Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2014: Documentaries, Program A
Three remarkable stories of people's reaction to oppression.
"...The three Oscar-nominated short films grouped in this program tell remarkable stories of how..."
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Feb. 7, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Chronicle Recommends: Star Wars Actors in Non-Star Wars Films
Celebrate May the Fourth away from a galaxy far, far away
"...our favorite performances by Star Wars actors in lightsaber-free films...."
May 3, 2018 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff
AFS Essential's Torn From the Motherland: Films From the African Diaspora
Oct. 23-Nov. 20
"...their ongoing Essential Cinema series, Torn From the Motherland: Films From the African Diaspora. During the next month, AFS..."
Oct. 19, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt
Fall Films
"...the tsunami swelled following Maines' remark at a London concert that she was "ashamed" of George W. Bush, Kopple..."
Nov. 10, 2006 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta
Steve Davis’s Top 10 Films of 2021
"...Never-before-seen concert footage of the forgotten 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival comes..."
Dec. 17, 2021 Screens Feature by Steve Davis
Sarah Jane’s Top 10 Films of 2021
"...making of my favorite Beatles record. Love that rooftop concert. Worst Film..."
Dec. 17, 2021 Screens Feature by Sarah Jane
In a Global Crisis, Luck Presents Writes a New Concert Promotions Standard
With a little luck, Ellee Fletcher Durniak and Matt Bizer thrive at improvising impossible situations
"...by local screenwriter Bill Wittliff, who also penned Nelson films Honeysuckle Rose and Barbarosa, called for the town to..."
April 16, 2021 Music Feature by Doug Freeman
Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat
"...Directed by: David Raynr. This live concert film by comedy's bad boy Martin Lawrence finds the..."
Aug. 9, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Lightning in a Bottle
Ostensibly a record of one mighty blues show, this film goes beyond the tag of concert film and achieves something more: a living history lesson, tracing the evolving sound of the blues.
"...Directed by: Antoine Fuqua. As concert films go, this is heady stuff, full immersion in..."
Nov. 12, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
See What They Do to You
How Jonathan Demme and Neil Young made a film about a concert attended by spirits
"...said. Demme, a seasoned pro in the art of concert films, having directed the features Stop Making Sense with..."
March 10, 2006 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Sound and the Fury
The Alamo screens James Brown's classic 1968 concert.
"...watching the footage of James Brown’s April 5, 1968, concert at the Boston Garden. It’s screening tonight at the..."
Jan. 21, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett
Taking Woodstock
The director of Brokeback Mountain looks for peace and love in another decade and finds it at the legendary festival through the story of one key participant.
"...famed music documentary and Barbara Kopple’s more recent Woodstock films further preserve and disseminate the sounds, images, and gestalt..."
Aug. 28, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Page Two: A Small Hurricane of Emotions
Jonathan Demme's Bob Marley Stay With the Rhythm pushes beyond the boundaries of the screen
"...is an integral part of Demme's life. All his films have carefully considered soundtracks that are never gratuitous but..."
July 17, 2009 Column by Louis Black
Detroit Rock City
Four high school bandmates try to get into a KISS concert.
"...high school dudes trying to get into a KISS concert by hook or by crook is a mildly diverting..."
Aug. 13, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Elle
Riveting yet perplexing, this psychological thriller is a stunner
"...One of the best films of the year, Elle is a gripping psychological thriller,..."
Dec. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Elevation
Taking stock of music DVDs
"...Stones Live at the Max doesn't. Unfortunately, the 85-minute concert film, commissioned specifically for Imax theatres, captures a lackluster..."
Jan. 18, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez
Three ... Extremes
This lush and horrific anthology film from three of the finest craftsmen working today – Fruit Chan, Chan-wook Park, and Takashi Miike – is an instantly memorable and squirm-inducing assemblage.
"...Pauline Lau, Meme, Lee Byung-hun and Kang Hye-jeong. Anthology films are notoriously tricky to pull off. For one thing,..."
Oct. 28, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
1991: The Year Punk Broke
This snarling, loudly exultant record of the 1991 European tour by Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr., and other bands, bursts with lunatic concert footage, inspired backstage antics, baffling contract riders, and self-deprecating humor from the groups.
"...documentary? Hardly. The early Eighties produced a mini-tsunami of films and videos chronicling the goings-on within the punk scene,..."
Dec. 4, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Chavela
A tribute to the life of iconic ranchera singer
"...the Mexican music brokers to perform on a big concert stage until her late-career resurgence in popularity that was..."
Nov. 21, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
"The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop" Provides a Close-up on Cinema's Scenic Paintings
The exhibition of 12 vintage backdrops painted for MGM films reveals their techniques for creating grand illusions
"...see an exhibition of vintage backdrops painted for Hollywood films, she walked into a space and was suddenly on..."
Feb. 12, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Five Movies to See in Austin This Week
Your weekly film guide for Feb. 23 through March 1
"...a Norse god), so here’s a fun fistful of films for your future...."
Feb. 23, 2018 Events Post by Josh Kupecki
Thunder Soul
Thunder Soul tells the story of the Kashmere Stage Band, and before the film is through this high school band you’ve never heard of will have earned a top spot on your personal hit parade.
"...Kashmere Stage Band, who have gathered to perform a concert in honor of Prof’s 92nd birthday. Many of the..."
Sept. 30, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
The director of Doom takes on another video-game franchise, this time one about a female martial artist seeking justice.
"...has had some previous experience helming video-game-inspired crap action films (Doom), but the former director of photography on Terms..."
March 6, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Eye
In this Hong Kong horror remake, Jessica Alba stars as a blind violinist whose cure turns out to be worse than the disease.
"...already with the abysmal remakes of superior Asian horror films! You're killing me, and I'm going straight to Jigoku...."
Feb. 8, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Metallica Creates a New Monster
Kirk Hammett, Robert Trujillo, and Nimrod Antal go 'Through the Never'
"...When Nimrod Antal was directing the metal leviathan's new concert movie, Metallica: Through the Never, he had to keep..."
Oct. 2, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Battle of the Year
In this dance competish, it's U.S.A. all the way.
"...Youth dance films are predictable and stereotypical, but that is part of..."
Sept. 27, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black
Apollo 18
This secretive film's premise is that it reveals suppressed footage of the U.S. government's secret mission to the moon.
"...Presumably, the intent was to work in concert with Spanish director Gonzalo López-Gallego’s goal of making the..."
Sept. 9, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
The Beat That My Heart Skipped
A character study of a young man torn between disparate career paths as either an enforcer for his slumlord father or a virtuoso pianist, is underserved by its prosaic realism and adds little to the original.
"...or other such inducements. Thomas’ late mother was a concert pianist, and after a chance meeting with her former..."
Sept. 16, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Underworld
Kate Beckinsale bares her fangs as a vampire assassin in in a shaggy werewolf story.
"...she’s on her way to a Sisters of Mercy concert armed to her pointy white teeth with all manner..."
Sept. 19, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
SXSW Adds 102 Movies to 2019 Film Festival Lineup
After Us, what else does the film fest have in store?
"...its first wave of movies and shows, with new films from Olivia Wilde, Robert Rodriguez, Christopher Morris, and more...."
