Highlights from the Modern Cinema Festival
While you all were watching Gravity this past weekend, I was at Chris Kelly’s Modern Cinema festival. It’s good to have this annual event...
Help the Arts on North Texas Giving Day
September 19 is North Texas Giving Day, which means that if you contribute $25 or more to a Texas charity between 7am and midnight,...
Coyote Drive-In Screens the Original “Friday the 13th”
Here’s one of the great things about having a locally owned drive-in movie theater: They take requests. Customers of the Coyote Drive-In (223 NE...
The ‘Phibs and The Modern Present “The Audience”
If you want a lesson in how to grow older with grace and authority, look no further than the great British actress Dame Helen...
The Fort Worth Producer Behind “Jobs”
Jobs starts playing in a movie theater near you, and even though I didn't think much of the film, the sheer willpower of Fort...
Modern Cinema Festival Returns
I learned something interesting while attending last night's screening of Ain't Them Bodies Saints at the Modern. I already knew that Christopher Kelly's Modern...
“Rear Window” at the Amon Carter
For its “Sunset Cinema” screening 8pm Thur (July 11), the Amon Carter Museum has selected one of the best films ever to watch outside...
More On American Graffiti Star Candy Clark
Candy Clark provided so many interesting quotes for this week’s cover story (“Graffiti Artist,” July 3, 2013) that some were left out for space reasons.
For...
Rick Santorum, Local Movie Mogul
North Texas' filmmaking scene got an unlikely addition yesterday, as former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and unsuccessful presidential candidate Rick Santorum announced he had...
R.I.P., James Gandolfini
When I heard that James Gandolfini passed away yesterday, I didn't think about his performance as Tony Soprano. I thought about a much earlier...
