Richard Linklater

The 2012 Village Voice Film Critic's Poll

Movies are alive in the Age of McConaughey.

Films of 2012: Ten Best Films of 2012

Just because you live in Houston doesn't mean you can't see all these films.

The Rocks Off 100: Miss Leslie, Queen of the Honky-Tonks

Who? Miss Leslie if you're country, Leslie Anne Sloane has played fiddle/violin in both the classical and country/bluegrass styles since age 5. In 2004, she started Miss Leslie and Her Juke-Jointers, which can usually be found once or twice a month at finer roadhouses and honky-tonks in the greater ... More >>

5 Cool & Cheap Weekenders: Street Dogs, The O's, Kat Edmonson, Two Gallants, Etc.

Irish-tinged Bah-sten punks Street Dogs, who are tight with Scottish-tinged Ew-sten punks, mosh down to Walters Friday night with Detroit psychobilly freakouts the Koffin Kats. Street Dogs' fellow New Englanders Roll the Tanks, whose song "Toeing the Line" was recently featured on Alternative Press' ... More >>

Carthage, Texas, Hometown of Bernie, Now Gets Fanciest High School Football Scoreboard in the World

Score another coup for the newly famous East Texas town of Carthage: the town Richard Linklater, Jack Black and Sonny Carl Davis put on the map for its eccentric views on punishing murderers now has scoreboard on the entire state -- nay, the whole entire world of high school athletics. Literally. W ... More >>

Julie Delpy Rocks New York

Always more than an ingenue, she's taking on everything that's wrong with movies - and she's bringing Chris Rock.

The Toadies, Helmet, UME

Bernie

Murder in a Small Town

Top 10 Texas Movie Soundtracks

​This weekend, as the rest of the world catches Harry Potter mania for (perhaps) the final time, Houston gets a serious dose of Urban Cowboy nostalgia. Theater Under the Stars' production of the Tony-nominated 2003 musical - which The New York Times called "a conclusive demonstration that it's ... More >>

Jessica Simpson Feels The Pain Of Bullying Victims

Sorry sweetheart, but even Tim Gunn would've made fun of those pants.​There's been a lot of talk about bullies lately. The suicides of Rutgers student Tyler Clementi and Hamilton Middle School's Asher Brown have prompted renewed calls for bullying prevention, leading to things like the It Gets ... More >>

Our Eight Favorite Musical Moments From Texas-Shot Films

​If Chainsaws, Slackers and Spy Kids sounds like a titillating title for a book, it's only because the book itself deals with some of the most provocative indie films in recent cinematic history - many of them made by Texas-born filmmakers. The book is the work of Alison Macor, former film cr ... More >>

Jonathan Richman

Standing O

Richard Linklater's Orson Welles puts on quite a show.

Bring It On: The 2009 Cinema Arts Festival Houston Starts Tonight

Photo by Sandra Koop​The 2009 Cinema Arts Festival Houston is rolling out the red carpet as we speak, for today's opening night screenings.Over at the Angelika Film Center, the highly anticipated Precious starts at 7 p.m., while over at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the festival's opening nigh ... More >>

Miss Pop Rocks: Scooby Doo Hits 40, And A Nation Asks How

​Last week saw the commemoration of a dark milestone in our country's history. Millions of Americans used this anniversary as an opportunity to reflect on the misery and hardship many are still enduring as a result. In writing this, I hope not only to correct certain revisionist interpretations o ... More >>

Move Over, Ron Paul: There's A New Nut In The Texas Congressional Delegation

​Be proud, Lufkin: Your Congressman is a nut.We're not talking even Ron Paul nuttiness; U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert has left even that far behind.Gohmert appeared on the Alex Jones radio show last week. That sentence should be enough to prove nuttiness; Jones (a native Texan! He's appeared in Richard ... More >>

Clever, Funny and Disturbing

Austin exports 20 artists and installations for a show at DiverseWorks.

They Haven't Given Up Hope Yet On Making The Astrodome Into A Movie Studio

Logo courtesy Astrodome StudiosThese are tough times for the Astrodome -- it's in such bad shape that the rodeo could not use it for its Hideout bar and performance area this year.These are also tough times for the economy, as you may have heard, and tough times to launch seemingly improbable scheme ... More >>

First Names For SXSW Film Fest Are Out

Flock to "Flicker Fusion"

Don't miss the powerful, curious animation screening at DiverseWorks

Weird and Wonderful

Iraq's Cinema of Longing

A conversation with director James Longley

There's the Beef

Richard Linklater's ensemble polemic may just turn you off burgers for good

Truly, Madly, Darkly

Richard Linklater's Scanner is a rotoscoped feast for freaks

Ford Tough

Oh, Grow Up

Failure is McConaughey's perfect movie, and a pretty good one for us

Bad News

One more awful remake strikes out

Same Old Song

Mr. Holland goes to France in a feel-good film that doesn't

From Major to Minor

Why the best films of 2004 look like indies but aren't

Hell of a Catch

Friday Night Lights goes deep -- a rare route for football movies

Don't Pass Glass

Twelve artists show us what the clear stuff can do

Until the Night

Delpy and Hawke reteam to ponder love Before Sunset

Buenos Aires Virus

Continental Club dweller Glover Gill would sooner starve to death than give up playing tango. Not that guys who back Pavarotti and score Hollywood films waste away that often.

Increasing the Flock

Aurora Picture Show goes on tour in its hometown

Do the Wrong Thing

Former friends reckon with reality in Linklater's Tape

D12

Thursday, November 1

Deep Thoughts

Richard Linklater's Waking Life is as frustrating as it is stimulating

Going... Going... Gone

Going Independent

One Nation Under a Groove

Director Greg Harrison depicts a rave generation looking for love and truth in a warehouse

Cinema of Insiders

Emanuel Levy's "Writing About Film" seminar

Sexual Healing

Phony Folksy

Linklater tries to break out of the slacker doldrums, but misfires

Wasted Youth

With subUrbia, the director of Slacker becomes one

Press Picks

Slack time

Before Sunrise is something new from Richard Linklater -- a failure

Do More Cuts Mean Less Shoots?

Sweeping NEA cutbacks leave Texas filmmakers scrambling for funding

Milla in 3-D

Supermodel Milla Jovovich proves she's more than just another pretty face

Making Change

That's a Wrap

And the year ends with a surprise twist: fall movies that are falling flat