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The Magnolia’s Big Movie film series presents a screening of Sergio Leone’s spaghetti western masterpiece The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (1967), starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach, 7:30pm, November 27, at the theater. Details Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios kicks off the holiday portion of their Reel Classics series with Miracle on 34th Street (1947), 2 and 7pm, … Continue reading
Visually lush but otherwise over-thought and overwrought, Joe Wright’s misguided adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s epic tragedy sucks the life out of a classic staple of literature and film. Wright (Atonement, Pride and Prejudice) stumbles from the moment the curtain literally raises by presenting the story as if it were a stage play inside a film, … Continue reading
With Life of Pi, Ang Lee turns in his most engaging and confidently made feature since Brokeback Mountain (2005), and perhaps his most visually resplendent one ever. With fully realized characters inhabiting a carefully structured story embellished with stunning — but not overwhelming — visual effects, it’s part elemental survival epic, part coming-of-age fable, and part … Continue reading
Well organized, well executed, and well received, the inaugural Oak Cliff Film Festival managed to carve out a niche for itself this past summer in a metroplex that already had about a dozen other film fests competing for attention and resources. Its founders are ready to prove it’s here to stay, officially announcing the OCFF’s … Continue reading
The Magnolia’s Big Movie film series presents a screening of the classic Howard Hawks western Rio Bravo (1959), starring John Wayne, Dean Martin, and Ricky Nelson, 7:30pm, November 20, at the theater. Details The Dallas Film Society continues its weekly Movies at Sundown Series with a screening of Zach Braff’s romantic comedy Garden State (2004), 8pm, November 21, at Sundown at Granada. Details The … Continue reading
The four-day family food fest known as Thanksgiving is upon us. It’s a special time of year, all about spending time with people you may or may not like, obligated to do so simply because you share some common DNA. Times are tough these days, with the world experiencing its worst recession ever, and groceries … Continue reading
Ordinarily, mixing aspects of samurai movies, westerns, post-apocalyptic science fiction, faux ’50s kitsch, and rock and roll icons into a single low-budget road movie is a pure and simple recipe for disaster; yet writer-director Lance Mungia managed to (mostly) sidestep the pitfalls of such a bizarre hash and deliver what quickly became a textbook cult … Continue reading
The Dallas Museum of Art and the Dallas Goethe Center present a screening of the documentary One Germany: The Other Side of the Wall (2010), 2pm, November 11, in the museum’s Horchow Auditorium. Details Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios continue their Reel Classics series with Paul Newman and Robert Redford in the caper-comedy The Sting (1973), 2 and 7pm, November 14, at … Continue reading
Documentary filmmaker Yaron Zilberman (Watermarks) leaves an indelibly touching impression with his feature film debut, writing and directing a simple tale of a world-renowned string quartet on the verge of being torn apart by its complicated internal relationships. That it touches the line between drama and soap operatics without pole-vaulting over it is due largely … Continue reading
After 22 movies spread across 50 years, it seems almost counterintuitive that the 007 franchise could offer little more beyond its time-tested “kiss kiss, bang bang” formula; however, with Skyfall we’re given what is arguably the best Bond movie to date, as well as the most significant one since On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. It … Continue reading
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