Subject: Michael Cain

• The TV Junkie Comes Clean on Oprah Today

  April 9, 2007

• TV Junkie Premieres on HBO Tonight -- And, Now, With a Lawsuit!

  March 16, 2007

• Haven't Heard Much from the AFI Fest Yet? Oh, You Will.

  March 2, 2007

• Aussie Rules at AFI Dallas

  December 12, 2006

• AFI Can't Believe It's Not Deep Ellum

  September 13, 2006

• Go See a "Junkie"

  April 13, 2006

• The Penn is Mightier

  September 10, 2007

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

  January 24, 2008

• It's Better Than Meeting Michael Dukakis, That's For Sure

  January 29, 2008

• You'd Best Hustle If You Want to Get Your Seats for AFI Dallas

  March 24, 2008

• AFI Dallas: Fancy, But Not Too

  March 28, 2008

• AFI Dallas: Visiting With The Visitor

  March 28, 2008

• AFI Dallas: And the Winners Are ...

  April 6, 2008

• AFI Dallas: A Post-Fest Standing O

  April 9, 2008

• AFI Dallas Moves to NorthPark

  Meant to mention this yesterday, when the press released landed in the Unfair Park in-box, but got otherwise sidetracked: The AFI Dallas International Film Festival has a new presenting sponsor, NorthPark Center. Which is a big deal because? Well, according to the release, the AMC NorthPark 15 -- which, in the past, hosted some of the bigger red-carpet and big-ticket events, including the 2007 Hot Fuzz Q&A pictured above -- will now become "even more of a home for this film festival," says f

  January 15, 2009

• 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 of the screenings taking place at the AMC NorthPark. Among the offerings are three world-premiere docs, a Zooey Deschanel romantic comedy picked up in Toronto, an acclaimed 2008 Sundancer, Kevin Spac

  February 3, 2009

• Robert Towne's Coming to Town to Get AFI Dallas Award. Also, More Films Added.

  AFI Dallas International Film Festival sends word this morning of further additions to its schedule as the fest prepares for its third year, which gets to commencing March 26. Also included in the release is the recipient of this year's AFI Dallas Star Award: the great Robert Towne, whose credits include Chinatown (for which he won the Best Original Screenplay Academy Award in 1975), Shampoo, Tequila Sunrise, Days of Thunder (yes, really) and Bonnie and Clyde (his was an uncredited touch-up). To

  February 16, 2009

• Two Years Later in a Dallas Courtroom, the Lawsuit Over TV Junkie Fades to Black

  HBO/Deep Ellum PicturesRick Kirkham, the TV JunkieAs we mentioned in March 2007, two days before Michael Cain's Sundance Film Festival award-winning documentary TV Junkie made its debut on HBO, Tammie Kirkham filed a temporary restraining order to keep the doc off the network. The documentary, as you may recall, was compiled from nearly 3,000 hours of video footage captured by Tammie's ex-husband Rick, a former Inside Edition reporter who obsessively documented what felt like every second of his

  February 18, 2009

• Big Fan: AFI Dallas Announces Its Complete Line-Up, Minus the Closing-Night Movie(s?)

  Patton Oswalt is the Big Fan, scheduled to play the AFI Dallas International Film Fest this yearMoments ago, the AFI Dallas International Film Festival sent along its complete schedule for this year's fest, which runs March 26 through April 2 -- with, as we've noted before, most screenings taking place this year at the AMC NorthPark, the title sponsor. Well, even at 77 features and 96 short films, it's not quite the full schedule: The closing-night film hasn't yet been announced, because it prom

  March 4, 2009

• Like Bill

  Ex-prime minister's trip to Dallas prompts a British invasion

  October 3, 2002

• AFI Scenes: The Hurt Locker's Kathryn Bigelow Accepts the Latest AFI Dallas Star

  Patrick MichelsDirector Kathryn Bigelow accepts the AFI Dallas Star Award before last night's screening of her film The Hurt Locker.Well, no, I didn't catch the Fashion Industry Gallery's nude modeling session and AFI after-party last night. Just got through kicking myself long enough to sit down and post this photo from earlier in the night. (There's probably a lesson to be learned about not leaving before the real party gets started.)Still, we caught the above moment last night, before the scr

  March 29, 2009

• Entering Its Second Year, AFI Dallas Avoids the Sophomore Slump

  March 27, 2008

• Snow Business

  Two Dallas filmmakers recall Sundancing as fast as they can

  January 18, 2007

• Reel Good Times

  April 27, 2006

• That's a Wrap

  Meet the new 800-pound gorilla of Dallas film festivals

  September 21, 2006

• Pick of the Litter

  Six years in, the Deep Ellum Film Festival has become the cagey vet

  October 14, 2004

• Five Golden Reels

  The Deep Ellum Film Festival grows up--nicely

  October 23, 2003

• Fake Out

  At the Deep Ellum film fest, fact becomes fiction becomes fact

  November 14, 2002

• In the Screening Room

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

  November 15, 2001

• Reel War

  The Angelika will be good for local moviegoers. Will it be good business?

  July 12, 2001

• The Sundance Kidder

  With his own movie in tow, Dallas' indie-film guru goes to Robert Redford's festival, falls in love with the First-Timer, and embraces the hype

  February 15, 2001

• Well Dunne

  The Deep Ellum Film Festival returns, suffering from the Terrific Twos

  November 16, 2000

• Home movies

  Deep Ellum Film Festival debuts

  November 11, 1999

• 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?

  October 14, 1999

• Starck Reality: Michael Cain's Making Two Movies About the Late Dallas Danceteria

  Maybe you saw something in the paper last week about two Starck Club docs in the works -- the one we mentioned that sneak-peeked at the USA Film Fest, and another being cooked up by AFI Dallas International Film Fest artistic director Michael Cain with club founder Blake Woodall. Turns out, that's not the end of the story: Cain told me last week that in addition to the doc, he's also prepping a narrative feature about the legendary danceteria -- a "project I've been working on for 12 years," he

  May 7, 2009

• Armed with Archives and the Keys to the Club, the Starck Project is Underway

  Patrick MichelsStarck Club founder Blake Woodall hands off the keys to Michael Cain, who's making a pair of films about the old downtown hot spot.In a ceremony outside the old landmark at the very end of Dallas's West End, the original staff of the Starck Club gathered Tuesday evening to celebrate the club's 25th anniversary, and to witness the start of a new venture built on the club's legacy.The Starck Project, led by Michael Cain, Wade Hampton, Melina McKinnon, Dennis Bishop and Chris Smith,

  May 13, 2009

• 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 million to license the Los Angeles-based American Film Institute's name and consultants. Sell out, they whispered, especially when it was announced that Target was ponying up around $1 million for above-the

  June 17, 2009