Sense and Sensibility

The lively and funny screenplay adaptation of Jane Austen written by Emma Thompson, who also stars, was rewarded with an Oscar.

"...Grant, Gemma Jones, Emilie Francois, Elizabeth Spriggs, Greg Wise and Imogen Stubbs. Who could have imagined that 1995 would..."

Dec. 15, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Review: Austin Shakespeare's Sense and Sensibility

Putting the pedal to the metal bolsters Jane Austen's classic work

"...15-Minute Hamlet, an abridged version of Shakespeare's longest work and most complex tragedy. It was actually 13 minutes long,..."

Nov. 18, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Film Sense and Sensibilities

1995 in Review

"...it was kidnapped by television's talking dog news anchors and employed for descriptions of just about everything. That includes..."

Jan. 12, 1996 Screens Feature

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

The mash-up title just about says it all

"...Smith, Jack Huston, Charles Dance, Douglas Booth, Bella Heathcote and Suki Waterhouse...."

Feb. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Adapted for film from the off-Broadway musical hit, this movie is a rousing screen spectacle about a surgically botched transsexual from East Germany (played charismatically by John Cameron Mitchell, the show's creator and film director).

"...Cameron Mitchell, Maurice Dean Wint, Alberta Watson, Michael Pitt, Andrea Martin, Stephen Trask and Miriam Shor. Despite the glowering..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Between Ships and Static

The "grandfather of Austin's avant-garde," Rick Reed, only don't call him that!

"...recording workshop led by Lawrence English, a Brisbane artist and proprietor of the Room 40 label. As the group..."

May 20, 2016 Music Feature by Conor Walker

Full Collapse: Rebecca Hall on Madness and Abuse in Resurrection

The Night House star on her latest horrifying role

"...powered by "this one woman's internal reserve of rage and anxiety that is ever-present, and vast." Yet it may..."

July 28, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Cultural Cancellations and Postponements: The Big List

What's not happening around Austin, arts-wise

"...art online, making sure you have performances to watch and exhibits to view while you wait out the period..."

March 24, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

UT Dept. of Theatre & Dance's In the Red and Brown Water

Multiple storytelling modes make Tarell Alvin McCraney's complex play operate as both theatre and ritual

"...expecting something very different than what In the Red and Brown Water delivers. The style of the play is..."

Oct. 14, 2016 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Page Two: The Apache Wars in History and Myth

Indeh, Ethan Hawke and Greg Ruth's new graphic novel

"...seems to far more often be used to manipulate and inflame mob passions and attitudes...."

Sept. 9, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Of Antidotes and Elixirs

The Dobie begins a one-week run of Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast on Dec. 20.

"...French filmmaker and author Jean Cocteau once said, "Victor Hugo was a..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Screens Feature by Sidney Moody

To Have and to Eat

A Chronicle food writer says goodbye to Austin

"...tartare. I’d pierce the egg yolk with my tongue and rip up the rye. Maybe we’d hunt down wild..."

Dec. 31, 2015 Food Post by Anna Toon

Vision and Focus

In the 'Undertow' with director David Gordon Green and first-time screenwriter Joe Conway

"...David Gordon Green (George Washington, All the Real Girls), and is opening in Austin this Friday as part of..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Of Church and State

British director Stephen Frears discusses his new film, Liam

"...much he has accomplished in the past 30 years and just how little recognition his name might elicit in..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Old King: Neil Young and Jonathan Demme in Nashville

Neil Young's new 'Prairie Wind' howls for the decades

"...to these shows. They were rich in music, personality, and meaning, with brilliant new songs, revealing versions of the..."

Aug. 26, 2005 Music Feature by Louis Black

Evil New Yorkers and Bit-Whoredom

They're horrible! They're evil, mean, and terrible! They're New Yorkers! They're the Fabulous and Ridiculous Theatre, and they're giving laid-back Austin a shot of scrappy, sophisticated, lowbrow, smart-ass theatre.

"...Fabulous and Ridiculous Theatre. Yes, the members of this company are..."

April 28, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

SXSW Film Conference and Festival '98 Further Reflections

"...be found in last week's issue. The symbols (RP) and (WP) indicate regional and world premieres...."

March 27, 1998 Screens Feature

All Over Creation: Crossbred and Circuses

Fusebox's hybrid artworks get more exhilarating as they get more innovative

"...the scene as impassioned about hybrids as he is, and after this year's mighty, mighty Fusebox Festival, I can't..."

May 11, 2012 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Blazers, Brunch, and Sex Shops

These are a few of Janine Brito's favorite things

"...of not having to dress for the male gaze and fantasizes about comparing mannish jackets with Hillary after a..."

April 26, 2013 Arts Feature by Amy Gentry

Page Two: Thrust and Perry

Advertising vs. Editorial Content 101

"...they found an ad so offensive that they both demanded to know why we ran it and wanted us..."

Aug. 26, 2011 Column by Louis Black

Mad Dogs and Austinites

Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival

"...You know what they say about only mad dogs and Englishmen being out in the midday sun? In Austin,..."

Aug. 28, 2009 Food Feature by Louis Black

SXSW Friday Picks and Sleepers

"...count Ice Cube (in town this year as well), and the riot that was the Strokes as attendance kings...."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

Anything Can Happen: Jon Favreau and Dax Shepard on Zathura

How this Jumanji requel took to the stars

"...Hollywood's output is as rife with seemingly bizarre improbabilities and their attendant uncertainties as anywhere in the known universe,..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

This martial arts film succeeds as a great pulp yarn, a historical drama, an epic love story, a humorous action tale, and a modern feminist fable.

"...Chow Yun Fat, Chang Chen, Zhang Ziyi, Cheng Pei-Pei and Lung Sihung. “Leaping lizards,” you might hear yourself exclaim..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mansfield Park

Jane Austen's third novel is infused with liberal doses of modern attitudes and autobiographical tidbits from the author's life.

"...Directed by: Patricia Rozema. Starring: Frances O'Connor, Embeth Davidtz, Alessandro Nivola, Jonny Lee Miller and Harold Pinter. Jane Austen's..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Ice Storm

Emotional deep freeze during a 1973 Thanksgiving weekend in Connecticut.

"...Ricci, Tobey Maguire, Jamey Sheridan, Adam Hann-Byrd, Elijah Wood and Henry Czerny. The emotional deep freeze experienced by a..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Emma

"...McGregor, Greta Scacchi, Juliet Stevenson, Polly Walker, Sophie Thompson and James Cosmo. I must confess that the only writing..."

Aug. 16, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

An Ideal Husband

The Oscar Wilde drama about deceit and honor is presented by a solid cast.

"...Driver, Rupert Everett, Julianne Moore, Jeremy Northam, John Wood and Peter Vaughan. It would seem, given Oscar Wilde's immortal..."

July 2, 1999 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Miss Potter

This Renée Zelweger movie about the life of Peter Rabbit author Beatrix Potter lacks dramatic tension and a sense of purpose.

"...Flynn, Bill Patterson, Matyelok Gibbs, Lloyd Owen, Anton Lesser and David Bamber. In 1902, a 36-year-old spinster and painter..."

March 9, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Austenland

Keri Russell plays a woman who vacations in a Jane Austen fantasy camp, but the film is lacking in sense and sensibility.

"...McKenzie, Jennifer Coolidge, Jane Seymour, Georgia King, James Callis and Ricky Whittle...."

Sept. 6, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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