My Friday Dallas International Film Festival picks include: Carried Away – Fort Worth filmmaker Tom Huckabee tells a story partly based in his own experience of returning home to visit his family and finding it in a shambles. In the film, Ed is particularly troubled that his family has put his grandmother in a nursing [...]
A documentary at the Dallas International Film Festival Saturday looks at a high school band in Houston whose funky sound gained an international reputation in the 1970s. The Kashmere Stage Band’s music has made a comeback of late, but KERA’s Stephen Becker reports the band director’s influence on his students has always endured:
If you’re hoping to catch a film on the first night of the Dallas International Film Festival … good luck to ya. Skateland, the story of kids trying to find their way in life in an East Texas town in 1983, from what I hear, is just about sold out. It’s got strong Dallas ties, [...]
The Dallas International Film Festival kicks off its 11-day run tonight. More than 150 feature films and shorts are on the schedule, including a number of foreign films. KERA’s Stephen Becker reports on the festival’s international offerings:
The Dallas International Film Festival sends word that it’s added five additional documentaries to the slate. They are: Cane Toads in 3D: A film that showed at the Sundance Film Festival that will mark DIFF’s first 3D film. Bear Nation: A South by Southwest debut that inspects the gay subculture of bears. Lemmy: Another SXSW [...]
Writer-director Guillermo Arriaga For its April 8 opening, the Dallas International Film Festival will take over all eight screens of the Angelika Film Center on Mockingbird to screen such movies as Multiple Sarcasms with Timothy Hutton and Bill Cunningham New York, a documentary by director Richard Press. The 11-day festival will feature 153 full-length films [...]
The Dallas International Film Festival sends word today of 12 additional films that it has added to its slate. More on that in a minute. The other bit of cool news is that the festival will honor Pete Docter with the 2010 Tex Avery Animation Award. If you aren’t familiar with Docter, be sure to [...]
The Dallas International Film Festival has announced the first 10 films it has lined up for its April run. The most high-profile among them are Solitary Man, starring Michael Douglas as a former car dealership mogul dealing with problems both business and personal and No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson, a doc by Hoop [...]
The Dallas Film Society sends word that Mayor Tom Leppert and his wife, Laura, will serve as honorary chairs of this year’s Dallas International Film Festival. DFS also announced details today about its Circle of Stars membership program. For $2,500, the news release says you’ll get, “invitations to exclusive events, invitations to Premiere Screenings and [...]
The Dallas Film Society sends word today of a few changes at the top: Michael Cain, who co-founded the Dallas International Film Festival and previously served as its Artistic Director, was elected Chairman of the DFS board. Replacing Cain as Artistic Director is James Faust, who has served as the festival’s program director. And Tanya [...]
