AlamoGuide JanFeb2013

CALENDAR OF EVENTS JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2013
January-February 2013 Schedule of Special Events - for complete calendar and tickets visit www.drafthouse.com
COMING TO AN ALAMO NEAR YOU
SIGNATURE EVENTS
JANUARY 2013
MON TUES 1
Alamo Kids Club: MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO @ Lake Creek AUSTIN HIGH @ Ritz Terror Tuesday: CRAWLSPACE with director in person! @ Ritz
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WEDS 2
Alamo Kids Club: MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO @ Lake Creek High for the Holidays: BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW @ Ritz Weird Wednesday: THE BODY SHOP @ Ritz
THU 3
Alamo Kids Club: MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO @ Lake Creek Lamar Closing Night: BOOMBASH!!! @ Lamar Action Pack: FERRIS BUELLERS DAY OFF Quote-Along @ Ritz Action Pack: 80S Sing-Along @ Ritz
FRI 4
Action Pack: 80S Sing-Along @ Lake Creek The Late Show: EDWARD SCISSORHANDS @ Ritz
SAT 5
Big Screen Classics: DJANGO @ Ritz, Slaughter, & Lake Creek The Late Show: EDWARD SCISSORHANDS @ Ritz
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Big Screen Classics: DJANGO @ Lake Creek, Slaughter Gorilla Run: PLANET OF THE APES (1968) @ Ritz Zzzangarang!: BILL & TEDS EXCELLENT ADVENTURE @ Ritz Zzzangarang!: BILL & TEDS BOGUS JOURNEY @ Ritz
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Big Screen Classics: DJANGO @ Ritz Action Pack: THE BIG LEBOWSKI Quote-Along @ Slaughter Music Monday: APOCALYPSE A Bill Callahan Tour Film @ Ritz Music Monday: PURPLE RAIN @ Slaughter
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Big Screen Classics: DJANGO @ Slaughter Girlie Night: DIRTY DANCING @ Ritz Terror Tuesday: RAW FORCE @ Ritz
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Big Screen Classics: DJANGO @ Lake Creek Big Screen Classics: LAWRENCE OF ARABIA @ Ritz Man Crush: THE STING @ Slaughter Weird Wednesday: THE FACE WITH TWO LEFT FEET @ Ritz
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Action Pack: FERRIS BUELLERS DAY OFF Quote-Along @ Ritz Action Pack: 80S Sing-Along @ Ritz
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Action Pack: 80S Sing-Along @ Lake Creek GANGSTER SQUAD opens
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Big Screen Classics: THE BIG GUNDOWN @ Ritz Tough Guy Cinema: THEY LIVE @ Lake Creek Big Screen Classics: DIAL M FOR MURDER 3D @ Slaughter Action Pack: 80S Sing-Along @ Slaughter
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Big Screen Classics: THE BIG GUNDOWN @ Ritz Big Screen Classics: DIAL M FOR MURDER 3D @ Slaughter Zzang!!!: DEATH WISH 3 @ Ritz The UCE Presents: TO WONG FOO @ Ritz
Big Screen Classics: THE BIG GUNDOWN @ Ritz Music Monday: PURPLE RAIN @ Lake Creek, Slaughter Music Monday: WHAT DID YOU EXPECT @ Ritz Action Pack: THE BIG LEBOWSKI Quote-Along @ Slaughter
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Terror Tuesday: TREMORS @ Ritz
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Bangarang!: DICK TRACY @ Ritz Girlie Night: DIRTY DANCING @ Lake Creek AMOA & Edible Austin Present: NOW FORAGER @ Slaughter Weird Wednesday: SON OF BLOB @ Ritz
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Action Pack: FERRIS BUELLERS DAY OFF Quote-Along @ Ritz Tough Guy Cinema: THEY LIVE @ Lake Creek Big Screen Classics: LAWRENCE OF ARABIA @ Slaughter Action Pack: 80S Sing-Along @ Ritz
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Joel Hodgson Live: Riffing Myself @ Ritz Action Pack: 80S Sing-Along @ Lake Creek
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Broadway Brunch: GUYS & DOLLS @ Ritz Tough Guy Cinema: THEY LIVE @ Ritz, Slaughter Big Screen Classics: DIAL M FOR MURDER 3D @ Lake Creek Action Pack: 80S Sing-Along @ Slaughter
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RUSSELLMANIA!!! @ Ritz Big Screen Classics: LAWRENCE OF ARABIA @ Slaughter Big Screen Classics: DIAL M FOR MURDER 3D @ Lake Creek AGFA Deep Tracks: THE RETURN OF CAPTAIN INVINCIBLE @ Ritz
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Tough Guy Cinema: THEY LIVE @ Ritz Music Monday: PURPLE RAIN @ Lake Creek Music Monday: DEVIL & DANIEL JOHNSTON @ Ritz Action Pack: THE BIG LEBOWSKI Quote-Along @ Slaughter
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Girlie Night: DIRTY DANCING @ Ritz Terror Tuesday: NINJA III THE DOMINATION @ Ritz
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Big Screen Classics: DIAL M FOR MURDER 3D @ Lake Creek Girlie Night: DIRTY DANCING @ Slaughter Weird Wednesday: TEEN LUST with James Hong @ Ritz
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Action Pack: FERRIS BUELLERS DAY OFF Quote-Along @ Ritz, Lake Creek Tough Guy Cinema: THEY LIVE @ Slaughter Action Pack: 80S Sing-Along @ Ritz
