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Kilmer? I Barely Know ’Er!

You Play Ball Like a Girl

Also, He Was In Real Genius

The Best Food (and Drink) Events of the Week: Oct 11 - 17

The Red River Rivalry is this Weekend. What's that mean? Well, a lot of bars are going to be packed with people you don't know wearing burnt orange or maroon. And boots. If you get hungry, head over to Main Street Garden (1920 Main Street) at 5:30 on Friday for the Red River Barbecue Shoot Out. Ei ... More >>

Party at the MoonTower

Tango, With A Tall Boy

Sucks To Be 30

Dallas Film Fest Brings More Wattage

The Art Of Community

Dallas Film Society Announces Its First 15 Selections into This Year's DIFF

(Clip from Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best) The Dallas Film Society announced the first 15 entries to be officially accepted into this year's Dallas International Film Festival, which occurs from April 12 to the 22.While many so far are documentaries, a few feel-goods have weaseled their way in, and ... More >>

North Texas State's Own Peter Weller Still Doesn't Know What Buckaroo Banzai Is About

​While I wait for City Hall to get back to me about something, here's a little something to fill your holiday-week "work" hours: 32 minutes with Peter Weller, most of it shot Saturday during our chitchat following the Dallas Film Society's Very Special Screening of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banza ... More >>

John Lithgow, Peter Weller to Q&A After Very Special Screening of Buckaroo Banzai

Lithgow and Weller, together again​Like I said a few weeks ago: John Lithgow's coming to town November 18 for a Very Special Event courtesy the Dallas Film Society, which will take place at the Hall of State with Elvis Mitchell moderating the Q&A. And, like I said a few weeks ago, the Dallas F ... More >>

Another Horrific 48 Hours

Dallas Film Society's Art of Film Event Returns to Hall of State, This Time WIth John Lithgow

Might we see Buckaroo Bonzai on the big screen when John Lithgow comes to town next month? Maybe so, maybe so.​Last year's inaugural Art of Film event at the Hall of State was quite the wingding as the great Elvis Mitchell and Robert Duvall informally, thoughtfully and quite giddily chatted about ... More >>

Back on the Big Screen

Through the Looking Glass at OCP HQ

Photos by Justin Terveen​To those who helped made last night's RoboCop-at-OCP HQ event happen -- Downtown Dallas, Inc.; Brent Brown and his staff at the CityDesign Studio; the Dallas Film Society; and, of course, the promotions staff at the Observer -- a mighty "much obliged" this morning. Couldn' ... More >>

On July 1, See RoboCop In Front of Omni Consumer Products HQ, Dallas City Hall

Poster by Alexander Flores​Finally, a dream comes true.For far too long now we've talked about screening RoboCop somewhere in downtown, preferably outside, definitely near one of the myriad landmarks featured in the film set in "Detroit" but shot entirely in Dallas in the summer and early fall of ... More >>

Perot Museum Announces New Texas Instruments Engineering and Innovation Hall

Photos by Patrick MichelsWith help from Perot Museum educator Jason Treadway, Peak Prep students hoist their metaphor high.There's really no bad time to check back in on construction at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science -- but especially on a day like today, when some serious money has just cha ... More >>

As the Ewings Return to Dallas For a Second Shot, Linda Gray on Sue Ellen Then and Now

Photo by Patrick MichelsLarry Hagman, Patrick Duffy and Linda Gray on the Southfork Ranch balcony at the November 2008 Dallas cast reunion​Larry Hagman's already in Dallas -- downtown, to be specific, where the once and future J.R. Ewing will speak at 11 this morning and again at 2 this afternoon ... More >>

Now You Too Can Watch the Dallas Film Society's Horton Foote Cinematic Highlight Reel

Shortly after the kick-off of Foote Festival, the through-May 1 area-wide celebration of the life and work of Wharton native Horton Foote, a Friend of Unfair Park bemoaned the fact there was but one of his films featured as part of the fest: Foote's adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, which screene ... More >>

Finally, Dallas International Film Festival Reveals Its Closing Night Film. And: "Captain America" and J.R. Ewing to Give Out Awards.

