Dallas Film Now.

Classics, revivals, and more hit the screens of our area. Below are the screenings by theater, for the next two weeks.

The Texas Theater

231 West Jefferson Blvd, Dallas TX 75208. For all showtimes, events, and tickets, visit https://thetexastheatre.com/calendar/

The Baby (1974) – Directed by veteran 1970’s director Ted Post, “The Baby” deals with a social worker investigating a family with a 20-year-old baby. Absurdist and demented. Perfect for the theater’s TNT (Tuesday Night Trash) presentation.

Screens on Tuesday June 2nd

The Unknown (1927) – Tod Browning and Lon Chaney’s silent film will be shown with a live score by local DJ/radio host Paul Slavins.

Screens on Wednesday June 3rd

Bleak Week begins on Friday June 5th and runs through Thursday June 11th. Films include the following:

On the Silver Globe (1988) – Andrzej Zulawski’s masterpiece is one of the best films of the 1980’s.

Trouble Every Day (1996) – Once very hard to see, Claire Denis’ film about vampirism/cannabalism stars Vincent Gallo and Beatrice Dalle. Come prepared with a strong stomach.

Two by filmmaker John Hillcoat- The Road (2009) and The Proposition (2006) with the filmmaker in attendance.

Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)

Watership Down (1978)

Breaking the Waves (1996)

The Place Beyond the Pines (2013)

Leaving Las Vegas (1996)

Mathilda (1996) – Not part of Bleak Week! The 90’s kids classic gets a screening.

Screens on Wednesday June 10th

Robocop (1987) – Any local film person worth their salt knows and cherishes that Paul Verhoeven’s decrepit Detroit of the future was really Dallas, Texas. This screening will send proceeds to the Save Dallas City Hall Foundation. A night full of speakers, merchandise and local civic duty.

Screens on Saturday June 13th

The Usual Suspects (1995) – This was such a great year in cinema! The 90’s classic returns with a Q&A by film composer John Ottman.

Screens on Saturday June 13th

Spacy

1300 S Polk St #160a, Dallas, TX 75224 (located inside Tyler Station). Information about the venue can be found here.

Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers (1972) – Just in time for Pride Month, this early 70’s musical comedy has recently been rediscovered and preserved. Starring Warhol Factory Girl Holly Woodlawn as a Kansas woman who goes to make it in New York, the film is advertised as zany and transgressive…. and one of the earliest American films to look at trans lives.

Screens on Wednesday June 3rd

Lorna the Exorcist (1974) – One of Jess Franco’s non porno entries (although this one promises some major skin and eroticism), “Lorna the Exorcist” stars Pamela Stanford as a young woman whose soul is being desired by a demonic presence.

Screens on Thursday June 11th

Shortbus (2006) – The sophomore film by John Cameron Mitchell, this one follows a group of young people around New York City as they search for meaning, help, and love.

Screens on Friday June 12th

Magnolia at the Modern, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

3200 Darnell St, Fort Worth, TX 76107. For all showtimes, events, and tickets, visit https://www.themodern.org/films

Blue Collar (1978) – Paul Schrader’s debut film as a director, I looked for this one for years. And while it’s not quite the greatest of his films, this is a pretty amazing feature to receive a repertory release.

Screens on Tuesday June 9th

Field of Dreams (1989) – This one always makes me cry.

Screens on Wednesday June 10th

The Goonies (1985) – Probably the most classic of the 80’s films? I believe this is also screening at The Inwood this month as part of a family classics series if one can’t make it to Fort Worth.

Screens on Saturday June 14th

DFW Alamo Drafthouse Locations

Schedule for all the locations in our area can be located here so check the site for theater availability

Cape Fear (1991) – Of all Scorsese’s films, I’ve watched this one the least. Good, but that’s about all, especially in comparison to the original.

Screens on Tuesday June 2nd

Ringu (1998) – Groundbreaking J-wave horror. Skip the very bad US remakes and go right to the source with Nakata’s original.

Screens on Friday June 5th

Sisters (1973) – I don’t know if it’s possible to underappreciate a Brian DePalma film, but this early 70’s psychological horror starring Margot Kidder ranks up there with subtle brilliance by the auteur.

Screens on Saturday June 6th

Year of 1996 anniversaries: The Birdcage and Trainspotting

Screens on Sunday June 7th

Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) – One of Werner Herzog’s endlessly fascinating documentaries about the art on centuries old Paris tunnels.

Screens on Monday June 8th

Serpent’s Path (1998) – Now THIS is an awesome repertory choice. An early work from master Kiyoshi Kurosawa. From my review that I wrote for a website almost a decade ago about this masterpiece of a film: “The first part in a two-film series that examines the nature of revenge. Much like Park Chan Wook’s revenge trilogy, “The Serpent’s Path” morphs into a heavy moral tug of war that shocks as the true motivations of its characters is slowly revealed. A low-level yakuza thug (Teruyuki Kagawa), with the help of a physics professor (Sho Aikawa), kidnaps a fellow criminal and forces him to confess to the murder and rape of his 8-year-old daughter. More kidnappings follow as each yakuza member fingers someone else for the ghastly murder. The real force of “The Serpent’s Path” lies in the story of the professor, Nijiima, and exactly how and why he manipulates everyone to his satisfaction. Through simple, elegant camera moves and pans, Kurosawa expresses deep emotion. And the dark humor is never far behind either. The finale, which takes place in one of those omniscient and dilapidated buildings which visually marks so much of Kurosawa’s work, explodes on the screen in a wave of violence. Think of it as the Japanese “Taxi Driver”, just as fierce in its obsession for redemption and cathartic anomaly.

Screens on Tuesday June 9th

Nowhere (1996) – Part of Greg Arakki’s 1990’s cinema of loners and outsiders.

Screens on Wednesday June 10th

Dressed To Kill (1983) – More DePalma with perhaps his best known thriller of the 1980’s, followed the next night by Body Double (1984)

Screens on Friday June 12th and June 13th

Boogie Nights (1996) – The 30th anniversary of Paul Thomas Anderson’s first (no, second after Hard Eight!) masterpiece.

Begins screening on Saturday June 13th

Persona (1966) – Ingmar Bergman’s very heavy international triumph. I respect it more than like it.

Screens on Sunday June 14th

Amorres Perros (1996) – Screens on Sunday June 14th

Dallas Angelika

5321 E. Mockingbird Ln, Dallas, TX 75206. For all showtimes, events, and tickets visit https://www.angelikafilmcenter.com/dallas

Purple Rain (1984) – Screens in honor of “Prince Day”, which I didn’t know existed, but okay!

Screens on Sunday June 7th

The Boy and the Heron (2023) – The final film from legendary Miyazaki.

Screens on Friday June 12th

The Asphalt Jungle (1950) – John Huston’s crackling noir is one of the best heist films of all time, endlessly plucked and borrowed from. Stars Sterling Hayden and a young Marilyn Monroe and features what’s probably the best final shot in Huston’s storied career.

Screens on Monday June 15th

Rooftop Cinema Club in Downtown Fort Worth

235 Throckmorton St. Fort Worth, TX 76102. For all showtimes and details about this unique, open-air venue visit https://rooftopcinemaclub.com/fort-worth/venue/rooftop-cinema-club-downtown-ft-worth/

The venue hosts a rotating weekly line up of recent favorites. Check out their website for titles and showtimes