13 March 14 - 20, 2024 dallasobserver.com DALLAS OBSERVER Classified | MusiC | dish | Culture | unfair Park | Contents Mar 17 8:00 AM KTXA Sunday Mar 24 8:30 AM KTXA Sunday Mar 31 8:30 AM KTXA Sunday WHEN DEATH WAS DEFEATED In these chaotic days, we need hope! This Easter, find the promise of new life amidst the chaos! A classic Easter broadcast special from Jack Van Impe Ministries proclaims the power and importance of: • The Cross • The Empty Tomb • The Resurrection • And so much more! Dr. Jack Van Impe was a renowned Bible prophecy expert. In this teaching, he and Dr. Rexella Van Impe discusses Bible prophecy and the symbolism in the Resurrection story that points to these final days. Perfect for you and your family this Easter! Find the full broadcast schedule at www.jvim.com/when-death-was-defeated-schedule/ Dr. Rexella Van Impe Dr. Jack Van Impe “Successful? I don’t know. It doesn’t feel that way all the time when you’re working on a real low budget and you don’t have enough time or money to make your movie,” he says. “But maybe that’s it. I’ve just never cared about, I guess, the money or that result. I’ve really just focused on the next story I’m trying to tell and kind of avoided a certain kind of careerist trappings. Maybe staying in Texas probably was a good thing for my mental health.” It hasn’t been hard, he says, to sustain that balance, keep- ing a sense of artistic autonomy while avoiding industry money grabs and other Hollywood pitfalls. “You say no a lot,” he says. “I think you define yourself a lot in this world — it sounds corny or maybe you heard it: It’s like you kind of define yourself by what you don’t do. Just because you have opportunities doesn’t mean you have to do it. So the things I’ve turned down, the things I’ve not wanted to do that I could have, kind of defined you. It’s like, yeah, no, I’m really focused over here. I know that’s more money and that [I’ll] get to work with some big star, but I don’t really want to do that. I want to tell [my stories]. So just follow your own muse.” During the pandemic, his kids became an elite audience in a Linklater-selected, at-home film festival. He was glad they’d grown past the animated children’s movie days and into more sophisticated cinematic territory. (“I could not wait to get out of kid movies. We did that pretty quick. I’m a filmmaker, I was showing them stuff, but yeah, I could not wait until they were starting to ask me more about movies.”) “Say what you will, the pandemic was terrible, but we watched a movie every night,” he says. “These teenagers [would ask], ‘What movie are you going to watch now? Let’s do the French New Wave, or let’s watch films from Brazil.’ It was like my own little one-year curation, my own little film so- ciety in the family.” For all the brilliant dialogue that marks his own films, the uniting thread he never thinks about, Linklater isn’t surprised that the most quoted line from his movies was famously ad- libbed by Matthew McConaughey in Dazed and Confused. “He wasn’t even scheduled to work that night,” he says of his fellow Texan. “We worked up that scene and he just threw in that ‘All right, all right, all right’ — he said that as he was driving in, and I thought it was really funny.” Linklater remembers that “within a day or two after that,” the expression became a popular saying among the film crew. “I noticed a key grip say, ‘OK, we’re laying some dolly track over there. Let’s go do that. And [he] goes, ‘All right, all right, all right, all right.’ He was already repeating it,” Lin- klater says. “ And on one hand, I’m not surprised. I mean, of course you’re surprised when you see a T-shirt with it or something like that, that’s crazy. “Matthew … he’s earned it, I guess.”
