Film & TV
March 15, 2022
‘X’ Is a Fun, Funny—And Feminist—Slasher
Writer-director Ti West’s return to horror is set in a creepy house in rural Texas. But that’s where the similarities with classic slashers ends.
Texas Film
Film & TV
March 18, 2021
On Texas Time: Filmmaker Channing Godfrey Peoples
The director and producer talks about how growing up on Fort Worth's Southside shaped her work, including her new film, ‘Doretha's Blues.’
Film & TV
November 17, 2020
The Funny, Bittersweet ‘Dazed and Confused’ Oral History Captures the Cult Classic’s Lasting Appeal
Melissa Maerz’s new book is a raucous reunion for the cast and crew of the film, whose depiction of the insecurities and thrills of teenage life have made it timeless.
Film & TV
October 23, 2020
Up Close With One of Texas’s Most Prized Playwrights in a New Documentary
The late Horton Foote, known for his screen adaptation of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ is the subject of a movie premiering at this year’s Austin Film Festival.
Film & TV
June 29, 2020
Richard Linklater’s Career in Seven Essential Scenes
These themes, which he returns to again and again in his movies, illustrate how he's developed as a filmmaker.
Film & TV
June 24, 2020
Richard Linklater, the Everyday Auteur
For decades, the Texas director’s movies have celebrated the sort of mundane yet consequential interactions that the coronavirus took from us. He’s still at it, albeit temporarily cut off from the film community he helped build.
Film & TV
April 6, 2018
How Screenplays Describe Characters From Texas
Earlier this week, Vulture posted excerpts from fifty screenplays that showed how female characters were described in the scripts of the films that made them famous. It was a fun, enlightening exercise in which we learned how the male-dominated field of screenwriting tends to view women (a lot