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Back Door Man
A profile of Bill Bentley, former Austin Sun writer, current music industry impresario, and producer of tribute albums of Roky Erickson and Skip Spence
"...Several months ago, Bill Bentley watched Bill Bentley having a quick bite to eat..."
Dec. 17, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser
Weirdsville
Weirdsville accomplishes something that is rare for Canadian-made comedies: It's actually funny.
"...Directed by: Allan Moyle. Starring: Scott Speedman, Wes Bentley, Taryn Manning, Greg Bryk, Maggie Castle, Raoul Bhaneja, James..."
Oct. 5, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Family History Gives Clifton Collins Jr. the Role of a Lifetime in Jockey
Director Clint Bentley gives the actor the inside track
"...there's only one performer for a part. Filmmaker Clint Bentley met Clifton Collins Jr. on the set of his..."
Oct. 22, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker
The Claim
"...Directed by: Michael Winterbottom. Starring: Peter Mullan, Wes Bentley, Milla Jovovich, Sarah Polley and Nastassja Kinski. The Claim..."
June 1, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Playback: Can Austin Be a Jazz City?
Two venues usher in a new era in Austin jazz. Plus music scholar Bill Bentley brings the Smithsonian Institution to bear at BookPeople.
"...the scene by giving it more consistent opportunities." Bill Bentley: Live and Unseen..."
Feb. 16, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin
P2
Horror overtakes a woman on level P2 of a parking garage, and the film's suspense
plays on our collective unease with being alone, at night, surrounded by concrete and rebar.
"...Directed by: Franck Khalfoun. Starring: Rachel Nichols, Wes Bentley and Simon Reynolds. There's a moment early on in..."
Nov. 16, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Knight of Cups
Terrence Malick's Knight of Cups is a vessel half-empty
"...Natalie Portman, Brian Dennehy, Antonio Banderas, Freida Pinto, Wes Bentley, Isabel Lucas, Teresa Palmer, Imogen Poots and Peter Matthiessen...."
March 18, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
We Are Your Friends
A wan Saturday Night Fever wannabe about four millennials
"...Directed by: Max Joseph. Starring: Zac Efron, Wes Bentley, Emily Ratajkowski, Jonny Weston, Shiloh Fernandez, Alex Shaffer and..."
Aug. 28, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Smithsonian Rock and Roll: Live and Unseen
by Bill Bentley
"...auditory thrills. Veteran record man and native Houstonian Bill Bentley states the obvious but never obviously: The Beatles split..."
Dec. 15, 2017 Music Review by Kevin Curtin
Let Him Have It
"...the rubble of a toppled house lies 12-year-old Derek Bentley, his skull fractured, his fragile frame racked by a..."
April 10, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Dancing About Architecture
Is the new Sir Douglas Quintet collection is from the original masters? Doug Sahm makes the final call. Also, Michael Nesmith, Junior and Tanya Rae Brown, and Clifford Antone updates.
"...he's the next Dwight Yoakam, says Tornado Records' Bill Bentley. Yes, that's the same Bentley we know from Reprise..."
Oct. 22, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck
Jockey
An incredible last trip around the blue-collar track
"...Directed by: Clint Bentley. Starring: Clifton Collins Jr., Molly Parker and Moises Arias...."
Feb. 11, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Holiday in San Antonio
The birth of Austin's punk scene: the Sex Pistols at Randy's Rodeo in San Antonio, 25 years ago this week.
"...was a lesson not always followed, but never forgotten.BeforeBill Bentley: There are certain shows you just know not to..."
Jan. 10, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser
Grand Old Mess
Can Travis County Republicans Ever Get It Together?
"...H.R. "Mickey" Bentley..."
Feb. 25, 2000 News Feature by Amy Smith
Velvet Underdog
Sterling Morrison: An Oral History With Interviews
"...and how much money we didn't have."Are You Sterling?"Bill Bentley: I met him in 1975. I used to go..."
March 17, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser
Masterminds
"...the school's new security adviser and ex-SAS officer Ralph Bentley (Stewart) -- infiltrate and take over his kid-sister's ritzy..."
Aug. 29, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
New Roky Erickson Tribute Books A Waterloo Records Release Party
Black Angels, Eve Monsees, Charlie Sexton, and more sign vinyl July 18
"...Produced by longtime Erickson fan, booster, and friend Bill Bentley, then a senior publicist at Warner Bros. Records, the..."
June 28, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin
Sterling Morrison: The Velvet Underdog Panel, Austin Convention Center
Thursday Day
"...1995 was full of similarly heartfelt musings. Moderator Bill Bentley, a former Austinite who's now senior VP of media..."
March 17, 2000 Music Feature by Greg Beets
Exhibitionism
"...their crusty, aristocratic neighbors, Lord Summerhays and his son Bentley. In this modern England, Lord S. takes a patient,..."
Nov. 20, 1998 Arts Review
Dierks Bentley
"...Dierks Bentley..."
Sept. 23, 2005 Music Feature by Christopher Gray
The Four Feathers
"...Directed by: Shekhar Kapur. Starring: Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Djimon Hounsou, Michael Sheen, Kate Hudson, Kris Marshall and..."
Sept. 20, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Memory of Music
Discovering Moby Grape's Skip Spence via his only solo album Oar, and it's new tribute album, More Oar
"...Now, unexpectedly, thanks to the ever-amazing Bill Bentley (see accompanying article), Skip Spence is being rediscovered. Not..."
Dec. 17, 1999 Music Feature by Louis Black
More Oar reviewed
"...A Tribute to Roky Erickson, music industry veteran Bill Bentley now ends the decade with its inspired follow-up, More..."
Dec. 17, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez
Dancing About Architecture
A Fond Farewell to the Texas Tornado himself, Doug Sahm.
"...the man and his music? Well, Tornado Records' Bill Bentley says, "I had a lot of plans with Doug...."
Nov. 26, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck
American Beauty
This Oscar winner is a bleak comedy of suburban mores and one man's sudden rejection of the arrangement.
"...Mendes. Starring: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Peter Gallagher, Mena Suvari, Chris Cooper, Allison Janney, Scott..."
Sept. 24, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
This Changes Everything: Austin Witnesses to Sex Pistols' Chaotic Randy's Rodeo Show Go Home and Start Bands
UK instigators blow the roof off San Antonio dance hall in Chapter 4, Part 2, of the “Austin Punk Chronicles”
"...Austin Sun Music Editor Bill Bentley went on assignment for Larry Flynt's Los Angeles Free..."
Jan. 7, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall
“No Willie, Waylon, or the Armadillo in 1977!!!” The Punk Beast Begins to Stir in Austin
A nascent scene takes shape in chapter three of the "Austin Punk Chronicles"
"...Austin party band the Bizarros. But as drummer Bill Bentley puts it, they "weren't protopunk."..."
Dec. 24, 2021 Music Feature by Tim Stegall
Letters at 3AM: The 'Austin Sun' Gets Hung
Old Austin Sun writers may have expected to hang, but not in a museum
"...Bill Bentley was a Sun typesetter and played drums with the..."
Sept. 10, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura
Off the Record
Spiros closes and now Room 710, too? Meanwhile, the Bizarros' long, strange trip returns them to the Hole in the Wall.
"...most incredible repertoire," reflects former Austin Sun writer Bill Bentley on fabled local outfit the Bizarros. "We had cover..."
June 12, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell
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