Hockenyos Gets Creative ... Again

Austin should embrace its identity as a cultural mecca

"...firm, TXP, looked separately at music, nonprofit arts, and film. In 2006, TXP tried to mush it all together...."

March 30, 2012 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Point Austin: Left Unstated

A few omissions in the governor's State of the State

"...includes: the Texas Enterprise Fund, the Emerging Technology Fund, incentives for the film industry, raising the franchise-tax small-business exemption,..."

Jan. 30, 2009 News Column by Michael King

Sons of Smart Growth

"...under the old system" for fee waivers and other incentives, Librach announced. The projects in question: the Pedernales Live/Work..."

June 13, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Prepare for Departure

Mueller Airport Redevelopment Project Inches Toward Council Approval

"...plan: a new emergency communications center and the Austin Film Society's conversion of old hangars into a soundstage complex.)..."

June 30, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Off the Desk

"...of hate violence, the group aired a 30-minute, PBS-produced film entitled Not in Our Town, which highlighted the successful..."

Dec. 22, 1995 News Feature

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

Cowboys vs. Hippies: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Subtext

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre reflects Austin's culture in 1974

"...mistake. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is an Austin film. Director/co-writer/co-producer Tobe Hooper, co-producer/co-writer Kim Henkel, Leatherface actor Gunnar..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

So Much Specialness

David Byrne's cult classic True Stories captured a lost Texas and a prescient picture of today

"...special screening of the new 4K restoration of the film at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival on Wednesday, March..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Screens Feature by Leah Churner

Brothers in Arms

Jeff Nichols' Southern Gothic family saga, 'Shotgun Stories'

"...8 Mile) in one of his biggest and best film performances to date as the complexly wounded Son Hayes,..."

June 27, 2008 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Short Cuts

Call for SXSW entries

"...for February... It's that time again: South By Southwest Film Festival is accepting film submissions for SXSW 2002, which..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Robert Kurtzman Invades Garth Manor

FX legend talks Evil Dead 2

"...Along with Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger, Kurtzman was..."

July 30, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Texas Two-Step

Richard Linklater and Matthew McConaughey on their true-crime comedy, 'Bernie'

"...Richard Linklater and co-star Matthew McConaughey about their new film Bernie, you instantly forget all the awkward trappings of..."

April 27, 2012 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...afford to buy out Stratus, it has offered Stratus incentives to insure its profitability and to "buy down" impervious..."

July 12, 2002 Column

Blood Feast

Shadow of the Vampire isn't just an imaginative riff on the making of F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu. "It is an allegory of an aspect of what cinema is at its heart," says director E. Elias Merhige. "It's this dangerous, mad kind of science."

"...Murnau's Nosferatu, the cinema's first true vampire film, is an atmospheric gem whose expressionistic, resonant images are..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Postmarks

Plan for People, Not Cars

"...Beyond whatever tax subsidies/incentives CSC is getting for moving downtown, there is a..."

March 26, 1999 Column

Fantastic Fest Interview: Girl

Writer/director/star Chad Faust heads into the dead heartlands

"...just in time for the premiere of his new film Girl - the story of a nameless young woman..."

Sept. 24, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

How Robert Rodriguez Saved Alita: Battle Angel From the Scrap Heap

After a decade and a half, the legendary manga's battle dreams are made real

"...let him shoot Alita – not just his biggest film, but the biggest film ever made in Austin –..."

Feb. 15, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Claw-in-Claw With The Lobster

Director Yorgos Lanthimos reveals the beast within

"...limit of what he could do in the Greek film industry, so five years ago he moved to the..."

May 20, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Putting Your Money Where Your Mouse Is

Austin filmmakers on the promises and perils of crowdfunding

"...for contemplating our benefactors: friends, families, mentors. For independent filmmakers, that list expands as an increasing number turn to..."

Nov. 27, 2015 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Big Squeeze

The writers' strike hits close to home

"...what share writers should receive from new sources of film and video distribution via such sources as cell phones..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Movies and Shakers

The production companies behind – and ahead of – the boom, and how they might be able to help you

"...Film is booming in Austin. That's hardly news: It's always..."

May 26, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Thanks so much for your review of my film in the Chronicle ["Sending Off SXSW 2003: Lizard Times..."

March 28, 2003 Column

The Player

With Adventures of a No Name Actor, a comic memoir of his adventures in the screen trade, anonymous player Marco Perella is finding literary stardom.

"...sporadically paying and highly unpredictable life of a no-name film actor...."

July 6, 2001 Books Feature by Katherine Catmull

DVDanger: 'Ginger Snaps'

The Fitzgerald sisters unleashed in the werewolf classic

"...it truly deserves, including a half hour discussion by film critics and theorists about its position in female body..."

Aug. 3, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Before the Flood

In the struggle between local environmentalists and developers, Laura Dunn's documentary reminds us, Barton Springs was only the beginning

"...Local filmmaker Laura Dunn (Green) charts Bradley's rise and fall as..."

March 9, 2007 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

Austin Horror Crew Launch Bloodoath Filmmaker Consulting

Paper Street creatives join forces with genre experts

"...not knowing who to ask about anything. Now veteran filmmakers and distribution experts, including many recognizable names from the..."

Nov. 19, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Macon Blair Feels at Home in Austin

First-time director wins critics’ applause

"...Who says a filmmaker's life is glamorous? When Macon Blair heard that his..."

Jan. 12, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Time for a New Republic (Studios)

John Robison is building a creative campus out in Bastrop

"...Austin's reputation as a film and TV production center could get a new boost..."

Dec. 1, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Kickstart My Heart

Austin is one of 10 cities featured prominently on online fundraising platform Kickstarter

"...These include everything from a community cookbook and a film about musician Bill Callahan to a limited-edition set of..."

Feb. 24, 2012 Music Feature by Adam Schragin

Witty, Pretty People

The real deal on Austin as a reality TV casting mecca

"...friend Jeff Stolhand of Expressions in Video, Lopez started filming her audition reel...."

April 2, 2010 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

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