Posts Tagged ‘films’
For Fox Sake
KRISTIAN LINThe golden age of kids’ movies is upon us. I’m not just talking about Pixar, though they’re obviously a huge part of the creative wealth we’re currently enjoying from these types of films. I’m talk...
Captain Kitty
STEVE STEWARDFilm can be a transformative experience. After all, if not for pulp serials, George Lucas might have ended up as a hot-rod mechanic. In the case of twentysomething local filmmaker Aron Cho, also known as Captain Kitty, comic bo...
MoMA Movies at the Modern
Big TicketThe Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth takes a two-week break from screening current independent films to make room for Still Moving: Classic Films from MoMA.
Out of the House
Kristian LinIs it true? Did Talladega Nights really come out only two summers ago? It seems like ages, mainly because Will Ferrell has starred in so many other movies since then.
The Descent
Kristian LinCinematic inventors and pioneers were trying to make their medium three-dimensional as far back as the 1890s, but it wasn’t until 1952 that Hollywood embraced 3-D filmmaking as one of several technical innovations that wo...
Mixed Subjects
These North Texan filmmakers work in Austin, but their hearts remain here.Kristian Lin
Transcribing an interview with Jeff Fraley and Harry Lynch proves to be hard work.
10Q for Watching
Big TicketAs you read in our cover story last week (“Q’d Up,” May 21), Q Cinema is now celebrating 10 years of existence, having weathered such challenges as recessions, the local gay community’s varying tastes, a...
Escape Move
You can’t spell Mamet without MMA! A famed playwright goes jiu-jitsu on us.KRISTIAN LIN
Seven years ago, David Mamet capped a winning streak as a film director with his engaging farce State and Main, following his twisty 1997 thriller The Spanish Prisoner and his elegant 1999 period drama The Winslow Boy.
Q Cinema
Is the movie at the Modern this week the tip of a Fort Worth film revolution?KRISTIAN LIN
Bo Parker speaks in torrents. His conversation, cloaked with the terminology of marketing and design, crackles with ideas.
Film Buffs and Foodies
Big TicketThis is International Week at TCU, and for the second straight year, the KinoMonda film series will mark the occasion with a blowout event called TCU Food and Film.