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The Indeliblesnew
Movies to see at the Austin Film Festival include a flick about a mission to Montreal and another about a girl's criminal upbringing.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten, Nora Ankrum, Wells Dunbar, Marc Savlov, James Renovitch, Spencer Parsons, Josh Rosenblatt, Joe O'Connell, Mark Fagan and Shawn Badgley |
10-20-2005 |
Movies
Tags: Various Directors, Various Films, & Beers Runaway Severance The Special: The Story of an American Anthem Stomp! Shout! Scream! Walking the Line Azadi Boy-Next-Door The Braggart Holiday That Night, Backseat Bruce & Me Clear Cut: The Story of Philomath, Oregon Dirt Favela Rising Frozen Her Name Is Carla Life on the Ledge Muskrat Lovely The Outdoorsmen: Blood, Sweat
Hammett Meets Hughesnew
Writer-director Rian Johnson discusses high school noir and the Austin Film Festival highlight Brick.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-20-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Brick, Rian Johnson
To Cite Edward R. Murrow, 'See It Now'new
Director and co-screenwriter George Clooney strikes just the right tone of gripping entertainment and understated cautionary tale in this thoughtful portrait of newsman Edward R. Murrow's confrontation with Sen. Joseph McCarthy.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-20-2005 |
Reviews
Forecast Cloudynew
This hazy remake pales in comparison to John Carpenter's original fogbanks from 1980.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-20-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Rupert Wainwright, The Fog
Seabiscuit Juniornew
This horsey heartwarmer does something surprising in spite of its underdog sports-movie formula and shameless emotional manipulation: It manages to be an enjoyable movie about and for girls.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
10-20-2005 |
Reviews
Game Overnew
Doom is not so much a film as a marketing tie-in, albeit one with some exceptional production values.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-20-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: doom, Andrejz Bartkowiak
Miner's Daughternew
Charlize Theron stars in this fictionalized, rousing, but nevertheless predictable account of the first class-action sexual discrimination suit.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-20-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Niki Caro, North Country
Life, Death, and Everything in Betweennew
With a script by David Benioff (25th Hour) and direction by Marc Forster of Monster's Ball fame, Stay is an ambitious experiment that never quite jells.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-20-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Marc Forster, Stay
Captive Audiencenew
This Venezuelan film about the kidnappings that are endemic in Caracas bursts with stylish technique and gruesome tension.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-20-2005 |
Reviews
Bad Girls Are Even Betternew
Attention-deficit filmmaking reaches a new pinnacle in Tony Scott's hyperstylized portrait of a bounty hunter as an iconic bad girl.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Tony Scott, Domino
Stuck Inside of Nowherenew
Cameron Crowe's romantic comedy doesn't make the attraction between the characters played by Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom believable and then goes off in dozens more unprofitable directions.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Cameron Crowe, Elizabethtown
Light and Darknew
An amusing road trip through Ukraine leads to epiphanies of history and memory in actor Liev Schreiber's only partially illuminating adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
Mass Appealnew
An R&B singer rediscovers his roots in this faith-based drama that successfully captures the ecstatic experience of gospel performance despite having no other narrative momentum.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Rob Hardy, The Gospel
Falluja Fields Forevernew
In this amazingly candid documentary, soldiers from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division talk about their lives and their mission in Fallujah, Iraq, in early 2004, just weeks before the full strength of the Sunni insurgency is unleashed.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
Seek and Ye Shall Findnew
Kirk Davis’ slick film, adapted from the stories of Christopher Cook, plunges into Texas' small-town religious mores and comes up with some insightful revelations in this character-driven pastiche.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Kirk Davis, Screen Door Jesus
