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LSFF Report (Day 3)
As always, Saturday turned out to be the busiest day for the festival. The winner of the Jury Prize at this year’s Cannes Film...
LSFF Report (Day 2)
I should mention that the Lone Star Film Society is starting up a new series called Arthouse FW that will be showing classic films...
LSFF Report (Day 1)
The seventh Lone Star Film Festival opened with the year’s most enthralling documentary, Tim’s Vermeer, which held a packed house — and me as...
Blockbuster Goes Bust
About 20 years ago, Jay Leno joked on The Tonight Show about a mooted idea for a national identity card. "We already have one,"...
Film Shorts
OPENING:
Dallas Buyers Club (R) Matthew McConaughey stars in Jean-Marc Vallée’s biography of Ronald Woodroof, an electrician who starts an extralegal drug market for AIDS...
I Will Survive
Richard Curtis’ time-travel comedy About Time expands to Fort Worth this week (see Film Shorts), and it exhorts us to live each day as...
Further Thoughts on “12 Years a Slave”
As is so often the case with great films, I had more thoughts about 12 Years a Slave than I could get into my...
Film Shorts
OPENING:
Blue Is the Warmest Color (NC-17) The controversial top-prize winner at this year’s Cannes Film Festival is Abdellatif Kechiche’s film about a 15-year-old French...
Tiger Burning Bright
When you think of t’ai chi, you probably think of old Chinese people in a park making slow, sweeping, graceful movements with their arms....
Turkey Time
Even with the advent of computers, it takes so much effort by so many people to make an animated film. That’s why even substandard...
