Ma Vie en Rose

This Belgian film is a warm, startling, funny, and realistic study of what happens when a 7-year-old boy is convinced, beyond all reason and outward evidence to the contrary, that he is really a girl.

"...confusion to blow the lid off suburbia's Teflon tranquility. Ma Vie en Rose (My Life in Pink), a Belgian..."

Feb. 27, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Look Ma, No Wrapping

New DVD sets of film classics and beloved TV shows: already boxed, they just need a box on top.

Dec. 13, 2002 Screens Feature

Look Ma, No Wrapping

DVD boxed sets, no assembly required

"...The Producers being canonized on Broadway, there was a young drummer with a yarn about a theatre producer who..."

Dec. 13, 2002 Screens Feature

Look Ma, No Wrapping

DVD boxed sets, no assembly required

"...The Young Ones: Every Stoopid EpisodeBBC Home Video ($59.98)..."

Dec. 13, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

More Than Just the Facts, Ma'am

The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum's exhibition on Davy Crockett features a short stage show with the hero of the Alamo appearing live and in person. The two Austin actors who alternate in the show describe how they bring that King of the Wild Frontier to life day in and day out.

"...gathered knowledge to the public, in as engaging a manner as possible; and for that, it must go beyond..."

June 14, 2002 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Just the Facts, Ma'am

"...the ominous "dum duh dum dum" meant earnest police drama, the righting of wrongs, the triumph of good over..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

Flies on the Wall With Attitude

Cinéma vérité pioneer Robert Drew, coming to town this Wednesday for the Texas Documentary Tour, speaks about the films he has made and the film style he helped create.

"...belt, is widely viewed as the father of American cinéma vérité, a style of documentary that emerged in the..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Room

Emma Donoghue's screen adaptation of her bestseller is a knockout

"...Joan Allen, Sean Bridgers, Tom McCamus and William H. Macy...."

Nov. 6, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sun Ra Commander Marshall Allen

Intergalactic RAS Day headliners tap universal vibrations

"...Marshall Allen is 92 years young and remains as sharp..."

Aug. 24, 2016 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Here Comes Sickness

Mudhoney guitarist Mark Arm comes clean

"...Mark Arm is not one for nostalgia...."

Sept. 4, 2008 Music Post by Austin Powell

The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil

A taste of Eighties-style buddy-cop action-comedy hits all the right faces

"...Directed by: Lee Won-tae. Starring: Ma Dong-seok, Kim Mu-yeol and Kim Sung-kyu...."

June 21, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Animal Kingdom

An Australian family that commits crimes together avoids time together in this brutal look at the human survival instinct.

"...another,” says J (Frecheville) during the opening moments of Animal Kingdom. J is the cub thrown into the den..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

La Haine

With great passion and intelligence, Kassovitz graphically illustrates the violent disaffection of French immigrant youth.

"...Directed by: Mathieu Kassovitz. Starring: Vincent Cassel, Hubert Kounde and Saïd Taghmaoui...."

July 19, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Kids

"...emotional sucker punch, a raw, dirty, disturbing piece of cinéma vérité filmmaking that simultaneously hooks and repulses you from..."

Sept. 1, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Star Is Born

Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga headline this remake of a remake of a remake

"...and Will Fetters (based on a story by William Wellman and Robert Carson), is a terrific romance and backstage..."

Oct. 5, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Kill Your Darlings

Daniel Radcliffe stars as Allen Ginsburg in this sweet and sour story about the loves and collegiate years of some of the Beat writers.

"...”First thought, best thought,” is the maxim a young, aspiring poet by the name of Allen..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Son of Rambow

Amid this endearing story about two boys in Eighties England who join together to make their own Rambo movie, lies an uncommon, unaffected portrayal of young male intimacy.

"...a strict (and unspecified) religious sect in the early-Eighties, young Will Proudfoot (Milner) is a runty innocent mourning the..."

May 16, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Freeway

"...Directed by: Matthew Bright. Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland, Dan Hedaya, Amanda..."

Oct. 25, 1996 Movie Review by Steve Davis

A Dream Pursued

The Young Eight is showing the world of classical music what it means to be young, gifted, and black

"...Making it in classical music is no waltz in the..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Exhibitionism

Tres Proyectos Latinos & Young Latin Artists: Vibrant Dialogue

"...Ya Me Voy by Teodoro Estrada The primal human impulse is to find a mirror. We are..."

July 4, 1997 Arts Review

Austin Playhouse's Monroe

In Lisa B. Thompson's tender drama, young African-Americans work out where they belong in the world

"...the play its name? A post holding up a small, homey porch like the one just at his back?..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Arrival

Introspective sci-fi drama packs a punch.

"...Starring: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg, Mark O’Brien and Tzi Ma...."

Nov. 11, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tour de France 2012: Stage 10

Bradley Wiggins on top

"...The 10th stage of the Tour begins in Mâcon and ends 194.5 km (121 miles) later in Bellegarde-sur-..."

July 11, 2012 Sports Post by Larysa Pachulski

The Day the Sun Turned Cold

"...Ho. Starring: Siqin Gowa, Tuo Zhong Hua, Li Hu, Ma Jing Wu and Wai Zhi. Based upon a true..."

Sept. 8, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Come Home to Grey Gardens

HBO premieres Grey Gardens, featuring Drew Barrymore.

"...Maybe all art is derivative. But sometimes, rarely, after what..."

April 21, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Anne Harris

SXSW Music: Live at the BBQ

Wyclef Jean, Trae tha Truth, Bun B, 2 Chainz, DJ Khaled, Nas

"...become one of the surest bets at SXSW, Nas-backed magazine/label Mass Appeal’s Live at the BBQ rap event waylaid..."

March 18, 2016 SXSW Post by Kahron Spearman

The Shape of Jazz to Come

The Ornette Coleman Quartet is coming to the Bass Concert Hall

"...emptied OTR’s wallet with a rare date with Neil Young and has now upped the ante with the announcement..."

April 14, 2010 Music Post by Austin Powell

Zeppelin 3

"...“Free trip to Norway,” read the email subject line. That got my attention. So did frostbite..."

March 28, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

An Easy Girl

French coming-of-age drama doesn't get what it means to be young

"...by: Rebecca Zlotowski. Starring: Mina Farid, Zahia Dehar, Benoît Magimel, Nuno Lopes, Clotilde Courau and Loubna Abidar...."

Aug. 21, 2020 Movie Review by Selome Hailu

Ordinary Seamen and Ordinary Nobodies

New and Noteworthy

"...Life (Grove, $22, hard) is the journal of a young woman, Ma-Chan, who has taken on the responsibility of..."

April 11, 1997 Books Feature

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