Marjorie Baumgarten
Film Critic & Contributing Writer at The Austin Chronicle
The Austin Chronicle
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Mar 15, 2025 |
austinchronicle.com | Marjorie Baumgarten
In 1950s America, identity is imposed rather than discovered When your whole world seems monochromatic, it can be hard to recognize that you are a horse of a different color. That’s somewhat the predicament faced by the central characters in this 1950s-set drama, existing in a time when coloring outside the lines could seem dangerously transgressive. On Swift Horses opens on a snowy one-lane road.
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Mar 13, 2025 |
austinchronicle.com | Marjorie Baumgarten
When will lead movie characters learn that it might be safer to turn down the coveted invitation to visit the remote private estates of megastars and the ultra-rich? The warning is blared in such recent movies such as Midsommar and Blink Twice, and IRL news stories like Jeffrey Epstein’s private-island getaways. Over and over again, the temptation proves too much.
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Mar 11, 2025 |
austinchronicle.com | Marjorie Baumgarten
There’s a knock on your door in the middle of the night. The man outside says he’s your uncle. But you only met him once when you were a child back in your Kurdistan homeland and you’ve had no advance warning of his visit. So what do you do? If you are Akam (Peiman Azizpour), a young language teacher in Oslo, there’s little question. Despite Akam’s hesitation and the overall inconvenience to his life, Akam lets the man in.
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Mar 9, 2025 |
austinchronicle.com | Marjorie Baumgarten
There’s no denying we’re living in the peak era of true-crime documentaries. Zodiac Killer Project aimed to become an addition to that genre. Instead, the intended movie was scuttled due to reasons beyond the filmmaker’s control. That roadblock was not the demise of the movie however. Rather than developing a case of sour grapes, filmmaker Charlie Shackleton turned his discarded berries into a succulent wine.
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Feb 3, 2025 |
austinchronicle.com | Marjorie Baumgarten
Audience Award winner draws from real-life on a Badlands ranch Although she’s a recent widow and nearly always broke, wild horses couldn’t drag Tabatha away from her South Dakota ranch. Tabatha Zimiga is embedded in the landscape as immutably as the ancient Badlands rock formations that border her ranch. She’s a horse trader and known in those parts as a genuine horse whisperer.
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Alexandra Pelosi, who filmed her mother Nancy and other pols in the bunkers on 1/6, is an accomplished filmmaker, not just a "relative" of the speaker. @AustinChronicle interviewed her 20 years ago when her film on Dubya's prez campaign opened @SXSW. https://t.co/vdA6KOX3fG
