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May 11th at 7:00 pm:  ST. NICK by David Lowery.
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Filmmakers in attendance!

About ST.NICK:  ST.NICK is the story of a brother and sister on the run.  He’s eleven, she’s eight.  They’ve left their home for some unknown reason, and are living in the woods, hiding in barns and sheds, doing what they can to survive.  As the bitter Texas winter sets in, they strike up residence in an abandoned country house and, for a brief, happy period, manage to escape the harsh realities of their circumstances.

Written and directed by Dallas based David Lowery, produced by Fort Worth based James Johnston, and shot almost entirely in Fort Worth, ST. NICK premiered at the 2009 SXSW Film Festival and went on to win awards at Dallas, St. Louis, and Thessaloniki.  It is currently being distributed by Brooklyn based Benten Films.

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The Lone Star Film Society has partnered with the Texas Independent Film Network (TIFN) and the Modern Art Museum to bring you Texas independent films.

The Whole Shootin’ Match
Modern Art Museum
Thursday, Apr 07, 2011 7:00 PM
The Lone Star Film Society, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and The Texas Independent Film Network Present:
“The Whole Shootin’ Match”

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St.Nick
Modern Art Museum
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 7:00 PM
The Lone Star Film Society, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and The Texas Independent Film Network Present:
“St.Nick”

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Harmony and Me
Modern Art Museum
Thursday, Jun 09, 2011 7:00 PM
The Lone Star Film Society, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and The Texas Independent Film Network Present:
“Happiness Is”

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“Special Note”

If you would like to donate to the Lone Star Film Society, please click the “Make A Donation” button below:

The Lone Star Film Society
and The Kimbell Art Museum
Present
“ROMA”
Sunday, March 13th, 2:00 PM
The Kimbell Art Museum Auditorium
Admission is FREE

The Lone Star Film Society cordially invites you to the screening of, ROMA on Sunday, March 13th, at 2:00 pm at the Kimbell Art Museum.

Synopsis of ROMA:  ROMA, the Federico Fellini-directed benchmark of the Italian New Wave, explores the city of Rome from several different perspectives, giving it a… ROMA, the Federico Fellini-directed benchmark of the Italian New Wave, explores the city of Rome from several different perspectives, giving it a mystical life of its own that hangs in the balance between its rich history and its modern identity. With no real chronology, ROMA is a tapestry of bizarre scenes and familiar images (Fellini peppers the film with easily identifiable references to his earlier works) that blend together into a gorgeous visual carnival. Typical of Fellini, with the carnival comes a critique–and ROMA tears through the city’s political and religious history, satirizing the Catholic church and various faces of Italian government from Renaissance times through Mussolini’s reign and on into the 1960s. While the camera lavishes affectionately over Rome’s art and architecture and is clearly a tribute to the Eternal City, most of the sets in the film are constructed, reinforcing Fellini’s narrative imagination and keeping viewers caught in a perpetual contradiction between reality and fantasy, history and the present, fact and fiction.  Subtitles in English. Continue reading

Tuesday, March 8th, 7:30 PM
Movie Tavern on West 7th

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The Lone Star Film Society cordially invites you to the Special Advance Screening of the new Focus Features release, JANE EYRE on Tuesday, March 8th, at 7:30 pm at the Movie Tavern Theatre on West 7th.  You are one of the very privileged few to have the opportunity to see this film before it is released into the theaters!

Tickets: FREE for guests of the Lone Star Film Society (Only two tickets allowed per guest), but you must RSVP.  Seating is limited and we will seat, First Come, First Seated.  An RSVP does not guarantee a seat.  Please plan to arrive early.

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The Texas Independent Film Network is proud to present EGGSHELLS, Tobe Hooper’s first feature film, made in 1969, a full five years before his seminal TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. Outside of a single appearance at SXSW 2009, this film hasn’t been seen in Texas in nearly 40 years.

As the Austin Chronicle’s Louis Black said, “Eggshells is a true 1968 film, psychedelic and political; it seems clear that Hooper had watched more than a film or two by Jean-Luc Godard. The film celebrates alternative lifestyles and politics and people and an odd, kinky semimysticism that is grounded more in humor than the supernatural. It captures what Austin looked like in the Sixties as well as the political sensibility shared by so many at the time.

As a period piece and/or as a psychedelic film and/or as a first effort by a gifted director, the film is well worth watching. But there is something more going on. Throughout Eggshells are the kinds of telltale camera movements, manipulations of POV, casually intricate cutting, and scenes that are mystifying and haunted, elements that all come to fruition in Chainsaw, where they harmoniously work together to create that horror film masterpiece.” Continue reading

T Bone Burnett, Chair of the Lone Star Film Society Honorary Board, was awarded two Grammys for  Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media, for his work on Crazy Heart, and Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media, along with Ryan Bingham, for “The Weary Kind (Theme From Crazy Heart)”.

On Wednesday, the president of the National Academy Of Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS) presented T Bone with the President’s Special Merit Award at an event attended by hundreds of recording artists, industry peers and luminaries.

As Senior Executive Director of NARAS’ Producers & Engineers Wing, Maureen Droney, stated, “[T Bone} is revered for the quality and integrity of his work. His career spans 40 years, yet he remains on the cutting edge and is eminently respected by his peers. I can’t think of a better individual to represent the spirit of this event, which celebrates the people who work behind the scenes to create music.”

For more information, visit T Bone’s site.

February 27, 2011, 6pm
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

The Lone Star Film Society, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Metroplex’s premiere online entertainment guide, DFW.com, join forces again to present the 3rd Annual Oscar Watching Party. Walk the red carpet at the Modern, where DFW.com’s crack team of entertainment junkies will be on hand to talk about the nominated movies and to tell you if your outfit is worthy of a nomination. Dust off your tiara, fluff up your tutu or polish your boxing gloves, because, once again, our celebrity judges will be on hand to award special prizes to the best Oscar-inspired costume of the year.
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Thursday, February 10th
7 pm
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Admission: Purchase tickets from the links on our homepage.

The Lone Star Film Society is proud to partner with the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Texas Independent Film Network on an innovative program to help emerging filmmakers seeking distribution for their films. To kick the series off, we will present three installments of films from legendary Texas filmmakers from before they made the big time. Continue reading

Sunday, January 16, 2pm
The Kimbell Art Museum Auditorium
Admission: Admission is FREE

A creative epicenter for generations of artists, Rome was the inspired setting for this short list of post-World War II masterpieces of Italian cinema. Directors Roberto Rossellini (whose 1945 classic ROME, OPEN CITY will kick of the series), Vittorio De Sica, and Federico Fellini provide unblinking portrayals of modern urban life, with all its complexities and hardships, humanism, and poetry.

Saturday, November 13
5pm
Four Day Weekend
Admission: Free to the Public

This very special award is bestowed on those who have shown unyielding efforts to support and foster the film community within Texas. The Awards ceremony features a cash bar, lots of fun, and also the announcement of the LSIFF 2010 award winning films. Don’t miss it. Visit our box office for tickets.
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