Catherine Lee

Back in her home state full-time, the noted artist shares her work and what she's learned in 30 years of making art

"...them are akin to armor, as if they are samurai or medieval warriors. To someone else, they might seem..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Arts Feature by Rachel Cook

The Page Turner

In this quiet, French revenge film, a creeping malevolence wreaks havoc on an otherwise normal bourgeois family.

"...unnerving enough to make Uma Thurman wrap up her samurai sword, put her spandex yellow jumpsuit into mothballs, and..."

May 25, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Paramount Theatre Summer Film Classics Series

May 24-Sept. 9

"...9:25pmAug. 18The Earrings of Madame de..., 4pm; The Seven Samurai, 7pmAug. 19The Seven Samurai, 3pm; The Earrings of Madame..."

May 25, 2007 Screens Feature

Fuse Box: Now with more electricity

The newly expanded Fuse Box Festival continues to shower sparks across Austin, with the second week packing in even more new dance, theatre, screenings, bands, and art

"...that became a surreal odyssey involving ancient wine, a samurai, a bluesman, Walt Whitman, and a monster. April 19-21,..."

April 20, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Wild Hogs

John Travolta, Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence, and William H. Macy star as middle-aged friends who seek life's purpose while on a cross-country motorcycle trip.

"...becomes yet another retelling of the Kurosawa classic Seven Samurai. But despite this lineage, Wild Hogs remains firmly rooted..."

March 2, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Samurai Sword

Austin Powell debuts “Into the Void” with the Sword's Trivett Wingo

Feb. 2, 2007 Music Post by Austin Powell

Yojimbo & Sanjuro: Two Samurai Films by Akira Kurosawa

A double re-release from one of cinema's greatest director-actor duos

"...Yojimbo & Sanjuro: Two Samurai Films by Akira Kurosawa..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Screens Review

Letters From Iwo Jima

In his companion film to Flags of Our Fathers, Clint Eastwood again shows the process by which young soldiers become unwitting fodder for their country's war effort.

"...Letters From Commander in Chief. Ken Watanabe (The Last Samurai) plays the enlightened Japanese general Kuribayashi, who revamps the..."

Jan. 19, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

I'm Lovin' the All-American Tennis Clown

There were a lot of clowns at the All-American Tennis Shootout.

"...music was piped in as he did a bucktoothed "Samurai Tennis” routine. Ching chong ching chong. What year is..."

Dec. 18, 2006 Sports Post by Taylor Holland

DVD Watch: Potential-Gift Edition

'SNL,' 'Robin Hood,' 'Symbiopsychotaxiplasm,' and more

"...Henry, Desi Arnaz, Lily Tomlin), classic sketches ("Word Association," "Samurai Deli," "Star Trek," and Chase's signature "Weekend Update"), plus..."

Dec. 15, 2006 Screens Feature by Steve Uhler

EAST, at Ease

The 2006 East Austin Studio Tour reveals 86 studios and one stacked pod art city with a shared alphabet

"...the tour. These siblings from Waxahachie call themselves "Lo-Tech Samurai Printmakers With Performance Aspirations," but they are masters of..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

The Assumption

'The Assumption' is Refraction Arts Project's very modern and entertaining take on 'Hamlet' – a Shakespearean satire of all things hillbilly and all things Eastern, set to a rock & roll beat

"...it's put to.) Staggs' costumes are paint-spattered renditions of samurai and geisha, with some truly impressive mullets topping off..."

Nov. 3, 2006 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

The Image Formed

Short Highlights

"...channeling Linda Ronstadt, a blood debt to a pasty-faced samurai paid out in piggyback rides and pedicures, and a..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Last King of Scotland

Forest Whitaker becomes dictator Idi Amin in a ferocious performance that often dwarfs the more ordinary aspects of this picture.

"...Crying Game, and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai. This veteran actor is always great, and it's just..."

Oct. 13, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

On the Edge: The Femicide in Ciudad Juárez

Operating with limited resources, Steev Hise interviews mothers, activists, scholars, and writers to paint the portrait of a city in a state of severe crisis

"...Seven Samurai (Criterion, $49.95): Akira Kurosawa, the bringer of all things..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Screens Review by Toddy Burton

Olivier's Shakespeare

Now that 'Deadwood' lies murdered in the mud, Shakespeare is the only solace.

