Willem Dafoe

Crime of one

Tom and Viv unearths a forgotten life

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Desert ghosts

Director Anthony Minghella gracefully brings a complex tale of war to screen

That sinking feeling

Speed 2 runs aground before the lousy ship even starts its engine

Night & Day

October 1 - 7, 1998

Soul of the matter

Paul Schrader wades into the deep end with his adaptation of Russell Banks' Affliction

Spine-tingling

David Cronenberg finds a new place to stick it in eXistenZ

Best Video Store

Premiere Video

Mr. Schrader Goes to Washington

A gay escort finds himself at the center of a classic D.C. scandal in The Walker

Spider Bites

Overstuffed plot, empty action ruin Spidey's run

Cannes and Abel

Ferrara's beloved New York, this time via Rome

Took a Shot

Ferrara's beloved New York, this time via Rome

Your Show of Shows

Ferrara's beloved New York, this time via Rome

Tube Boobs

American Dreamz's nation

of idiots lands a little close

to home

Sea of Loathe

Wes Anderson takes Bill Murray out to sea and strands him there

Punk Monk

Paul Bettany gets medieval in The Reckoning

Damn Good Yankee

In Once Upon a Time in Mexico, the outlaw Johnny Depp saves the day

Undersea No Evil

Parents, take heart: Finding Nemo is better than the average Disney 'toon

Bloody Hell

Daredevil is a grown-up adaptation, but still too two-dimensional

Poe Lou

It's a perfect day to let Lou Reed talk about going a little bit crazy

I See Nothing

Schrader turns the lens on Bob Crane...and?

Out of Focus?

Scotty Crane is tired of getting the shaft from Paul Schrader

Made on the Margins

For 15 years, the Dallas Video Fest has flickered on the fringe

Dream Weaver

Spider-Man slings pop mythology for the masses

Small Screen, Big Step

DEJ Productions tries to give "direct-to-video" a good name

Drag King

Actor-comic Eddie Izzard just wants to be loved

Vein Glory

Shadow of the Vampire expertly taps into cinema's dark, rich heart

Double Features

A top-20 list, otherwise known as how to cop out and avoid picking just 10 films

Well Dunne

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

Schreck it out

Nosferatu "live"

The final cut

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

A cut above

American Psycho gets all chopped up, thank God

USA Film Festival Schedule

American Psycho gets all chopped up, thank God

Magnificent obsession

The films of Great Director honoree Paul Schrader mix art-house intelligence with B-movie grit

Antichrist

The films of Great Director honoree Paul Schrader mix art-house intelligence with B-movie grit

Miral: Style, but Little Substance in Schnabel's Palestine Plea.

The films of Great Director honoree Paul Schrader mix art-house intelligence with B-movie grit