The Austin Film Society's Noir Canon Travels the Mean Streets
The city is the star of the AFS film series
"...The need to return to the most essential noir over the years is a justifiable impulse. Idiosyncratic directors..."
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Nov. 23, 2018 Screens Feature by Julian DeBerry
A Life Reconstructed in Noir Classic The Killers
A death in New Jersey
"...line from the doomed protagonist of Robert Siodmak's 1946 noir The Killers ends up being his last, setting off..."
June 21, 2019 Screens Feature by Julian DeBerry
Orson Welles Refracts Noir in The Lady From Shanghai
It's the maverick director versus the world at AFS Cinema
"...Wake and the latest entry in Austin Film Society's Noir Canon. Noir was seen as a formula that studios..."
June 28, 2019 Screens Feature by Julian DeBerry
Noir City Film Festival Redefines the All-American Genre
Black, white, and red all over
"...Muller wrote Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir. Bringing a more populist approach to the study of..."
May 17, 2019 Screens Feature by Matthew Monagle
Sympathy for the Devil
Nicolas Cage goes old school in this unhinged midnight noir
"...That's why grim noir Sympathy for the Devil, while still being a lesser..."
July 28, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
July Is Crime Month: The Crime Blotter, Week 2
A curated guide to unlawful activities around town July 8-14
"...be an equally good title for this quintessential film noir, because the past weighs so heavily on these characters..."
July 7, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires
Perfidia
The first book in this new L.A. Quartet shows new depth, scope, and craftsmanship in James Ellroy's canon
"...L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz – was an ambitious noir history of midcentury Los Angeles, told through the lens..."
Oct. 24, 2014 Arts Feature by Tim Stegall
AFS Cinema Announces Reopening Date, First Lineup of Films
The arthouse mecca brings new titles, immortal classics
"...24), and Singapore Sling (Aug. 27-28), Nikos Nikolaidis' taboo-busting noir. Doc Nights..."
June 9, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
July Is Crime Month: The Crime Blotter, Week 1
A curated guide to unlawful activities around town July 1-7
"...Noir Canon: Scarlet Street Edward G. Robinson steps out of..."
July 1, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires
The Femme's Still Fatale, but She's Plastic, Too
Daniel Erickson on his all-mannequin noir, Eve's Necklace
"...as a vehicle for the lifeless. A suburban film noir right down to its smartly utilized and effectively atmospheric..."
Feb. 26, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Double Nickelodeons on the Dime
Plenty of opportunities to catch some classic films
"...Other screening options include a series called "The Noir Canon"; presentations by the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA)..."
May 26, 2017 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten
AFS Cinema Announces Opening Dates
New two-screen arthouse specialists release first schedule
"...Sellars' Studio Roma spoof After the Fox. Meanwhile, the Noir Canon will cast a light on postwar America's most..."
May 11, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Books from the University Press of Kentucky's Philosophy of Pop Culture series
How could any true film nerd resist a book with a chapter titled "Symbolism, Meaning, and Nihilism in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction"?; and a new book from the Philosophy of Popular Culture series contends that science fiction is the only film genre truly centered on the question of what it means to be a human being
"...The Philosophy of Film Noiredited by Mark T. Conard The University Press of Kentucky,..."
Dec. 28, 2007 Screens Review by Joe O'Connell
Weird Wednesday Celebrates Low-Budget Legend Albert Pyun
An unstoppable workhorse whose films celebrated earnest fun
"...and Master P.) His nearly 50-film-long filmography bounded from Canon Studios quickies and VHS exclusives to secret movies shot..."
Dec. 30, 2022 Screens Feature by Julian Towers
The Cold Six Thousand
"...Black Dahlia, he has been less a writer of neo-noir crime fiction ("NeNo CriFi," I suppose, to his die-hards)..."
May 18, 2001 Books Review by Marc Savlov
Books, Books, Books
The Summer of '95
"...writers. For Tabloid, Ellroy has clawed himself out of noir-soaked L.A. and landed his grim tale of violence, power,..."
June 2, 1995 Books Feature
Magda, Mélat, Madam Radar, and More Crucial Concerts
Recommended shows for the week in Austin
"...released her most ethereal offering to date, last year’s Canon Metis: Wiser Than Gods and Mortal Men, there was..."
June 28, 2024 Music Feature by Cy White
Top 10 Festival Films of 2017 You Haven't Seen Yet
From zombie musicals to political scandals, a bumper year
"...one of those great additions to the horror sing-along canon. Busting the genre out of the American high school..."
Jan. 1, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
All ATX
"...Fealty to the classic rock canon works notable wonders for A. Sinclair ("Bell Bottom Blues"),..."
Dec. 1, 2017 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez
DVDanger: Justice League vs. Teen Titans
Why is DC Animated better than DC's Cinematic Universe?
"...Thing, but it’s a terrifically underrated addition to his canon that demands reappraisal. It’s technically an adaptation of the..."
April 19, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
DVDanger: The Hallow
There’s something evil in the woods
"...Dark pretty much essential parts of the modern terror canon. Hardy’s debut is right up there, delving deep into..."
April 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Thursday Picks & Sleepers
SXSW Thursday handicapping by the blurb
"...taps the finer points of the Captain Beefheart/Tom Waits canon. The quintet's third album, 3: Trickgnosis, was one of..."
March 20, 2015 Music Feature
SXSW Thursday Picks & Sleepers
S.H.I.T. – So Happy It's Thursday blurbs
"...album, and it's ready for the big screen. Ryou Canon arrives darker and moodier than 2011 sleeper Habibti, meticulously..."
March 14, 2014 Music Feature
Something Wild
AFS Essential Cinema: Hong Kong New Wave Cinema
"...Sixties ciné weren't the only influences. Gangster films, film noir, American Westerns, martial arts pictures, and the Beijing Opera..."
Sept. 2, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones
Jay McInerney's 'Hedonist in the Cellar'
A novelist's take on wine
"...Rhone; Napa Valley is Hemingway; and Santa Barbara pinot noir is Fitzgerald. The Italians "Qunitarelli and dal Forno are..."
Oct. 27, 2006 Food Feature by Wes Marshall
Belles on Her Toes
Trying to shake Gene Tierney
"...later, in a used laser-disc bin: Laura. "Quintessential film noir," directed by Otto Preminger? My, my, my, said the..."
Oct. 6, 2006 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez
Pickup on South Street
"...for the part. Not that a bombshell could've landed "canon" (pick pocket) Skip McCoy, another trademark Richard Widmark shark...."
April 23, 2004 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez
10 Twisted Texas Songs
"...bluebonnets, yellow roses, and floods. Recent contributions to the canon suggest the Lone Star State is especially adept at..."
Nov. 28, 2003 Music Feature by Christopher Gray
Packs a Punch
Chances are you've seen Powerhouse Animation's work, whether you know it or not -- its portfolio includes Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights, Disney TV's The Proud Family, and plenty of local TV spots, ad campaigns, and one-off Flash animation projects.
"...because every kid on the block got a new Canon mini-DV cam for Christmas doesn't mean they're all going..."
