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What Is Left to Say About Waco? ‘Waco: American Apocalypse’ Doesn’t Even Try
The Waco siege was made for television. From the opening volley of the February 28, 1993, raid on the Branch Davidians’ compound at Mount Carmel, which was captured in real time by a local news crew,...
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How ‘Hud’ Began Texas’s Love Affair With the Bastard
Texas reveres its heroes, but it relishes its bastards. Outlaws, card cheats, bank robbers, barroom brawlers: these are the grist for some of our most beloved stories and nearly all of our country...
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HBO Max’s ‘Love & Death’ Needed a Home for an Axe Killer. They Chose Mine.
Elizabeth Olsen pulls into my carport driving a wood-trimmed Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser. She lets it idle a moment, the wagon’s engine rattling like rusty chains inside a paint can, before she finally...
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How Elizabeth Olsen and Holly Hunter Captured the Not-So-Quiet Desperation of...
What makes the Texas woman unique? What makes her distinct from the demure Southern belle or the rugged, rifle-toting frontierswoman of the American West? As the novelist and Texas Monthly contributor...
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Frank Kozik Perfected the Rock Poster Into a Fine and Filthy Art
Betty Rubble’s hands are sheathed in gloves of shiny black leather as she pinches Wilma Flintstone’s nipple. Fred Flintstone looks on, his tongue lolling lasciviously out of the side of his cartoon...
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Tami Taylor, Mother of Texas
Plenty of films have been made about Texas football, but so few from a woman’s perspective. I’m being deliberately obtuse. Women in Texas football movies barely exist at all, other than as girlfriends,...
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Hayden Pedigo’s Perfect Song for Moving Across Texas
Restlessness permeates guitarist Hayden Pedigo’s music, much as it has his life. The Amarillo son has used myriad flights of fancy to escape his Panhandle isolation, including making absurdist comedy...
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‘Dazed and Confused’ at 30: Wooderson Gets Older, but His Philosophy Stays...
In 1995, my high school graduating class picked as its senior song the Lynyrd Skynyrd ballad “Tuesday’s Gone.” Frankly, there were few obvious alternatives. The ’93 and ’94 classes had already taken...
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Carolyn Pfeiffer on Marfa, Tutoring Claudia Cardinale, and Asking Michael...
If Carolyn Pfeiffer’s life were a movie, it would strain credulity. Her new memoir, Chasing the Panther: Adventures and Misadventures of a Cinematic Life, traces Pfeiffer’s improbable journey from...
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The Best Little Film Town in Texas
The Smithville film tour takes maybe twenty, thirty minutes tops, depending on how badly you want to see the road on which Miranda Lambert wrecks her car in the “Vice” music video. Many major locations...
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Leave ‘The Exorcist’ Alone
Few filmmakers have lowered themselves to such great heights as David Gordon Green. The Richardson-bred director earned rapturous early acclaim for his naturalistic, acutely observed human dramas. But...
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The Movie That Shattered the Dallas Cowboys Myth
North Dallas Forty (1979) is widely regarded as one of the best football films ever made, although this is sort of like calling Friday the 13th a great movie about camping. There are maybe four minutes...
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The Endless Assassination of John F. Kennedy
I’m on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository, a ring of corrugated boxes stacked so tightly around me I can practically breathe in their cardboard musk. Three more boxes sit at my knees,...
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The Horror Sequel That Made All of Texas Out to Be Insane
The Chain Saw Massacre might have been a perfectly fine title. It’s blunt and to the point, economical yet evocative. But it’s the “Texas” that really makes it sing. Setting the 1974 film here, in the...
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‘The Iron Claw’ Captures the Tragedy of the Von Erichs, but Not the Triumphs
If you came of age in Texas during the 1980s, you knew the Von Erichs. If you were like me, you loved, even worshipped, this dynasty of wrestling brothers from Denton County, despite not really knowing...
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Where Are All the Great Texas Christmas Movies?
Texas’s favorite Christmas movie is, of course, A Christmas Carol, which surely comes as no surprise to you. Jim Carrey’s take on Ebenezer Scrooge recently came first in a study of each state’s...
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Jesse Plemons’s 13 Most Unforgettable Roles
Talk to anyone who’s ever worked with Jesse Plemons—a list that includes some of the biggest names in film and television—and they inevitably will tell you that he doesn’t act. “He simply becomes a...
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How Jesse Plemons Came to Star in, Well, Pretty Much Everything
When Jesse Plemons goes quiet—and here on the front porch of his childhood home, thirty minutes east of Waco, Jesse Plemons has just gone quiet—you don’t know if you’re at the end of something or the...
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If Texas Has a Soul, It Lives in Matthew McConaughey
I moved to Austin in 1997, but I didn’t feel as though I’d truly arrived here until nearly nine months later, when I first saw Matthew McConaughey ambling alone down Sixth Street one late and beery...
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‘Gus Plus Us’ Offers a Glimpse of Texas Filmmaking’s Conservative Future
Digital subscribers can listen to this article. Subscribe today for audio stories and much more. Already a subscriber? Log in. When you’re a puppet, the simplest act can get complicated quickly. For...
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‘Blood Simple,’ the Coen Brothers’ Texas Noir Debut, Offered a Dark Motto for...
Filmmakers have long been drawn to “the Texan” as a character type. Our series Playing Texan revisits some of the most notable of these portrayals, from the legendary to the ludicrous, to determine...
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Why Are So Many Texas Movies About the Desire to Leave It?
Filmmakers have long been drawn to “the Texan” as a character type. Our series Playing Texan revisits some of the most notable of these portrayals, from the legendary to the ludicrous, to determine...
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Oliver Stone Brought ‘JFK’ Home
This October, fans of the horror classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre can attend a special fiftieth anniversary screening on the lawn of Hooper’s, the Kingsland restaurant that’s situated inside the...
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Can an Arthouse Cinema Succeed in Cattle Country?
For more than a hundred years—through both world wars, the Great Depression, and countless agricultural busts and booms—the residents of Clifton have been able to watch a movie at the Cliftex. The...
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LBJ’s Pop Culture Afterlife Offers a Lesson for Our Polarized Political Times
Filmmakers have long been drawn to “the Texan” as a character type. Our series Playing Texan revisits some of the most notable of these portrayals, from the legendary to the ludicrous, to determine...
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