Robert Altman

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

Today in Headlines I Never Thought I'd Write: Neon Indian Films Scenes For a Terrence Malick Movie at the Fader Fort

Ah, yes. So much synergy happens during SXSW. If you've been on the Austin festival circuit in the last six months or so, you may have noticed Christian Bale at Austin City Limits, where he played bongos with Fleet Foxes, or Ryan Gosling and Rooney Mara at Fun Fun Fun Fest, which led to a Tumblr dev ... More >>

Janine Turner's Audition Video Provides a Sneak Peek at New Dallas?

​Thirty years ago -- which is to say, a decade before Northern Exposure -- a very young Janine Turner appeared on a handful of episodes of Dallas. Since then, of course, the Fort Worth native who presently lives on 300 acres just outside of Dallas appeared in myriad other teevee shows and movies, ... More >>

Hey, That's My City!

David "Fathead" Newman Has Died at 75

Josh Alan Friedman, who penned an amazing piece about the Texas Tenor for the paper version of Unfair Park long ago, brings sad news today: Corsicana-born, Dallas-raised sax great David "Fathead" Newman died yesterday. There's only been one obituary, but a call to David's wife and manager Karen offe ... More >>

David "Fathead" Newman Has Died at 75

Josh Alan Friedman, who penned an amazing piece about the Texas Tenor for the paper version of Unfair Park long ago, brings sad news today: Corsicana-born, Dallas-raised sax great David "Fathead" Newman died yesterday. There's only been one obituary, but a call to David's wife and manager Karen offe ... More >>

The Other Sister

Anne Hathaway makes a compelling bad girl in Jonathan Demme’s pedestrian family drama

No Love for Lyle Lovett

Want to get the scoop on Lovett? Too bad.

Celebrity Justice

In Steve Buscemi's latest, the journalist-star sit-down is an interview between vampires

Geekology 101

Judd Apatow explains himself

The Sundance Kids

For alumni of America's most prestigious film festival, winning is less than half the battle

A Good Dose of New Art

Ashlee Simpson Is (Well, Was) Sitting Behind Me...

Go East

Don't get lost in translation

Indecent Disposal

James Toback wastes an uninhibited Neve on a cheesy Adrian Lyne ripoff

Homecoming

Dallas dancers return from the big city

Papa Tried

Family man Smith goes soft in a story about a Girl

Cowboy Cool

Lyle Lovett returns to songwriting--and town--with My Baby Don't Tolerate

Killing Time

In the dark, brilliant Buffalo Soldiers, men of war beat boredom by attacking each other

Fear Factor

But just think, no one hates TV more than Trent Lott

Lazarus, Reborn

Peter Bogdanovich wasn't dead. He was just acting like it.

All Grown Up

At 32, the USA Film Festival proves it can still play ball

Cannes Do

At the French film fest, art and commerce do a nasty mating dance

A Top 10 Odyssey

Looking back (and backward), 2001 had a few worthy mementos

Giant Among Myths

Maybe the best thing to have ever happened to James Dean was his death

Chin Up

Bruce Campbell knows why bad movies happen to great actors

Northern Exposure

Michael Winterbottom delivers a snowy, Wild West adaptation of Thomas Hardy

Jaws of life

Spielberg's 1975 blockbuster finally receives the DVD treatment it deserves

Times four

Mike Figgis' Time Code offers an interesting experiment in viewing

Hip hope

Celebs and poseurs mix-a-lot in this surprisingly effective look at rap, race, and sex

Blurred vision

What will 1999 be remembered for -- Malkovich's head or Cartman's ass?

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?

No guts, no glory

David O. Russell gets to the heart of the matter, down to the last detail

Off with his head

Go, go, Gadget... straight to hell

"Let's not rock!"

The Lilith Fairies is must-hear TV!

Buzz

Love for sale

The relentlessly earnest Playing by Heart talks itself to death

Camp confidential

These Wild Things make nothing groovy

Heaven forbid

The Apostle's road to hell is paved with good intentions

A word's worth

Some terrific acting blooms in Pinter's The Hothouse

Tough love

In the Company of Men is one brutal valentine

Spielberg's Lost

Director digs up more dinos to prove--maybe--he's still a little playful

Honestly asinine

Jim Carrey returns to what he does best in Liar Liar--mostly pointless inanity

House of David

Fathead comes home

Basket-case studies

Eccentric directors Sam Fuller and Henry Jaglom make brilliant bookends

Stop making sense

Get Shorty is a riotous riff on movie moguls and mobsters

Mood indigo

Diane Keaton's Unstrung Heroes is a sad, silky meditation on death

Walk on the wild side

Luis Bunuel's Belle De Jour is more perverse--and touching--than most current films could dream of being

Slack time

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

Blood sisters

Nell and Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle invoke mythological American women