Academy Awards

In Berlin, Greatness Emerges from the Year's First Major Film Festival

Quentin Tarantino on His Most Ambitious Movie Yet

Eight Covers of Gotye's "Somebody That I Used To Know," From Great To Just Awful

Tomorrow night sees the arrival of unstoppable force Gotye, as the Belgian-Australian singer and his cohorts take over a sold-out Verizon Theater to play a bunch of songs no one wants to hear till he closes the show with "Somebody That I Used to Know." The song plays on the radio every few minutes, ... More >>

Those Crazy Kids Will Work It Out. Right?

Texas Theatre Screens Do The Right Thing In 35 mm Tonight

Polish up your Jordans, because Texas Theatre takes you back to 1989, Brooklyn tonight when it screens Do The Right Thing on 35 mm. Escape the Wednesday rut and cruise over to Oak Cliff where the Spike Lee Joint takes you back to that boombox era, when Public Enemy made everyone pump the Running Man ... More >>

He Co-Designed DART's Traveling Man. Now, Brandon Oldenburg Is Up For an Oscar.

While browsing this morning's list of Academy Award nominees, I came across one very familiar name: Brandon Oldenburg, beneath the heading Short Film (Animated). For years, of course, he was best known as one of the bright young minds behind Deep Ellum-based Reel FX. Then he became known as the man ... More >>

Restrepo Screening Wednesday Honors the Late Tim Hetherington

From the Film Vaults: Rush to Judgment

A witness to the Kennedy assassination shows Mark Lane where he was on November 22, 1963.​While looking for something unrelated this morning, I came across quite the cinematic find just posted to the Internet Archive: a full-length copy of Oscar-nominated director Emile de Antonio's 1966 film Rush ... More >>

BUZZ KILL: Fifteen Songs About What Happens To You When You Do Drugs.

​Good morning, potheads. Enjoy your wake and bake? Good, good, glad to hear it. We hope your early-morning sesh was, like, "totally killer."Where were we, you ask?Oh. About that. Well, sorry to "harsh your mellow" and all, but, um, some of us don't work behind the counter at the local head shop; w ... More >>

Use Your Illusion

Kicking Off Foote

Sometimes I Run, the Greatest Film About Downtown Dallas You've Never Seen

I had a few minutes of down time this afternoon, so I hopped over to the Texas Archive of the Moving Image to see if any Dallas films of note had been added to the collection since last I looked in December. Which is when I came across the film you see above: a 1973 short film called Sometimes I Run ... More >>

Dreamgirl

Oscar Snubbed: Five Reasons Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Shouldn't Have Gotten The Shaft

​There's a mild controversy buzzing around the Oscar nominations, which were announced this morning, on the old Twitterverse. Christopher Nolan, you see, didn't get a Best Director nod for his work on Inception, and everyone's up in arms about it.Honestly, though? From where we stand, the nominati ... More >>

King of the Slum

Before Tonight's Kick-Off, Dallas Int'l Film Fest Adds Special Guest: Frank Darabont

​Didn't make it to the Dallas International Film Festival press pre-party whatchacallit last night, where they made a major announcement in advance of tonight's eight-screen orgy at the Angelika Film Center: Frank Darabont -- who wrote and directed what I'm sure is your favorite movie, The Shawsha ... More >>

Brooklyn's Finest

Willa Ford to Make Her Triumphant (Far as You Know) Return to the Movies

Patrick MichelsMike Modano and Willa Ford at the Dallas Observer Music Awards back in July​Speaking of the local film business ...Willa Ford's an awful nice lady from my limited experience spent with Mr. and Mrs. Mike Modano, but I've seen little of her film work; this, for example, is all I've se ... More >>

Where T.O. Watched the Oscars

Terrell Owens on Under One Roof, some Flavor Flav sitcom I've already forgotten aboutTerrell Owens was at Elton John's annual Academy Award viewing party last night at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, where the (current? former?) Dallas Cowboys wide receiver wanted to see and be seen by tho ... More >>

Dance, Magic Dance

Pilobolus inspires at Bass Hall

Helium High

Legendary Larry

McMurtry and Ossana speak to the Nasher

Empire Strikes Back

Mongol paints a historically hazy but kick-ass picture of everyone's fave emperor, Genghis Khan

The Little French Mermaid

See Cotillard's star turn at the Modern

Review: Trinity Plaza Cafe

Tie to flip-flop ratio at the cafe: 1:3

Graphic Stuff

Illustrating a traumatic childhood

How Would Jesus Roll?

Your Official Easter Playlist

Typecast?

Venus screens at the Magnolia

It's Bloody Bone-in Hot Out There

Oscar Oversight

Never fear, we won't let the Academy Awards ignore sports

Buy. Out. Buyout. (That's an Electric Company Reference.)

Tumbling Tumbleweeds

Southfork hosts a weekend of Autry

Take a Bow...and Arrow

All About Almodóvar

OK! (L-A-H-O-M-A!)

Get a "beautiful feelin'" at Bass Hall

Gooooo, Nellie!

Child's Play

Mathematical Three-Way

The love story between The Dot and the Line

The Cutter

The woman behind Raging Bull

Come Together

Kwanzaa is about living a good life, not filling a stocking

Nobody's Fool

He has three Oscars, co-wrote Bonnie and Clyde and Paul Newman digs him. So why don't you know Dallas-born filmmaker Robert Benton?

She's Baaaaaack

Paula Poundstone is an open book

Q: "Why Does Hitler Have an Attitude?"

A: Buy the DVD for Full Frontal

Strong Stuff

Time of Favor's look at Israel is fascinating and powerful

Over and Dunne

Lisa Picard treads a well-worn path

The Grass is Blue

In Songcatcher, the music of Appalachia comes alive

Harden's Crossing

She's finally been invited to the Oscar party, but what will she do after the ball?

The Tired Gun

Or: Why winning an Oscar sometimes means losing sight of a career

Crash and yearn

Vietnam War fighter pilots recount their agonizing tales in Return with Honor

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