Video Saturday: “The ‘Spree” closing AFI Dallas
The Polyphonic Spree covers Tripping Daisy's "About the Movies."
Saturday, April 19, 2008
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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
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
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
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
PegNews exclusive: AFI Dallas programmers announce their “fave five” films of 2007
To heck with the Oscars - here's what our North Texas movie experts found to be fabulous about the year in film.
Direct from Victory Park festival headquarters come these connoisseur picks for the best of the best.
Friday, Feb. 15, 2008
AFI Dallas touts Wizard of Oz event
Combining live scoring by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra (DSO) with the original voice track from the 1939 film, this shapes up to be a unique movie-themed entertainment.
Friday, Feb. 15, 2008
Film Ephemera from UT Austin comes to Dallas
Courtesy of Neiman Marcus and AFI Dallas, the Harry Ransom Center will put rare film memorabilia on display from late March through mid April.
Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008
AFI Dallas preview screening: August Rush
It's about music as a healing force in the universe - and prodigal sons returned.
O.K., it's not exactly a free lunch, but it IS a free movie and there ARE free refreshments involved.
Thursday, Oct. 11, 2007
2008 AFI Dallas Film Festival announces call for entries
The prize money would just be icing on the potential distribution deal cake.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
AFI Dallas Inwood red carpet: closing night gala
Adieu and au revoir to visiting film folks
Celebrities and semi-celebrities bask in harsh sun and neon glow.
Monday, April 2, 2007
AFI Dallas announces award-winning films
It's the old story: everyone's a winner, just some more than others.
Monday, April 2, 2007
AFI Dallas closes film fest on Sunday with awards ceremony at W Hotel
New Year Baby by former Carrolltonite won $25K for best doc. Now the filmmakers, publicists, sponsors, interns, poseurs, Okies, and Lauren Bacall can all go back where they came from.
Sunday, April 1, 2007
AFI Dallas film fest mini-review and director interview: Duck Man
Swan song or last quack?
Like War and Peace, with waterfowl
Saturday, March 31, 2007
AFI Dallas Film Fest movie review: Shut Up and Shoot Me
It's got, you know, that mean-looking Eastern European dude. And a quick-release terrier.
Friday, March 30, 2007
AFI Dallas film fest director interview: Midlothia‘s Bill Sebastian
He's uncomfortable around guns. And it shows.
Scripter/auteur Sebastian speaks candidly about shooting blanks.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
AFI Dallas: Northpark red carpet photos
Celebrities posing... and shopping, too!
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
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