The USA Film Festival will present its Great Director Tribute to producer-director-animator Peter Lord during a special preview screening of his new film The Pirates! Band of Misfits on Thursday, April 12, 2012, at the AMC NorthPark Theater in Dallas, TX. (Event time TBA.) The event will include a film-clip compilation tribute featuring clips from some of his works … Continue reading
The Texas Theatre’s Kimono Club series — featuring the best in Japanese cinema, bad karaoke, Kirin and sake bombs — continues with the girl-bikers-run-amok action flick Girl Boss Guerilla (1982), 9pm (karaoke at 8pm), March 25, at the theater. Details — The Magnolia’s The Big Movie classic films series concludes its Great Directors showcase with a … Continue reading
Academy Award-nominee James Franco (127 Hours) will headline the University of Texas at Arlington‘s 2012 Graduation Celebration at 7:30pm, May 11, at the Levitt Pavilion, 100 W. Abram St., Arlington. Franco will make a keynote address at the annual party, which will also feature fireworks, music, and food. Other speakers include UT Arlington President James D. Spaniolo … Continue reading
The Texas Theatre’s Kimono Club series — featuring the best in Japanese cinema, bad karaoke, Kirin and sake bombs — continues with Sogo Ishii’s punk rock sci-fi musical Burst City (1982), 9pm (karaoke at 8pm), March 18, at the theater. Details — The Magnolia’s The Big Movie classic films series continues its Great Directors showcase with a … Continue reading
The Video Association of Dallas is now accepting team registrations for the 11th Annual 24-Hour Video Race. The race is limited to 100 teams competing in five different divisions. The race begins at 11:59 p.m. Friday, May 4, at the Angelika Film Center in Mockingbird Station, and end there 24 hours later at midnight on Saturday, … Continue reading
The Dallas International Film Festival released the schedule for its 2012 festival season on Thursday. The festival will run from April 12-22 and feature 111 feature-length and short films from 27 countries over an 11-day period. Festival passes and tickets are currently on sale. Guests in attendance have yet to be announced. Movie Ink will post … Continue reading
The Texas Theatre’s Kimono Club series — featuring the best in Japanese cinema, bad karaoke, Kirin and sake bombs — continues unabated with the grindhouse action-crime drama classic Sex and Fury (1973), 9pm, March 11, at the theater. Details — The Magnolia’s The Big Movie classic films series continues its Great Directors showcase with … Continue reading
Dallas-based filmmaker and playwright Eric Steele, Second Thought Theatre, and Aviation Cinemas have combined their might to produce a unique combination of stage and screen, The Midwest Trilogy, with preview performances at 8pm, March 15-17, and regular performances Thursdays-Sundays, March 22-April 8, at the Kalita Humphreys Theatre. The evening centers around two short films by … Continue reading
The Dallas Video Festival will present a free screening of Burns’ 1981 documentary The Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday, March 3, as part of the opening events of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. Released in 1981, The Brooklyn Bridge was nominated for the Academy Award and later broadcast on PBS. The classic doc offers interviews with those who … Continue reading