Willem Dafoe

Ten Movie Moments That Were Made By The Music

Last week saw the limited release of Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, and the director is currently receiving the type of media love reserved for those who rarely misstep and whose work is hailed as classic the moment it's released. What's always interested me about Anderson is his ability to perf ... More >>

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

Antichrist

Mr. Schrader Goes to Washington

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

Cannes and Abel

Ferrara's beloved New York, this time via Rome

Spider Bites

Overstuffed plot, empty action ruin Spidey's run

Took a Shot

Your Show of Shows

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

Best Video Store

Premiere Video

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

Spine-tingling

David Cronenberg finds a new place to stick it in eXistenZ

Soul of the matter

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

Night & Day

October 1 - 7, 1998

That sinking feeling

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

Desert ghosts

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

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

USA Film Festival Schedule

Magnificent obsession

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

Crime of one

Tom and Viv unearths a forgotten life