USA Film Fest tribute to cinematographer William A. Fraker
... including a 40th anniversary screening of Rosemary's Baby
Roman Polanski's classic horror film still creeps us out after all these years.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
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USA Film Fest brings off MST3K reunion (of sorts)
Minus one or two participants, that is.
Given the enthusiasm of the audience and the overflow crowds, it was apparent that North Texans had been jonesin' for a good old fashioned riff job.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
USA Film Fest movie preview: Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead
When a New York Law School professor who supports the death penalty meets up with a murderer who agrees completely, a totally unexpected meeting of the minds results.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
USA Film Fest movie review and talent Q/A: The Whole Shootin’ Match
Restored print sheds new light on breakthrough independent film
Nigh onto 30 years after filming, actors Lou Perryman and Sonny Carl Davis return to the festival that started them down the road to stardom.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
USA Film Festival announces additional filmmaker attendees
Yet more insiders are slated to appear at the screenings of the films they worked on. Here's your chance to hear from them about the filmmaking experience.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Video Saturday: “The ‘Spree” closing AFI Dallas
The Polyphonic Spree covers Tripping Daisy's "About the Movies."
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Marfa hosts first annual film festival starting on May 1
Since the town has no movie theater, the screenings will take place under the stars - on the set of There Will Be Blood.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Interview: USA Film Fest Great Director honoree Claude Lelouch
In which we discover whether the interviewer did the right thing by opting out of Zombie Strippers.
Monday, April 14, 2008
AFI Dallas movie review: Pageant
The film is gut-busting hilarious from beginning to end.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
AFI Dallas announces 2008 award winners
Mermaid, Iron Ladies of Liberia, Tracing Cowboys, Fields of Fuel and Cook County take home cash and accolades.
Monday, April 7, 2008
AFI Dallas filmmaker interview: Parts director Scott Hanson
What's the worth of a human being worth? More, it turns out, when figured as components.
Monday, April 7, 2008
USA Film Festival announces lineup for 2008
38th Annual event salutes Meat Loaf and MST3K.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
AFI Dallas wraps with the Polyphonic Spree
Hometown band's festival-closing set aptly included a paean "About the Movies."
Sunday, April 6, 2008
AFI Dallas movie event and Robert De Niro appearance: What Just Happened
With photos!
The acting heavyweight visits the Inwood along with director Barry Levinson and writer Art Linson.
Saturday, April 5, 2008
AFI Dallas movie review and director interview: Crawford
"Go away - we just want to be able to drive up our roads again."
What happens when a president at war adopts a small Texas town? Everything you might expect - and then some.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
AFI Dallas 2008: red carpet at AMC Northpark 15
A red carpet in a mall? Only in Dallas!
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
AFI Dallas: red carpet at the Magnolia
They said it was going to rain. Honest!
The Bowling for Soup boys mug for the cameras, along with a bunch of other talent featured in the evening's premieres.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
AFI Dallas movie review and filmmaker interviews: Stop the Presses
In which the upstart new media entertainment reporter upstages some old school journalists. Accidentally.
Monday, March 31, 2008
AFI Dallas movie review and director interview: Tracing Cowboys
Ethan's heroes have always been cowboys - but maybe his true calling lies elsewhere.
Director Jason Wulfsohn stops by PegNews World HQ to talk about his film - and his fellow filmmaker and lead actor Sacha Grunpeter, who tragically lost his life after the film was completed.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
AFI Dallas movie review: Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
I've only minor quibbles with this portrait of one of my heroes.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
AFI Dallas movie review and filmmaker interview: Captain Abu Raed
Believe in your dreams and you might find yourself achieving them.
Beautiful, resonant film from Jordan finds an appreciative U.S. audience.
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Drivers with reliable transportation: AFI Dallas wants you!
... to get paid real money for delivering festival newspapers, that is.
Don't let that word "volunteer" fool you - there's money involved.
Saturday, March 29, 2008
AFI Dallas 2008: red carpet at Victory Park
The carpet was a bit shorter than usual, but it was loaded up with talent.
Saturday, March 29, 2008
AFI Dallas interview: Tom McCarthy, director/writer of The Visitor
Playing the festival tonight at the Angelika, it's a story both politically timely and engagingly human.
Friday, March 28, 2008
AFI Dallas: 2008 Opening Night Gala
Helen Hunt's Then She Found Me draws big stars, bright lights to the Majestic.
Friday, March 28, 2008
Wizard of Oz screening to be accompanied by Dallas Symphony Orchestra
"To see a film in a performance hall such as the Meyerson, with live orchestral accompaniment, is to see it in its ancestral environment, where the idea began as opera."
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Public Enemy to be all up in Dallas’ Ghostbar on April 1
If this is an April Fool's prank, that Chuck D is going to get a perturbed letter from one E.R.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
North Texas Food Bank introduces online donation option
Virtual food drive? Can do!
... and AFI Dallas throws in their support with a "Cans" Film Festival.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Dallas’ USA Film Festival announces dates for 2008
First, AFI; then, USA: "I try to get out, but they POOL me back in."
That's right, folks - there are two big film festivals getting ready to happen in Dallas within two weeks of each other.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
SXSW movie review: Assassination of a High School President
It played at Sundance; it played at SXSW; now it's coming to AFI Dallas.
Rude and crude and too hip for its Catholic school clothes.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
AFI Dallas box office opening day photos
Not to forget that our own local film festival kicks off in only a couple of weeks.
Monday, March 10, 2008
SXSW film festival day 2: serendipity and surprise encounters
Sometimes it's all about the film you actually do get to see, rather than the one you originally intended to.
Saturday, March 8, 2008
SXSW movie review: Second Skin
Other realms of existence, for good and ill.
Some online gaming fanatics are blurring the line between life in there and life out here.
Saturday, March 8, 2008
SXSW film festival: arrival and check-in
Nothing much to see here, folks. Just a guy in a hat talking to himself.
Well, you can at least get a look at the film guy's official festival badge. Which he stinkin' needs to get into screenings and such.
Friday, March 7, 2008
Texas Fear Fest 2 comes to Dallas
Now raising money and awareness for the West Memphis Three.
The second local horror festival of the season hangs out its shin-bone shingle for three days this weekend (March 7 - 9).
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Eco film fest hosted by Dallas’ St. Marks School
Screenings start tonight (Feb. 29) and run through Saturday.
Friday, Feb. 29, 2008
AFI Dallas announces two new filmmaker awards for 2008
Green is good. So are things Texan. Now, these two attributes will be used to define film award categories.
Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2008
Helen Hunt directorial debut will be opening night film for AFI Dallas 2008
Then She Found Me will screen at the Majestic Theatre on March 27; Hunt will attend.
Saturday, Feb. 23, 2008
Photo gallery: Night of the Living Dead 40th Anniversary Gala
A graveyard full of horror stars shamble across the chilly red carpet at the Inwood.
AFI Dallas and Texas Frightmare Weekend sponsor a world-class congregation of zombies - or at least those who portray them on the silver screen.
Friday, Feb. 22, 2008
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