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In his debut novel, Dominic Smith describes Daguerre spending a year using a camera obscura to paint an exact replica of the view from his terrace

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Those Canadians are too damn happy. Must be the the donuts.

Jean Renoir shot it in 1938, just as Hitler's troops were occupying the Sudetenland and Neville Chamberlain and his band of appeasers were bending Europe's back to the whims of the Third Reich. So, you'll forgive him for making such a dark picture.

The fourth Austin Jewish Film Festival

Dale Watson's heads for the streets of Baltimore

Burton's best work in ages is eye candy of the highest order and as eminently watchable as a hilltop Halloween pyre or a Día de los Muertos parade run amok.

The American Analog Set at 10: end of part one

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The artistic genius of 79-year-old cinematographer Haskell Wexler is only the beginning of his story; the passion and eloquence of his lifelong political commitment stand equal to his cinematic achievements

Despite its problems, Mainline Theater Project's 'Three Days of Rain' succeeds in showing us two sets of young people puzzling out who they are and want to be

SXSW picks & sleepers

In Austin Lyric Opera's production of 'Elektra,' conductor Richard Buckley succeeds in conveying the complexity, richness, cruelty, and humanity of this work

How a Czech composer helped America find its authentic voice

The colors of justice in Williamson County

Dispatches from the Toronto International Film Festival: No. 3

Long Center director Cliff Redd and ALO director Richard Buckley compare notes on leading an arts institution, the challenges they face, and being new to Austin

Everything you need to know

When a true artistic talent is at home with watercolor, the results are stirring, and so it is with Jan Heaton

Lance Letscher's current retrospective at the Austin Museum of Art is exciting in its breadth and diversity and the sense of possibility those qualities create

The Rude Mechanicals' Stadium Devildare, from a script by Ruth Margraff, offers a muscle-bound riff on reality game shows and superpatriotism, but its torrents of text eventually leave the brain numb

Liveshots

Two San Antonio-influenced Mexican restaurants are the newest residents of Manor Road's Restaurant Row

Through the vision and skill of choreographer Stephen Mills, Ballet Austin told the story of 'Hamlet' with an urgency and imagination made the prince's pain palpable

The pace of this political thriller about a Nazi collaborator on the run for four decades (Michael Caine) is as listless as the justice system that pursued him.