If You Build It ...

What Dreams May Come

"...Municipal Office Complex. "It's a modification; it's not exactly what the MOC was, but it's awfully close," says Speck...."

Feb. 5, 1999 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Wander Darkly

Sierra Miller is a broken wonder with fractured memories of a fractured relationship

"...Grant, Tory Kittles, Aimee Carrero, Dan Gill and Ayden Mayeri...."

Dec. 11, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Fall Film Previews

September

"...collaborator Guillietta Masina starring as a prostitute whose guileless dreams are met with a flood of harsh reality. In..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Screens Feature

Trey Edward Shults Returns for Austin Film Festival

Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Blair Witch retrospective

"...spearheading the new wave of cerebral horror with It Comes at Night. Now the Texas-born Shults brings his latest,..."

Sept. 24, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Haunting

"...from some marvelous production design by Eugenio Zanetti (Restoration, What Dreams May Come), who has envisioned the spectral manse..."

July 30, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

King of the Hill

It's lights, camera, action for the Hill Country Film Festival

"...If diving headfirst into the beautiful mayhem of the South by Southwest Film Festival necessitates beta-blockers..."

April 26, 2013 Screens Feature by Jessi Cape

SXSW 08 Film Conference

Snapshots from the SXSW 08 Film Conference

"...two-hour conversation with Ain't It Cool News' Harry Knowles. What was ostensibly billed as a chat between the two..."

March 14, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

"...hell and beyond to retrieve her dear Gabrielle and what she endures makes your vision of hell in What..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

1998 Austin Theatrical Movie Openings

"...A STRANGE PERSON 3.0 (M.S.) 12/11/98 I STILL KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER 0 (M.S.) 11/20/98 I THINK..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Screens Feature

Film Listings:

"...FRIES I’LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS I STILL KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER THE INHERITORS JOHN CARPENTER’S VAMPIRES..."

Nov. 27, 1998 News Feature

Exhibitionism

The Soldier Dreams: Misreading Clues Around a Deathbed

"...Hyde Park Theatre, through May 22 Running Time: 1 hr, 15 min..."

May 14, 1999 Arts Review

Top 10 Festival Films of 2021 You Haven't Seen Yet

From retro horror to COVID survival, the best of the fests

"...the circuit in Austin last year, and when you may get to see them...."

Jan. 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...release for renowned Austin electronic outfit Holodeck Records, experienced what lead sound designer and multi-instrumentalist Neil Lord calls "synchronicity."..."

April 16, 2021 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Next Edition

For more than 13 years, Flatbed Press has been producing some of the most exquisite collectible prints made by contemporary Texas artists, but these days its owners are starting to plan for a new incarnation of Flatbed that may not include them.

"...vision, not to make prints that look like they come from the specific press. That feel may be magnified..."

June 13, 2003 Arts Feature by Madeline Irvine

Whatever Now

A Report on Heather Woodbury on the Verge of Fame

"...standing on the brink, looking into the current which may whisk her away to a new level of recognition..."

April 25, 1997 Arts Feature by Adrienne Martini

Up

Pixar tops itself with its new animated film that offers so much more than its promotional promise of a fantastical movie about a house that flies on balloon power.

"...leaving to guide Up. (For more about Docter, see "What Comes 'Up' …, May 29.") Up’s promotional campaign, which..."

May 29, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hurricane Streets

"...to New Mexico where he was born. Circumstances being what they are in Hurricane Streets, that doesn't look too..."

April 24, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Bride From Hell

The Austin Chronicle's style avatar wants your wedding to be the peachiest. Here, he offers helpful hints to make your wedding panning that much less disastrous.

"...further down and the lights of New Year's Eve come into view. Fasten your seatbelts, it's always a bumpy..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Features Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Bonding Over the Bonds

Council's Dreams Come True

"...perhaps more importantly, to keep this council in power come May 1999 when three seats come up for re-election?..."

May 8, 1998 News Column by Kayte VanScoy

Whether You Like It or Not...

Eric Mitchell's Redevelopment Dreams

"...and homeless person Kirk Becker recently offered the council what he thought was a harmless and logical solution to..."

Sept. 29, 1995 News Feature

Romeo is Bleeding

"...juices and uncapped for a new age audience who may never have learned hard-boiled factoids like “deadly is the..."

Feb. 25, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hustle & Flow

A rousing Rocky story set on the mean streets of Memphis.

"...commands the screen as the Memphis pimp DJay, who dreams of making his mark in the world and living..."

July 22, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Musical Theatre Hits the Heights

That's Show Biz!

"...straight lines and diagonals, arms waving, legs kicking, performing what, in the world of the musical Gypsy, passes for..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Arts Feature

Austin Film Festival Announces Full Lineup

AFF's finalized lineup

"...which netted a lot of attention at Cannes in May and closes out AFF on Oct. 23...."

Sept. 24, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Mister Lonely

Oddly, Harmony Korine's film may be his most accessible as a director, featuring characters and images that are unforgettable – even if they don't add up to a complete narrative or visual whole.

"...not disappoint in that regard. Oddly, however, this film may be Korine's most accessible as a director, featuring characters,..."

June 6, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

On the Line, Two Shots

The Texas Documentary Tour revisits Steve James' 'Hoop Dreams'

"...Halfway through the seven-year making of Hoop Dreams, director Steve James, as all doc-makers must, was desperately..."

April 7, 2006 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Savior of the Soul 'ninety-Two

"...as incomprehensible as Lai and Yuen's original, this updated version/sequel/whatnot forsakes the gore and martial arts set pieces in..."

Jan. 21, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Thirty-Five Up

"...E. Of Aquitaine and Marek Waldorf. The unexamined life may not be worth living but living lives as examined..."

March 20, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Open Your Eyes

"...all fit into a skewed sort of logic. You may not get it at first, but the effort is..."

April 30, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Legend of Bagger Vance

"...the tall cornstalks and onto that movie's Field of Dreams has a Hollywood sports movie appealed to our national..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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