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As Chaplin historian David Robinson is happy to report in the introduction to Charlie Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema, "the raison d'etre of this book is not so much the text as the photographs."

Three decades later, 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' is still about everyday evil. In 1977, two UT grad students explained.

This is an extended version of the story that ran in the print edition.

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The Cinematexas International Short Film Festival

Why do we pay to watch ads in theatres? And, Newt Gingrich argues that the White House should lie to us more.

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With The Animatrix, the Wachowski Bros. decided to mine their man-dominated machine world for an endless array of storytelling possibilities, enlisting seven renowned anime directors to create a nine-part series that is just as sexy, gritty, beautiful, and philosophical as the original Matrix.

Mike Judge & Don Hertzfeldt present 'The Animation Show'

, Sunday, July 20, 2003

Whole Foods Avoids the Mud

Kansas City's Chucky Lou AV Club brings a collection of banned Looney Tunes shorts to the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown.

The Austin Museum of Art exhibition "Robert Frank Photographs" provides an excellent introduction to Frank's career from his early social documentary work to his introspective images of later decades, and shows him always striving in his images to reflect his deeply personal response to the world around him.

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Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme takes a trip to the city of lights and of love, of Tati and Truffaut, in his latest, The Truth About Charlie.

It was a good year -- not a great one -- for the Toronto International Film Festival.

Recommended at aGLIFF 2002

A closer look at the Riddlin' Kids look, courtesy of local animator Lance Myers

Lowell Bartholomee has a lot to say, and he says it in plays that blaze like a Klieg instrument throwing gritty metrosphere of modern life into stark relief -- stark comic relief.

TV's Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin wrestles a new beast: the Hollywood movie.

The Hope Arts Festival and local film collective Project Seven host an Evangelical Christian film festival at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown this weekend.

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SXSW and the Austin Cinemaker Co-op call for entries to their SXSW Trailer Fest competition.

Seven Austin arts organizations receive outreach grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, playwright C. Denby Swanson receives a McKnight Advancement Grant, and Peter Pan receives his own Amy's Ice Cream flavor.

The Lucky Bum Film Tour rolls into town with tasty treats for local cineastes with the munchies for movies that bypass the run-of-the-mill.

Local sculptor Damian Priour talks about being Featured Artist for one of the city's rites of spring: the Austin Fine Arts Festival.