Full Cinema Scope
The Dallas International Film Festival presented by AutoNation Volkswagen Dealers has finalized its features and shorts that will be screened through the Festival’s 11-day run, April 4-14, 2013, at various venues in Dallas. For the 2013 Festival, more than 160 features, documentaries, shorts and student films representing 28 countries make DIFF truly an international Festival. [...]
Dallas International Film Festival
With over 1,300 submissions this year from as many as 30 different countries and an Italian theme that promises a look at both classical and new films from Italian filmmakers, the 7th annual Dallas International Film Festival is indeed gearing up to bring together the best films from around the world to celebrate the art [...]
Documenting Life
Thin Line Film Fest is Texas’ International Documentary Film Festival held annually the second week of February in downtown Denton, and is the only documentary film festival in the state to screen more documentaries than the bigger SXSW in Austin. For eleven days a diverse program [...]
Master of Macabre
No one utters the salutation “good evening” quite as chilly as Alfred Hitchcock. Those two words greeted viewers from 1955 to 1965 when the mystery anthology series Alfred Hitchcock Presents aired on CBS-TV (and later rotated to NBC-TV). Even by the time the popular television show [...]
Lone Star Film Fest
When the Lone Star Film Festival unspools in Fort Worth November 7-11, North Texans will have an opportunity to catch an early showing of two big films with Oscar buzz, while also having the chance to re-evaluate a big box office bomb that nearly destroyed a studio back in 1980 [...]
Video on Demand
This year marks the silver anniversary of the Dallas VideoFest which now touts itself as the oldest and largest video festival in the United States. Since 1986, VideoFest has specialized in independent, alternative, and non-commercial media, presenting hard-to-find works rarely seen [...]
Moving Beyond Politics
Israeli film captures the sweetness of young romance despite political obstacles The 16th Annual Jewish Film Festival of Dallas opens September 6 with a slate of ten films, but one title specifically may be the talk of the community. Enriched with fully-developed characters and simple [...]
A Beautiful Beast
Beasts of the Southern Wild will no doubt make my Top 10 list for best films this year. I know most of you haven’t heard of this film, but rest assured, once you see this film, you will not forget it. Beasts is Benh Zeithlin’s feature-length directorial debut, and even though he is just 29 [...]
25th Annual Dallas VideoFest
The Video Association of Dallas has announced the first five selections for VideoFest 25, which will be Sept. 27–30, 2012 at its original home, the Dallas Museum of Art. Now the oldest and largest video festival in the United States, VideoFest will feature over 150 programs over the four [...]
Ambitious Slate
Marking its 11th year, the Asian Film Festival of Dallas has grown to become the largest film showcase of Asian and Asian-American cinema in South, according to Steve Norwood, the Asian Film Festival’s director of programming, who discussed this year’s event with A+C. There have been more [...]
