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05/08/2008
'Redbelt' star Chiwetel Ejiofor talks about his film roles
 Evans Caglage/DMN Chiwetel Ejiofor You may have trouble pronouncing his name, but there's no denying Chiwetel Ejiofor's screen presence. The 33-year-old actor has since distinguished himself as a versatile performer of palpable intensity and intelligence. We recently sat down with Mr. Ejiofor and asked him about some of his favorite roles.
 Showtimes/review: Redbelt
 Blog: The Screening Room
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DJ Jazzy Jeff keeps the crowd dancing at Ghostbar
Back in the '80s, a pair of Philadelphia friends got together and made some wholesome, party-ready hip-hop records. The rapper was some guy named the Fresh Prince. The DJ was Jazzy Jeff.
05/07/2008
PBS 'American Masters' documentary examines life and influence of Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye is a daunting documentary subject for one simple reason: Almost everything there is to say about the man has already been written.
05/02/2008
Long-time supporting actor Richard Jenkins gets starring role in 'The Visitor'
Richard Jenkins is one of those familiar-faced character actors who get stopped on the street by strangers straining to remember: Where have I seen this guy?
04/21/2008
USA Film festival to host classic cinematographer and one of his classics
The USA Film Festival kicks off Monday with the knowledge that it's no longer the big-ticket item in town. That distinction now goes to AFI Dallas. But as the grandfather of local fests, USA still has a way of bringing in master craftsmen with names that aren't as big as their talents and achievements.
04/18/2008
Moviegoer: 'Young at Heart' is irresistible new documentary
It's pretty cool to see a cover band rocking out to Sonic Youth's "Schizophrenia" and the Clash's "Should I Stay or Should I Go." But the Young at Heart Chorus isn't just any cover band. It's a dedicated group of senior citizens getting in touch with their inner rocker in the irresistible new doc Young at Heart , which opens today .
04/17/2008
Interview with 'My Blueberry Nights' star Norah Jones
 Evan Agostini / AP Norah Jones says she "had a blast" starring in My Blueberry Nights but prefers her day job of making music. My Blueberry Nights has been widely proclaimed as the acting debut of one Norah Jones, Grammy-laden graduate of Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. Except that's not quite true. "All the drama students at Booker T. Washington got to do a play when they were seniors," she says by phone from New York. Good times. But chances are slim that director Wong Kar Wai was in the house at Booker T. that night.
 Review and showtimes for My Blueberry Nights
Blog: More from Norah Jones at The Screening Room
04/07/2008
Austin's Okkervil River gets audience humming, thinking
It's hard to tell if Okkervil River singer Will Robison Sheff is drunk when he performs. He's not in any way sloppy, or slurring, but he always appears intoxicated by his music, throwing himself into each tune through vocal wails and undulating motion. When the frontman feels it so intensely, the easiest thing to do is follow suit.
04/06/2008
AFI Dallas International Film Festival brought glamour and quality movies to town
Dallas likes its stars big and its carpets red. It likes image and glamour. And the AFI Dallas International Film Festival, which drops the curtain on its sophomore year today, had all of that in spades.Charlize Theron? Yeah, she was here with her latest, Battle in Seattle. Robert De Niro? He took part in a rare Q&A in support of the Hollywood-insider comedy What Just Happened? There was even a dash of old Hollywood courtesy of Mickey Rooney, who for all I know is still spinning war stories on the stage of the Majestic.
04/03/2008
Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger captured in 'Shine a Light'
 Michael Hogue / Staff illustration The Rolling Stones are a perpetual-motion machine onstage, led by zigzagging 64-year-old ageless wonder Mick Jagger. He moves fast – almost as fast as Martin Scorsese talks. Mr. Scorsese's enthusiasm, for filmmaking and for the Stones, bubbles forth like a geyser, the words barely keeping up with the thoughts.
 More: Showtimes and review for Shine a Light | IMAX
Blog: The Screening Room
David Gordon Green's 'Snow Angels' screens at AFI Dallas
In 2000, Richardson's David Gordon Green released his debut film, George Washington.
