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 [...]
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 [...]
Another Houston Cinema Arts Festival (HCAF) has come and gone, which for me meant another five days in the dark. As with all festivals, you see a lot and you miss a lot. Three things stood out for me: Andrew Garrison’s charming Trash Dance, Phil Solomon’s epic American Falls [...]
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 [...]
War on Film at MFAH In conjunction with its exhibit, WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents War on Film, a series of five films chronicling armed conflict in the 20th century. Given the extensive catalog [...]
Houston Cinema Arts Festival Brings It All Together The art of film is a major focus this month as the Houston Cinema Arts Society presents its fourth annual Houston [...]
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present, the new HBO documentary by Matthew Akers and Jeff Dupre, chronicles Serbian performance [...]
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 [...]