AltWeeklies Wire
Here and Nownew
Shot in jittery black-and-white 16mm, this French film’s on-the-fly aesthetic captures the shiftlessness of bourgeois youth and some of the spirit of the French New Wave.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
09-23-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: A Tout de Suite, Benoit Jacquot
Comedy as Funeral Dirgenew
Less a movie than a longform, live-action Celebrity Death Match between its leads, this wheezing comedy may herald the death knell of the interracial buddy-cop farce.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
09-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Les Mayfield, The Man
Save Yourselfnew
Earnest and well-intentioned Dallas-based cast and crew have created a puzzling and inauthentic youth drama that promotes teenage sexual abstinence.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
09-09-2005 |
Reviews
Guess Who’s Coming to The OC With a Lethal Weapon 2?new
Nick Cannon from Drumline plays a smart-aleck LAPD bicycle cop in this movie awash in clichés.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
09-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Marcos Siega, Underclassman
The Rhythm Methodnew
Michael Winterbottom creates scenester porn in which he records the evolution of a man and a woman's relationship through sex and music -- exclusively.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
09-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Winterbottom, 9 Songs
The Personal and the Politicalnew
City of God director Fernando Meirelles makes his English-language debut with this bracing, heartbreaking conspiracy thriller set in AIDS-ravaged Kenya.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
09-01-2005 |
Reviews
Horns & Halosnew
This Canadian import is a strange youth dramedy – too frank for young ones, but too conventional for an older market.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
08-25-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael McGowan, Saint Ralph
Discord and Ecstasynew
Filmmaker Werner Herzog discusses Grizzly Man.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
08-18-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Werner Herzog, Grizzly Man
Strolling for Dollarsnew
This film is a singularly dreadful example of what can happen when potentially capable comedians check their brains at a committee meeting and go slumming for dollars.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
08-18-2005 |
Reviews
It Ain't Heavy … It's Four Brothersnew
A scrappy Seventies throwback about vigilante justice in the corrupt urban jungle.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
08-12-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Four Brothers, John Singleton
Backwoods Throwbacknew
The remake is about as deep as Jessica Simpson's cleavage.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
08-04-2005 |
Reviews
No Signs of Lifenew
If you like Maxim, you'll love The Island -- it's glossy, expensive, full of slick ads and beautiful people reduced to posable action figures.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
07-22-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Bay, The Island
Lessons in Frigid Parentingnew
The documentary nature photography is so intimate, and the story of the penguins' mating is so carefully crafted into a sustained and satisfying narrative, that they become epic heroes: brave, if not fearless, and stalwart fools for love.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Luc Jacquet, March of the Penguins
Young Malaise in Sharp Focusnew
Writer-director Bujalski in his micro-budget film shows a superb knack for capturing real moments (the stuff that happens in between all the big moments) and the residue of our half-fulfilled inclinations.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Andrew Bujalski, Funny Ha Ha
All Aboardnew
Hungarian writer-director Antal is like the conductor of a midnight express: Grab a rail and hold on while he whizzes through montages and extreme angles of impossibly precipitous escalators in the Budapest subway system.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
07-07-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Nimród Antal, Kontroll
