AltWeeklies Wire
Acting the Partnew
Victor/Victoria meets Shakespeare in Love at A Star Is Born in this gender-bending backstage story.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-04-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Richard Eyre, Stage Beauty
Saints Alivenew
The story of one of Roman Catholicism's most beloved and modern saints earns no novenas.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-04-2004 |
Reviews
Love and Warnew
Life during wartime is always difficult, but never more so than when you're in love, as this Czech movie demonstrates.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-04-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Ondrej Trojan, Zelary
Born Againnew
If your dead husband returned to you in the body of a 10-year-old boy, would you seize the opportunity for your romance to be born again or would you call Child Welfare?
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-28-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: birth, Jonathan Glazer
Charlie, We Hardly Knew Yenew
Shot over the course of 10 years, underground filmmaker Jim Van Bebber tells the story we all think we know. This time, however, the story graphically unfolds from the perspective of Charles Manson.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-28-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Jim Van Bebber, The Manson Family
Bio Hazardsnew
Ray Charles, we can't stop loving you, even though this formulaic biopic lacks your original style.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-28-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Ray, Taylor Hackford
The Horror, the Horrornew
Saw is indeed a horror movie, but not necessarily in the manner the filmmakers intended.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-28-2004 |
Reviews
'Tarnation' Sensationnew
Jonathan Caouette's inexplicably perfect documentary of growing up gay in Texas is the astounding new face of do-it-yourself moviemaking.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-22-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jonathan Caouette, Tarnation
'Primer' Timenew
Writer/director/co-star Shane Carruth's sci-fi verite, Primer, snagged the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance 2004. His debut film is as densely layered with resonant ideas about the nature of time, friendship, and the process of invention as it is with the minutiae of the engineering field its characters inhabit.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-22-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Primer, Shane Carruth
Say Amennew
Based on a novel by Bishop T.D. Jakes, a black evangelical preacher and author who also co-stars, this unusual film is part revivalist sermon, part narrative drama, and wholly urgent and engaging.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-22-2004 |
Reviews
Making Art From Lifenew
Sometimes people grow up sane despite the best efforts of society to drive them mad. So it is for Jonathan Caouette, who with this film assembles his life into his art.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-22-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Jonathan Caouette, Tarnation
Christmas at Any Costnew
Money can buy happiness is the moral of this cynical yet mildly amusing comedy.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-22-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Mike Mitchell, Surviving Christmas
Experiments in Science and Filmmakingnew
Physics and metaphysics mingle in this minimalist yet intriguing fiction about inventor/scientists who discover a technique of time travel.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-22-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Primer, Shane Carruth
Has-Been Comic Becomes Never-Was Auteurnew
Born and bred L.A. narcissist Pauly Shore turns auteur for this comedy film outing about … himself.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-22-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Pauly Shore, Pauly Shore Is Dead
Haunted House Rejects Its Newest Occupantsnew
An American version of a Japanese haunted-house film follows the same tack as its predecessor, but is strangely neutered by its infusion of blond American actresses.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-22-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Takashi Shimizu, The Grudge
