Events

• September 22, 2022 5:00 PM PDT
  Al Franken to receive the Dallas VideoFest’s Ernie Kovacs Award

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  Comedy writer, standup and former U.S. Senator Al Franken was chosen to receive the Dallas VideoFest’s Ernie Kovacs Award, putting him in the company of such comedic innovators as Mike Judge, Amy Sedaris and Paul Reubens. General Admission will include...
• April 22, 2021 5:30 PM PDT
  Cinematic Conversations-Get Back Up Documentary Blue October

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  The riveting, emotionally charged story of one man's journey from rock stardom to rock bottom, rescued by his faith, the love of a woman, his family, and his band mates; it is a story of despair and of hope for all. With Director Norry Niven (DGA) was bo...
• April 22, 2021 5:30 PM PDT
  Cinematic Conversations- Solange’s When I Get Home

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  a new director’s cut of When I Get Home, the companion film to her album of the same name, will debut at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas on July 17. The new version of the film tops out at 41 minutes and will include “new scenes and musical arr...
• April 8, 2021 5:30 PM PDT
  Cinematic Conversations-Goodbye Columbus

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  https://www.facebook.com/events/480739839794294 What is “Goodbye, Columbus”? A story of a summer romance, a satirical sketch of suburban arriviste Jews in the fifties—sure. But when I stumbled on Philip Roth’s first book on the shelf of my high school ...
• April 1, 2021 5:30 PM PDT
  Cinematic Conversations-Modern Times with Ben Model

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  Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin’s last outing as the Little Tramp, puts the iconic character to work as a giddily inept factory employee who becomes smitten with a gorgeous gamine (Paulette Goddard). With its barrage of unforgettable gags and sly commentary...
• March 25, 2021 5:30 PM PDT
  Cinematic Conversations- Burma VJ:

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  Using smuggled footage, this documentary tells the story of the 2007 protests in Burma by thousands of monks. Chin and their connection to the city of Lewisville and LISD, the Chin are three people groups from the western side of Myanmar, the Chin State....
• March 18, 2021 5:30 PM PDT
  Cinematic Conversations- Nomadland

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  Tiffany Vollmer has been working in the entertainment industry for the past 25 years. She began working in makeup while on an acting scholarship at The University of North Texas. As an undergrad she ran the makeup department and created an internship/appr...
• March 11, 2021 5:30 PM PST
  Cinematic Conversations- Ladri di biciclette, Bicycle Thieves

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  one on or off Facebook Unemployed Antonio Ricci (Lamberto Maggiorani) is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. His wife, Maria (Lianella Carell), sells the family's bed linens to retrieve Antonio's bicycle from the pawns...
• February 18, 2021 5:30 PM PST
  Cinematic Conversations- The Order of Myths

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  Although "Mardi Gras" immediately brings to mind New Orleans for most people, the first Mardi Gras in America was actually held in Mobile, Ala., over 300 years ago. Remarkably, even in 2007, the festivities remain racially segregated, with two pairs of ki...
• February 11, 2021 5:30 PM PST
  Cinematic Conversations -Last Picture Show

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  The Last Picture Show is a 1971 American drama film directed and co-written by Peter Bogdanovich, adapted from a semi-autobiographical 1966 novel The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry. Gordon K. Smith is a Dallas-based writer, filmmaker, film historian...
• January 21, 2021 5:30 PM PST
  Cinematic Conversations City Hall by Frederick Wiseman

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  The latest film from legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman (Titicut Follies; National Gallery) arrives at the crux of a major crossroads for our nation. City government touches almost every aspect of our lives. Most of us are unaware of or take for gr...
• January 14, 2021 5:30 PM PST
  Cinematic Conversations Zodiac with Kip Mooney

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  In the late 1960s and 1970s, fear grips the city of San Francisco as a serial killer called Zodiac stalks its residents. Investigators (Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards) and reporters (Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr.) become obsessed with learning the kil...
• January 7, 2021 5:30 PM PST
  Cinematic Conversations Hester Street

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  Cinematic Conversations is a weekly virtual discussion that takes place over Zoom and on Facebook Live where the DVF engaging host, Artistic Director Bart Weiss, and guest talk about films that inspire, surprise, and challenge the audience to consider oth...
• December 22, 2020 5:30 PM PST
  Cinematic Conversations- It's a Wonderful Life

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  https://www.facebook.com/events/661034151224325 George Bailey has so many problems he is thinking about ending it all - and it's Christmas! As the angels discuss George, we see his life in flashback. As George is about to jump from a bridge, he ends up r...
• December 16, 2020 5:30 PM PST
  Cinematic Conversations- Black Christmas

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  originally titled Silent Night, Evil Night in the United States) is a 1974 Canadian slasher film produced and directed by Bob Clark, and written by A. Roy Moore. It stars Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, Andrea Martin, Marian Waldman, Lynne Grif...
• December 9, 2020 5:30 PM PST
  Cinematic Conversations- Spelling The Dream

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  In collaborations with DFW South Asian Film Festival with Director Sam Rega and Chris Weller, moderated by Jitin Hingorani Spelling the Dream is a 2020 documentary film directed by Sam Rega and written by Sam Rega and Chris Weller and starring Srinivas A...
• December 2, 2020 5:00 PM PST
  Cinematic Conversations- Robocop with Dallas cast and crew

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  In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) into a...