The Texas Round-Up

Robert Benton shot all of Places in the Heart in Waxahachie, where he grew up, in the fall of 1983. A hotel became the bank, and a cotton gin came back to life.

Altman put nine of the film's ten weeks in Dallas: the Arboretum's Women's Garden, the NorthPark fountain, and a screenwriter from a Panhandle cotton town who had spent fifteen years as a script supervisor.

One theater with a filmmaker service menu, a Fort Worth that lost four rooms in four years, and the suburban historic houses that publish their rates. The North Texas edition.

We read the actual regulations at roughly a hundred film festivals in one week. More than a quarter were showing a dead deadline on their own website, and that was not the strangest thing we found.