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Brief Encounters: A Showcase for Academy-Anointed Shorts.

Get Whoa, or: That Robert Duvall Cloning Experiment Did Not Go As Planned

Stephen Masker​Friday night's Robert Duvall speaking engagement at Hall of State went down swell: He and Elvis Mitchell bantered cheerily for an hour about stage and screen in front of an audience that included Mayor Tom, other city officials and various well-heeled arts patrons and Dallas Film So ... More >>

If You'd Like to Get Low With Robert Duvall Saturday Morning, You'd Best Hustle

Robert Duvall will introduce Get Low at a screening at the Cinemark 17 Saturday morning.​Last month we mentioned: Robert Duvall's in town Friday night for a Dallas Film Society fund-raiser at the Hall of State, during which he'll be Q&A'd by Elvis Mitchell. But say you didn't have the $250 to ... More >>

For a Moment (Or Two), FOX Considered Shooting Lonestar in Austin. But Then ...

What you see above is the trailer for Lonestar that FOX Broadcasting posted a few days ago. The pilot, as you surely know by now, was filmed here this spring as Midland with (500) Days of Summer's Marc Webb directing. And I was going to post this yesterday. But Wednesday morning I heard from an acqu ... More >>

News & Notes: The Wasteful, Print It Out and Throw It Away Edition

Dallas likes to save rubber bands. That's according to those who responded to the America's Least Wasteful Cities survey, anyway.​Some news and notes on this thank-God-it's-Friday:I've been told that everyone loves lists. So, then, with that in mind: Mazel tov, Dallas! Last year, we came in at No. ... More >>

New York, I Love You

Dallas likes to save rubber bands. That's according to those who responded to the America's Least Wasteful Cities survey, anyway.​Some news and notes on this thank-God-it's-Friday:I've been told that everyone loves lists. So, then, with that in mind: Mazel tov, Dallas! Last year, we came in at No. ... More >>

Today In Music News: Sinatra Gets A Biopic, Kajagoogoo Gets It Together, And You Can Get "Rare" Eminem

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, May 15, 2009... Martin Scorsesse is set to direct a feature film biopic of a music legend: Frank Sinatra, baby. Kajagoogoo are reuniting for the first time in 25 years. Something tells me it's not to promote a greatest hit collection. Wanna taste ... More >>

Monsters vs. Aliens: A One-Dimensional Story in Fantastic 3-D

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, May 15, 2009... Martin Scorsesse is set to direct a feature film biopic of a music legend: Frank Sinatra, baby. Kajagoogoo are reuniting for the first time in 25 years. Something tells me it's not to promote a greatest hit collection. Wanna taste ... More >>

The Sound of One Audience Member Clapping

Resourceful indie filmmakers are finding new ways of getting their movies into theaters. But will anybody come?

Yeah, But Who's Gonna Notice?

Resourceful indie filmmakers are finding new ways of getting their movies into theaters. But will anybody come?

They Killed the Dog

Resourceful indie filmmakers are finding new ways of getting their movies into theaters. But will anybody come?

Boys Will Be Boys

Resourceful indie filmmakers are finding new ways of getting their movies into theaters. But will anybody come?

The Man Who Couldn't Sell The Iron Giant

Resourceful indie filmmakers are finding new ways of getting their movies into theaters. But will anybody come?

Book Of Common Themes

Resourceful indie filmmakers are finding new ways of getting their movies into theaters. But will anybody come?

Business as Usual

Resourceful indie filmmakers are finding new ways of getting their movies into theaters. But will anybody come?

Your Show of Shows

Resourceful indie filmmakers are finding new ways of getting their movies into theaters. But will anybody come?

Digging in the Dirt

Resourceful indie filmmakers are finding new ways of getting their movies into theaters. But will anybody come?

The Impossible Bomb

Resourceful indie filmmakers are finding new ways of getting their movies into theaters. But will anybody come?

Off to See the WizardWorld

Vampires, vampire hunters and Jay, minus Silent Bob

Floundering

Cruel, vapid and unfunny, this Shark bites

Talk Back

Dallas group organizing conservative film festival

Run Away

This stallion gallops into the IMAX theater

Lit Up

It's more fun watching the movie get made than watching the movie

Very Sinbad

Brad Pitt gets animated in a movie that's not--not really

Gravy Train

Never mind the bleeps, here comes The Osbournes

Steal This Movie

Studios don't get the Upright Citizens, which isn't funny at all

Q: "Why Does Hitler Have an Attitude?"

A: Buy the DVD for Full Frontal

Big in Bahrain

Taken from 35 Marines ages 18-23

Viva Vistas

Dallas' Latino film festival keeps raising the bar

Chris Cross

Behind the Greenlight is a producer proud to be an ass

Best toy store

Lakeshore Learning Store

Mud pie

Do yourself a favor and stay home during this Road Trip

Live from New York?

Saturday Night Live and DreamWorks Records team up for two not-ready-for-prime-time compilations

Ad it up

Saturday Night Live and DreamWorks Records team up for two not-ready-for-prime-time compilations

Acrobatic action

Mr. Nice Guy deserves to be the film that finally breaks Jackie Chan

Drink up

Alan Rudolph rises from the ashes in a suave, smoky Afterglow

Chan do

Condor is silly and familiar--which is the action-packed point

The Wallflower

When is a movie about two women in love not "lesbian" enough? Ask Dallas filmmakers Gretchen and Julia Dyer, whose embattled indie gem Late Bloomers finally makes it to the national screen.

Year of the weasel

From Al Lipscomb to Paul Fielding, it was hard to find straight talk in '96

Independents' day

Small films have their big night in '96

Ramblin' man

Emma writer-director Douglas McGrath jumps from Midland to Jane Austen

Attack of the killer megaplexes

The number of movie screens in Dallas has almost doubled overnight. But that's no cause for applause.

Letters

The number of movie screens in Dallas has almost doubled overnight. But that's no cause for applause.

Buzz

The number of movie screens in Dallas has almost doubled overnight. But that's no cause for applause.

For art's sake

Dallas congressman Bryant moves to bar 'defacement' of movies

Stupid Dave tricks

Letterman's hijacking of the Oscars reveals his limitations

Uprooted

Haile Gerima's hallucinatory slave epic Sankofa is a declaration of independence

Slickness as science

New book by Denton academic traces origins of the Hollywood blockbuster

Jack the Knife

Texas' Jack Crain helps Hollywood's heroes slice and dice the bad guys