"...say in Deadwood, lights out, cocksucker. Also Out NowSeven Samurai (Criterion, $49.95): Kurosawa's first samurai epic still cuts the..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

'Seven Year Itch': REALMdanceproject's lucky number

Folks don't often make a big deal out of a seventh anniversary, but with all the changes in REALMdanceproject this year, the troupe thought it a good idea, hence its new show, 'Seven Year Itch'

"...wonders of the ancient and modern worlds, your seven samurai, seven virtues, seven habits of highly effective people, seven..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

The 2006 Paramount Summer Classic Film Series

Schedule: May 24-Sept. 8

"...Aug. 24 7pm, Samurai Saga; 9:20pm, Throne of Blood..."

May 12, 2006 Screens Feature

The Bad Sleep Well

Sandwiched between career peaks, Kurosawa serves corporate sacrifice – suicide by seventh-story window, truck, and volcano – rather than feudal slicing and dicing

"...Criterion, $29.95 Akira Kurosawa's hallowed samurai epics camouflage the Japanese sensei's facility with shorter, sharper..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

In Print

Alain Silver's book is back and better than ever after 30 years. Still, it's not nearly as potent as Hanzo the Razor.

"...The Samurai Film: Expanded and Revised Edition..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Rebel Samurai: Sixties Swordplay Classics

The films found in this box set are beautiful examples of a new direction in Japanese filmmaking, one that used the aesthetic and technical language of the swordplay films to expose and attack the culture that had lionized them

"...Rebel Samurai: Sixties Swordplay Classics..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Screens Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Memoirs of a Geisha

Well, we’re not in Chicago anymore, or even its soundstage approximation, but that hasn’t stopped Oscar-nominated director Rob Marshall from fashioning another epic spectacle out of two squabbling women in (a sort-of) show business.

"...kind-eyed businessman known only as "the Chairman" (The Last Samurai’s Watanabe, woefully underdeveloped), Sayuri reduces to a thin film..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Extra Special

Gift guide

"...Rashomon. Kurosawa's opening here flashes back on his Seven Samurai, while Rashomon is evoked every time the camera looks..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Otaku* Overload!!!

After Monster Island Studios sank, Austin's acting community and Houston animé giant A.D. Vision unleashed talent bent on vengeance and redemption (*otaku = animé geek)

"...showed up for a crowd session for, I believe, Samurai X – where we had a bunch of actors..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

For the Imperial Flower Combat Trooper on Your List: Austin-Accented Animé on DVD

"...actors than ever before – enough to ground even Samurai Santa's Gaijin-class Dreadnaught Sleighcruiser. Here's a list of our..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Clouzot and Melville ride the old wave

"...watery blue eyes always on the horizon of any samurai's death march. Brief but choice extras include Rui Nogueira..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Tween Titans

The adventures of Taylor Lautner and Taylor Dooley (Sharkboy and Lavagirl, respectively), in conversation

"...TL: The Last Samurai is my favorite film. I like action and comedy,..."

June 10, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

After a Fashion

Your Style Avatar has been hitting the gay male porn sites again. (Again.) And this time he comes back with a real mouthful. OK, that joke was too easy ... he's comes back with a critical treatise. There.

"...a Mullet – or worse, one of those ludicrous Samurai cuts – and suddenly, any allure that he might..."

June 3, 2005 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Revenge of the Return of the Son of the Graphics Giveaway Begins!

If Scrooge McDuck, Bruce Wayne, and Veronica Lodge are giving away millions, it can only be Free Comic Book Day, Part IV

"...also a host of nonsuperhero material, everything from a samurai take on Robin Hood to the Riverdale gang in..."

May 6, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Zatôichi

Beneath its layers of epic detail, this Zatôichi is cinematic cotton candy.

"...as the itinerant masseur whose walking stick conceals a samurai’s sword. There are moments of slapstick, particularly a droll..."

Aug. 20, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

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