Nights of Cinema
Federico Fellini began his filmmaking career as the Italian movie industry was picking itself up from the ruins of World War II, much like...
Livin’ La Paz Loca
As we’re learning from the Middle East, trying to implant American-style democracy overseas is a much harder job than it looks. For an example...
August in August
In Woody Allen’s 1979 film Manhattan, his character says, “When it comes to relationships with women, I’m the winner of the August Strindberg Award.”
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R U Q?
The name of Dallas filmmaker Israel Luna’s new feature is R U Invited?: Five Guys & a Sex Party, and it’s about, well, guess.
The...
Hear the Sirens Singing
We’ve already had a musical version of The Odyssey. Five and a half years ago, the Coen brothers’ O Brother, Where Art Thou? adapted...
Middle East Texas
Most Weekly readers surely know that Texas art is no longer confined to cowboys and bucolic landscapes. Still, most art in local galleries is...
Movies and Mimir
The Mimir Chamber Music Festival returns once again to restore intimacy and rigor to Fort Worth’s classical music scene after the Concerts in the...
10 x 10
If the Amon Carter Museum really wanted to draw a crowd to its latest exhibit, 100 Great American Photographs, the word “great” in the...
Lewis and Snark
To be active in American politics is to be angry. Liberals and conservatives are angry at each other all the time, for reasons we...
An American in Limbo
Almost 70 years after his death, George Gershwin occupies a curious place in classical music. Widely acclaimed in his own time and for some...
