Average rating: 4.00   80% from 1 member


The Thin Blue Line

Errol Morris's ("The Fog of War") documentary about a man wrongly convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a cop in Dallas in the seventies. Randall Adams: "If there was ever a hell on earth, it's Dallas County."
  • The Thin Blue Line on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Randall Adams,  David Harris,  Gus Rose
    Director: Errol Morris
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A reconstruction of the murder of Dallas policeman Robert Wood in 1976, through film clips and inter-views. A sixteen year old boy and a twenty-seven year old drifter were arrested for his murder and although the youngster bragged about being the murderer the police convicted the drifter.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 625 members

The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada

Fear and loathing on the Tex-Mex border by Tommy Lee Jones via Peckinpah's Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia.

Giant

James Dean's last movie, shot on location in Marfa.
  • Giant on DVD (1956)
    Starring: James Dean,  Elizabeth Taylor,  Rock Hudson
    Director: George Stevens
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Edna Ferber's best-selling family saga was the source of Stevens' sprawling epic, which stars Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean, in his last film appearance. When Texas cattleman Bick Benedict (Hudson) goes to Virginia in the early 1920s to buy a prize stallion, he falls in love with ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 2,039 members

The Wild Bunch

Classic Peckinpah. Angel: "Mexico lindo!" Lyle: "I don't see nothing lindo about it." Tector: "Just looks like more Texas to me."
  • The Wild Bunch on DVD (1969)
    Starring: William Holden,  Robert Ryan,  Ernest Borgnine
    Director: Sam Peckinpah
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    As a counterpoint to the heroic horde of THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, the ageing gunmen of Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece break the very laws of honour which bind them in this bloody and meditative tale of the American West--widely considered to be the self-conscious nail in the coffin of the genre. William ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 6,084 members

The Wendell Baker Story

Wilson brothers kookiness. Wendell Baker (Luke Wilson): "Mexico is everything the US could have been."

The Last Picture Show

West Texas small town life in the 1950s, based on the Larry McMurtry novel.

Slacker

Student life at the University of Texas, by Richard Linklater.
  • Slacker on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Richard Linklater,  Rudy Basquez,  Jean Caffeine
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    SLACKER, a unique slice-of-life series of linked but barely related episodes, follows the socially disconnected, overly educated, and barely motivated denizens of the coffeehouses, clubs, bars, apartments, stores, and streets of the college town of Austin, Texas. Richard Linklater's debut feature ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 1,927 member

Friday Night Lights

A West Texas town's obsession with high school football, based on the book by Buzz Bissinger.




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