Luminous Motion

"...to know when Gordon would make another feature. Luminous Motion, which is adapted from Scott Bradford's novel The History..."

July 7, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Reclaiming Texas History, One Home Movie at a Time

The missionary zeal of the Texas Archive of the Moving Image

"...a lot about how this country looks at media history," says Frick. "When we talk about film history, most..."

Feb. 27, 2009 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

New Plans for Bastrop Film Studio Hope to Overcome Its Volatile History

Can new management help Spiderwood Studios rise again?

"...the land at 140 Utley Rd. as a full-service motion picture alternative to the barren lots of Hollywood. Its..."

June 9, 2023 Screens Feature by Dex Wesley Parra

Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words?

An Anti-abortion Exhibit Produces Protests and a Free Speech Controversy at UT

"...a dime-sized fetus magnified hundreds of times has more emotional impact, it features numerous, hugely magnified photographs of mutilated..."

March 23, 2001 News Feature by Michael King

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Julian Schnabel's unorthodox but true story about a protagonist who is stripped of all self-movement and expression is equal parts reverie, despair, and social experiment.

"...sound like a description for the dullest protagonist in motion-picture history, but Bauby was able to work miracles with..."

Jan. 11, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Harry Ransom Center Celebrates Movie Storyboards With Poster Giveaway

Grab some art this weekend at the "Drawing the Motion Picture" exhibit

"...Harry Ransom Center and its current exhibition, "Drawing the Motion Picture: Production Art and Storyboards."..."

April 8, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

A Hundred Years of Shadows

One hundred years after "The Great Train Robbery," motion pictures have transformed consciousness into a Kingdom of Shadows.

"...first genuine "story" film; some say it wasn't. That's history for you. But no one disagrees that it premiered..."

March 7, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Thirty Years on Location

An overview of the Texas Film Commission, which has been wedding film production and the state economy for 30 years.

"...of great filmmaking, then at the least in the history of the Texas Film Commission: His production was the..."

June 15, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Titus

Taymor creates a spectacularly imaginative piece of Shakespearean cinema set in a world out of time.

"...so disturbingly grotesque that it just didn't have “major motion picture” stamped on it. Yet here it is, in..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Hoffa

"...this state of confusion. Curiously, for a major Hollywood motion picture, Hoffa is incredibly vague and unclear. Too frequently,..."

Dec. 25, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

We Are Most Amused

The Austin History Center celebrates the city's movie houses of yore

"...The first motion picture screening in Austin took place in 1896, a..."

March 30, 2012 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

The saga ends (and ends) back in the Shire where it began.

"...Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia has managed the kind of emotionally crunchy and just downright popcorn-pure exhilaration as The Lord..."

Dec. 19, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Making of Gone With the Wind

The Ransom Center's epic retelling of how this epic motion picture came to be

"...O. Selznick was a 34-year-old indie producer with one picture under his company's belt – the kidpic Little Lord..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

AFS and UT Press Celebrate the Legacy of CinemaTexas

Notes on cinema history

"...in the eighty-odd years since the birth of the motion picture. Perhaps the most serious challenge was that posed..."

Feb. 23, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

**Updated**: 'Wettest County' Scribe Comes to Town

Willie Nelson joins Matt Bondurant at film sneak on new date

"...Matt Bondurant turned his family’s real-life bootlegger history into the hyperviolent 2008 novel The Wettest County in..."

Aug. 16, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Battleship Potemkin (Blu-ray)

Battleship Potemkin still packs a lumpen proletariat wallop 85 years after it was first released

"...more relevant to today's media-blasted landscape, a type of emotional communication. Nothing quickens the blood during times of socioeconomic..."

April 23, 2010 Screens Review by Marc Savlov

Letters at 3AM: Georges Méliès' Tricks and Treats

Creating the possibility that anything could happen onscreen was the great contribution of Georges Méliès

"...The let's-play pictures of Georges Méliès were creations of utter originality. Early..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

A City in Fits and Starts

AFS Documentary Tour: Austin Time Tours

"...for so long and know so little about Austin's history? Of course, we're talking about a time span of..."

June 8, 2007 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Further Reflections

"...mother's life. Shown throughout the documentary in brief, grainy, slow-motion fragments, we get an intimate sense of the images..."

March 26, 1999 Screens Feature

Is That a Biography in Your Pocket...?

Film Folios and Screen Prints

"...Rob Reiner's film The Ghosts of Mississippi. The 1997 motion picture, starring Alec Baldwin and James Woods, portrays the..."

March 13, 1998 Books Review

The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography

Errol Morris' latest doc profiles Boston photographer

"...a portraitist with a camera, except he works with motion pictures instead of still images like Dorfman. Throughout his..."

July 21, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

How Robin Got His Groove Back

Musicologist Gillian Anderson has come to the rescue of Robin Hood, taking the 1922 Douglas Fairbanks film Robin Hood and restoring its original score. It's one of two dozen films from the earliest era of motion pictures for which Anderson has recovered, restored, or reconstructed the scores.

"...some two dozen films from the earliest era of motion pictures for which Anderson has recovered, restored, or reconstructed..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Amsterdam

David O. Russell's madcap murder-mystery is a misfire

"...A period piece dizzy with stars of the major motion picture variety (a pop princess too), Amsterdam aims to..."

Oct. 7, 2022 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Brown Bunny

Vincent Gallo's notorious film turns out to be an anti-action road trip that has the feeling of a fever dream.

"...Film Festival (calling it "The worst film in the history of the Cannes Film Festival" and adding that the..."

Oct. 1, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hollywood Babble On

The Silver Screen in Black & White

"...many influential women also shaped this period in the history of American cinema. Screenwriter Frances Marion was one of..."

July 25, 1997 Screens Feature by Alison Macor

Heavenly Creatures

This early film by Jackson is a startling genre-bender that combines drama, comedy, fantasy, romance, and horror in a story about the friendship between two schoolgirls.

"...vision, as well as one of the most original pictures of this or any other year. Based on a..."

Dec. 16, 1994 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Passion Project

Fantastic Fest and its home base the Alamo Drafthouse have only gotten bigger, but its heart – pure and pulpy – stays the same

"...With the X-Ray Eyes, all the best American International Pictures pictures, The Little Shop of Horrors, and The Wild..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Red Tails

George Lucas exec produced – and bankrolled – this action/drama about the historic Tuskegee Airmen.

"...the director of what is arguably the most influential motion picture in history, but that's what it's come to,..."

Jan. 27, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

TV Eye

A recent slew of political, cultural, and environmental documentaries prove how indispensable PBS is

"...examines one of the darkest days in U.S. war history. In the midst of a war that was quickly..."

April 23, 2010 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Lamerica

"...the eyes of co-writer-director Amelio, lost touch with their history. The fact that the film almost never needs to..."

April 12, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

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