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screens

Do Aibos Dream of Electric Corner Kicks?

Gearing up for RoboCup VII

BY SIDNEY MOODY

Stan Brakhage

Remembering Stan Brakhage, a giant of experimental film.

BY WILL ROBINSON SHEFF

Sam Peckinpah attracted controversy as reliably as a dog attracts fleas. Upon their release, each of his films would stimulate new debate about the uses of onscreen violence and his manhandling of women, as was the case with 1971's Straw Dogs.

BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN

Short Cuts

Film on, as resistance.

BY MARC SAVLOV

TV Eye

What on TV is bugging "TV Eye"? Pretty much everything.

BY BELINDA ACOSTA

Screens Reviews

Greed (1925)

Erich von Stroheim's 10-hour masterpiece-cum-folly, 1925's Greed, is the Holy Grail of Silent Film, a film which exists only in dusty script fragments, fading publicity stills, and the imaginations of dreamers.

Film Reviews

Anger Management

Laurel Canyon

arts & culture

Talking the Talk

Angela Kariotis knows that everyone has their own stories, and in Reminiscence of the Ghetto & Other Things That raiZed Me, her one-woman show about growing up poor in New Jersey, premiering at UT's David Mark Cohen New Works Festival, Kariotis tells hers in her very own way.

BY SARAH HEPOLA

Piece of Work

Consisting of a vintage dental cabinet, two scrolls of paper, and a tree-painted background, Celia Alvarez Muñoz's installation "Stories Your Mother Never Told You" is an interactive tour de force that touches on those very issues central to Muñoz's artmaking practice: memory, personal identity, and community.

BY ERINA DUGANNE

Articulations

A painful week for friends of the theatre with the passing of educator and director Gil Sharp and producer, director, and actor Don Phillips, Jr.

BY ROBERT FAIRES

Arts Reviews

The Traveling Lady

With The Traveling Lady, Different Stages has mounted a pleasant, innocuous little drama by Texas playwright Horton Foote, but while the actors are honest and heartfelt in portraying its awkward, kind-hearted small-town souls, the scenes sometimes play out in ways that betray the intimacy of small-town life.

Veris Dulcis: Music of Medieval Germany

On a night in the spring of 2003, the Texas Early Music Project took an Austin audience back to medieval Germany with songs of the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries that sounded as authentic and as full of life as the time when the music was born.

Pains of Youth

In the iron belly muses production of Pains of Youth, a group of young, wealthy medical students in 1920s Austria have, well, a lot of sex with each other, and while the actors work it for all they're worth, the quick tempo and constant physical movement lead to a lack of clarity in the story and a lack of, well, sexiness in the sex.

columns

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If we want to make sure this country remembers its commitment to Iraq and does not get into other military misadventures, a new kind of political activism must evolve.