Denton’s Thin Line Film Festival Starts Tonight: 11 Days of Docs!
Do you love real life? Do you love documentaries? Have we got a festival for you!
‘Inside Job’: Don’t Miss Your Second Chance
Angry about the 2008 financial slump? Ready to get your blood stirred further?
Review: Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
Joan Rivers is a very funny person. If you agree, then Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, which opens today at the Landmark Magnolia and Angelika Plano, will prove to be a revealing and honest accounting of a year spent in her company. The documentary, directed by Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg, sticks very closely to [...]
Review: Best Worst Movie
Sometimes the least-likely subjects make for the most engrossing documentaries. Best Worst Movie, directed by Michael Stephenson and opening exclusively today at the Inwood in Dallas (featured interviewee George Hardy will appear for both screenings tonight), is warm, funny, insightful, affectionate, touching, and self-aware. Did I mention insightful? Stephenson, who played the child hero in [...]
Review: Casino Jack and the United States of Money
“Stupid people get wiped out.” Shockingly dull despite a bloated wealth of detail about its subject, Casino Jack and the United States of Money makes for a plodding, too-clever examination of lobbyist Jack Abramoff. The new film is directed by Alex Gibney, a talented documentarian who lacks the snark of Michael Moore and the encyclopedic [...]
Review: Racing Dreams
Here’s an unqualified recommendation: See this movie. The basic premise of Racing Dreams, which opened yesterday at limited engagements in Dallas (AMC The Grand 24), Lewisville (Studio Movie Grill), Mesquite (AMC Mesquite 30), and Fort Worth (Rave North East Mall 18), may sound deceptively limited. Directed by Marshall Curry, the documentary follows three young people, [...]
Review: A Surprise in Texas
Transportive. The classical music that is caught in live performance makes A Surprise in Texas essential viewing for anyone searching for great piano playing. The young musicians who travel from around the world to Fort Worth every four years for the Cliburn Competition are incredibly talented. To watch their fingers dance across the keyboard is [...]
Review: When You’re Strange
“Being drunk is a good disguise…“ — from the poetry of Jim Morrison Tom DiCillo’s When You’re Strange gives a lopsided view of ’60s- and ’70s-era rock band The Doors, and a cursory one at that. The film seems more about the gradual disintegration of front man Jim Morrison rather than the band as a [...]
