In Remembrance of Raúl
Friends and colleagues of poet/activist Raúl Salinas pay tribute
"...to press on Wednesday. This was big news. The poet and owner of Resistencia Bookstore, home of Red Salmon..."
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Feb. 22, 2008 Books Feature by Belinda Acosta
The Postman (Il Postino)
"...with a production history as tragically romantic as the poetry of one of its main characters, Chilean poet Pablo..."
July 7, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor
Sylvia
Sylvia Plath biopic is sad dirge.
"...death of Sylvia Plath and her marriage to fellow poet Ted Hughes have provided longtime fodder for the imaginations..."
Oct. 31, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Buy Local, Get 'Happy'
Help Austin film The Happy Poet see the world
"...When Jonny Mars describes The Happy Poet as a movie about "the little guy trying to..."
May 28, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones
The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca
"...to the work and short, tragic life of Spanish poet and playwright Garcia Lorca, who was summarily executed under..."
Sept. 12, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Regeneration
"...want to go back to the front. The eminent poet and war hero Siegfried Sassoon (Wilby, most recognizable from..."
Oct. 2, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Gin And Condoms Everywhere
Memoirs of a Slam Poet
"...photograph by Bruce Dye The National Poetry Slam is basically a giant carnival of sin and..."
Aug. 14, 1998 Books Feature by Wammo
Zero Kelvin
"...wearyingly languid pace. Eidsvold plays Henrik Larsen, a young poet and hopeless romantic from Norway, who leaves his fiancée..."
June 27, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
In Custody
"...interview with the reclusive Nur (Kapoor), an obese, bespectacled poet of Urdu, considered by some to be a national..."
July 15, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Benediction
The closeted life of British World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon
"...who? For American audiences, the life of modernist anti-war poet Siegfried Sassoon is the relatively obscure subject matter of..."
June 3, 2022 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Wild Nights With Emily
Molly Shannon breaks the myth of the staid Emily Dickinson with this vibrant biopic
"...married (gasp!), and spent her time as a lonely poet perfecting her aesthetic...."
April 19, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki
Mother!
Jennifer Lawrence on the brink of madness
"...and childless in a picturesque rural manse. He’s a poet of some sort and one day his work brings..."
Sept. 22, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Libertine
Johnny Depp runs away with the show in this murkily filmed picture, cackling all the while and defiling beauty in all its forms as the exceedingly decadent Earl of Rochester.
"...mad, bad, and dangerous-to-know mold. Wilmot is an anti-romantic poet with a notion of romance that scarcely runs the..."
March 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Brother to Brother
A festival favorite jumps to the big screen with its story that compares and contrasts life as a gay black man in the present day and the Harlem Renaissance.
"...the character of Bruce Nugent (Robinson), a Harlem Renaissance poet now living in a homeless shelter staffed by young..."
Dec. 17, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Possession
This dual love story spanning two centuries, taken from A.S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning novel, is handled with typical LaBute pessimism.
"...Ehle, Trevor Eve, Anna Massey and Toby Stephens. One poet, a lesbian living in Victorian England, writes to another,..."
Aug. 30, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Piñero
This film is a sympathetic biopic about the troubled life of Nuyorican writer Miguel Piñero (author of Short Eyes).
"...a struggling actress, a struggling girlfriend. He is the poet and playwright Miguel Piñero (Bratt), sometime jaihouse denizen, most-of-the-time-junkie...."
May 17, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Making Gestures
"'You can have my husband but please don't you mess with my man' is my kind of cheek," visiting Michener Center poet Heather McHugh says in an interview with Chronicle writer Lissa Richardson. "And cheek's my favorite part of a Texas anatomy."
"...When I approached poet Heather McHugh for an interview, I had to leap..."
May 4, 2001 Books Feature by Lissa Richardson
My Life and Times With Antonin Artaud
"...that. My Life, adapted from dubiously accurate diaries by poet manqué and Artaud butt-kisser Jacques Prevel, is so drenched..."
Dec. 13, 1996 Movie Review by Russell Smith
Remembrances of Raúl, Part Three
More memorials and memories of Raúl Salinas.
"...him after his psychological REBIRTH from prisoner to people's poet. His mind/heart transformation helped to prepare a place for..."
Feb. 25, 2008 News Post by Belinda Acosta
Hotrod Golgotha
In this collection, the Austin poet delivers a high octane paean to cars and all that makes them cool
"...be exceedingly ill-suited to the task of reviewing a poetry collection in praise – rapturous praise! – of the..."
Jan. 1, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Texas Book Festival 2020: Meet the Whiting Award Winners in Poetry
Three emerging literary stars on disturbing the peace
"...a Baldwin-esque question: What is the role of the poet in this political moment? The panel, which was made..."
Nov. 10, 2020 Arts Post by Barbara Purcell
Every Day We Get More Illegal by Juan Felipe Herrera
With his latest collection, the former U.S. poet laureate offers a kind of spiritual style guide for our time
"...Herrera, the first Latino ever to serve as U.S. poet laureate, wasted no time using his 2015-17 platform to..."
Sept. 25, 2020 Arts Feature by Roberto Ontiveros
Blinded by the Light
Semi-true story of how the Boss shook the world of a boy from Luton
"...for Javed (Kalra), a shy and dreamy 16-year-old aspiring poet/writer of Pakistani descent, stuck in the blue-collar town of..."
Aug. 16, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love
Biography of Leonard Cohen's muse can't stop focusing on the artist
"...has to do with his contradictions. Cohen was a poet and novelist whose artistic success only came as a..."
July 19, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Beach Bum
Fear and loathing in Florida with Korine and Matthew McConaughey
"...on a bongo drum and a mouthful of gibberish poetry. That moment lasts 95 minutes, and it is glorious...."
March 29, 2019 Movie Review by Dan Gentile
Hotel by the River
Semi-improvised South Korean family drama is as much about pauses as what it spoken
"...River, offers no mystery in its setting. The aging poet Young Hwan (Ki) has holed up in an idyllic..."
March 1, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki
Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry
A look into the world of the farmer and activist
"...the Austin filmmakers provide of Berry – the Kentucky-based poet, novelist, essayist, farmer, and activist – is fragmented and..."
Sept. 1, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
A Quiet Passion
A biographical sketch of poet Emily Dickinson
"...Was Emily Dickinson’s home life – to which the poet restricted herself in the last years of her life..."
May 5, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Neruda
The famous Chilean poet is on the run in this biopic
"...same calendar year. Even the rarer set that loves poetry and can recite by heart, “Tonight I can write..."
Feb. 17, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Paterson
Adam Driver embodies the poetry of the quotidian
"...Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson is infused with the poetry of the quotidian, and defying the odds against this..."
