Roger Waters and Erin Lee Carr to Keynote SXSW 2020

Also appearing: Phoebe Robinson, 50 Cent & Bon Appétit Test Kitchen

"...In recent months, his concert film with a “message of human rights, liberty, and love,”..."

Nov. 12, 2019 SXSW Post by Kevin Curtin

Macon Blair Wins Sundance 2017

Grand Jury prize-winner tops the list of locals done good – and bad – at Park City

"...Film buffs may recognize Macon Blair as an actor from..."

Feb. 3, 2017 Screens Feature by Michael Agresta

Mama Drama

The comedy in 21st century babymaking

"...While several of this year's South by Southwest Film submissions contend with contemporary anxieties surrounding pregnancy, birth, and..."

March 9, 2012 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

aGLIFF: Like a Virgin on the Runway in Trinidad

Onward through aGLIFF, night 2!

"...candy store this year. There are so many tremendous films – and very few of the typical gay cinema..."

Sept. 6, 2008 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

Page Two: The Art of Surprise

S.R. Bindler's Surfer, Dude continually pulls off the unexpected

"...The Austin Film Society is hosting a special premiere screening of Surfer,..."

Aug. 29, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Blank Generation

Amy Sedaris on 'Strangers With Candy'

"...rising up from the detritus of cable-TV obscurity and film-distribution limbo, the feature-length "prequel" to the cult Comedy Central..."

July 21, 2006 Screens Feature by Steve Birmingham

Mr. Demme's Holiday

Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme takes a trip to the city of lights and of love, of Tati and Truffaut, in his latest, The Truth About Charlie.

"...circuit. He accepts the chores involved with selling a film as an inherent part of the job. But more..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Just Your Average Stiff

"...Cult superstar Bruce Campbell has nailed all these roles and dozens more in his 41 years, but despite..."

June 4, 1999 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Plan for People, Not Cars

"...office, at Lt. Governors' office, and with Gov. Bush's female assistant...."

March 26, 1999 Column

Girls, Sex, and Movies

Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore

"..."I just got some e-mail saying that my film has been voted the third best movie of the..."

March 20, 1998 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

No Prozac for the Wicked

The Cool Capers of Donald Westlake

"...ever written, and dozens of one-shot genre-twisting classics. His film credits include at least two movies that many writers..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Scanlines: Ruby in Paradise

"...big sticks. The movie is the work of Floridian filmmaker Victor Nunez, his fourth (and best) feature film made..."

Aug. 8, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hollywood Babble On

The Silver Screen in Black & White

"...Fifties, Hollywood was dominated by men in key decision-making roles. What is not as well known, however, is that..."

July 25, 1997 Screens Feature by Alison Macor

Sitting Around on "The Corner"

Drive, They Said

"...hoped my daily routine would be captured forever on film -- as part of Richard Linklater's screen adaptation of..."

Aug. 9, 1996 Screens Feature by Andy Langer

Kimberley Jones’ Top 10 Films of 2016

"...Park Chan-wook wasn't just paying lip service to the female gaze. 5) American Honey..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Good Eye: Killer Outfits: The Laura Mars Years

Blow-Up vs. The Eyes of Laura Mars: The female gaze of male gaze is way more compelling

"...I first rented the 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni film Blow-Up at 23, a freshly dumped UT grad with..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

Golden Girl

In 'Boyhood' and beyond, Austin native Zoe Graham acts naturally

"...(1979) homage, "Scenes From the Suburbs" (2011), a short film that would accompany Arcade Fire's masterfully orchestrated release of..."

July 25, 2014 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

DVDanger: Zoe Bell on 'Raze'

Tarantino's favorite tough lady talks underground fighting

"...affable Jones' new movie Raze (out today from IFC Films), he's a source of pain and misery. Along with..."

May 24, 2014 Screens Post

'Far Marfa' Captures the Romance of West Texas Outpost

Stateside Independent hosts film's Austin premiere tonight

"...with people out of the casts of Sixties independent films. There is almost no eccentricity to Marfa because it..."

Feb. 25, 2013 Screens Post by Louis Black

Hearing Voices

An institution unto itself, the DVD commentary track can provide insider dish, impressions of mommy, and the startling depths of one movie star's know-how (or lack thereof).

"...again, giving away Conan's ending 10 minutes into the film and repeatedly stating the obvious, as in, "Now we..."

Jan. 17, 2003 Screens Feature

Postmarks

The union's due, the boys in blue, The Sopranos' view, and Miracle Mike takes it on the, um, chin.

"..."stomped out of the SoHo Lounge" before the end? Anti-femaleness doesn't disappear, but its popularity goes in cycles, and..."

April 13, 2001 Column

Love Thy Neighbor

Christine Fugate's new documentary The Girl Next Door follows Stacy Baker from her childhood in Tulsa to her rise as porn star Stacy Valentine.

"...apple pie but instead amidst Los Angeles' thriving adult film industry. And to top it off, Valentine comes across..."

June 23, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Warning! Nudity!

Austinites love to shed their clothes, and a number of them do it onstage -- what's up with that? Some of the city's most nakedness-prone actors, performance artists, and directors expose their reasons to arts writer Ada Calhoun.

"...women orbiting him enthusiastically. Before the actual clothes-removal, the female chorus prepared the stage (ô la the wrestler Gorgeous..."

April 14, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

The Long, Hot Summer

Books to Spend Your Summer With

"...Moronic Choices. This autobiography recounts the parade of great roles (which she recalls with professionalism and tact) and the..."

June 5, 1998 Books Feature

Marc Savlov’s Top 10 Films of 2017

"...Darren Aronofsky's febrile nightmare takes on gender roles, religion, and the nature of chaos itself and ends..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Lucky McKee Talks His New Thriller Kindred Spirits

Austin-made twisted tale of family bonds hits VOD this week

"...Everybody has that friend, according to filmmaker Lucky McKee. "Every person has someone who has stepped..."

Jan. 25, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Gay Place: ¡Hola Papi!

Prides loom across Texas as Austin crowns the hottest Daddy

"...Queer Youth Media Project Registration Austin School of Film and aGLIFF host this summer's QYMP for students ages..."

June 19, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

Belles on Her Toes

Trying to shake Gene Tierney

"...decades later, in a used laser-disc bin: Laura. "Quintessential film noir," directed by Otto Preminger? My, my, my, said..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Sleazy Listening

"...tastes. Pierro Piccioni's "Mr. Dante Fontana" (from 1966's action film Fumo Di Landra) combines a lighthearted-sounding piano-and-harpsichord score with..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Scanlines

"...husband Collier Young, formed her own production company, The Filmakers, directing six films from l949 to l953. Her movies,..."

April 24, 1998 Screens Feature

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