January Haters Club
Screaming “I HATE JANUARY” out loud for the zillionth time this week, it occurred to me that I’m probably not alone. Following closely on the cries of “Happy New Year” is one ugly slog...
ANNAINAUSTIN...and Company! Blog
It’s January, Be Nice To Yourself
Every January we are bombarded with fitness plans, weight loss guides and painfully basic advice on how to have the perfect home via decluttering and massive organizing. We are presented with endless and awful...
“Duran Duran” and the Ordinary World
This weekend the Austin City Limits television show aired the Duran Duran episode that was taped on October 5th of last year, making it a great time to take a look back at the...
Discussing Serial Killers at Christmas
With the holidays coming up fast, you can read Anna’s column in the Dallas Morning News today about the unusual way her family avoids political strife at the holiday dinner tables. Update: The Lizzie...
FAYE @Nashville Film Festival 2021
by Jason T Sparks It is entirely possible that, 20 or 30 years from now, kids will be sitting in a UCLA Film School class reading their textbooks—assuming that they’ve finally moved on from...
See You Then @Nashville Film Festival
by Jason T Sparks What happens in the film See You Then is nothing alien, if you’re a full-grown adult who has lived any kind of life at all: two adult human beings, who...
PETITE MAMAN @Nashville Film Festival
by Jason T Sparks Her name is Josephine Sanz, or, as she would say it, elle s’appelle Josephine Sanz. She is a young French lady, all of about ten years old, and she exudes...
FABLE OF A SONG @ Nashville Film Festival 2021
by Jason T Sparks Once in a great while, something happens: a documentary filmmaker will set out to make one film, and then circumstances dictate that the director is compelled to make an entirely...
OLD HENRY @ Nashville Film Fest 2021
by Jason T Sparks One of the last things I expected to see at the toney, artsy-fartsy Nashville Film Festival was a Western. Maybe I was misdirected in my thinking: American cinema has pointed...
Soon It May Be “All Over Now” for The Rolling Stones
When the news of the Astroworld tragedy in Houston was unfolding, the first thing that came to my mind was Altamont, the 1969 tragedy where multiple people died at a Rolling Stones concert at...
