The Thin Red Line

Malick's return to filmmakng after a 20-year absence is this WWII story based on James Jones' Guadalcanal novel. The film is a lyrical and introverted study of the curiously destructive relationship between man and nature.

"...Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Adrien Brody, John Travolta, George Clooney, John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Tim Blake Nelson, John C...."

Jan. 15, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

2020 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentary

Trauma defines these glimpses into other real lives

"...Despite being lumped into one homogenous experience, documentaries often present a diverse set of..."

Jan. 31, 2020 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

A Peek Into the New Lege's Anti-Choice Plan

It can surely be worse

"...The Texas Legislature has spent the past decade crafting draconian abortion restrictions that inevitably prompt prolonged, costly, and controversial..."

Nov. 23, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Romancing the Holmes

What inspired Sherry Thomas to turn Sherlock into Charlotte?

"...genre wuxia (The Heart of Blade duology). But taking on a cultural icon as revered as Sherlock Holmes?..."

Oct. 2, 2018 Arts Post by Rosalind Faires

The Breadwinner

A young girl tries to provide for her family in Afghanistan

"...do? Would you starve? Or would you channel your desperation into resourcefulness?..."

Dec. 1, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White

Texas Book Festival 2017: The Full List

Dan Rather, Jeffrey Eugenides, the Bush sisters, and 291 more

"...Book Festival has announced the full menu of authors on tap for the 2017 event, and it's massive: 295..."

Sept. 12, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Top 40 Vices Playlist

A walk on the wild side with songs of the seven deadly sins

"...him the UK's street poet laureate with this 1977 corruption of ancient hedonist credo "wine, women, and song." Wed..."

Jan. 6, 2017 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?

Texas-set comedy riffs on Lysistrata

"...Cloris Leachman, Katherine McNamara, Fernanda Romero, Christine Estabrook, Kevin Conway, David Denman, Marshall Bell and Garren Stitt...."

Sept. 30, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

"Goya: Mad Reason" at the Blanton Museum

The images of war in Goya's prints are brutal and immediate, and it is for this reason that we must look at them

"...Goya died in 1828, he left his Disasters of War series unpublished. The series of prints depicts Goya's perspective..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...Model Gisele Bündchen was discovered in a Brazilian fashion mall...."

Aug. 19, 2016 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Written in Stone

History of racism lives on in UT monuments

"...This spring, the University of Texas at Austin made national headlines for a racist frat party, and then again..."

May 29, 2015 News Feature by Mac McCann

Weekend Tip: Queens of Cattle

Capitol Visitors Center honors women who rocked the Texas cattle boom

"...Before androgynous hipsters became Austin's herd du jour, fearless frontier blazing Texas women broke gender norms way back during..."

July 18, 2014 Arts Post by Carmen Rising

The Ladies of SXSW 2011

Sifting through this year's odd fest

"...When word spread about Ben Weasel attacking two women at the Scoot Inn, an uneasy feeling came over..."

March 21, 2011 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

Stop-Loss

A real-world fuse burns throughout the military drama of Stop-Loss, the Austin-lensed film by Boys Don't Cry's Kimberley Peirce that stars Ryan Phillippe.

"...Peirce. Starring: Ryan Phillippe, Abbie Cornish, Channing Tatum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ciarán Hinds, Timothy Olyphant, Victor Rasuk, Rob Brown, Mamie..."

March 28, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Power, Forward

Dave Zirin on 'What's My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States'

"...Sports radio is a nightmarish realm; yet, it's one of my go-to options late at night when I..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Rare Bird

From her office vantage point, beside the rosy glow of the majestic Capitol dome, 78-year-old feminist, political powerhouse, and gay rights lobbyist Bettie Naylor keeps a watchful eye over the doings at the legislature

"...native trees that dot the Texas state Capitol grounds, beyond the imposing memorials to Confederate war veterans, volunteer firemen,..."

June 3, 2005 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Osama

The first feature to come out of post-Taliban Afghanistan, Osama tells the story of a girl who masquerades as a boy.

"...in terror. In between there’s all manner of hopelessness, deprivation, and death, which is to say that as the..."

April 9, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...With the most highlighted topics addressed by the candidates, one should be able to decide for whom they side...."

April 2, 2004 Column

Scanlines

La Jetée

"...never forgets it. Years later, after a devastating world war, the scientists of the future, using this anchoring memory,..."

April 9, 1999 Screens Feature

The Scent of Green Papaya

"...Anh Hung. Starring: Tran Nu Yên-Khê, Lu Man San, Truong Thi Lêc, Nguyen Anh Hoa and Vuong Hoa Hôi...."

May 6, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Never Leave Nevada

"...Directed by: Steve Swartz. Starring: Steve Swartz, Rodney Rincon, Katherine Catmull, Janelle Buchanan,..."

June 14, 1991 Movie Review by Marie Mahoney

The Luv Doc: A Graceful Exit

Leaving someone pretty much implies you have something more important to do

"...but there are certain men who always try to monopolize my time. It doesn't matter if I am out..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Column by The Luv Doc

Shrewd Productions' The Madres

In Stephanie Alison Walker’s new play, women’s fight for the “disappeared” in Argentina’s Dirty War proves timely

"...The story of the play by Stephanie Alison Walker, receiving a rolling world premiere from the National..."

Sept. 7, 2018 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Good Kill

Ethan Hawke pilots drones over Afghanistan from a trailer in the Nevada desert

"...Directed by: Andrew Niccol. Starring: Ethan Hawke, January Jones, Bruce Greenwood, Zoe Kravitz, Jake Abel, Kevin Wiggins and..."

June 12, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

A Veteran's Voice

Playwright Johnny Meyer returned from war to learn that theatre is essential to life

"...Dragging a body onstage. That's when Johnny Meyer knew he had to write..."

March 22, 2013 Arts Feature by Jillian Owens

Fantastic Fest Breaks the First Wave

'Dredd 3D' and 'The Shining' headline 2012 festival

"...Fantastic Fest could have just dropped Frankenweenie on us and we would have been stoked: But now..."

July 30, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Who We Are

The 'Chronicle' interviews Howard Zinn on war, peace, and human nature

"...On Feb. 17-19, Austin will be host to hundreds of..."

Feb. 10, 2006 News Feature by Diana Welch

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.

"...Directed by: Rob Marshall. Starring: Ziyi Zhang, Michelle Yeoh, Gong Li, Ken Watanabe, Kôji Yakusho, Youki Kudoh and Cary-Hiroyuki..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Rag Recollections

Former 'Rag' staffers remember the old days, when a Texan was in the White House and America was stuck in a quagmire war

"...(1969-1973) I spent part of this period back in Houston, working with the prior (1966-1968) generation of Rag staffers..."

Sept. 2, 2005 News Feature

Page Two

More than the insanity or weaponry of Saddam Hussein, we should fear the deepening of a rift between the Muslim world and the West. The haste with which we are building toward war in Iraq is sending the wrong message to both.

"...Whether or not we should go to war with Iraq should probably be a more open question..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Column by Louis Black

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