From the Vaults: Nominees on Rewind

The Texas Film Hall of Fame film series in focus

"...groundbreaking book In Cold Blood. Previously, McGrath also scripted Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway, as well as writing the..."

Feb. 17, 2012 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Live Forever

What some locals considered Cotton Mather's sophomore slump, 1997's Kontiki, may have been the only thing that Oasis' Gallagher brothers ever agreed on

"...check to allay his longstanding phobia of having "a Woody Allen-style meltdown" over onstage gear malfunctions, Harrison takes a..."

Feb. 10, 2012 Music Feature by Greg Beets

2011 Screens Top 10s

Marjorie Baumgarten's Top 10 list

"...Like the professional magician he always dreamed of becoming, Woody Allen conjures 1920s Paris and makes us believe in..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Film Critics Association Announces Awards

Hugo wins Best Picture

"...Best Original Screenplay: Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris..."

Dec. 30, 2011 Screens Feature

AFCA Anoints 'Hugo'

Austin group hands 'Take Shelter,' 'Drive' multiple awards

"...Supporting Actress: Jessica Chastain, Take Shelter Best Original Screenplay: Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris Best Adapted Screenplay: Hossein Amini,..."

Dec. 28, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Film History, With a Fresher Date Than Usual

Austin Cinematheque opens season with Uncle Boonmee

"...gems such as Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise and Woody Allen's Zelig...."

Sept. 30, 2011 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Let Me Paint You a Picture

Movies were made to be shared

"...ventured our pod to deepest, darkest Oakland for a Woody Allen triple bill, and there again love-play cut as..."

May 20, 2011 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Swedish Sensationsfilms: A Clandestine History of Sex, Thrillers, and Kicker Cinema

An encyclopedic overview of the grimy-great underbelly of Swedish exploitation films

"...(an explosively titillating combo that eventually resulted in both Woody Allen and Wes Craven, oddly enough). But who knew..."

April 29, 2011 Screens Review by Marc Savlov

Bob Byington Sees the World, Writes Home About It

Harmony and Me's adventures in Australia

"...(and the audience) with a funny, warm greeting from Woody Allen, in which he said he'd always been terribly..."

March 8, 2011 Screens Post by Bob Byington

The Gray Band

How can a band singing almost exclusively about serial killers engender so much life?

"..."No Quarter," a rabid man-bear bellows as if mortally challenged, unintelligible tongue absolutely frothing...."

Jan. 14, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Stairway to Cleveland

My dinner with Harvey Pekar – three weeks ago

"...in a car that resembled the Volkswagen Beetle in Woody Allen's Sleeper. He limped slightly and maneuvered his downbeat..."

July 16, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Woody Allen, surpassing porn, etc.

"...Woody Allen did an ad for Smirnoff Moscow Mule...."

June 11, 2010 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Here Is the House... Or Maybe It's That One

Meghan Daum at BookPeople tonight with her memoir about misadventures in real estate

"...from the pages of The New Yorker and old Woody Allen movies – Daum is instantly relatable. (I still..."

May 12, 2010 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Lone Stars in Good Company

Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards 2010

"...Rambling Rose. He has worked with such directors as Woody Allen and Tim Burton and has just completed work..."

March 12, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rube Goldberg Spins in Grave, Invents Coolest Coffin Ever

Notes on Rube Goldberg and "The Collector"

"...meal-time mechanicals appeared in Charles Chaplin's Modern Times and Woody Allen's Sleeper...."

July 23, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

That Thing They Do

The Paramount Summer Film Classics' season of stars

May 22, 2009 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts

It's appropriate – hell, it's necessary – that a documentary about Philip Glass provide sound as crisp and clear as the sharpest images onscreen, and this one does, with aural textures you can almost feel against your skin

"...has worked with Martin Scorsese and Errol Morris and Woody Allen, among other fine directors. His working – just..."

May 1, 2009 Screens Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

I Am a MAC Viva Glam Woman Because...

RuPaul's Drag Race gets a little cuckoo.

"...a really great bargain hunter, and because I find Woody Allen strangely attractive. That wasn't right, was it? Claudette..."

Feb. 24, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

FronteraFest Short Fringe, Week One

A night full of the unexpected surprises that make FronteraFest worth going to

"...seems. In this case, a suicide case – think Woody Allen with a sneering Jack Nicholson twist – gets..."

Jan. 23, 2009 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

Auld Lang Syne at the Cinema

How Hollywood has created a holiday of unreasonable expectations and why we should probably stop buying in (but never will)

"...didn't think, at least for a minute, about some Woody Allen movie. I couldn't help it. In our society,..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink

"...supersized laughs with great authors such as Steve Martin, Woody Allen, Ogden Nash, Dorothy Parker, and S.J. Perelman. And..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Home Movies 10th Anniversary Set (Limited Edition)

One of the most original and emotionally/comedically satisfying series in Adult Swim's already prodigious back catalog

"...naturalistic dialogue and cinephile-centric storylines that fall squarely between Woody Allen and Peanuts. (A small niche, to be sure,..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

"Before I Speak, I Have Something to Say"

Digging a hole three Marx Brothers deep

"...come out of them, out of their influence – Woody Allen and Alan Alda, to name two. But this..."

Oct. 14, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Addiction and the Meaning of Life

"...expected from a single, middle-aged man whose life has fallen apart. There’s nothing a junkie can say to someone..."

Oct. 13, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

The Man Who Hath No Music in Himself

"...the actual lyrics of the songs the director chose. (Woody Allen had this exact same problem in Everyone Says..."

Aug. 20, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal

"...as smooth as a sword through a Cuban sandwich. Woody Allen & His New Orleans Jazz Band naturally avoid..."

July 4, 2008 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

How Do You Say 'Ouch' in Caveman Speak?

Cavemen crash, but there's a new hope

"...a laugh. Pic finds writer-director-star Adam Rifkin in wannabe Woody Allen mode as prehistory's first nerd, a bespectacled caveman..."

June 16, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

In Play

Welcome to the Godfather of the 21st century

"...the last dozen superhero movies. Or the last three Woody Allen films, for that matter...."

May 16, 2008 Screens Feature by Darcie Stevens

Big in Japan, but What About Austin?

Magnolia Pictures and the Alamo Drafthouse hope to build an audience for a Japanese oddity here in the heart of Texas

"...altogether odd, Matsumoto's epic plays like a dire, existentialist Woody Allen riff by way of Infra-Man, with a story..."

April 25, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Documentaries and the Cult of Personality

How documentarians pick a winner

"...pants, thick glasses, honking laughter, and sexual ineptitude. Like Woody Allen without the erotic power, he wandered through that..."

March 12, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

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