04/02/2008
AFI Dallas: Cruising the red-carpet at NorthPark Center
It's not a red carpet so much as a red-carpet swatch. About 40 feet long, nestled at the bottom of an escalator by the AMC NorthPark 15, it's where the AFI Dallas International Film Festival parades stars and filmmakers for media sound bites and the viewing enjoyment of the food-court patrons up above.
04/01/2008
AFI Dallas: Documentary follows Mexican couple's pursuit of American Dream
Mansfield native David Redmon had just finished making the documentary Mardi Gras: Made in China when he decided to visit one of his favorite countries, Mexico. On a previous trip to Reynosa, he had met a woman who made designer bags on her dirt floor, and he and his filmmaking partner, Ashley Sabin, thought she might be a good subject for a doc.
03/31/2008
Texas death-row doc bares chaplain Carroll Pickett's thoughts after each execution
All filmmakers aren't created equal, but most documentaries are still only as good as their subjects. In At the Death House Door , the latest doc from Hoop Dreams creators Steve James and Peter Gilbert, the Rev. Carroll Pickett makes for a subject you won't soon forget.
Critic Elvis Mitchell interviews black luminaries in 'The Black List'
Elvis Mitchell always hated the term "blacklist." Why does it have to be black, like so many other negative phrases?
03/28/2008
'21' star Jim Sturgess is in the chips
Ben Mezrich's page-turning nonfiction book Bringing Down the House tells the story of six MIT students who card-counted their way to millions in Vegas. Now it's a Hollywood movie, 21 , starring Jim Sturgess as blackjack team ace Ben Campbell, which opens today. (Campbell is based on Jeff Ma, who in the book is named Kevin Lewis. Yeah, it's kinda confusing.)
Chris Rock hits nerves, with verve
GRAND PRAIRIE – Chris Rock has long enjoyed setting up shop at the intersection of race, sex and politics, so you know this election year is his dream come true. Prowling the stage Thursday night at a near-capacity Nokia Theatre, Mr. Rock tore into matters Clinton and Obama, McCain and Bush. He remains a man who doesn't have to be encouraged to speak openly about black and white.
03/27/2008
'Boys Don't Cry' director Kimberly Peirce out to win hearts for 'Stop-Loss'
Kimberly Peirce is in Dallas, the 21st city she's visited in the last few months to promote her new movie, Stop-Loss . Such tours are usually about meeting the press, giving us a few quotes and moving right along. But the writer-director has been going the extra mile, speaking to audiences at preview screenings. She's been pressing the flesh and rallying potential viewers and showing slide shows put together by soldiers in Iraq.
03/26/2008
Documentaries at AFI Dallas explore small-town Texas life
 Andrew Lichtenstein Image from the documentary Tulia, Texas, which will show at AFI Dallas International Film Festival. The Tulia Livestock Auction is a bustling community space for a Texas Panhandle town of approximately 5,000. But when a couple of California filmmakers showed up to do research for their documentary Tulia, Texas, they didn't quite fit into the scene.
Links: AFI Dallas International Film Festival
 Links: AFI Dallas official site
Blog: The Screening Room
03/20/2008
Chris Cooper discusses his dark comic turn in 'Married Life'
Almost everything about Chris Cooper suggests a damaged sense of decency.
03/18/2008
'Under the Same Moon' focuses on the human dimension
 Fox Searchlight Pictures Kate Del Castillo and Adrian Alonso star in Under the Same Moon, which opens Wednesday. Anti-immigration talk bubbles to the surface in election years and burbles from the mouth of Lou Dobbs seemingly every minute. It's been a rallying cry from the days of the 19th-century Know Nothing movement to today's skirmishes in Farmers Branch. But for those on the outside, the talk often lacks a human dimension. And that's where movies enter the picture.
More: Review and showtimes for Under the Same Moon
Blog: The Screening Room
03/13/2008
South by Southwest film fest gets into the high life
AUSTIN – Comedian Doug Benson stood before a packed Paramount Theatre at the opening night of the South by Southwest Film Festival on Friday to introduce his documentary Super High Me . "It's something everyone will enjoy, whether you last smoked a joint in college or on the way to work this morning," he offered.
03/12/2008
SXSW film: Documentary shows off geekster hip-hop
AUSTIN — Damian Hess still remembers the day his nerd identity collided with his hip-hop future.
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