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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."
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The Thin Blue Line
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Randall Adams, David Harris, Gus Rose
Director: Errol Morris
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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.
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Fear and loathing on the Tex-Mex border by Tommy Lee Jones via Peckinpah's Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia.

James Dean's last movie, shot on location in Marfa.
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Giant
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson
Director: George Stevens
Certificate: 
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 »
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Classic Peckinpah. Angel: "Mexico lindo!"
Lyle: "I don't see nothing lindo about it."
Tector: "Just looks like more Texas to me."
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The Wild Bunch
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: William Holden, Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Certificate: 
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 »
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Wilson brothers kookiness. Wendell Baker (Luke Wilson): "Mexico is everything the US could have been."

West Texas small town life in the 1950s, based on the Larry McMurtry novel.
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The Last Picture Show
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Cybill Shepherd, Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
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Director Peter Bogdanovich (MASK, PAPER MOON) brings Larry McMurtry's bittersweet novel of life in a small, sleepy Texas town in the early 1950s to the big screen. This coming-of-age tale focuses on best friends Sonny Crawford (Timothy Bottoms) and Duane Jackson (Jeff Bridges) and their ..read more »
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Student life at the University of Texas, by Richard Linklater.
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Slacker
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Richard Linklater, Rudy Basquez, Jean Caffeine
Director: Richard Linklater
Certificate: 
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 »
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A West Texas town's obsession with high school football, based on the book by Buzz Bissinger.
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