I Don't Want to Sleep Alone

Although Tsai Ming-Liang's I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone is nearly wordless and slow moving, the film’s characters are compelling and its pace hypnotic. (AFS@Dobie)

"...remains fully evident in I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone, and also present are a couple of members of..."

July 20, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

'In the West': Living Portraits Avedon Would Die For

The original Austin Chronicle review from Nov. 15, 1985

"...– In the West represents the work of people living in the region they're talking about. Rather than the..."

April 7, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Divya Srinivasan Is Living
the Dream of Art

The multimedia creator's work wakes a world's imagination

"...videomaker – whose second illustrated book for kids, Octopus Alone, will be out from Viking this spring – let's..."

Jan. 18, 2013 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

In Production: Sickness and Stardom in You Are Not Alone

UT lecturer Cindy McCreery's new film takes place in the shadow of Michael Jackson

"...saying that those who can't, teach? You Are Not Alone, the new family drama from two staff members for..."

Sept. 2, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

There's Gonna Be an Octopus Alone in Austin on Saturday

But, wait – author Divya Srinivasan's gonna be there with it!

"...Because her first children's book, Little Owl's Night, displayed..."

May 22, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

You Ain't Alone

Ellen Bartel continues to process loss and grief through art in this four-work concert

"...dents in it, overgrown plants. But in "You Ain't Alone – a care-givers story," video showed Bartel's parents, who..."

May 29, 2015 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Working for a Living

Drummer Turned Booking Agent, Davis McLarty

"..."I had to make a living [since] playing with Ely was, in essence, a part-time..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Fantastic Fest Interview: Living After Midnight With Jeremy Gardner and Christian Stella

Monstrous fantasy coincides with relationship drama (and karaoke)

"...that Hank loves so much, and now he's left alone in their home, thinking back to 10 years ago..."

Sept. 19, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Affronts to Gracious Living

Your Style Avatar ticks through the 10 worst fashion and style trends of the Year 2000.

"...the home: from the bed and bath, to the living room, dining room, and kitchen. So, it's coming back?..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Features Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Living in a Dream

Too Many Ways to Fall

"...and probably caused problems. Had I left well enough alone, they might have worked themselves out. But it's not..."

May 14, 1999 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Opinion – Protecting Texas Alone: The UT System Has Failed Our Community

Underpaid at UT, a graduate student worker advocacy group, urgently calls for COVID protections

"...its graduate students an average of $11,000 below the living wage in Austin? If their only option for a..."

Sept. 4, 2020 Column by Underpaid@UT

Ten Ways to Entertain Yourself Home Alone on New Year's Eve

"...from the movie The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies. (see "Waiting for Sockot" p.32)..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Features Feature

A Five Star Life

What's not to love about a career as a secret inspector of luxury hotels? Turns out, plenty.

"...with little of the content or meaning. Independent and living alone, the 40-ish Irene either has it all (the..."

Aug. 29, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

A Dangerous Woman

"...(Winger) is a damaged woman, slightly impaired mentally, and living alone in the guest house of her Aunt Frances..."

Dec. 3, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mama

Jessica Chastain stars in this spook tale that's rife with unsettling atmosphere.

"...a search team finds Lilly (Nélisse) and Victoria (Charpentier) living alone in the rotting house. Thrilled to finally get..."

Jan. 18, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

Hush

Well-executed horror nightmare features sick torment of a deaf woman

"...Siegel plays Maddie Young, a deaf writer who lives alone in an isolated cabin (classic catnip for evildoers). Yet,..."

March 25, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Luv Doc: A Few Thousand Words

Even a few thousand words from a fake doctor are not enough to fix years and years of dysfunction

"...he told me that he just wanted to be alone. This just about killed me. I was looking at..."

Feb. 22, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

I'll See You in My Dreams

Blythe Danner is exquisite as a 70-year-old widow entering the dating fray

"...pals, who keep needling Carol to give up independent living and move into their comfortable retirement community...."

June 5, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

A Wary Campus Community Readies for COVID at UT

Gone to Texas ... for now

"...its fall semester on August 26, whether they'll be living in Austin or learning remotely...."

Aug. 7, 2020 Features Feature by Beth Sullivan

I Am Legend

After a terrific start marked by the film's striking views of a desolate Manhattan island, Will Smith's mostly solo action movie devolves into a monster-movie malaise.

"...leaving the few unlucky souls who have an immunity alone with 500 million mutated, gray-skinned, rabid cannibals who come..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Thirty-Five Up

"...Marek Waldorf. The unexamined life may not be worth living but living lives as examined as those in this..."

March 20, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Wendy and Lucy

From the director of Old Joy comes this minimalist story about a girl (the elfin Michelle Williams) and her dog getting by in society's margins.

"...elfin, astonishingly un-self-conscious Williams) and her dog, Lucy. They’re living out of Wendy’s beat-up car, on their way to..."

Feb. 20, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Standing Witness

On living through the history of AIDS, and seeing a rising rate of infection

"...year after GRID was replaced with AIDS. In 1983 alone, over 2,300 people died nationally from the disease...."

July 22, 2016 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Evicted and Helpless

Disabled residents to be forced out of state supported living center

"...single mother, Carol Cook shoulders the weight of parenthood alone. When her son Jason developed behavioral disorders and uncontrollable..."

Sept. 19, 2014 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Labor Day

An escaped convict finds a family of sorts in this new drama by Jason Reitman.

"...and despairing after having been left by her husband, living with Henry, her son, in a small New Hampshire..."

Jan. 31, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

The Perfect Man

Less a feature film than 90 minutes of tweenage feminine wish fulfillment, The Perfect Man is like Teen People come to life.

"...like watching your lawn grow. It will bore the living shit out of anyone not raptly attuned to Duff’s..."

June 17, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Four Christmases

From the director of the hit documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters comes this holiday-themed romantic comedy that stars Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn. Opens Wednesday.

"...(Vaughn) and Kate (Witherspoon) are a happily unmarried couple living in San Francisco, who have no future plans involving..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Movie Review by Steve Davis

1,000 Musical Kisses

Patty Griffin comes of age.

"...it best: "She never let herself be beautiful before." Living With Ghosts Griffin hasn't changed all that much. Her..."

May 17, 2002 Music Feature by Dave Marsh

Grumpy Old Men

"...they curse at each other and go ice fishing, alone. Sitting in separate cabins, holding their poles over holes..."

Dec. 24, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

Things We Lost in the Fire

This film starring Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro is an impeccably constructed and perfectly paced drama of domestic and internal volatility.

"...film, Del Toro plays Jerry Sunborne, a fortysomething junkie living in squalor in downtown Seattle who’s forced to re-examine..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

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