Fantastic Fest Raises a Smile With First Announcement

The Banshees of Inisherin, V/H/S/99, sharks, and more

"...A Life on the Farm charts the extraordinary home movies of Charles Carson, a farmer from rural Britain whose..."

Aug. 16, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Holiday Viewing: The Gospel According to St. Matthew

“The most sublime Texts ever written”

"...Letters at 3AM column in the Chronicle on Easter movies: “The Gospel According to St. Matthew was filmed in..."

Dec. 20, 2017 Screens Post by Nick Barbaro

Fantastic Fest Won’t Stop Announcing Awesome Stuff

May the Schwartz be with all of us

"...his upcoming book (written with Bryan Connolly) DESTROY ALL MOVIES!!! The Complete Guide to Punks on Film...."

Sept. 8, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Big Time, Small Screen

Local filmmaker Ya'Ke's 'The Second Coming' screens on HBO

"...performances. This, too – have you watched this?" More movies come off the shelf. "I'm going to take you..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Screens Feature by Toddy Burton

The Hightower Report

Do we really mean the stuff we're sticking on our cars?; and smut goes corporate

"...broadcast, but about the really raunchy stuff of X-rated movies now available on your own personal tube. Movies rated..."

Aug. 26, 2005 News Column by Jim Hightower

Postmarks

The 'Chronicle' Sells Out, Again; Go Ahead, Lament Us; Table of Contents Not Useful on Page 4; Envision a Correct Map; Fair Reporting on Police

"...most of Asia, animation is just another medium, like movies or books or television. Like any other medium, it..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Column

Light It Up

Director Lizzie Borden revisits her incendiary 1983 feminist classic, Born in Flames, showing as part of the Austin Film Society's series "Dance, Girl, Dance: Women Directors of the 70s and 80s."

"...to adopt terrorist strategies, but is thwarted by her imprisonment for illegal gunrunning. She is murdered in prison, and..."

June 22, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Johnny Belinda, Magnificent Obsession, All That Heaven Allows

"...("Video Reviews" wishes to thank Blockbuster Video, Encore Movies & Music, I Video, Vulcan Video, and Waterloo Video..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Screens Review by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Book Reviews

Southerners, Strange Foreigners, and Unabashed Perverts

"...spent his youth at the local cinema sneaking into B-movies and "mondoes," shockumentary films intended to show viewers the..."

June 2, 2000 Books Feature by Barbara Strickland

Letters at 3AM

The paradox of possiblities exhibited by the 20th century -- from Auschwitz to Ginger & Fred.

"...make any year-end lists because I saw maybe four movies this year, maybe three. Not because I don't like..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Postmarks

Letter to Isaac

"...for disabled man to stay at. It has a prison release unit upstairs. You might call that a halfway..."

Feb. 19, 1999 Column

Stone Soul Booksigning

Interview With Filmmaker and Author Oliver Stone

"...whether it be sex or violence. Part of what movies do is bring up the dream state. And some..."

Oct. 17, 1997 Screens Feature by Edward Lagrossa

Hollywood Babble On

The Silver Screen in Black & White

"...a fast friendship and Marion's entrance into acting for movies, it was not long before Marion met and befriended..."

July 25, 1997 Screens Feature by Alison Macor

Fantastic Fest Review: Eileen

Novelist Ottessa Moshfegh gets her first adaptation

"...Eileen (Thomasin McKenzie) is a secretary at a boys’ prison in 1960s Massachusetts. There, she helps the families of..."

Sept. 27, 2023 Screens Post by Alejandra Martinez

Roxane Gay, Tim O’Brien Join Texas Book Festival Lineup

Full author roster revealed for November fest

"...in America) Alex Aster (Nightbane) Ben Austen (Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change) Jessixa Bagley (Duel) Aaron..."

Sept. 13, 2023 Arts Post by Kimberley Jones

Jesse Sublett's Latest True-Crime Book Takes on the Last Gangster in Austin

The rise and fall of the Junkyard King

"...the Bradbury Building, made famous in a mess of movies, or in front of the house in Los Feliz..."

June 10, 2022 Arts Feature by Joe Gross

SXSW Comedy: The Laugh Button Live!

Kathy Griffin ignited a late-night set full of high energy

"...in the admissions scandal. “They should all go to prison.” Where, she suggested, they might learn something from the..."

March 13, 2019 SXSW Post by Ashley Moreno

Austin Asian American Film Festival Announces Full Lineup

The four-day festival drops 11 feature films and even more shorts

"...the aftermath of the attack, how the killer avoided prison, and the consequent mobilization of a pan Asian-American civil..."

Oct. 31, 2017 Screens Post by Reanna Zuniga

Teenage Time Bomb

Can you handle the suburban hellscape of Blonde Death?

"...berates her, and reveals that he's just escaped from prison, where he was held for various auto thefts and..."

Aug. 18, 2017 Screens Feature by Zack Carlson

Page Two: May the Circle Be Unbroken

Exploitation film's family tree

"...was, but we did know we were watching a women-in-prison drive-in exploitation film. At the end Brian and I..."

Feb. 26, 2016 Column by Louis Black

SXSW Film Announces 2015 Lineup

Circling the Thunderdome

"...in the Machine, the Will Ferrell Is Going to Prison comedy with Kevin Hart, Get Hard, and action-comedy Spy,..."

Feb. 3, 2015 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Yes Yes: Sundance Announces 2014 Class

Austinites a-plenty in Competition and NEXT slates

"...the first televised trial to the many books and movies made about it, the film looks at the media’s..."

Dec. 4, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

DVD Watch: Snitch

Director Ric Roman Waugh makes the Rock into an everyman

"...cerebral action films of the 1970s. He said, "Those movies, they were about something. There was some kind of..."

June 11, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

No. 1 Troublemaker

The guts and the glory (don't forget the gory)

"...a lightweight and welterweight champion of San Quentin State Prison, had his epiphany. "I've got a saying – 'I'd..."

March 2, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Tuesday News Gay for Jan. 10

Daniel is awash in Santorum sauce

"...better off if one of their parents were in prison. So is it any wonder that he recently got..."

Jan. 10, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Daniel Villareal

Film News

It's raining cash for film in Texas ... but not a drop leftover for Waco

"...a previously untested 2007 provision barring incentive payments to movies that "portray Texas or Texans in a negative light."..."

June 5, 2009 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Page Two: Correlation Does Not Imply Causation

The lessons of Florida beaches, anti-drug education, and chain gangs

"...they'd had with police, in the courts, or in prison. Most of the storytellers spent at least some time..."

May 9, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Film News Top 10 of 2006

The top Texas stories of 2006

"...productions, the Texas film biz's savior broke out of prison and scored on the gridiron. Fox's series Prison Break..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

TV Eye

The theatre of outrage: What happened when I slipped into the packed house for the one-on-one with Henry Rollins at SXSW last Sunday

"...be fun just to sit around and talk about movies and art, but with the world as it is,..."

March 17, 2006 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Response to the Number Nine

Honorable Mention

"...Nine is like the '60s TV show The Prisoner, starring Patrick McGoohan. He played a British secret agent..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Books Feature by Rebecca Beegle

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