Matt Zoller Seitz

Feel Free to Panic

Farewell to a Friend

Owen Wilson Now Wants His Private Time

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En garde!

A chain-mail grab bag of great movie blades

Chestnuts and lumps of coal

Bennett, Buttholes, and John Tesh--these are a few of our favorite, and least favorite, things

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Bennett, Buttholes, and John Tesh--these are a few of our favorite, and least favorite, things

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Bennett, Buttholes, and John Tesh--these are a few of our favorite, and least favorite, things

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Bennett, Buttholes, and John Tesh--these are a few of our favorite, and least favorite, things

Letters

Bennett, Buttholes, and John Tesh--these are a few of our favorite, and least favorite, things

Rushes

Bennett, Buttholes, and John Tesh--these are a few of our favorite, and least favorite, things

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Bennett, Buttholes, and John Tesh--these are a few of our favorite, and least favorite, things

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Bennett, Buttholes, and John Tesh--these are a few of our favorite, and least favorite, things

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Bennett, Buttholes, and John Tesh--these are a few of our favorite, and least favorite, things

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Bennett, Buttholes, and John Tesh--these are a few of our favorite, and least favorite, things

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Bennett, Buttholes, and John Tesh--these are a few of our favorite, and least favorite, things

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Bennett, Buttholes, and John Tesh--these are a few of our favorite, and least favorite, things

Generations

From the director of El Norte comes a modern classic about family, history, and survival

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From the director of El Norte comes a modern classic about family, history, and survival

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From the director of El Norte comes a modern classic about family, history, and survival

Letters

From the director of El Norte comes a modern classic about family, history, and survival

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From the director of El Norte comes a modern classic about family, history, and survival

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From the director of El Norte comes a modern classic about family, history, and survival

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From the director of El Norte comes a modern classic about family, history, and survival

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From the director of El Norte comes a modern classic about family, history, and survival

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From the director of El Norte comes a modern classic about family, history, and survival

Off the cliff

Maria Maggenti, the director of Incredibly True Adventure... declares her independence

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Maria Maggenti, the director of Incredibly True Adventure... declares her independence

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Maria Maggenti, the director of Incredibly True Adventure... declares her independence

Buzz

Maria Maggenti, the director of Incredibly True Adventure... declares her independence

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Maria Maggenti, the director of Incredibly True Adventure... declares her independence

Letters

Maria Maggenti, the director of Incredibly True Adventure... declares her independence

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Maria Maggenti, the director of Incredibly True Adventure... declares her independence

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Maria Maggenti, the director of Incredibly True Adventure... declares her independence

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Maria Maggenti, the director of Incredibly True Adventure... declares her independence

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Maria Maggenti, the director of Incredibly True Adventure... declares her independence

Events for the week

Maria Maggenti, the director of Incredibly True Adventure... declares her independence

See your world on a small screen at the 11th Annual Dallas Video Festival

Maria Maggenti, the director of Incredibly True Adventure... declares her independence

For the Big Fan of the AFI Dallas Film Fest, Some Movie News, Notes and Day Six Picks

Patrick MichelsHenry Selick, and friend Coraline, will receive the Texas Avery Award tonight at 7 at the Nasher Sculpture Center.So, before getting to today's AFI Dallas International Film Festival quick picks, this locally related film note: Former Dallas Observer film critic and all-round good egg ... More >>

Trip to Bountiful

Oh, the talent given us at this year's remarkable Dallas Video Festival

Dead on arrival

Circumstances surrounding the Deadhead documentary Tie-Died reveal the film's mistaken premise

USA Film Festival Schedule

Circumstances surrounding the Deadhead documentary Tie-Died reveal the film's mistaken premise

Being a Star Trek Fan Was Something You Used to Kept Quiet. Apparently, Not Anymore.

Ward SuttonOne of the panels from Ward Sutton's very clever Star Trek cartoon, "The Shatner Menagerie," currently up on the Village Voice's Web site.So, the powers-that-be at Levinson & Hill took note of the fact we done run out of Star Trek tees and sent over more -- specifically, 73 smalls, 34 ... More >>

Matt Seitz's Trip Down Movie Memory Lane Leads Us Back to the NorthPark I & II

NickelrocketThe greatest movie theater in Dallas, at least during my lifetime​On Salon, my old friend and former cubicle-mate Matt Zoller Seitz has asked an eclectic assortment of cinephiles, writers and filmmakers alike, to share The Film Experience That Left a Lasting Impression -- as though, re ... More >>

Divine Intervention? Two Bottle Rocket Fans Want to Save Iconic Hillsboro Motel.

The Hillsboro motel where they shot part of Bottle Rocket is so iconic Ian Dingman put it on the front of the Criterion Collection DVD.​My old friend and long-ago Observer-er Matt Zoller Seitz, who wrote the definitive making-of piece about Bottle Rocket back in September 1995, sent me a note this ... More >>

Bidding a Fond Farewell to Producing Great Polly Platt, Who Shot Off Bottle Rocket

Criterion CollectionBob Musgrave and Luke and Owen Wilson shooting Bottle Rocket in 1995​Bob Musgrave sends word: "Polly Platt died yesterday." She was 72. Cinephiles know the name: The ex-wife of Peter Bogdanovich, she worked on such films as Paper Moon and The Last Picture Show before becoming a ... More >>

Above the Trinity River, Playing and Talking and Eating and Sitting on a Bridge Meant for Cars

​First there was a Better Block; then, a Better Boulevard; then, just yesterday, a Better Bridge. Of all the efforts to temporarily transform a piece of the city into something other than what it is, yesterday's brief installation atop the Cedar Crest Bridge, which connects Oak Cliff to South Dall ... More >>