Barak Epstein

Tonight at Texas Theatre: Show Your Shorts Salutes Local Short Films, Including an Unconscious Collective Doc

Tonight at Texas Theatre, Oak Cliff Film Fest is presenting another "Show Your Shorts" night, featuring work from local filmmakers. The films must be shorter than 20 minutes, and they're taking numbers over on the Facebook event page. TT's Barak Epstein says they still have a couple slots open. On ... More >>

This Year's Unfair Park Auction: The Ultimate GIft Package From the Texas Theatre

Photo by Barak Epstein​We began this holiday tradition three years ago: auctioning off a hard-to-get-hold-of local trinket, with every last cent made going toward the North Texas Food Bank. This year's offering is a particularly special one -- a collection of offerings from the Texas Theatre, grac ... More >>

Texas Theatre Announces the Oak Cliff Film Festival, Which Will Hit Big Screens June 2012

​About six months ago, says Eric Steele, one of the partners in the Texas Theatre on Jefferson, he and his comrades decided that in a city full of film festivals, it was time for one more. But this one, they vowed, would be different. This one would have "a fringe flavor," its roster full of title ... More >>

On the Run From Johnny Law: Off to Hillsboro To Save a Motel and Watch Bottle Rocket

Bob Musgrave at the "Bottle Rocket motel" last night, signing Criterion Collection DVDs for the faithful​Andy Carl Valentin and Chris Durbin didn't expect this. Not this. Certainly not. When first they hatched their cockamamie scheme -- to rescue from fiscal despair a Days Inn off I-35 in Hillsbor ... More >>

For Sale: Photo of the Cliff Queen in 1930s

eBay seller "rareoldstuff"​I was just about to shut 'er down for the holiday when two flashbacks popped up in the in-box worth sharing. First, courtesy Friend of Unfair Park PeterK, is this wonderful for-sale photo of the old Cliff Queen movie theater that once stood at 616 E. Jefferson Boulevard. ... More >>

Harry Shearer Swings By the Texas Theatre

​If you'd driven by the Texas Theatre oh, 'bout an hour ago, you'd have seen this scene -- the great Harry Shearer standing out on W. Jefferson, bracketed by Jason Reimer on the left and Barak Epstein. Random, right? Not really: Shearer was at The Thin Line Film Fest in Denton last night for a rar ... More >>

A Lotta Cox! When You Need to Get Out of the House, Go Straight to Hell at Texas Theatre.

​I hadn't seen Alex Cox's Straight to Hell since forever, but Barak Epstein at the Texas Theatre was kind enough to provide a copy yesterday in advance of its re-appearance at the Oak Cliff movie house tomorrow night -- the first of four nights paying homage to the filmmaker. Well, technically, it ... More >>

At the Texas Theatre, Just Because We Never Miss a Ribbon-Cutting With the Mayor

Photos by Harry WilonskyMayor Tom Leppert and Delia Jasso joined the Aviation Cinemas gang and Stuart Sikes (in the green sweater) officially re-open the Texas Theatre​I did indeed take the 7-year-old who lives in my house to the Texas last night for its official re-opening, where Mayor Tom declar ... More >>

Past, Present and Future to Officially Collide at Tonight's Texas Theatre Ribbon-Cutting

​If you need me this evening I'll be at the Texas Theatre for the ribbon-cutting ceremony that officially marks the re-opening of the Oak Cliff landmark. Scissors come out at 5, and it should be an intriguing shindig: Not only will Mayor Tom Leppert and council member Delia Jasso be there, but als ... More >>

This Week in Oak Cliff News: Trees Along Davis, and Jason Reimer Talks Texas Theatre

Barry Kooda​As I was otherwise occupied yesterday, my wife and the 7-year-old who lives in our house made it over to Oak Cliff for the Blues, Bandits and Barbeque wingding, from which our own Kevin Todora returned with this slide show. But the weekend's event also marked the return of the Better B ... More >>

Indie Filmmakers Take Over Texas Theatre Promising a Mix of the Classic and New-Fangled

​The original announcement came back in May: The Texas Theatre, threatened by the wrecking ball as recently as the mid-'90s, was on the road to recovery as a revival house -- a much-needed, much-welcomed addition to the local cinemascape. At present, the Texas is closed for much-needed, much-welco ... More >>

There Will Be Blood

Of Boobs and Blood

Troma's Lloyd Kaufman has guts, all over the floor

Oh La La

Backseat is full of French guys and bikini girls

Scene, Heard

It's a big fuckin' deal