On Watching Cine las Americas' La Hora Fria and John Huston's 'Under the Volcano'

While getting ready to go

"...1945 novel, shot by Gabriel Figueroa, and directed by John Huston, Under the Volcano stars Albert Finney as Geoffrey..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Former Huston-Tillotson President Dies

King was longest-serving president at university

"...Dr. John Quill Taylor King Sr., the longest-serving president of East..."

Aug. 12, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

John Anderson's Top 10 Photos of 2017

"...for a photo at the group’s Citywide Gathering at Huston-Tillotson University on March 5, 2017...."

Dec. 28, 2017 Photo Gallery

The Proposition

The Western is alive and well in the Australian outback, as this gritty film with a screenplay and score by musician Nick Cave demonstrates.

"...Directed by: John Hillcoat. Starring: Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Emily Watson, Danny..."

June 9, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Devil's in the Details

Andrew Bujalksi and Cinema Club screen an overlooked John Huston gem

"...Jennifer Jones and Edward Underdown) sets the tone for John Huston's criminally underrated masterpiece of offbeat postwar noir Beat..."

Nov. 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Young One

"...with Buñuel as well as shooting films such as John Ford's The Fugitive and John Huston's Under the Volcano...."

Sept. 17, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

AFF Review: Day of the Fight

Boxing drama hits hardest out of the ring

"...In Day of the Fight, actor Jack Huston’s debut feature as a writer-director, the mood is meditative..."

Nov. 6, 2023 Screens Post by Alejandra Martinez

The Other Side of the Wind

Should Orson Welles' last film have stayed lost?

"...Directed by: Orson Welles. Starring: John Huston, Robert Random, Peter Bogdanovich, Oja Kodar, Susan Strasberg,..."

Nov. 2, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Holiday Viewing: The Dead

The shadow of Christmas past hangs long over Huston's classic

"...hangs over a most unexpected literary adaptation: The Dead, John Huston's version of James Joyce's snow-smothered novella...."

Dec. 4, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Wise Blood

One of the last films in John Huston’s long career is this exceptional interpretation of Flannery O’Connor’s eccentric Southern tale of fringe fanatics.

"...Directed by: John Huston. Starring: Brad Dourif, Daniel Shor, Amy Wright, Harry..."

Aug. 9, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

You Oughta See the Pictures

Hollywood forever: New film books reviewed

"...Watch Me: A Memoirby Anjelica Huston Scribner, 400pp., $27.99..."

Nov. 21, 2014 Screens Feature

Silver City

John Sayles adds his cinematic two cents to this election year’s plethora of politically minded movies.

"...Directed by: John Sayles. Starring: Chris Cooper, Richard Dreyfuss, Danny Huston, Mary..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Maltese Falcon

"...Directed by: John Huston. Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor and Peter Lorre...."

May 23, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fat City

One of John Huston's latter-day successes, Fat City is long on character and short on plot, but it's a crawl through the mud that'll stay in your psyche for days.

"...D: John Huston (1972); with Stacy Keach, Susan Tyrrell, Jeff Bridges,..."

May 18, 2001 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

The African Queen

"...Directed by: John Huston. Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart and Robert Morley...."

May 18, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Addams Family

"...Directed by: Barry Sonnenfeld. Starring: Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd and Christina Ricci. It took..."

Nov. 29, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Black Cauldron

The Tolkein / D&D brand of sword & sorcery common in Lloyd Alexander's classic Chronicles of Prydain was a bit dark for the Disney set, but the Mouse factory went ahead and made The Black Cauldron anyway. Too bad they Disneyfied it to death.

"...Ted Berman and Richard Rich; with the voices of John Hurt, John Huston, Nigel Hawthorne, Lindsay Rich, Grand Bardsley,..."

May 10, 2002 Screens Review by Michael Chamy

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Wolverine is a noisy mess, full of Hugh Jackman's seriously killer snarl but utterly devoid of the borderline-subversive smarts that made Bryan Singer's X-Men films so resonant.

"...by: Gavin Hood. Starring: Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston, Ryan Reynolds, Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Will.i.am, Dominic Monaghan..."

May 8, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Hobbit

This 1978 animated Rankin & Bass production of Tolkien's The Hobbit works successfully on both a children's and a universal level.

"...Bass and Arthur Rankin Jr.; with the voices of John Huston, Orson Bean, Otto Preminger, Hans Conried, Don Messick,..."

Dec. 28, 2001 Screens Review by Michael Chamy

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...and Wine) will present a 45th anniversary screening of John Huston's hard-hitting boxing drama Fat City...."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Beware 'The Visitor'

Drafthouse Films brings space oddity to screens tonight

"...The Visitor, but also directing legends Sam Peckinpah and John Huston...."

Nov. 1, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

When It Felt True

The Austin Chronicle's Raoul Hernandez curates an AFS Essential Cinema series on the 'enigma' of William Wyler

"...of Tinseltown accolades, one Oscar for directing shy of John Ford's four, and tied with Frank Capra at three...."

Oct. 15, 2010 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Chronicle Recommends: Rain in Films

Celebrate April showers with cinema's most iconic uses of rain

"...trapped in place when gangsters take over the joint. John Huston directs Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in their..."

April 24, 2015 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

Letters at 3AM

America's ideal of liberty shaped the country's finest authors

"...hard-boiled detective. He wrote The Maltese Falcon in 1930. John Huston filmed it in 1941. Huston's film is faithful..."

Aug. 14, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

In the Heart of the Sea

Ron Howard sets sails with that famous Nantucket whale story

"...no less than Roald Dahl when famously irascible director John Huston proved too editorially combative for Bradbury’s taste). Howard’s..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Myra Breckinridge Is a Dish!

Hey Homo! screens Raquel Welch cuh-lassic.

"...by her uncle, a retired Western actor played by John Huston (yes, film director John Huston) and to generally..."

May 26, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

Letters @ 3AM

Snippets of conversations about movies from the Filmcraft collection

"...John Huston: "You don't have to be the thing itself..."

April 11, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

Six Days, Seven Nights

"...keep anyone's attention for very long. (Imagine if director John Huston and screenwriter James Agee had felt the same..."

June 19, 1998 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Where the Wild Things Roamed: Visiting "The Misfits" Shooting Set

Savlov visits the set of John Huston's "The Misfits"

"...This is where director John Huston, during the summer and fall of 1960, shot..."

June 28, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

More McCanlies, Texas

The full interview with the director of 'Secondhand Lions'

"...up this escalator that didn't work. But people like John Milius taught how to write screenplays, Syd Field and..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

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