Martin Scorsese

Marley Stirs It Up

Levon Helm, 1940-2012

I can't remember the first time I heard Levon Helm's voice. It's a warm, reassuring presence that's just always been there. During his career, it was a voice of the downtrodden and desperate, of a fun-lovin' rambler, and of a faithful farmer. Despite his Southern drawl, he was very much a voice of A ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: 25 Years Ago Tonight, The Band Played Fast and Cool

​Earlier today I spent as much time as I could, which wasn't anywhere near close to enough, listening to a song Wilco posted to YouTube late yesterday: the band performing The Band's "The Weight" backstage at the Civic Opera House in Chicago, joined by show-opener Nick Lowe and Mavis Staples, who ... More >>

Descendants Ascends to Top of DFW Crix List

​The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association just dispatched its year-end best-of, the whole list of which follows. Given my retreat from film crit in recent months -- though I did review We Bought a Zoo, opening Christmas week, and ... not bad -- I can't argue with this year's list as I've don ... More >>

He's In Construction

​The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association just dispatched its year-end best-of, the whole list of which follows. Given my retreat from film crit in recent months -- though I did review We Bought a Zoo, opening Christmas week, and ... not bad -- I can't argue with this year's list as I've don ... More >>

Gig Alert: Cafe Tacuba at House of Blues

Cafe TacubaNeed a multi-cultural experience to start your post Thanksgiving week off right? Check out Cafe Tacuba tonight at House of Blues.Hailing from Naucalpan, Mexico, CafeTabuca is a feisty quartet that mixes Latin hip-hop with alternative rock in a way guaranteed to get your feet to moving no ... More >>

From 1900, a Pawn Shop on Main Street

Courtesy Justin CozartFriend of the show Justin Cozart likes to show off his estimable collection of faded photos of late, great Dallas landmarks, always a welcome respite from the day's breaking news. But over the weekend he posted pictures of a particularly personal nature: exteriors and interiors ... More >>

DPD Will Begin Shooting Its Own Short Films Along Lower Greenville and in Downtown

The Martin Scorsese of Lower Greenville may be out of a gig soon: This morning, Dallas Police Department Deputy Chief Vince Golbeck, commander of the patrol division, tells Unfair Park that for the past month, he's been considering taking camera crews to document the late-night and early-morning doi ... More >>

Savor Favor

Do charity a solid in Victory Park

Gomorrah

The average Giuseppes of organized crime

Oscar Overhaul: Ahem, Where Was Sports?

I generally agree with Jerry Seinfeld. On everything. Including the Oscars. During a show at, of all places, UTA's Texas Hall in '02 the comedian quipped, "Worst thing about The Oscars is that they never tell you the final scores. We're Americans. We not only want to know who won, but ... More >>

That Bottle Rocket DVD's Everything We Could Have Hoped For

View image Danny Fine, left, and Bob Musgrave in an outtake from Bottle Rocket Spent the better part of last night watching every single second and scrap on the Criterion Collection Wes Anderson-approved Bottle Rocket two-fer, available today (ya think?), and there are copious revelations containe ... More >>

NYC Mayor Does What Dallas Wouldn't: Proposes a Fee on Plastic Bags

View image Danny Fine, left, and Bob Musgrave in an outtake from Bottle Rocket Spent the better part of last night watching every single second and scrap on the Criterion Collection Wes Anderson-approved Bottle Rocket two-fer, available today (ya think?), and there are copious revelations containe ... More >>

Criterion Explodes With Details About Double-Disc Bottle Rocket

View image Danny Fine, left, and Bob Musgrave in an outtake from Bottle Rocket Spent the better part of last night watching every single second and scrap on the Criterion Collection Wes Anderson-approved Bottle Rocket two-fer, available today (ya think?), and there are copious revelations containe ... More >>

