Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grandmaster

This sequel is a model of the martial arts movie form.

"...Eastern philosophizing comes into conflict with the decidedly unsporting Western notions of what a good punch-up should look like...."

Jan. 28, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

True Grit

Rooster Cogburn rides again in this Coen brothers' remake of the Western classic.

"...No Country for Old Men in terms of its Western setting, while at the same time incorrectly commenting on..."

Dec. 24, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Day Trips

The Medford Collection of American Western Art fills the corridors of the Lufkin City Hall

"...The Medford Collection of American Western Art fills the corridors of the Lufkin City Hall..."

July 16, 2010 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Lege: Give 'Em More Founding Fathers!

Testing our true American values with Western civilization

"...Straus to offer "an optional curriculum that emphasizes ethics, Western civilization, and American traditions to satisfy portions of the..."

May 21, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Did You Hear About the Morgans?

Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker play a feuding New York City couple who rediscover their love while out West.

"...each other, and as was declared in that great Western romance from a few years ago, “I just can’t..."

Dec. 18, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

High Texas Rider

Before the Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornados, the Lone Star State's voice of the Vox organ, Augie Meyers, was San Antonio's Lord August & the Visions of Lite

"...with "Mendocino," the new Quintet was back in business. Western Heads..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Letters at 3AM

Homer, the epic poet of ancient Greece, invented the cinematic close-up

"...of individuality distilled into one shot – a strictly Western creation, probably because only a civilization that spent 3,000..."

April 24, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Hank, Harry, and Jesse James

Sitting in with Jimmy Grabowske, steel guitarist to the stars

"...time he got to Austin in the late Forties, Western swing bloomed in full flower with Bob Wills &..."

Oct. 5, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Searching for Once Upon a Time

Why Monument Valley – again part of the Netflix / Alamo Drafthouse Rolling Roadshow this summer – is such a magnetic place for me

"...The movie is The Searchers, a great, enduring Western and one of the best collaborations between John Ford..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The New World

Instead of a great story about the conflicted origins of the American nation, Terrence Malick interrupts his transcendental observations for a dopey love story between John Smith and Pocahontas.

"...palisades looking out toward the water that’s bringing strange Western ships to their shore. Again, as time passes and..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Renegade

Still mourning the death of Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott 20 years later

"...Shades of a Blue Orphanage and "Vagabond of the Western World," "Wild One," "Warriors," "Solider of Fortune," even (lady)..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

TIFF Notes

What I took away from the Toronto International Film Festival

"...three of my favorite films from the fest are Westerns, which perhaps indicates there's new life emerging in this..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

2004 ACL Fest Guide

Everything you need to know

"...Imagine the historical crevice Western swing might've been consigned to without Ray Benson's Asleep..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Music Feature

Luv Doc Recommends: Lone Star Country Dance Sport Invitational

Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol, Friday, August 20, 2004

"...numerous pundits have waxed philosophical about the decline of Western civilization. It was solid ass-kicking no doubt, but for..."

Aug. 20, 2004 Column by The Luv Doc

Our Country Mapped in Music

The Austin Symphony's concert with Grantham's Southern Harmony, Copland's Appalachian Spring Suite, and Gershwin's Second Rhapsody gives audiences a chance to hear how some composers describe an American sense of place through music

"...through the Appalachian Mountains, landing in the wilds of western Pennsylvania as winter releases its grip on the land..."

March 19, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...sixpiece smolders in a confluence of Middle Eastern, classical Western, and all that jazz. – Margaret Moser..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

Upping the Animé

Satoshi Kon's 'Tokyo Godfathers' is social commentary transposed onto a toonscape: an interview

"...an artist worthy of serious critical attention in a Western arena that for the most part continues to define..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Missing

Ron Howard directs Tommy Lee Jones and Cate Blanchett in tough Western drama.

"...John Wayne’s final movie, The Shootist, helms this new Western. Not only is there the matter of cultural legacy,..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Day Trips

"...years or so. Of course, the village on the western tip of Big Bend National Park is pretty much..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from around Austin and beyond

"...than $60 million worth of work to Arlington-based Archer Western Contractors Ltd. for an upgraded Ullrich Water Treatment Plant,..."

Oct. 31, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Medallion

Furthering his American decline, Jackie Chan will wins no medallions for this stinker.

"...action-comedy star, and the man who almost single-handedly made Western audiences sit up and pay attention in the post-Bruce..."

Aug. 22, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Together

"...parents feed off the success of their children and Western music – and all culture – has become a..."

June 27, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

(Re)learning Japanese

One was a hardworking Renaissance man, a student of literature. The other was a hard-living military veteran, a cameraman-in-training who stumbled into acting after his grizzled mug and gruff mien won a talent search. Together, Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune created some of the Japanese cinema's most enduring treasures.

"...today's tastemakers and shaping narrative genres from the spaghetti Western to the space opera...."

Feb. 7, 2003 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

TxDOT Scuttles SH 45 South -- For Now

For the time being, SH 45 South is off the table.

"...The western end of SH 45 South, which some environmentalists feared..."

July 12, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

King of the Swing Fiddle

Honoring country music's second most famous fiddle player, Johnny Gimble

"...Notice that Benson said jazz and not country. Western swing, which both Gimble and Asleep at the Wheel..."

April 5, 2002 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...THE HYPNO-TWISTS: From sand 'n' surf to spaghetti westerns, this hopped-up exotica act is to Phoenix what the..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...there will be hatred of Israel and of the Western nations that have supported its creation and defense. We..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Column

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...there will be hatred of Israel and of the Western nations that have supported its creation and defense. We..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Column

Letters at 3AM

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon asks whether we’re really living … and if not, why not?

"...than anything) has been invalidated. What now? Already both Western and Eastern ideals (romantic communion and spiritual enlightenment) have..."

June 22, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Shadow Magic

"...because the novelty of the contraption and the strange Western tunes it churns out would surely bring smiles to..."

May 4, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

« 1    ‹ BACK    6   7   8   9   10   11   12   13   14   15     NEXT ›    34 »