All the Vermeers in New York

"...Lack, Grace Phillips, Gracie Mansion, Gordon Joseph Weiss and Katherine Bean. This newest work from steadfast American independent filmmaker,..."

June 19, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Racial Divide in Movies

The Austin Film Society unlocks The Sepia Screen with its new series on "race" movies

"...a very different world from suburban New Jersey. Besides the most obvious and overwhelming racial difference, every ad, window..."

July 25, 2014 Screens Feature by Louis Black

The Obsessive

AFS Essential Cinema presents the early films of Brian De Palma

"...and aspiring "American Godard" Brian De Palma appeared on the American film scene. And while that time has seen..."

Jan. 9, 2009 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

The Interview

"...bachelor apartment filled with stacks of yellowing newspapers. Suddenly the door crashes down and the gendarmes explode into the..."

April 14, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Great Escape

Chain Gangs! Cast Aways! Kung Fu! Chocolate! ... It's Time for the Holiday Film Previews

"...not. This playwright-turned-film director is known for many things: the deliberate staccato of his dialogue (see Oleanna), the dick-swinging..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

I Like to Watch: UnREAL and the Forms of Consumption

Season 2 of the Lifetime series proves nothing's perfect

"...Coming up on the season 2 finale of UnREAL (Lifetime, Mon., Aug. 8),..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Screens Column by Jacob Clifton

Your Field Guide to the 101 Essential Acts at SXSW

Scroll eternal through the best and buzziest artists at the fest

"...journalistic eye remains trained upon his hometown of Houston. The rapper's half-decade of granular, street-life storytelling (with Kream's immediate..."

March 11, 2022 Music Feature by The Chronicle Music Staff

Return of the She-King

In-depth Q&A with Dead Can Dance hypnotist Lisa Gerrard

"...Brendan Perry's family emigrated from London to New Zealand. Birthed eight years on in Melbourne with native siren Lisa..."

Sept. 6, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man

"...The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Books Review by Stacy Bush

The Hightower Report

Your tax dollars pay for Bush's nonpropaganda, and Congress cuts Bush's budget robbery down to simple theft.

"...Speaking for the Pentagon, Maj. Joe LaMarca said not long ago: "We..."

May 9, 2003 News Column by Jim Hightower

... And the 'West' is History

How Big State Productions' little monologue show changed Austin theatre

"...The Chronicle theatre listings for Nov. 1, 1985, give no..."

April 7, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Original Sin

"...author Cornell Woolrich is regarded by many people as the father of noir crime fiction. Among the more than..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Raising Cain

De Palma once again blatantly borrows from other movies without shame and rubs your nose in every camera trick imaginable, but he also does something of which he's seldom been guilty: He ignores the fundamental principles of suspense.

"...Raising Cain, a film that proves every negative thing they've ever said about him is true. In this ill-conceived..."

Aug. 14, 1992 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Best in Show

In Guest's parodic hands, the Westminster Dog Show goes to the hounds.

"...Christopher Guest. Starring: Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Fred Willard, Catherine O'Hara, Patrick Crenshaw, John Michael Higgins, Michael McKean, Bob..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Satan & Adam

The personal and musical impact of a Harlem friendship

"...The alchemy of human connection defies predictable explanation. The transformation..."

April 26, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

After a Fashion

With a successful 30th high school reunion under his tunic, Stephen proves that you can go home again

"...high school reunion last weekend and wound up being the main attraction at the big event. It was an..."

June 30, 2006 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

A Merry War

"...Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Wadham and Harriet Walter. Artistic vanities, especially the cult of the romantic starving artiste, have..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

TV Eye

You do not want to mess with a girl's date with Mad Men

"...what went through my head when I heard about the kerfuffle over the negotiation of programming fees between AT&T's..."

July 23, 2010 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The Unknown Terrorist

Flanagan deals with the interface of race and class in Australia using brutality the same way Tom Wolfe used humor in The Bonfire of the Vanities to deal with it in America

"...The Unknown Terrorist..."

April 13, 2007 Books Review by Richard Whittaker

Little Inklings

"...a deserted feed store and pays dearly for his theft: Somehow, this is not a plot you'd expect from..."

April 30, 1999 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Book Reviews

"...The fact that Algonquin Books publishes Cindy Bonner's work tells..."

March 26, 1999 Books Review

Grandmother's Cookbook

This modest, self-published cookbook preserves a lifetime of recipes

"...Grandmother's Cookbookby Elizabeth Rose von Hohen Carrie J. Gamble Inc.,..."

May 29, 2009 Food Feature by Kate Thornberry

The Stills

"...The Stills..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Wallpaper Psalm

In Wallpaper Psalm, a strange operetta about an elderly lady in an old apartment building who appears to go crazy, writer Ruth Margraff and director Jason Neulander produce a psalm, a hymn sung in challenging style.

"...The Off Center,..."

March 30, 2001 Arts Review by Rob Curran

A Select Bibliography of Texas Plays

"...Horton Foote, Only From the Heart (1944)..."

July 2, 1999 Arts Feature

Benjamin and Byron's Long-Term Affair

An émigré author, a bad-boy poet, and an epic trilogy at its end

"...critic Camille Paglia. But for London-based Austin-émigré Benjamin Markovits, the aura of this decadent bard/baron is a deep source..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Books Feature by Roberto Ontiveros

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...HEIRUSPECS: Falling off the same Twin City tree that's brought us a Midwest..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

Under-Stated

"...The Texas I saw in the darkened rooms of my..."

July 2, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires