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Biblically inspired world premiere is a minor miracle
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Aug. 22, 2023 Arts Post by Bob Abelman
Austin Film Festival Review: The Whale
Darren Aronofsky contemplates fatness and faith
"...depths of religious trauma with his adaptation of The Whale...."
Nov. 4, 2022 Screens Post by Jenny Nulf
A Tale of a Whale: Shanon Weaver on Playing and Watching Charlie
Austin artist Shanon Weaver shares his experience playing Charlie and watching Brendan Fraser play the same part in The Whale
"...upcoming film based on Samuel D. Hunter's play The Whale...."
Dec. 23, 2022 Screens Feature by Shanon Weaver
Austin Film Festival Lands The Whale
Brendan Fraser's Venice smash to open fest, Oct. 27-Nov. 3
"...Austin Film Festival is bringing home a leviathan: The Whale, the new feature from Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky..."
Sept. 8, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
ACL Live Shot: Noah & the Whale
More Mumford than Barenaked Ladies and endearingly so
"...Top 10 in its native UK, Noah & the Whale has yet to make any kind of impact on..."
Oct. 7, 2013 Music Post by Michael Toland
White Whale Games Introduces 'Slayers'
and other new ways to play in the God of Blades world
"...Just when you think the team at White Whale Games are resting on their "Best of Austin"-worthy laurels..."
Nov. 30, 2012 Screens Post by James Renovitch
The Whale
Brendan Fraser anchors Aronofsky's meditation on faith and fatness
"...depths of religious trauma with his adaptation of The Whale...."
Dec. 23, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf
Faith and Fatness in The Whale
Darren Aronofsky and writer Samuel D. Hunter redefine the religious movie
"...fascination with the characters in his latest film, The Whale. He recalled seeing it in its original form, as..."
Dec. 23, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker
The Squid and the Whale
In this expertly acted piece about the coming apart of a family of New York intellectuals, humor is served not with a smirk but with a helpless shrug.
"...progression there. The largely autobiographical The Squid and the Whale – and specifically, Baumbach’s stand-in, Walt – could be..."
Nov. 4, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Whale Rider
This quietly powerful tale of youthful female empowerment in New Zealand is based on a cornerstone Maori myth.
"...Pacific isle from Hawaii on the back of a whale, this quietly powerful tale of youthful female empowerment is..."
June 27, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Day Trips: Whale-watching
Washington state offers an exciting escape from the summer heat
"...Whale-watching off the Washington coast is a little like playing..."
Aug. 11, 2017 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
A Whale of a Tale Goes 21st Century
The Fuse Box Festival hosts a Herman Melville Hoot Nite
"...to adapt a literary epic about a massive sperm whale, then there's really no question as to size: Go..."
April 25, 2008 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones
'The Whale'
Shanon Weaver puts on 600 lbs. for A Chick & a Dude's latest show
"...2011 – recently wrote a full-length drama called The Whale, an emotionally complex story of a man named Charlie..."
Feb. 21, 2014 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
Greg Abbott and the Fail Whale
AG criticized for backing tweet calling Wendy Davis a retard
Aug. 19, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker
Gods and Monsters
The final days of the man behind Hollywood's Frankenstein
"...In 1957, Golden Age of Hollywood director James Whale was found dead – a suicide – in the..."
Jan. 1, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home
"...a family to belong to, so too does every whale. That was the lesson of Free Willy I. But,..."
July 21, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
In the Heart of the Sea
Ron Howard sets sails with that famous Nantucket whale story
"...partly inspired Herman Melville to write Moby-Dick; or, the Whale in 1851. Howard, working with screenwriter Charles Leavitt, has..."
Dec. 11, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Free Willy
"...Free Willy is a rousing modern-day fable about hugging whales, overcoming villains in black hats and freeing the enemy..."
July 16, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Tribeca Film Festival Interview: Fathom
Austin filmmakers travel to where the whales sing
"...scientists as they attempt to unlock the secrets of whale song, there is one truth, according to Drew Xanthopoulos,..."
June 18, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Blood in the Water
'Blackfish' is a whale of a nightmare for SeaWorld's PR department
"...two decades as one of SeaWorld's elite; a killer whale trainer, he'd worked with whales in San Antonio, San..."
Aug. 2, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker
Free Willy 3: The Rescue
"...his credit, curly-finned screen idol Willy is definitely the whale who's gettin' paid these days. This third installment in..."
Aug. 15, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith
Darkness With a Twist of Dime-Store Novel
White Whale Games brings the pulp-fiction aesthetic into the Aughties
"...That's what Austin-based company White Whale Games – made up of Studio Director Jo Lammert,..."
Dec. 9, 2011 Screens Feature by Ashley Moreno
The Invisible Man
Rains made his screen debut in the H.G. Wells mad-scientist classic.
"...Directed by: James Whale. Starring: Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, Una O'Connor and William..."
Aug. 19, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Margot at the Wedding
The director of The Squid and the Whale mostly falters in this follow-up film that stars Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Jack Black as casually cruel narcissists.
"...in director/screenwriter Baumbach’s mordantly funny The Squid and the Whale were hardly role models for the two sons caught..."
Dec. 14, 2007 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Moby's Play
Playwright Kirk Smith talks about trying to squeeze a great white whale into a tiny theatre with his adaptation of Moby Dick for Vortex Repertory Company's Summer Youth Theatre.
"...found a way to squeeze not only that monstrous whale into the Vortex, but also the vast sea, the..."
July 19, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Darren Aronofsky to be Honored by Austin Film Festival
Fest features Bob Saget's final film, new Laura Poitras doc
"...as Black Swan, The Wrestler and the upcoming The Whale, has just been announced as the recipient of this..."
Sept. 29, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Pushing Air
Game audio design firm GL33k sounds off on whale calls, light sabers, and sweet jams
"...believable audio experience. However, if a client wants a whale sound, jumping into the ocean with the world's largest..."
May 9, 2014 Screens Feature by James Renovitch
Fathom
A search for whale song becomes an ode to patient researchers
"...The whalesong of the humpback has an ethereal elegance that sounds..."
June 25, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki
Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful
The fashion photographer's contradictions, from the glamazons who knew him
"...sold. It's clear throughout that Newton was having a whale of a time creating his images – little saucy..."
July 24, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Lu Over the Wall
Japanese mermaid tale with a big heart and a groovy beat.
"...Remember, just because someone looks like a flaming killer whale, doesn’t mean you can't be friends...."
