Posts Tagged ‘true’
When You Find a Film With True Grit
The Coen brothers make an old Western new.KRISTIAN LIN
The Coen brothers have become rather full of their own philosophy lately, using a series of otherwise widely divergent movies (No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading, A Serious Man) to proclaim that we live in a cold, hosti...
Una Poca Justicia
Big TicketIt’s easy to see why The Secret in Their Eyes won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film this past year. This Argentinean movie is a grand romance and a meditation on the regrets of old age, wrapped up in a cop thriller that nicely ...
Shock and Awe
To the editor:John Q. Public
To the editor: Thank you so much for allowing me to grace the cover of your newspaper (“Weapons of Choice,” Dec. 23, 2009). It’s quite an honor. I’ve lived in Fort Worth my entire life, and I’ve re...
Black Man + White Woman = ?
Amphibian Productions tackles one of Neil LaBute’s grittiest plays.Stage
Playwright-director Neil LaBute generally comes in one flavor — bitterly misanthropic — but his works can be divided between the nasty/grumpy variety and the exhilarating and even moral.
Greene Journalism
Biographical drama at its finest and funniest, Talk to Me avoids the usual pitfalls.Kristian Lin
Much like Dreamgirls, Talk to Me is set in the recent past and addresses the vexing question of the place of black entertainers in America as a way of taking on the even more vexing question of the place of black people in Amer...
True Grit
As a forthcoming Modern exhibit indicates, there’s little middle ground in contemporary art today.Kultur
Next month, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth mounts a solo exhibit by Ron Mueck, the Australian artist whose hyper-realist figurative sculptures come about as close to defining contemporary art’s purpose as possible.