Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero

Charming, old-fashioned true story of one brave pupper.

"...Boston terrier mix who saved the lives of numerous American soldiers during the War to End All Wars a..."

April 13, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Bodies Bodies Bodies

Killer cast cuts to the core in this Gen Z Clue riff

"...The premise for Bodies Bodies Bodies is simple: What if Clue was made..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Our Bodies, Our Selves

An unusual convergence of dramas dealing with women and disabilities prompts a conversation among four actors about what playwrights are trying to say through characters who are disabled, and how actors approach playing a disability.

"...When she does, peeling away skin to reveal an American flag or r-r-r-ripping away a breast with a stitched..."

March 22, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Art in the Park: 'American Dream'

It's the day for you to deliver MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech

"...gazebo of the recently refurbished park with Kurt Mueller’s American Dream, an interactive artwork that includes a transcript of..."

Oct. 22, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Our Bodies, Our Cars

Time to walk the walk on making cities healthy

"...commute (e.g., the kind of places where most presuburbia Americans lived), can reduce obesity, diabetes, asthma, cancer, and national..."

June 11, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Something Out of Nothing

Joe Swanberg, anti-director, on Hannah Takes the Stairs

"...(and fall?) of a contemporary cinematic tendency – mostly young, white, and male – in which he is a..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

We Have Met the Future, and It Is Us

Film on the Web, part II: the movies

"...Or take Joe Swanberg's Young American Bodies, made for Nerve.com, about to enter its..."

March 9, 2007 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

From Bethlehem to Austin

A journalist moves from the violence of Palestine to the safety of Austin, and finds herself dazed by the difference.

"...the distance between South Austin and downtown. Being an American citizen made no difference. I still lacked the proper..."

Oct. 19, 2001 News Feature by Muna Hamzeh

SXSW Film Panel: Joe Swanberg Keynote

The indie film king of fast, cheap, and frequent has advice

"...a series he and his wife made for Nerve.com (Young American Bodies) doubled its budget each season, from $500..."

March 14, 2016 SXSW Post by Jacob Clifton

SXSW 09 Film Lineup Announced

What's all the ruckus? Why, it's the SXSW Film lineup!

"...Bujalski. You got return trips from SXSW alums Ry Russo-Young (You Won't Miss Me), Lynn Shelton (Humpday), and Alex..."

Feb. 1, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

1900

"...speeches made from atop tractors, haystacks and over dead bodies that are moving, but at the same time seem..."

Aug. 16, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Slow West

A whimsical and wistful fable follows a young romantic and a hard-nosed realist out West

"...Maclean’s Slow West unfolds in the wake of the American Civil War as a collection of natives, outlaws, and..."

May 22, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

The Old Man & the Gun

Robert Redford has rarely shone more than in this true-crime tale

"...fourth home run from filmmaker David Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Pete’s Dragon, A Ghost Story) begins with a..."

Oct. 5, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Towelhead

Alan Ball's film is guaranteed to discomfit and dismay with its dangerous plunge into an adolescent girl's discovery of sexuality and self-identity.

"...in Happiness, but Towelhead tells the story from the young girl’s perspective and, in the process, pinpoints the realistic..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bully

"...film draws a disturbing portrait of aimless and valueless American teens, whose ambitions extend to little more than the..."

July 27, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Crazy Horse

Paris' famed erotic showcase at the Crazy Horse saloon is profiled in this Frederick Wiseman documentary.

"...the Parisian equivalent of the many, often raggedy North American venues that have, over the years, appropriated the erotic..."

March 2, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...premieres for feature films (101 World premieres, 9 North American, and 3 U.S. and counting), today's list also includes..."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Dancing Through Uncharted Territory

Choreographic explorers Sharir & Bustamante and their 20-year expedition of discovery

"...dance troupe in the city – his first, the American Deaf Dance Company, had helped pave the way for..."

May 13, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Hard Target

"...and Wilford Brimley. Stop holding your breath. John Woo's American debut is as thoroughly a “John Woo Film” as..."

Aug. 20, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

28 Weeks Later

This continuing story of a populace that fears infection from a "rage virus," forges ahead with panic-paced sequences of graphic, random violence.

"...in ruins and no discernible infrastructure, mounds of charred bodies and blackened lorries stewing in the streets, and nothing..."

May 11, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Babel

Four disparate stories are woven into an eloquent and electrifying depiction of mankind's increasingly fractured state.

"...a white phosphorous flare. It opens with a wealthy young American couple (Pitt, Blanchett) vacationing in Morocco. She is..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Exhibitionism

El Niño X 3: Young Bodies, Old Souls

"...Designed in 1994 to promote the work of Latin American photographers, Fotoseptiembre has become a worldwide showcase of not..."

Sept. 4, 1998 Arts Review

Sundance Announces Competition Slate

Austinite Jeff Nichols will compete in Park City

"...a new, more accurate satellite survey of Armenia, an American cartographer forms a powerful bond with an Armenian expatriate..."

Dec. 1, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Film Review: Hounds of Love

They come from a land down under and they want to kill you

"...walking alone at night in late-Eighties Perth. Director Ben Young’s first narrative feature is loosely based on actual events,..."

March 12, 2017 SXSW Post by Marc Savlov

Who Owns Sixth Street

Is Austin's Sixth Street Entertainment District undergoing an identity crisis? -- and who are the designated shrinks?

"...Undeniably on weekend evenings, Sixth Street's majority population is young, generally 18 to 25. Flesh is king, and there..."

May 4, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Capital T Theatre's Hir

The Capital T Theatre production of Taylor Mac's absurdist satire puts the front lines of combat inside an American home

"...of duty in Afghanistan, but it turns out the young Marine on mortuary detail was just trading one battlefront..."

Jan. 13, 2017 Arts Review by Robert Faires

DPS Troopers Push Undocumented Immigrants Into a Deportation Pipeline

Spike in traffic stops raises concerns about racial profiling, faulty record keeping, and the damage done to families

"...their families – including their children, who are typically American citizens...."

June 2, 2017 News Feature by Debbie Nathan

Page Two: For What It's Worth

Thoughts on conflict of interest and the staying power of Neil Young

"...soon nearly putrid, mixing the smells of the unwashed bodies of four boys and the stink of unleashed adrenaline,..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Scanlines

Knute Rockne, All-American

"...don't have to look far in the fields of Americana to find some goateed eminence holding forth on the..."

Oct. 16, 1998 Screens Feature

Mary Moody Northen Theatre's Violet

In this moving production, a young woman learns the nature of true beauty and true love

"...It's 1964 in the American Southland, and Violet is on an Emerald-City-scope mission. Her..."

April 20, 2018 Arts Review by T. Lynn Mikeska

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