Jim Jarmusch

The 15 Greatest Original Film Scores From the Past Decade

Established musicians composing film scores is nothing new. Some of the best scores of the last 50 some odd years have come from pop stars: Dylan's score for Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, Danny Elfman's whole career and Queen's legendary Flash Gordon score. With the rise of various indie studios worl ... More >>

Parker: Rough Guide to a Rough Guy

Waits Variations: Six Ways of Looking at Tom Waits, Character Actor

Meek's Cutoff: Unsettled Settlers

Exploring the frontiers of trust in 19th-century Oregon.

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 >>

True Grit: Coen Brothers Take Their Tongues Out of Their Cheeks.

Explode Tonight at the Texas Theatre

​If you've yet to see a movie at the Texas Theatre, which recently began showing classic and foreign-language films after too long in the dark, tonight would be a good time to check it out. At 7:30 they'll screen Gerardo Naranjo's I'm Gonna Explode, which opened in New York last summer but never g ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: The Trouble With Screamin' Jay Hawkins

The RZA as Bobby Digital

Thursday, June 12, at The Loft

Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey Mash-Up Fool's Gold is Pitiful

There is no gold at the end of this terrible flick

'Assassination' Anatomy

Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck in an epic movie that's as stylized as it is insane

Seasons in the Sun

Down in a Cave

The Modern runs with the Dogs

Misery Train

Beautifully moody, Lonesome Jim is just what you'd expect from Steve Buscemi

Shandy Everybody Wants

Michael Winterbottom's adaptation of a classic loads on the Bull

Digging in the Dirt

Flower Power

Bill Murray is an aging Don Juan revisiting former loves in Broken Flowers

White Stripes

Under Blackpool Lights (V2)

A New Body

Creative Solutions turns at-risk into artistic

Sure Feels Like 80 Days

Jackie Chan takes a long trip, and it feels like déjá vu

A Good Buzz

Jim Jarmusch serves the perfect blend: Coffee and Cigarettes

Dross in Space

The American Astronaut trashes the galaxy

Like, You Know

Floored offers a reminder that irony isn't just about bringing the funny

The Rebel's Waltz

For 10 years, Joe Strummer made little noise. Finally, the Clash front man returns with a record he can call his own.

Something Borrowed

In The Pantalone Follies, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

Pi in Your Face

Director Darren Aronofsky makes films that resemble himself: smart and abrasive

Listen Up

Who says 2000 was a bad year for music?

Scene, Heard

A good idea...in theory

A Star Is Björk

The Icelandic pop icon is the best thing in the mostly horrid Dancer in the Dark

Turning Japanese

Forest Whitaker brings an adopted honor code to the streets as Ghost Dog

Reel power

Dallas-based Regent Entertainment vies to become a Hollywood player, and it's off to an Oscar-winning start

Lame hip

If you ain't art-house hip, better leap over this Frog

Night & Day

April 15-21, 1999

The great pretender

In the spirit of Chaplin, Roberto Benigni takes on the Holocaust in Life Is Beautiful

Screen tests

Usual suspects, small wonders, and the new Bertolucci at the Montreal and Toronto film fests

Cuba libre

Marc Ribot and his Prosthetic Cubans are Habana good time

Counting the minutes

Time is on nobody's side--including the filmmakers'-- in Clockwatchers

Dream a little dream

During South by Southwest, the harsh reality is always a free drink away

Back up on the horse

A look into the still-beating heart of an enduring rock institution

Don't waste your life

With subUrbia, the director of Slacker has finally become one

Events for the week

Independents' day

Small films have their big night in '96

Reality bites

Tales takes a misty mountain hop through the truth

Events for the week

Basket-case studies

Eccentric directors Sam Fuller and Henry Jaglom make brilliant bookends

Out There

The lost generation

Kevin Smith's Mall Rats is a derivative retread of Clerks

Slouching toward Hollywood

Can four young Dallas filmmakers sell their dream-and still keep their souls? Matt Zoller Seitz follows the trail of Bottle Rocket

Slack time

Clunky and dull, Before Sunrise is gifted Texas filmmaker Richard Linklater's first failure

I'm not okay, you're bored

Clerks turns dysfunctional lives into 80 minutes of tedium