William Shakespeare's a Midsummer Night's Dream

"...Directed by: Michael Hoffman. Starring: David Straithairn, Sophie Marceau, Stanley Tucci, Dominic A. West, Christian Bale, Anna Friel, Calista..."

May 14, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Eyes Wide Shut

Kubrick's final work gets sexual

"...Directed by: Stanley Kubrick. Starring: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack, Todd..."

July 16, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Color Me Kubrick: A True...ish Story

This story about a con man who pretended to be Stanley Kubrick is a playground for star John Malkovich.

"...not? They all think his character is film director Stanley Kubrick – who at this point in the “true…ish”..."

March 23, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Core

"...Starring: Hillary Swank, Aaron Eckhart, Delroy Lindo, DJ Qualls, Stanley Tucci, Alfre Woodard, Bruce Greenwood and Terry O’Quinn. How..."

March 28, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Braveheart

Gibson directs and stars in this rousing 13th century epic about the Scottish freedom fighter William Wallace.

"...England, under Edward I, extended its rule over Scotland, William Wallace helped lead the charge for Scottish independence. There..."

May 26, 1995 Movie Review by Louis Black

Author? Author?

Who really wrote Shakespeare's plays? Writer Amy Freed plays the question for laughs.

"...do so undercover): Francis Bacon; Christopher Marlowe; Ben Jonson; William Stanley, Earl of Derby; Roger Manners, Earl of Rutland;..."

March 31, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Horror, the Horror

William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist and screenwriter of the infamously terrifying film, discusses the recently released The Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen and his life on both sides of the camera.

"...gallons of split-pea soup: That's how most people remember William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist, directed by William Friedkin in..."

March 24, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Primal Fear

"...John Mahoney, Alfre Woodard, Frances Mcdormand, Edward Norton and Stanley Anderson. When a beloved Chicago archbishop is brutally murdered,..."

April 5, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

If More CO₂ Is Bad ... Then What?

The need to reduce emissions collides head-on with the growing world demand for energy

"...That consequence has been proven repeatedly since 1865, when William Stanley Jevons, a British economist, published an analysis of..."

Dec. 7, 2007 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...and Alex North’s weary, sweat-drenched score elevating the Tennessee Williams play to new heights. Taxi Driver and A Streetcar..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Play It Again, Sam

All About Eve (1950)

"...D: William Friedkin; with Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair,..."

June 4, 1999 Screens Feature

Get in the Game: 'The Stanley Parable'

Most games do their best to keep players from asking the very questions Davey Wreden puts front and center

"...The Stanley ParableDavey Wreden and William Pugh, PC (Steam), $14.99..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

The Other Stars in the Galaxy

"...Probably the summer's two other most talked-about movies are Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut and Daniel Myrick and Eduardo..."

May 21, 1999 Screens Feature

Making Lists

"...Cisneros, James Crumley, Laura Furman, Dagoberto Gilb, Albert Goldbarth, William Hauptmann, John Irsfeld, Mary Karr, Beverly Lowry, Willie Morris,..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Books Feature by Dick Holland

1998 Texas Book Festival Schedule

"...Moderator: Jane Thomas; Kimberly Willis Holt, Jeanette Ingold, Diane Stanley..."

Nov. 13, 1998 Books Feature

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...of Light Director: Rosa Ruth Boesten, Producers: Roger Ross Williams, Anousha Nzume, Ilja Roomans George Anthony Morton, a classical..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fall Film Previews

September

"...D: Carl Franklin; with Meryl Streep, Renee Zellweger, William Hurt, Nicky Katt, Tom Everett Scott. This screen adaptation..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Screens Feature

Louis Sachar: Top of His Class

"...adults. He says that Kurt Vonnegut's Hocus Pocus and William Goldman's The Princess Bride influenced Holes. "I like the..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Books Feature by Barbara Strickland

The Original Hipster

Chronicle writer Dick Holland on the comeback of Texan Terry Southern, the all-around bad boy of black humor

"...Webb, and Roy Bedichek; (B) Katherine Anne Porter and William Sydney Porter (O. Henry); (C) Larry McMurtry, Cormac McCarthy,..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Hectic but Good

Profile of country / bluegrass singer-songwriter Jim Lauderdale

"...I Feel Like Singing Today, recorded with Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys, was released in August..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

That Old Revival Spirit

Testifying About Movies

"...Kelly, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones, Eileen Heckart, Evelyn Warden, William Hopper...."

June 13, 1997 Screens Feature

Paramount Summer Classic Film Series

"...Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (D: Stanley Kubrick, 1964): Tue, 7/2, 9:45pm; Wed, 7/3, 7:15pm..."

May 31, 2002 Screens Feature

Written in Stone

UT's Jim Bob Moffett and Freeport-McMoRan ride a new wave of allegations of business as usual: exploitation, cronyism, and environmental devastation

"...the UT board of regents, led by then Chancellor William Cunningham, agreed to name a building on campus after..."

Sept. 23, 2005 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Letters at 3AM

Even though 2002 was an exceptional year for American cinema, American art has never been more marginalized, ghettoized, and controlled, than it is today.

"...of Alcatraz, Sidney Lumet's Long Day's Journey Into Night, Stanley Kubrick's Lolita, Sam Peckinpah's Ride the High Country, John..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Takeaways From Fantastic Arcade: Day 1

Life lessons learned through video games and the people who make them

"...Lesson 3: The Stanley Parable is just like Portal 2..."

Sept. 20, 2013 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Magic Trip

This doc about Ken Kesey's famed bus goes all over the place but never seems to end up anywhere all that revelatory.

"...outlanders (Kerouac turns up, as does Ginsberg, but sadly, William S. Burroughs and his madcap artillery are nowhere to..."

Sept. 16, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wag the Dog

"...Brean to enlist the help of top Hollywood producer Stanley Motss (Hoffman), a vain Tinseltown caricature who's thrilled to..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Culture Connectors

The 2013 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...and open them to all corners of our community. Stanley Hall..."

May 31, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dem Results: Few Surprises

Several Democratic incumbents easily secured victory Tuesday night

"...on Guada­lupe; he had been heavily favored to best Stanley J. Wilson, a top manager at the tax office..."

June 1, 2012 News Feature

Off the Record

The battle for Townes Van Zandt's legacy wages on, Willie and the Doggfather get Half Baked in Amsterdam, and Pinetop Perkins gets his mojo working

"...District Court granted Jeanene Van Zandt; her two children, William Vincent and Katie Belle; and Austin's J.T. Van Zandt..."

April 25, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

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