A Little From Our Files

Our sister paper The Village Voice has been around, like, forever and has some deep archives, including this December 28, 1967, review of The Graduate, which is being re-released, opening this week at the Angelika in Dallas. Enjoy.

The Best of Dallas’ Asian Film Fest

Distribution companies for Asian cinema have been in steady decline over the last decade, often citing illegal downloads and lackluster international market response when they fold. For lovers of the genre, this means fewer funds are being put toward the creation of new films, making it tougher for innovative talent…

In Take This Waltz, What Happens in Nova Scotia…

Take This Waltz, director Sarah Polley’s second feature, is much like her first, 2006’s superb Away From Her, in that it thoughtfully probes the pitfalls of coupledom and third-party threats. Five years into their marriage, Torontonians Margot (Michelle Williams) and Lou (Seth Rogen) have regressed fully into sexlessness, heat and…

Jonathan Demme’s Neil Young Journeys, Another Journey Worth Joining

Not to knock films as fantastic as his Rachel Getting Married, The Silence of the Lambs and Something Wild, but there’s something wilder — or at least, more directly stimulating and pure — about Jonathan Demme’s live-performance docs. The 68-year-old auteur immortalized a Talking Heads show (and David Byrne’s oversized…

Student Filmmakers Screen Work Tonight, Make You Feel Old and Lazy

Bart Weiss is a man of many camera angles. He’s the artistic steering power behind the Dallas Video Festival (which enters its 25th installment this September), serves as President of the Board of Directors of the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers, and sits on the Board of Directors of…

5 Amazing Movies at this Week’s Asian Film Festival of Dallas

Distribution companies for Asian cinema have been in steady decline over the last decade, often citing illegal downloads and lackluster international market response as the culprit when they fold. For lovers of the genre, this means that fewer funds are being put towards the creation of new films, making it…

Spider Becomes a Man – and a Joy

The Amazing Spider-Man, an inexcusably good reboot-thing from director Marc Webb, celebrates the heartwarming arachno-genetic bar mitzvah in which a boy becomes a spider, and a spider becomes a man, a rite of passage last observed in Sam Raimi’s uneven but often pretty great trilogy in the aughts. And there’s…

Woody Allen Takes a Roman Holiday to Fantasyland

In Woody Allen’s new film, To Rome With Love, people — like, really young people — still talk, improbably, about “neuroses.” Horny, middle-age businessmen actually stand around the water cooler and ogle the hot secretary, as in the Playboy cartoons of the ancients. In the Allen Legendarium, Freudian psychiatrists never…