Peter Fonda's coming to town to give our DIFF's big-money prizes.​Close to midnight this morning I got an email from Dallas International Film Festival Artistic Director in which, at last, he revealed the title of the fest's closing-night film: Burke and Hare, the latest from director John Landis ... More >>

Forthcoming, Maybe, to the Dallas International Film Festival: "A Musical Component"

Stephen MaskerAnn-Margret picked up her Star Award at the Winspear Opera House last night.​Observer-er Gadi Elkon is one of the twosome behind Pearl Snap Discount, where this morning you'll find the most detailed blow-by-blow available from last nights's Dallas International Film Festival gala at ... More >>

Dallas International Film Festival: A Star-Lite Celebration Goes a Little Smaller.

Kicking Off Foote

Get Whoa, or: That Robert Duvall Cloning Experiment Did Not Go As Planned

Stephen Masker​Friday night's Robert Duvall speaking engagement at Hall of State went down swell: He and Elvis Mitchell bantered cheerily for an hour about stage and screen in front of an audience that included Mayor Tom, other city officials and various well-heeled arts patrons and Dallas Film So ... More >>

If You'd Like to Get Low With Robert Duvall Saturday Morning, You'd Best Hustle

Robert Duvall will introduce Get Low at a screening at the Cinemark 17 Saturday morning.​Last month we mentioned: Robert Duvall's in town Friday night for a Dallas Film Society fund-raiser at the Hall of State, during which he'll be Q&A'd by Elvis Mitchell. But say you didn't have the $250 to ... More >>

The Dallas Film Society Combines Two of My Favorites: Robert Duvall and the Hall of State

​Technically, it's three of my favorite things, since Robert Duvall's November 19 appearance at the Hall of State in Fair Park will be a chitchat moderated by one of my dearest friends, Elvis Mitchell, former Star-Telegram and New York Times film critic-turned-At the Movies co-critic. That's neith ... More >>

Like No Other

Catch a Wave at the Dallas Museum of Art With Free Screening, History of Lone Star Surfers

Courtesy of Margaret White EllisonFormer Corpus Christi resident Tony Mierzwa, foreground, and an unidentified surfer ride a wave at Horace Caldwell Pier in Port Aransas on a mid-1960s day.​Landlocked we are, but at 7 tonight at the Dallas Museum of Art, there'll be a whole lotta surfin' going on. ... More >>

This Week's Stack o' Council Memos Reads Like an Unfair Park Week That Was

​This week we covered storm debris collection (more than once), council members using (or being) social media tools, the outgoing director of convention and event services and the Dallas International Film Festival (OK, so that was last week). And they're all subjects included in the packet of mem ... More >>

James Faust, Who Programmed AFI Dallas, Now More or Less Running the Whole Fest

Dallas Film SocietyFrom left: James Faust, a Fresh Prince and Michael Cain at Cannes in 2008​A little while ago, the Dallas Film Society -- which operates the Dallas International Film Festival, also known as The Film Festival Formerly Known as AFI Dallas International -- announced some changes at ... More >>

Top 10 Mayor Tom Photos of '09

Mayor Tom Leppert isn't an easy interview to snag these days. At least, not for us here at the Observer. But that doesn't stop us from catching a glimpse of the man whenever we get the chance, and, of course, capturing snapshots along the way. Yup, we've developed quite a fondness for the unique and ... More >>

AFI Dallas Is No More. But Debuting Next Spring, the Dallas International Film Festival.

Patrick MichelsMichael Cain, kicking off the 2009 AFI Dallas International Film Festival on March 26 at the AMC NorthParkIn September 2006, some local cineastes were terrified to learn that Michael Cain was shuttering his mom-and-pop Deep Ellum Film Festival and spending a little less than $1 millio ... More >>

Revolutionary Reel

Graduation Day

Friday Night Lights: Sounds Like Quite the Texas Day Planned Down in Victory Park

Dana Wheeler-Nicholson will be among those attending Friday's Texas Day shindig in Victory Park.Before touting today's AFI Dallas International Film Festival line-up, this heads-up: The Dallas Film Society just sent along the guest list for Friday's daylong Texas Day event, which kicks off with the ... More >>

In the Screening Room

For the Deep Ellum Film Festival, the third time's the charm