Eight years after Zack Snyder’s 300 hit theaters and rapidly became a joke through a relentless parade of Internet memes, we’re finally getting the sequel-prequel-recap that nobody wanted. Fortunately, the first trailer for 300: Rise of an Empire makes Noam Murro’s contribution to the story of Sparta’s war with Xerxes look pretty good; if the film didn’t really need to be made in the first place, at the very least it may have the muscles needed to justify its own existence. I can’t honestly go back and watch 300 without laughing anymore, but maybe this will be just new enough for me to take it seriously: The film reportedly unfolds before,…
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[OCFF Interview]…’Drinking Buddies’ Director Joe Swanberg
Arguably his best film to date, prolific, independent filmmaker, Joe Swanberg, says he worked harder on Drinking Buddies than on any other film. Swanberg says it’s a movie he made with “a deep desire to connect with an audience, and that hasn’t been true of a lot of my movies.” “I’ve had a couple of big changes in the past couple of years in terms of how I make movies and what I want to put out into the world,” says Swanberg. Whose friend and fellow filmmaker, Madeleine Olnek, influenced some of these changes after sharing her philosophy on filmmakers and comedy. “She said to have the ability to make comedies and not…
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ALL PASSES CLAIMED – FREE Advance 'Screaming' Passes to 'MONSTERS UNIVERSITY' In PLANO, TX
Attention: ALL PASSES HAVE BEEN CLAIMED. Thanks for your interest in Monsters University. ——————————————————————————————————————————— Go,See,Talk is partnering with Pixar Animation Studios to give 25 Dallas area film fans FREE passes (good for you +1 guest) to an “Advance Screaming” of Pixar’s Monsters University starring Billy Crystal and John Goodman. This screening will take place in PLANO, TX on Monday, June 17th at 7:30 PM. So how do you claim/win them?? Simple. Click the poster above to get your PRINTABLE SeeItFirst ticket…but it’s first-come, first-served so act fast!! Be one of the first 25 people to click the link and you’ll get to see Monsters University before all your friends. Neat huh? Little reminder…
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[OCFF Interview]….’Ain’t Them Bodies Saints’ Director David Lowery
This past weekend Dallas welcomed the 2nd Annual Oak Cliff Film Festival to the neighborhood, and with it, a special double feature event with local filmmaker David Lowery in attendance. Lowery introduced director Robert Altman’s Repertory film, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, followed by a “secret screening” that turned out to be Lowery’s latest feature film, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints. Go, See, Talk caught up with Lowery in the Press room and quickly chatted about the local film community, his experiences growing up attending film festivals, and his involvement in them now. Lowery, who grew up in Dallas and attended festivals like the USA Film Festival and the Dallas Video Fest when they were…
