Film Festivals

Double Busey BeatDown

You Play Ball Like a Girl

Quentin Tarantino on His Most Ambitious Movie Yet

A Moment Becomes a Movement

Ava DuVernay looks to the future of black film.

Dallas Film Fest Brings More Wattage

A Fix for Film Fest Junkies

Arresting Comedy

Horsin' Around

Queue Up For the Q

Fest For Fantasy

The Real Deal...Or Is It?

USA Film Festival Releases Full Schedule, Special Guests (McDowell! Fichtner! Corbin!)

What, no Caligula? Shame.​Blessedly, the USA Film Festival is far shorter than its marathon counterpart, the Dallas International Film Festival, which wrapped Sunday after a 10-day run. Dallas's first major film festival, which was co-founded in 1970 by L.M. Kit Carson and introduced local audienc ... More >>

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

Some Late Additions to Your Dallas International Film Festival Schedule

A scene from the Warners Bros.-released doc Born to Be Wild, which has just been added to the Dallas International Film Festival schedule​The Film Festival Formerly Known as AFI Dallas kicks of Thursday with an opening-night fete at the Winspear Opera House, where Ann-Margret and fest co-founder L ... More >>

Dallas International Film Festival Releases Full List of Titles, To Fete Director Steve James

Being Elmo is DIFF's Opening Night offering​The South by Southwest Film Festival is still underway down in Austin; awards won't even be doled out till tomorrow night. But moments ago, the Dallas International Film Festival -- which has already named a few films, not to mention Star Award recipient ... More >>

Shot at Garland High, Clay Liford's WUSS Among Titles at South by Southwest Film Fest

​In coming days, writer-director Clay Liford will have other bits of big, breaking news to share concerning film-fest invites and a major film rep who, fingers crossed, will find his latest offering an ever larger audience. But for now, all he can comment on is today's announcement that his new mo ... More >>

You May Find It Trans...cendental

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 >>

Kung Fu Slam Dunk: On Friday, Two Film Fests to Light Up Screens at Angelika, Magnolia

What you see above is the just-posted trailer for the Asian Film Festival of Dallas, which kicks off Friday at the Magnolia beginning with a 2 p.m. screening of Johnnie To's dramedy Sparrow. As evidenced by the sneak peek, and what I've managed to see so far, it's yet another bang-up year for the fe ... More >>

Earthling's Clay Liford Goes to High School

​It's been a busy year thus far for Clay Liford: His short film My Mom Smokes Weed played the Sundance Film Festival in January; two months later, his terrific, head-scratching first feature, Earthling, debuted at South by Southwest and, then, the Dallas International Film Festival before it began ... More >>

Hey, Man, Can You Play Some Motörhead? Dallas Int'l Film Adds Five.

The Dallas International Film Festival just sent word: It has added five docs to its line-up -- chief among them Lemmy, about the Motörhead frontman, which had its world premiere at the South by Southwest Film Festival two weeks ago. The NSFW SXSW trailer's above; the full list of add-ons -- which ... More >>

What Do Michael Douglas and Jack Abramoff Have in Common? They're Both in This Year's Dallas International Film Festival.

Michael Douglas and Jesse Eisenberg in Solitary Man, one of the first titles announced for the Dallas International Film Festival​After the jump you'll find a list of the first 10 titles announced for this year's Dallas International Film Festival -- you know, The Film Fest Formerly Known as AFI D ... More >>

Horsin' Around

There's No AFI Anymore, But Film Fest Has New Honorary Chairs: Tom and Laura Leppert

Danny HurleyMayor Tom, with Peter Bogdanovich and other film and local luminaries (and Rick Perry) at an AFI Dallas closing event last April​A few weeks ago we mentioned some fairly significant changes at The Film Festival Formerly Known as AFI Dallas International Film Festival. Today comes word ... 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 >>

One, Two, Lee

Nontuple Feature

The Shorts of Texas Are Upon You

AFI Dallas Announces Its First 15 Films

Paul Dano and Zooey Deschanel in Gigantic, which premiered in Toronto last year and screens this year at AFI DallasThe AFI Dallas International Film Festival just released its first list of films selected for this year's shindig, which runs March 26 through April 2 -- with, as noted last month, most ... More >>

Jump On In, the Water's Fine

The Modern screens The Pool

Head East

The Asian Film Festival has promise

Entering Its Second Year, AFI Dallas Avoids the Sophomore Slump

First Place for The Second Line

What You Lookin' At? Oh, I See -- the AFI Dallas Complete Lineup.

AFI Dallas Fest Sneaks a Peek with Hunter S. Thompson, Ellen Page and Helen Hunt

Film Fest, For Reel

Fort Worth Film Fest to Feature Bill Paxton, T-Bone Burnett, Robert Rodriguez ... and Fred Durst

Man's Best Actors

Pets hit the big screen for charity

Have a Gay Ol’ Time

Q Cinema kicks out its annual film festival

AFI Fest Releases Lineup of Films and Guest List. Oh, Look: The Guy From Office Space

Green Grass for a Local Filmmaker

Baker's Dozen

See 13 at the Modern

That's a Wrap

Meet the new 800-pound gorilla of Dallas film festivals

El Cine

AFI Can't Believe It's Not Deep Ellum

Go See a "Junkie"

Fun, For Reel

Little ones get their own film festival

Reel Gay

Short attention spans gets a little lesbian action

Reel challenge

Twenty-eight years after its creation, the once-proud USA Film Festival has lost its focus. Can, and will, two new area film fests fill the void?

Short circuit