Subject: Chris Smith

• Two Years Later in a Dallas Courtroom, the Lawsuit Over TV Junkie Fades to Black

  HBO/Deep Ellum PicturesRick Kirkham, the TV JunkieAs we mentioned in March 2007, two days before Michael Cain's Sundance Film Festival award-winning documentary TV Junkie made its debut on HBO, Tammie Kirkham filed a temporary restraining order to keep the doc off the network. The documentary, as you may recall, was compiled from nearly 3,000 hours of video footage captured by Tammie's ex-husband Rick, a former Inside Edition reporter who obsessively documented what felt like every second of his

  February 18, 2009

• Jump On In, the Water's Fine

  January 8, 2009

• Soul Doubt

  Louis Schwartzberg aims for America's Heart, but mostly sticks to the surface

  July 1, 2004

• Double-wide Indemnity

  Killer Joe hits the target at The MAC; nicely furnished Doll's House at SMU

  November 20, 2003

• Old News

  Reissues dominated, but an international crop of films yielded some good harvest

  January 2, 2003

• Homies

  Home Movie looks inside some eccentric domiciles

  September 26, 2002

• All Grown Up

  At 32, the USA Film Festival proves it can still play ball

  April 25, 2002

• Well Dunne

  The Deep Ellum Film Festival returns, suffering from the Terrific Twos

  November 16, 2000

• Home movies

  Deep Ellum Film Festival debuts

  November 11, 1999

• Grand illusion

  In this hysterical American Movie, an ingenious and not very talented filmmaker presses on

  November 11, 1999

• Starck Reality: Michael Cain's Making Two Movies About the Late Dallas Danceteria

  Maybe you saw something in the paper last week about two Starck Club docs in the works -- the one we mentioned that sneak-peeked at the USA Film Fest, and another being cooked up by AFI Dallas International Film Fest artistic director Michael Cain with club founder Blake Woodall. Turns out, that's not the end of the story: Cain told me last week that in addition to the doc, he's also prepping a narrative feature about the legendary danceteria -- a "project I've been working on for 12 years," he

  May 7, 2009

• Armed with Archives and the Keys to the Club, the Starck Project is Underway

  Patrick MichelsStarck Club founder Blake Woodall hands off the keys to Michael Cain, who's making a pair of films about the old downtown hot spot.In a ceremony outside the old landmark at the very end of Dallas's West End, the original staff of the Starck Club gathered Tuesday evening to celebrate the club's 25th anniversary, and to witness the start of a new venture built on the club's legacy.The Starck Project, led by Michael Cain, Wade Hampton, Melina McKinnon, Dennis Bishop and Chris Smith,

  May 13, 2009