Satchel Paige and the Kansas City Swing

The script for this baseball play is a bit wobbly, but Austin Playhouse fields a strong production for the win

"...a piano in the wings. Discussing the shift into surrealism would divulge too much, and for me, the love..."

Feb. 26, 2016 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Playback: And the Award Goes To ...

The Grammys went bust, but their local equivalent – the 34th annual Austin Music Awards – just dropped its star-studded lineup

"...retrospective, five decades in the making, brims with scrappy surrealism: automatic organs constructed from bird calls and train whistles,..."

Feb. 19, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Local Game Poems

Big things come in small interactions

"...poem with a pleasantly contradictory sense of realism and surrealism, like a dream of something quotidian. Den vänstra handens..."

Feb. 12, 2016 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Fantastic Fest 2015: High-Rise

J.G. Ballard adaptation becomes Wheatley's first masterpiece

"...apartment complex as hierarchy. At the top, the pastoral surrealism of the terrace apartment of the aptly named Royal..."

Sept. 27, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: The Story of Cinema, Part One

Four documentaries examine four film legacies

"...Giger's world just as the bright light of erotic surrealism (see our full interview with Sallin, "H.R. Giger, the..."

Sept. 2, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

H. R. Giger, the Dark Star

Full Q&A with documentarian Belinda Sallin

"...Even when he is placed in the categories of "Surrealism" or "Fantastic Realism," that doesn’t address that his relationship..."

May 23, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Peer Gynt

Last Act Theatre Company provides a captivating introduction to Ibsen's epic

"...is Ibsen's epic verse masterpiece, toeing the line between surrealism and naturalism. We witness many episodes in the title..."

Oct. 31, 2014 Arts Review by Elissa Russell

DVDanger: Identity Crisis

The Double, Filth, and Moebius melt minds

"...of a demon, more of a fallen angel). Its surrealism is garish, compared to Ayoade's sickly palette. However, his..."

Aug. 30, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

A Song in His Heart

'The Essential Jacques Demy' anthologizes the French New Wave's chief romantic

"...and again over this 6-film, 7-DVD/6-Blu-ray trove, Demy's poetic surrealism ultimately transcends Le Nouvelle Vague by advancing French classicism..."

Aug. 15, 2014 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Can the Powerpuff Girls Save the Day?

Classic cute-smart cartoon returns for one night only

"...Universe aren't really connecting, instead unsuccessfully echoing the casual surrealism. Meanwhile Regular Show's willful strangeness has become ploddingly predictable...."

Jan. 20, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

All the Labor

"...as the live footage demonstrates, the Gourds' brews-y Southern surrealism, helmed by nail-tough bassist Jimmy Smith and squirrely strummer..."

Dec. 13, 2013 Music Review by Kevin Curtin

Your Coffee Table's Begging For Books Like These

Two new volumes of art from Steve Brudniak and Clifford Ross

"...last: The Merrid Zone publication of The Science of Surrealism: Assemblage Sculpture of Steve Brudniak, a showcase of what..."

Sept. 3, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

DVD Watch: 'Vanishing Waves'

Tender, shocking, erotic: Maybe not what you expect from Lithuania

"...psychological science fiction. It shys away from the aggressive surrealism of Beyond the Black Rainbow by Canadian director Panos..."

July 23, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

War and Pieces

Mayor's Book Club takes on Kevin Powers' 'The Yellow Birds'

"...book’s lyricism never romanticizes war, only amplifies its inherent surrealism...."

April 30, 2013 Books Post by Amy Gentry

SXSW Film Unveils March Lineup

So much ado!

"...Swim (USA, France) Director/Screenwriter: Ruben Amar, Lola Bessis Between surrealism, unusual characters, art and magic tricks, Swim Little Fish..."

Jan. 31, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Straight Out of Brooklyn

Austin Film Society highlights three films distributed by Factory 25

"...next up on Friday, Jan. 11. The film uses surrealism and psychedelia to convey a woman’s dreamlike state following..."

Jan. 8, 2013 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

From Source to Sea

Three Austinites kayak South America

"...had its rewards. In one of many moments of surrealism during their four-month adventure, the drug runners, now confident..."

Jan. 4, 2013 Sports Post by Carly Yansak

Fire in the Night, Music in Bone-Deep Bassnote Throbs

Reveling among the multiform delights of Art Outside

"...Gallery, stocked with various examples of painted or sculpted surrealism and psychedelia – some of which, it turns out,..."

Oct. 29, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Kishi Bashi

"...last," indeed offers a carpe-diem blend of silliness and surrealism, pathos and ethereal melodies layered like a quirky aural..."

Oct. 12, 2012 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

FF2012: 'Flicker'

Swedish workplace comedy tugs the heartstrings at Fantastic Fest

"...have been a mainstay of European comedy. The tiny surrealism of ludicrous heirarchies and pointless tasks finds charming life..."

Oct. 1, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

'Seven Wonders of the World (Plus One)'

A surreal musical recording of the 1940s yields a charming stage spectacle today

"...record's 40-minute length) around a piece of post-war musical surrealism, Yeakle and Tongue and Groove manage to serve up..."

Aug. 24, 2012 Arts Review by Dan Solomon

Singing with the Ice King

'Adventure Time' creator Pendleton Ward and star Tom Kenny go Mondo

"...all the fanbase is kids, but one whose oddball surrealism has reached out to adults. Not always in a..."

April 30, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Pink Floyd

In Box

"...original LP designs have been usurped by the satirical surrealism of animator Gerald Scarfe. "I really wanted to get..."

April 27, 2012 Music Review by Austin Powell

Barney Miller: The Complete Series

Gift Guide: Concrete-jungle dicks of Barney Miller

"...of law enforcement serving the same galvanizing effect that surrealism affords the similarly character-driven Web comic Achewood...."

Dec. 2, 2011 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

West of East

This group show boasts striking art worth leaving the Eastside for Hyde Park

"...paintings by Stephen W. Schwake. Schwake works the figurative surrealism mode in oils, his sometimes cartoonish subjects reined in..."

Nov. 18, 2011 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

The B. Beaver Animation

The Rude Mechs' re-creation of the Mabou Mines work is necessary but strange

"...was, in a sense, a direct descendant of the surrealism of the late 19th century and the dadaism of..."

Nov. 4, 2011 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

AFF: 'Fred and Vinnie'

The mostly true story of an almost someone and his best friend the nobody

"...comedies flail in their third act, launching desperately into surrealism or screwball. But instead Stoller's script stays true to..."

Oct. 22, 2011 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Film History, With a Fresher Date Than Usual

Austin Cinematheque opens season with Uncle Boonmee

"...often oblique movie, Uncle Boonmee easily blends naturalism and surrealism, the physical and spiritual worlds, the corporality of the..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

East of the West: A Country in Stories

If you have to staycation, at least see the world via books

"...the country's quirks. Eastern Europe is ripe for weary surrealism, so many absurdities are carried out under official mandate,..."

July 29, 2011 Books Review by Sarah Smith

Growing Up in War Zones

The magic of cinema inspires kids in a Kurdish village to take camera in hand

"...try to contain little dream sequences and touches of surrealism. When Kevin Macdonald and I did our book Imagining..."

July 8, 2011 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

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