, First Man Into Space, and The Atomic Submarine

"...to find the Karloff discs here via Turner Classic Movies or through specialty outlets like Diabolik DVD. As for..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Screens Review by Marc Savlov

The Spirit of the Beehive

"They felt the film was ... simply unendurable. That no one would go see it."

"...wherein the connective tissue is distance, the difference between movies and reality isn't anything 6- or 7-year-old Ana knows..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

DVD Watch: Potential-Gift Edition

"...that Roger Corman ever promised with any of his movies was entertainment – but if that's what you're looking..."

Dec. 15, 2006 Screens Feature by Ken Lieck

Hail Mary

Released in 1985 to a chorus of religious condemnation and social opprobrium, it's Jean-Luc Godard's most divisive film, which is saying something

"...about a different Hail Mary than the one I watched, which is less so...."

Oct. 27, 2006 Screens Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Mr. Moto Collection

"...of her idol, Marilyn Monroe, but she made better movies, including the delirious The Girl Can't Help It, directed..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Screens Review by Steve Uhler

Weed Watch

Stoner-culture icon in Austin Friday to read from his first book, penned straight from the pen

"...on explaining how Chong's legendary pot-smoking character – from movies like Up in Smoke to his more recent, recurring..."

Aug. 18, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Complete Mr. Arkadin (aka Confidential Report)

'That film was taken away from me completely, and was totally destroyed in the cutting,' Orson Welles lamented. 'That was the real disaster of my life.'

"...Long before directing movies, Orson Welles was a prodigious magician, always carrying a..."

May 5, 2006 Screens Review by Steve Uhler

Into the Blue

Reacquaint yourself with one Paul Walker, the Jean-Paul Belmondo of the New Preposterousness

"...Janet, Georgia, and Wyatt – find that showing free movies in Fiji is a little more complicated than they..."

Feb. 10, 2006 Screens Review by Spencer Parsons

Rebel Samurai: Sixties Swordplay Classics

The films found in this box set are beautiful examples of a new direction in Japanese filmmaking, one that used the aesthetic and technical language of the swordplay films to expose and attack the culture that had lionized them

"...films attached. Disappointing, but after eight hours of Samurai movies, a little break from the DVD player may not..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Screens Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Knowing Me Knowing You

The 'Knowing Me Knowing You' two-disc set comprises all six episodes of the show, one of the most hilarious satirical comedies in recent memory. and is loaded with special features

"...the unanimity, the special is painfully funny and worth watching, even through your fingers, if need be. The same..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Screens Review by Jess Sauer

Cop au Vin and Inspecteur Lavardin

In making its big move, the French New Wave was never about polarizing class, but that hasn't stopped some critics and contemporaries from all but labeling Claude Chabrol's work as bourgeois, processed, and better suited to the small screen

"...he would go on to do four Lavardin TV movies and a big-screen sequel (Inspecteur Lavardin; here, we see..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Screens Review by Shawn Badgley

Hustle

The 1975 film 'Hustle' is a great modern love story disguised as a neo-noir police procedural. Largely unappreciated at the time of its release, the situation has not improved greatly if we are to judge by this no-frills DVD release.

"...the most raw, modern, and honest portraits in Seventies movies. Don't forget that these were no mere movie stars:..."

July 8, 2005 Screens Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Best of Flicker Austin: Volume 2

You have to wonder about some of these people

"...accomplices, it's the product of a developing director making movies the way he wants to, which has rarely turned..."

May 13, 2005 Screens Review by Shawn Badgley

Written on the Wind

A Douglas Sirk tour de force, 'Written on the Wind' explores the director's typical fascination with interfamilial relationships in a hold-on-to-your-cocktail- hat production oozing with Technicolor angst

"...model of an oil derrick. The men in Sirk's movies are somewhat one-dimensional, but he savors the female characters,..."

March 18, 2005 Screens Review by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Staying Alive

You don't even want to know

"...partner Norman Wexler, hitherto somewhat acclaimed for his hairy-chested B-movies (Mandingo). Sly's brother Frank, a pop-rock aspirant, gets several..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Screens Review by Marrit Ingman

Stage & Spectacle: Three Films by Jean Renoir

The Criterion connection, Renoir-style

"...extras, including three commentary tracks, audition tapes, and home movies...."

Aug. 6, 2004 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

SCTV Network 90: Volume 1

"...This is a tough one. If you watched the show, you know. You look at the photo..."

June 25, 2004 Screens Review by Nick Barbaro

Helter Skelter

"...on DVD Vincent Bugliosi's original 1976 Helter Skelter, the most-watched TV miniseries before Roots...."

May 14, 2004 Screens Review by Courtney Fitzgerald

Big Fat Independent Movies

Sending Off SXSW Film 04

"...dangerous, physically and emotionally, and it's sickly funny to watch them torture each other. You end up rooting them..."

March 26, 2004 Screens Feature by Diana Welch

La Chamade (Heartbeat)

Catherine Deneuve. Assez dit, n'est-ce pas?

"...someone told you that there were 60 James Dean movies you'd never laid eyes on. That the balance of..."

March 19, 2004 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Venice/venice

"...women talking about their relationships with the myth of movies and the reality of their own lives. Even though..."

Dec. 4, 1992 Movie Review by Louis Black

Breaking out of the Film Fest Box

After a festival run, indie movies used to die on the vine. Video-on-demand is changing that.

"...distributed digitally – its target audience is pretty comfortable watching things on laptops and is likely to be savvy..."

Feb. 1, 2013 Screens Feature by Dan Solomon

I Defy You, Ira Glass

"...Here's the great thing about movies. Try as we might to write off our affection..."

Oct. 16, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

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