That Fighting Spirit

Raging Boll

"...making smaller, "more personal," and completely self-financed films: a biopic of the German boxer Max Schmeling, a portrait of..."

Oct. 22, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Austin-Lensed 'Temple Grandin' Scores at Emmys

Temple Grandin is an Emmy Darling

"...The film is a biopic of the life of Temple Grandin, who grew up..."

Aug. 30, 2010 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Howl for aGLIFF

Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival comes out with titles

"...featuring James Franco as Allen Ginsburg in the new biopic. For the complete schedule and ticket info, visit http://www.agliff.org...."

Aug. 20, 2010 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Off the Record

UT and KUT's communications about the Cactus Cafe remain off-grid, while David Kimbrough Jr. reinstates his late father's legacy at TC's, and Alejandro Escovedo goes viral from the Stone Pony in Asbury Park

"...been tapped for the lead role in the forthcoming biopic Janis Joplin: Get It While You Can, directed by..."

July 30, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

'A Guy Walks Into the United States Art Authority...'

Feral Cinema/Lenny Bruce

"...might seem like an unlikely director to helm a biopic on comedy’s patron saint, but considering Lenny Bruce’s jazz-inspired..."

July 15, 2010 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Off the Record

Learning the ones and twos with the Dub Academy and Phranchyze

"...are being thrown around for the forthcoming Daniel Johnston biopic, including Philip Seymour Hoffman as the local pop savant..."

June 18, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

The Runaways

Reissues

"...on the soundtrack to The Runaways matches her and biopic foil Kristen Stewart trading teen melodrama on the epic..."

May 14, 2010 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

TV Eye

PBS' Independent Lens airs a locally made and deeply moving story of one family's extraordinary journey to help their son with special needs

"...experts, including Dr. Temple Grandin (portrayed in an HBO biopic by Claire Danes earlier this year). Grandin herself has..."

May 7, 2010 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Off the Record

Where do you want it?

"...Robert Duvall could play himself in a biopic about Billy Joe Shaver, and judging from the antics..."

April 16, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

The Surreality of Reality

Sure, America's got talent, but does Dallas have the next chicken plucker?

"...his Most Likely to Play Slim Pickens in the Biopic award...."

April 2, 2010 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

SXSW Film Reviews

"...the wit and style Mr. Nice lines up. Rose's biopic hews to the real-life story of Howard Marks –..."

March 26, 2010 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

Teenage Kicks

Writer/director Floria Sigismondi on capturing the Runaways

"...to make it a coming-of-age story and not a biopic." The result is something in between: an emotionally resonant..."

March 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

Letters at 3AM: My Top 10 of All Top 10s

A list of the Top 10 cultural artifacts that have shaped my life

"...FIVE PENNIES' (1959), DIRECTED BY MELVILLE SHAVELSON A corny biopic with Danny Kaye as bandleader Red Nichols, but, oh..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Off the Record

Stephen Bruton's final cut, a parting gift from At All Cost, and other holiday stocking stuffers

"...battle with the bottle rings truer than any music biopic in recent memory. The most chilling moment actually comes..."

Dec. 18, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Crumb/Spiegelman/Mouly

Three worthies of graphic storytelling set down their pens for a chat at Bass

"...Crumb and a supporting character in the Harvey Pekar biopic American Splendor. And he's just released The Book of..."

Nov. 13, 2009 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Go Greek: AFS Essential Cinema

AFS Essential Cinema: From the Shadows: Greek Independent Cinema

"...the much discussed and quickly dismissed Jacqueline Kennedy/Aristotle Onassis biopic The Greek Tycoon. (Counting Mihalis Kakogiannis' high-stepping Zorba the..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

AFF Announces Lineup

Serious Moonlight, scripted by the late Adrienne Shelly, will open the fest

"...Woody Harrelson) working in the Casualty Notification Office; Brit biopic The Young Victoria, starring Emily Blunt; Bob Byington's Harmony..."

Sept. 28, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Little Walter

"...of tanning. Drawing mileage from the aforementioned Chess Records biopic, wherein Walter's Oedipal exit from the Muddy Waters band..."

April 24, 2009 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Queer Queer Queer Movies

SXSW films for homos, films for this homo.

"...AIDS trauma Safe, not to mention the Karen Carpenter biopic acted out with Barbies, Superstar, and the gay origin..."

March 13, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

Reopened for Business

Make Watch Love Film party celebrates Austin Studios' remodel

"...into Austin's economy. Recent projects include the Temple Grandin biopic starring Claire Danes, Bandslam with Vanessa Hudgens, and the..."

Jan. 30, 2009 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Becoming Che

Benicio Del Toro on the method, the madness, and the merchandising

"...At four hours and 22 minutes, Steven Soderbergh's two-part biopic of Argentine-born Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara may seem to..."

Jan. 23, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Film News

Watchdog group Texans for Public Justice has a bone to pick with the guv and his new film incentives proposal

"...new twist), Robert Rodriguez's film Shorts, an Austin-shot HBO biopic about Temple Grandin, and Terrence Malick's Tree of Life...."

Dec. 26, 2008 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Film News

Wildfire Films launches in Austin, and Austin filmmakers land Independent Spirit noms in L.A.

"...town. First up locally for the group is a biopic tentatively titled 16 Minutes about Latino civil rights advocate..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Film News

Wrapping up the Austin Film Festival

"...speaking just blocks away from where HBO's Temple Grandin biopic was shooting at a Downtown church, sounded optimistic that..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

A Sunny, Funny Fest

Previewing the 2008 Austin Film Festival

"...hit Bart Got a Room and Oliver Stone's long-awaited biopic W., which by definition is surely as much a..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Film News

Save the Texas film industry with a Spaghetti Western fundraiser with the stars and under the stars at Star Hill Ranch

"...Theatre. More at www.seguinfestival.org... HBO's currently shooting Temple Grandin biopic, starring Claire Danes, is still seeking extras, particularly hikers,..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

ACL Fest Saturday Picks

The blurbing of ACL 2008

"...two Dylan pieces were used in Todd Haynes' recent biopic, I'm Not There. – Jay Trachtenberg Yonder Mountain String Band..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Music Feature

Film News

Carolyn Banks makes her directorial debut in Bastrop

"...or Luling areas, the folks behind HBO's Temple Grandin biopic want you. We told you recently that Claire Danes..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

A Life and Love in the Arts

'Chris & Don: A Love Story'

"...filmmakers," he continues, "rather than try to make a biopic from A to Z, we wanted to focus on..."

Aug. 29, 2008 Screens Feature by John Davidson

Film News

Claire Danes eyes an Austin shoot

"...Temple Grandin biopic lives..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

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