A program Covid times called Cinematic Conversations
At the beginning of each week, the Dallas Video Fest lists a film on our website for participates to screen on their own during the week. Thursday evenings at 7:30 p.m. CST, people gather for a one hour Zoom conversation about that film. The zoom login is available on the DVF website and on our Facebook page. A special guest host selects the film and also joins the discussion each week. The session is 60 minutes, with about half the time devoted to Q&A with the guest host. Write to [email protected] for the zoom link and password
“We’re stuck in our homes, many of us and we’re watching movies, But most of us don’t have an opportunity to have an intellectual conversation about films. This allows us to do that.” Bart Weiss Artistic Director
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Mank with Professor Thomas Schatz author of Old Hollywood / New Hollywood: ritual, art, and industry and film historian Joseph McBride, author of three books on Welles,
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Bart Weiss and Jim Reid discuss Alfred Hitchcock‘s Shadow of a Doubt. May 28th 2020
Bart Weiss and Kelly Kitchens from KellyKitchensPR.com discuss Bringing Up Baby June 11th 2020
Bart Weiss and Christian Vasquez partial discussion of Hale County This Morning, This Evening June 25th, 2020
Bart Weiss and screenwriter Kevin Willmott discuss Da 5 Bloods, July 2nd 2020
Bart Weiss and journalist Matt Zoller Seitz discuss Salesman July 9th 2020
Bart Weiss and director Ray Santisteban discuss The First Rainbow Coalition July 16th 2020
Bart Weiss and Lisa Sanchelo from I Love that Movie Podcast discuss Roma July, 24th, 2020
Shilyh Warren and Logan Taylor discuss Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la Jeune Fille en Feu) July 30th 2020
Bart Weiss director Elizabeth Coffman, co-director Mark Bosco, and key collaborator, Ted Hardin discuss Flannery Aug. 6th, 2020
Bart Weiss and Fog of Truth podcast partner Christopher Reed discuss The Death of Stalin August 13th, 2020
Bart Weiss and RIck Worland discuss Night of the Living Dead Aug 20th 2020
Weds. August 26th 13th with Denton Black Film Festival Bart Weiss and Linda Eddy from Denton Black Film Festival discuss 13th with Joyce King, an accomplished author- national columnist- 22 years in radio – and the first non-jurist to serve on the Executive Board of Directors for the Innocence Project of Texas. Producer writer Michelle Redmond and Jasmine Jones Curator, Filmmaker, who continues to program incredible work Houston Museum of African American Culture Aug. 26th, 2020
Bart Weiss Discusses Disclosure with Director Sam Feder Sept 2nd, 2020
Bart Weiss and D Magazine Art Critic Peter Simek discuss Picnic at Hanging Rock Sept 9th 2020
Bart Weiss discusses Amarcord with Dr. Scott Churchill Sept 16th 2020
Bart Weiss discusses Gentleman’s Agreement, with Susan Kandell from 3 Stars Cinema
Bart Weiss discusses Capital in the Twenty-First Century with Bud Kennedy
Bart Weiss discusses Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb with Mark Lamster Oct 21st
Bart Weiss and Ben Levin Discuss The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara Oct 28th, 2020
Bart Weiss and Danny Gallagher discuss Feels Good Man Nov 4th 2020
Bart Weiss discusses Trial of the Chicago 7 with Gordon Quinn and Nancy
Nancy Kurshan Nov 11th, 2020
Bart Weiss discusses RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World with Julianna Brannum, Jodi Voice Yellowfish, Peter Jemison, and Stevie Salas – EP of Rumble Nov 18th
Bart Weiss discusses David Byrne & Spike Lee American Utopia with Manny Mendoza and Thor Christensen Nov 25th, 2020
Bart Weiss discusses what it was like on the 1987 Robocop set Janis Burklund, director of the Dallas Film Commission and others Dec 2nd, 2020
Bart Weiss discusses Spelling the Dream with Director Sam Rega and Screenwriter Chris Weller and from the film Akash and Amrita Vukoti Dec 9th, 2020
Bart Weiss discusses Black Christmas with Colin Tait Dec 16, 2020
Bart Weiss discusses It’s a Wonderful Life with Allan Holzman Dec 22nd 2020
Bart Weiss discusses Soul with Ya’ke Smith and Don Dixon in collaboration with Denton Black Film Festival Dec 30th, 2020
Artistic Director of Dallas VideoFest and 3 Stars Jewish Cinema Bart Weiss discusses Hester Street with Ferne Pearlstein ( director The Last Laugh), fellow 3 Star members, and filmmaker Cynthia Salzman Mondell and Allen Mondell, Peter Miller (Jews in Baseball, Sacco, and Vanzetti) and Sharon Pucker Rivo, Executive Director National Center for Jewish Film, Jan 7th, 2021.
Bart Weiss discusses Zodiac with Kip Mooney Jan 14th 2021
Bart Weiss and Veletta Forsythe-Lill discuss Fredrick Wiseman’s City Hall