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Oct. 7, 2005 News Feature
Page Two
'Sin City' may offer almost no suggestion of a moral substructure. But it insists there is morality, no matter how fragmented.
"...horrified alike – in terms of its style, excessive violence, gore, cinematic vitality, brutality, portrayal of women, and as..."
April 15, 2005 Column by Louis Black
The Defiant Deviant
The Austin Film Society and Alamo Drafthouse gang up for Bloodbath and Beyond: The Extreme Cinema of Takashi Miike and more
"...warning preceding his Dead or Alive: "explicit portrayals of violence; sex; violent sex; sexual violence; clowns and violent scenes..."
Feb. 25, 2005 Screens Feature by Wells Dunbar
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Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...he was arrested by sheriff's deputies on a domestic violence warrant and taken to the county jail. While in..."
Nov. 28, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
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Critical response to Kill Bill ignores the current cultural resonance of cinematic vengeance.
"...predictors? Wasn't it obvious before the first shot that violence is never far away in any human community (and..."
Oct. 31, 2003 Column by Louis Black
Naked City
No Adult Trial for McTear
"...community, and to [maintaining] schools [that are] free of violence. This has been an extremely difficult case."..."
May 30, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...undercover Austin police officers who were trying to instigate violence with peaceful demonstrators. I took these photographs so that..."
April 18, 2003 Column
Cat and Mouse, Confined to a Kiosk
Director Joel Schumacher discusses his new thriller, Phone Booth.
"...because of it. I find the criticism of Hollywood violence deserving many times, but I find it very disingenuous..."
April 4, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Dead or Alive
"...tagline warns: "This motion picture contains explicit portrayals of violence; sex; violent sex; sexual violence; clowns and violent scenes..."
July 29, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Game Boy
Local development company Game Titan grows up, but stays young at heart
"...most violent video game of all time -- the violence was abstract; the annihilation of an entire city might..."
July 19, 2002 Screens Feature by Michael Connor
Enough
"...of Fight Club -- another film that justified brutal violence by saddling it to an issue. The senseless violence..."
May 24, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Our Town, Our Time
Zachary Scott Theatre Center's production of The Laramie Project retells the story of Matthew Shepard's murder in a compelling, heartfelt way, but it also tells a town's story and gives us the opportunity to see our town in its reflection.
"...belongs to a different era, a time when grotesque violence isn't limited to the battlefields of Europe, when brutality..."
March 15, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
The Devil's Backbone
Set in a crumbling boys' school/orphanage/fallout shelter during the Spanish Civil War, the lost boys of this haunting film contend with a vengeful ghost as well as the more worldly traumas of war, greed, and abandonment.
"...the powerless doctor; the orphans, who must react to violence with violence; even Santi, at first a terrifying aberration,..."
March 15, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
"...pictures ever filmed. The prisoner is a fount of violence herself, despite being hosed down and gang-raped in prison..."
Feb. 12, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Letters at 3AM
Michael Ventura weighs in with his Top 5 list of 2001's best film and television moments.
"..."normal" life. He is not afraid to show that violence on such a scale is perversely beautiful -- beautiful..."
Jan. 11, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura
Battle Royale
Fukasaku's violence-soaked film about a government-sponsored, survival-of-the-fittest contest among schoolchildren has caused storms of controversy.
"...film has been causing storms of controversy regarding its violence-soaked storyline. Does its plot of a government-sponsored survival-of-the-fittest contest..."
Nov. 8, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Naked City
"...Friday and Saturday, UT's History Dept. presents "Violence, Community, and the Academy," a timely symposium examining violence..."
Oct. 12, 2001 News Feature by Lauri Apple
Letters at 3AM
The 21st Century Announces Itself
"...by the form and extent of the unquestionably necessary violence to which we must resort. What America does now..."
Sept. 21, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura
Public Notice
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, among other things, and "Public Notice" wants you to feel the love.
"...addition to Breast Cancer Awareness Month, October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. And while the Susan Komen, Breast Cancer..."
Oct. 6, 2000 Column by Kate X Messer
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Readers react to last week's cover story on the murder of Lauryn Paige Fuller.
"...as you will be held personally liable for any violence against any transsexual that can be directly linked to..."
Feb. 25, 2000 Column
Girl Talk
A Focus Group
"...so ornery and I don't know if it's the violence or the mindlessness of it...."
Dec. 17, 1999 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola
Postmarks
Readers respond to Zero Tolerance, the Longhorn Pipeline, and Being John Malkovich.
"...Militant drug prohibition causes violence. Nothing the prohibitionists say or do can change that...."
Nov. 19, 1999 Column
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The Real Obscenity
"...that Gandhi promoted the spinning wheel during the Indian nonviolence movement for independence. I think few remember why...."
April 30, 1999 Column
Scanlines
Clueless
"...of death set the standard for 30 years of violence in film, but neither of these remarkable facts account..."
Aug. 7, 1998 Screens Feature
Gonin
"...Peckinpah in its dizzying, migraine-inducing depiction of operatic, slow-motion violence, but at the same time it operates as an..."
April 24, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Funeral
"...and its stunning assemblage of performances. Absent is the ultra-violence that plagued The King of New York and The..."
Nov. 22, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Public Notice
Today's Menu: Road Kill, Street Pizza, Dillo Stew
"...average afternoon visitation from the dead. 916-0800. Let's Kick Violence's Ass!!!..."
Oct. 24, 1997 Column by Kate X Messer
Public Notice
"...to the theme of understanding, recognizing, and eradicating family violence...."
Sept. 12, 1997 Column by Kate X Messer
Albino Alligator
"...crisis, tensions come to a boil, and the inevitable violence erupts, more often than not in the form of..."
Jan. 31, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Evil of Two Lessers, Part II
"...our drugs, our music, our films, or even our violence. We've always been violent and we've always gotten high..."
