Cinema 16: Short Art Films in Oak Cliff Film Fest
Amos Vogel, founder of Cinema 16, courtesy Northwest Chicago Film Society I’m not sure when the guys that run the Texas Theater sleep, they keep that theater so freaking packed with kick-ass programming. And these guys have now, on top of everything else, launched the Oak Cliff Film Festival, a loaded little fest which [...]
350 Words: Contemplative Cinema at Texas Theater
My husband is like the other 99.5% of Americans who go to the movies to be entertained, not to think. So it is with some trepidation that I asked him to accompany me to the Contemplative Cinema event at the Texas Theater earlier this month. The short 45-minute screening and beer allowed in the theater [...]
Restrepo goes on
A free screening of photojournalist Tim Hetherington’s feature-length documentary Restrepo, about soldiers in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley, has taken on a new poignancy with news of Hetherington’s death in Libya. The film is being shown at the renovated Texas Theatre, 231 W. Jefferson Blvd in Oak Cliff on Wednesday, May 11, at 7:30pm. Hetherington was to [...]