Kimberley Jones
Editor-in-Chief and Film Critic at The Austin Chronicle
Editor-in-chief & film critic at @AustinChronicle Opinions/dog glamour shots all on me.
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1 week ago |
austinchronicle.com | Kimberley Jones
Introducing the Best of Austin issue and some staff changes Between covering Saturday’s big protest and putting the finishing touches on this week’s Best of Austin issue (a months-long, all-hands-on-deck endeavor) and gearing up for another massive project right around the corner, July 4’s Burger Issue (we’re all enjoying our “research”), we’re kinda just trying to catch our breath here at Chron HQ. But as ever, change is afoot.
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1 week ago |
austinchronicle.com | Kimberley Jones
There is a mantra posted on the property of Shakespeare & Company, the legendary indie bookshop located on Paris’ Left Bank where first-time feature writer-director Laura Piani once worked. It reads: “Open door, open books, open mind, open heart.” Yet book clerk Agathe (Rutherford, lovely) is resolutely closed off – to new experiences, new travel, new love. Cowed by a past trauma (left undisclosed for much of the film), Agathe’s world is small.
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2 weeks ago |
austinchronicle.com | Kimberley Jones
Is there a more competitive dating scene than New York City’s? It makes sense a story about a matchmaker would be set there, but Materialists actually starts in prehistoric times, with two early hominids mid-woo. There are tender looks and flowers exchanged, but also, a pouch of tools shown off like a boast: See what I bring to the table? The message is plain: Love has always been transactional. That’s the philosophy of Manhattan matchmaker Lucy (Johnson), at least.
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3 weeks ago |
austinchronicle.com | Kimberley Jones
You shouldn’t need a film degree to enjoy a picture, but in the case of Wes Anderson’s latest, it might help: The Texas-born expat auteur mines a camera pan for a punchline (a camera pan!) and draws inspiration from Bergman, Hitchcock, Sturges, and the Archers for this international caper.
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3 weeks ago |
austinchronicle.com | Kimberley Jones
This tricksy hybrid doc-slash-fiction film opens with a disclaimer lifted from “Frontwards,” off Pavement’s 1992 EP Watery, Domestic: “The stories you hear, you know they never add up.” Pavements presents its own kind of fast and loose accounting, telling the story of the Nineties indie rock trailblazers – “the World’s Most Important and Influential Band,” the film announces with equal parts tongue-in-cheek pomposity and total earnestness – via methods both traditional to documentary...
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