BONNIE AND CLYDE

FILMS GONE WILD: Honoring Faye Dunaway among My Personal Happy Moments at this year’s Dallas International Film Festival

By John Wildman 9 years ago

And let me tell you, it is very hard to convince a famous director or movie star, etc. to leave their home in New York City or Beverly Hills or wherever to come spend a couple days at a film festival in Oxford, Mississippi, or Wichita, Kansas, or Birmingham, Alabama, or Dallas, Texas, so they can have film fans make a big deal over them, talk about a film or films they made 10 or 20 years ago, and receive a cool award and endless praise. It’s even harder to convince a personal publicist, or agent, or manager.

Film Festival News: Red Carpet Photos from the Dallas International Film Festival's Opening Night Gala Presentation of BONNIE AND CLYDE

By admin 9 years ago

The Dallas International Film Festival’s 50th Anniversary Gala Presentation of BONNIE AND CLYDE at the Dallas City Performance Hall on Thursday, March 30, was as exciting as it gets with two Academy Award-winners in the house, and the entire cast and crew for BOMB CITY on hand, set to make its world premiere the next evening…

FILM FESTIVAL NEWS: The Dallas International Film Festival announces this year’s Dallas Film Society Star for Bill Paxton and Shining Star Honorees

By admin 9 years ago

James Faust, Artistic Director of the Dallas Film Society, said, “Our two Dallas Star Award honorees hail back to something this festival has done from its inception – honor cinema legends, icons, and the film artists that made a difference in our film viewing lives. Faye Dunaway has been at the center of a number of certifiably classic films, and we joined so many in being devastated by the recent loss of Bill Paxton, on so many levels.

FILM FESTIVAL NEWS: The Dallas Film Society will honor Academy Award-winning filmmaker Robert Benton at The Art of Film the day before Opening Night of DIFF – Film Fest also announces a salute to films of 1967

By admin 9 years ago

James Faust, Artistic Director of the Dallas Film Society, said, “Robert Benton is both an award-winning director and writer as well as a Texas treasure, who has been responsible for some of the most beloved film classics of the past five decades both through his director’s vision and his words placed on the page. The fact that he co-wrote BONNIE AND CLYDE, which was part of the hallowed film class of 1967, makes this a wonderful time to honor him with our Dallas Star Award.”