The filmmaker who tackled the Kennedy assassination is coming to town for a mini-festival at the theater where Lee Harvey Oswald was caught.
Oliver Stone during the making of "JFK," which the director will be discussing at a screening at Texas Theatre this Friday.In the space of three years, Oliver Stone made three films in Dallas, an unusual number for any director but especially one not from Texas. “I know, I’m from New York!” Stone said with a laugh, when I connected with him over Zoom. uses the sun-dappled streets of Oak Cliff to tell a very American story of idealism curdling to betrayal.
Stone hangs with the cast of "Talk Radio," writer/star Eric Bogosian, Ellen Greene and Alec Baldwin., which was a very big production, and Texas was very attractive. It’s a right-to-work state, and the Texas Film Commission came after us aggressively. Come to Dallas, see our beautiful new studio out in Las Colinas. And Dallas had so many talented extras.
Dallas spent decades in denial about the Kennedy assassination. The Sixth Floor Museum didn’t open until 1989, shortly before you shot the film. And the movieblows the doors off history, creating that feeling that something just isn’t right. How hard was it to get permission to shoot in Dealey Plaza?There was a big fight. A lot of politicking behind the scenes. And Dealey Plaza was our first day of shooting. Can you imagine? With all those cars and the bang-bang echoing through the city.
. It’s very clear that Oswald was known to the CIA. I don’t want to get into all the arguments here, but that documentary is worth seeing.For a non-Dallas filmmaker, you’ve tackled some very essential Dallas stories. You came back to make the football filmWe were having a huge fight with the NFL. We couldn’t get stadiums, and we couldn’t get the jerseys or uniforms. We had to create our own parallel world.
Growing up at the State Fair was magic. Stepping into her father’s shoes, and overcoming a violent ordeal that happened as a young woman — that was the trickier part.The supermodel and her boyfriend Adan Banuelos attend an event at Teton Ridge’s TR9 ranch, but don’t expect any horse tricks.Leave it to Tim DeLaughter and a gang of dazzling visual collaborators to take pop music where it rarely goes — a planetarium.Sarah Hepola is a features staff writer.
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