A Bitter End

View image Danny Fine, left, and Bob Musgrave in an outtake from Bottle Rocket Spent the better part of last night watching every single second and scrap on the Criterion Collection Wes Anderson-approved Bottle Rocket two-fer, available today (ya think?), and there are copious revelations containe ... More >>

You're a Rich Man, Harold Simmons

View image Danny Fine, left, and Bob Musgrave in an outtake from Bottle Rocket Spent the better part of last night watching every single second and scrap on the Criterion Collection Wes Anderson-approved Bottle Rocket two-fer, available today (ya think?), and there are copious revelations containe ... More >>

DVD Releases for the Week of August 14

View image Danny Fine, left, and Bob Musgrave in an outtake from Bottle Rocket Spent the better part of last night watching every single second and scrap on the Criterion Collection Wes Anderson-approved Bottle Rocket two-fer, available today (ya think?), and there are copious revelations containe ... More >>

Royal Flush

View image Danny Fine, left, and Bob Musgrave in an outtake from Bottle Rocket Spent the better part of last night watching every single second and scrap on the Criterion Collection Wes Anderson-approved Bottle Rocket two-fer, available today (ya think?), and there are copious revelations containe ... More >>

¡Ask a Mexican!

View image Danny Fine, left, and Bob Musgrave in an outtake from Bottle Rocket Spent the better part of last night watching every single second and scrap on the Criterion Collection Wes Anderson-approved Bottle Rocket two-fer, available today (ya think?), and there are copious revelations containe ... More >>

Bob Dylan for Sale

A local auction house gets its hands on a differet sort of basement tapes

Training Day

Feel-good football tale scores with charm and sincerity

Risk vs. Reward

The Dallas Video Festival has one agenda: showing everybody everything

Critical Appreciation

The Dallas Video Festival has one agenda: showing everybody everything

New releases available this week

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Broke, But Not Broken

With Cinderella Man, Ron Howard finally scores a knockout

Television Tunes

Area bands get in on the TV show soundtrack action

And The Band Played On

Take one Last Waltz at the Inwood

Manhattanism

The new season in New York's Chelsea galleries offers a mad mixture of artful objects, photo-optics and cinematic play

Action!

It's a race to the finish for Dallas video-makers

Them Demolition Ball Blues

Robert Mugge looks for Last of the Mississippi Jukes

Broken Body, Wounded Soul

John Garfield coulda been a contender

Fuller of Himself, Blessedly

Director Samuel Fuller is one of The Men Who Made the Movies

Troubled World

A fine cast superbly explores a complex Town

Steel Cage Match

TNT pays tribute to Nicolas Cage

Blood Brothers

Albert and Allen Hughes deliver a sensuous but grisly message From Hell

More Tune Than Show

The World Goes 'Round offers up great songs in a lackluster production

The X Factor

Gillian Anderson gives a dazzling performance in The House of Mirth

Oldfellas

The Crew are four semi-tough guys, shooting blanks at sunset

The final cut

DVDs pull back the curtain on the movies, but do you really want to see the Wizard?

The great divide

Levon Helm, the heart and soul of The Band, looks back in anger

Divide and conquer

Robbie Robertson throws history into the bonfire

Signs of the times

Paul Mazursky's art lies in his topical films about the modern American landscape

Pacino and Lefty

In Donnie Brasco, Al finds the heart within the Mafia's dark soul

Events for the week

In Donnie Brasco, Al finds the heart within the Mafia's dark soul

Planet of the apes

Swingers chronicles the lives of a posse of sleazy blowhards

Basket-case studies

Eccentric directors Sam Fuller and Henry Jaglom make brilliant bookends

USA Film Festival

Eccentric directors Sam Fuller and Henry Jaglom make brilliant bookends

Time inspired

Clockers is a searing sordid exorcism for Spike Lee

Auteur, auteur!

Burnt by the Sun and The Glass Shield illustrates the pitfalls of total artistic control

Natural women

Little Women is an old-fashioned movie in the very best sense