Texas Indies
For the second year lights, camera, and action is coming to south Dallas as the Oak Cliff Film Festival kicks off June 6-9, 2013, showcasing some of the best Texas filmmakers. Films and festival events will take place at the historic Texas Theatre, the Kessler Theater, the intimate Bishop Arts Theater, and the Belmont Hotel, [...]
Kon-Tiki
Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl’s 8,000-kilometer voyage across the Pacific Ocean on the balsa raft Kon-Tiki in 1947 stands as one of the greatest post-World War II feats of exploration, and cemented his standing as a legendary adventurer. Heyerdahl’s book about his experience became a bestseller. It was published in 1948 as “The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft [...]
Film Review: Renoir
Set on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, “Renoir” (based on a book, “Le Tableau Amoureux,” by Jacques Renoir) is a beautifully shot film taking the viewer into the world of the renowned painter and impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir and his relationship with his middle son and his last model Andrée, a 15-year-old mouthy [...]
The Race is On!
Local filmmaking contest at breakneck speed On Friday, May 10, as the clock approaches midnight, teens, businessmen, teachers, housewives and other professionals will converge in the heart of Dallas for instruction on their mission — at 11:59 pm, they will be armed with a theme, a prop, a location and a line of dialogue and [...]
a+c @ DIFF 2013: The Union Man
Arts+Culture Magazine at the Dallas International Film Festival 2013 Shot in black and white, the Texas premiere of “The Union Man” is a film short that documents the story of a former football player named Earl Thompson as he works as a janitor at night in a job that many folks take for granted. Arts [...]
a+c @ DIFF 2013: Lord Montagu
Arts+Culture Magazine at the Dallas International Film Festival 2013 Appropriate for the Dallas International Film Festival, “Lord Montagu” director Luke Korem was born in Dallas and developed a passion for filmmaking early on while in high school. Premiering his film at the festival, this feature documentary is Korem’s directorial debut telling the story of well-known [...]
a+c @ DIFF 2013: Tomlinson Hill
Arts+Culture Magazine at the Dallas International Film Festival 2013 When “Tomlinson Hill” director Lisa Kaselak, an independent media artist from Austin, Texas and an Assistant Professor of film and new media at Southern Methodist University and producer/reporter Chris Tomlinson decided to join together to take a look at a mid-1800s slave plantation, Tomlinson Hill, sitting [...]
a+c @ DIFF 2013: Chasing Shakespeare
Arts+Culture Magazine at the Dallas International Film Festival 2013 The most poignant line in “Chasing Shakespeare” is easily “Love is the electricity that flows in all of us.” A love story with a metaphysical spin and a lot of electricity since it just so happens that Danny Glover’s character [...]
A Titanic Career
Film executive honored by Dallas International Film Festival It has been about 15 years since Sherry Lansing, the first woman to ever helm a major film studio in Hollywood, first impressed me with her grace and charm. I met her back when I was on the board of Women in Film Chicago, and the Hollywood [...]
Expect Greatness
The Angelika Film Centers of Dallas and Plano will be screening a stunning new production of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations on Thursday, March 21. Dickens’ classic tale has widely been believed to be too difficult to translate to stage. However, this production has been universally acclaimed as a triumph on its sellout tour of [...]
