Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

Pulitzer Prize-winner Lawrence Wright explores the origins and alleged abuses of the Church of Scientology

"...projecting the irresistible élan and brazen self-mythologizing of a Wes Anderson character. But one is more likely to be..."

Jan. 25, 2013 Screens Review by Kimberley Jones

So Much Specialness

David Byrne's cult classic True Stories captured a lost Texas and a prescient picture of today

"...anthropologist from a faraway planet who beamed into Shepler's Western Wear and bought the works. "They're calling it a..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Screens Feature by Leah Churner

Cannes You Dig It?

Our man in Cannes Vincent Van Horn sees famous people

"...Wes Anderson was there too. Along with the cast of..."

May 17, 2012 Screens Post by Vincent Van Horn

Better Get Hit in Yo' Soul

When movies go looking for Christmas redemption

"...1998's Rushmore and everything, as they say, changed. Writer/director Wes Anderson recognized the sadness and tragedy behind Murray's eyes,..."

Dec. 16, 2011 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

AFF: A Conversation With Whit Stillman

What Whit Stillman wants? More tap dancing

"..."Except I heard Wes Anderson found his financial backer at a party in..."

Oct. 24, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Catastrophe and the Cure

Behind the scenes of Explosions in the Sky's most challenging and personal album

"...Since scripting cinematic suites for the West Texas beacon Friday Night Lights in 2004, EITS has..."

July 1, 2011 Music Feature by Austin Powell

What Are You Looking At?

Our latest pop-culture fixations

"...• Wes Anderson is sometimes accused of being overly fussy with..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Screens Feature

My So-Called Social Life

What happens when Facebook RSVPs stop being polite ... and start getting real

"...wasn't really an endurance thing – see South by Southwest for that, plus I'm not that popular – but..."

June 18, 2010 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

Such Great Heights

The agony and ecstasy of Powell and Pressburger pictures

"...inspired such admirers as George A. Romero, Bernardo Bertolucci, Wes Anderson, and especially Martin Scorsese, whose Film Foundation has..."

June 11, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Take 10

The annual 10 Under 10 showcase spotlights collegians with cameras

"...substance for style, like John Cameron Mitchell, Pedro Almodóvar, Wes Anderson, and Sofia Coppola...."

May 7, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Yours Ever: People and Their Letters & Cassette From My Ex: Stories and Soundtracks of Lost Loves

In praise of dead and dying art forms, Parts I and II

"...talented Mitford sisters, who read like something out of a Wes Anderson movie (with a significant detour into Leni Riefenstahl..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Books Review by Kimberley Jones

Developing Story

AFF honors Arrested Development creator Mitchell Hurwitz

"...Levinson (Diner), Robert Altman (Nashville), Susannah Grant (Erin Brockovich), Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson (Rushmore), Joel & Ethan Coen..."

July 6, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Great Perhaps: A Novel

Middle age sets in for the former Punk Planet contributor in this, his fifth novel

"...neuroses and inadequacies feels a lot like one of Wes Anderson's sad, quirky tales. But Meno never gets around..."

May 22, 2009 Books Review by Audra Schroeder

It Came From Down Under

Aussie films swarm SXSW 09

"...hearts (Crocodile Dundee), but this year at South by Southwest, Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade wants us..."

March 13, 2009 Screens Feature by Darcie Stevens

Sic Transit Gloria

The Texas Film Hall of Fame inducts Rushmore

"...a decade ago. It was the last picture show Wes Anderson shot in Texas before he abandoned – yes,..."

Feb. 20, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

When the Science Guy Is Still in Short Pants

Welcome to Enzoology.com

"...representation with Barry Hirsch's law firm, which also represents Wes Anderson, Francis Ford Coppola, and Owen Wilson, among others...."

Dec. 19, 2008 Screens Feature by Sarah Jean Billeiter

Lost World, Found Footage

AFS' Avant Cinema celebrates the radical art of Bruce Conner

"...Mark Rothko or Damien Hirst than Arthur Penn or Wes Anderson. I'm thinking of Stan Brakhage, Maya Deren, Ken..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

I Defy You, Ira Glass

"...what I think of when I watch movies by Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach (The Squid & the Whale)..."

Oct. 16, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Conversations in Film Series Continues With Polly Platt

"...and Paper Moon. She was also instrumental in rocketing Wes Anderson and the Wilson boys to acclaim with their..."

July 11, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Ice Storm

Revisiting Ang Lee's The Ice Storm and its survey of the moral dissolution of American life through the Nixon era

"...Rushmore would be released, and it's easy to imagine Wes Anderson huddled in a darkened theatre somewhere, staring at..."

March 28, 2008 Screens Review by John Davidson

Puzzling: Cowboys/Patriots Revisited

"...the new AT&T spots directed by filmmaker and Texan Wes Anderson. Like his flicks, Anderson’s cell phone spots are..."

Oct. 15, 2007 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

ACL Fest Sunday Reviews

"...music videos, especially "16 Military Wives," a hilarious and Wes Anderson-esque send-up of prep-school politics. (7:30pm, Dell stage)..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Blue Water, White Death and Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis

"...about old Carcharodon carcharias. So aside from spotting details Wes Anderson lifted for The Life Aquatic, we learn very..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Screens Review by Spencer Parsons

The Best of Flicker Austin: Volume 2

You have to wonder about some of these people

"...Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (Criterion): When you get Wes Anderson and Criterion together, the fact that you BitTorrented..."

May 13, 2005 Screens Review by Shawn Badgley

Film News

The Legislature's $20 million in proposed incentives to lure more film projects to Texas is emphasizing jobs and aiming to boost rural areas as well as larger cities like Austin; plus, Wes Anderson's next movie

"...Andrew premiered The Wendell Baker Story on South by Southwest Film 05's opening night, said during a press conference..."

March 18, 2005 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Andrew Does the Book of Luke

The Wilson boys are back in town with their 'Wendell Baker Story,' which took one an eternity to write and the other a month to shoot

"...as they have in several of friend and collaborator Wes Anderson's films. "Directing was extremely stimulating," Andrew says of..."

March 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Audra Schroeder

Burnt Orange to Tell 'Children's Story'

A tale of two 12-year-old runaways is the next project from Burnt Orange Productions, the for-profit film arm of the University of Texas Film Institute

"...Institute. Location scouting and casting has begun for A West Texas Children's Story, which will shoot in Austin this..."

Feb. 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

The Kinks

Gift guide

"...Green Day's new album alludes to Davies and director Wes Anderson promises another revival of the vivid quirk and..."

Dec. 17, 2004 Music Feature by Courtney Fitzgerald

The top 10 ways to take Bill Murray home with you

Every girl's a sucker for a disheveled goofball who's crying on the inside.

"...3) Rushmore (1998): Supporting, show-stealing Bill in Wes Anderson quirk. Who doesn't hold dear the beer-gutted Bill..."

Jan. 2, 2004 Screens Review by Courtney Fitzgerald

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Worth, Killeen and Waco, Houston and parts south and west, and of course many Austinites lent their voice to..."

Aug. 8, 2003 Column

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