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Master Pancake: TERMINATOR 2 @ Ritz Action Pack: 80S Sing-Along @ Lake Creek
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Kids Club: KING KONG VS. GODZILLA @ Ritz 70mm: THE UNTOUCHABLES @ Ritz Afternoon Tea: THE KINGS SPEECH @ Lake Creek Action Pack: 80S Sing-Along @ Slaughter
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BACK TO THE FUTURE Marathon @ Lake Creek, Slaughter Action Pack: FERRIS BUELLERS DAY OFF Quote-Along @ Slaughter 70 mm: THE UNTOUCHABLES @ Ritz Video Hate Squad: DEVIL STORY @ Ritz
70 mm: THE UNTOUCHABLES @ Ritz Music Monday: BEWARE OF MR. BAKER @ Ritz Action Pack: THE BIG LEBOWSKI Quote-Along @ Slaughter
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Man Crush: THE STING @ Ritz
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THE LOVE GOD with Joe Bob Briggs @ Ritz Action Pack: FERRIS BUELLERS DAY OFF Quote-Along @ Slaughter Weird Wednesday: BIG BAD MAMA with Joe Bob Briggs @ Ritz
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Action Pack: MOULIN ROUGE Quote-Along @ Ritz AMADEUS @ Lake Creek Action Pack: LOVE BITES Sing-Along @ Ritz
Terror Tuesday: TRICK OR TREAT @ Ritz
COMING TO AN ALAMO NEAR YOU
SIGNATURE EVENTS
FEBRUARY 2013
MON TUES WEDS THU
SUN
FRI 1
Master Pancake: CASABLANCA @ Ritz Action Pack: 80S Sing-Along @ Lake Creek
SAT 2
Master Pancake: CASABLANCA @ Ritz SIDE BY SIDE @ Ritz Dinner Party: GROUNDHOG DAY @ Lake Creek, Slaughter STARSHIP TROOPERS with Edward Neumeier @ Ritz Action Pack: 80S Sing-Along @ Slaughter
SIDE BY SIDE @ Ritz THE LEMON GROVE KIDS MEET THE MONSTERS @ Ritz Cinema Club: CRACKING UP @ Ritz Asian Invasion: LIFELINE @ Ritz
Cinema Cocktails: PENNIES FROM HEAVEN @ Ritz Music Monday: STREETS OF FIRE @ Ritz Action Pack: THE BIG LEBOWSKI Quote-Along @ Slaughter
Cinema Cocktails: PENNIES FROM HEAVEN @ Ritz Terror Tuesday: RACE WITH THE DEVIL @ Ritz
Girlie Night: THE NOTEBOOK @ Lake Creek Weird Wednesday: GONE WITH THE POPE @ Ritz
Action Pack: MOULIN ROUGE Quote-Along @ Ritz Bangarang! TRUE ROMANCE @ Lake Creek Action Pack: LOVE BITES Sing-Along @ Ritz
Master Pancake: CASABLANCA @ Ritz Action Pack: 80S Sing-Along @ Lake Creek Action Pack: MOULIN ROUGE Quote-Along @ Slaughter
Master Pancake: CASABLANCA @ Ritz
Broadway Brunch: FUNNY GIRL @ Ritz 70 mm: VERTIGO @ Ritz Big Screen Classics: SINGIN IN THE RAIN @ Lake Creek Action Pack: 80S Sing-Along @ Slaughter
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Broadway Brunch: FUNNY GIRL @ Ritz 70 mm: VERTIGO @ Ritz Big Screen Classics: SINGIN IN THE RAIN @ Lake Creek Action Pack: MOULIN ROUGE Quote-Along @ Lake Creek
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Music Monday: STRANGER THAN PARADISE @ Ritz AGFA Deep Tracks: TURNAROUND @ Ritz Action Pack: THE BIG LEBOWSKI Quote-Along @ Slaughter
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Girlie Night: THE NOTEBOOK @ Ritz Terror Tuesday: THE HIDDEN @ Ritz
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THE WORLDS GREATEST SINNER @ Ritz Action Pack: LOVE BITES Sing-Along @ Lake Creek, Slaughter Weird Wednesday: EAT OUT MORE OFTEN RUDY RAY MOORE LIVE! @ Ritz
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Action Pack: MOULIN ROUGE Quote-Along @ Ritz BEFORE SUNRISE Valentines Feast @ Lake Creek, Slaughter Master Pancake: OBSESSED @ Lake Creek IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT Valentines Feast @ Village
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Master Pancake: CASABLANCA @ Ritz Action Pack: 80S Sing-Along @ Lake Creek A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD opens
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Master Pancake: CASABLANCA @ Ritz Big Screen Classics: SINGIN IN THE RAIN @ Village, Slaughter Action Pack: 80S Sing-Along @ Slaughter
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Big Screen Classics: SINGIN IN THE RAIN @ Village, Slaughter Master Pancake: OBSESSED @ Ritz Tough Guy Cinema: THE TERMINATOR @ Lake Creek Video Hate Squad: HAMBURGER THE MOTION PICTURE @ Ritz
Bangarang!: TRUE ROMANCE @ Ritz Music Monday: PAUL WILLIAMS: STILL ALIVE @ Ritz Action Pack: THE BIG LEBOWSKI Quote-Along @ Slaughter
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Girlie Night: THE NOTEBOOK @ Ritz
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Bangarang!: TRUE ROMANCE @ Ritz Girlie Night: THE NOTEBOOK @ Slaughter Weird Wednesday: MASSACRE OF PLEASURE @ Ritz
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OFFICE SPACE Quote-Along @ Ritz Action Pack: 80S Sing-Along @ Ritz
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Master Pancake: ARMAGEDDON @ Ritz Action Pack: 80S Sing-Along @ Lake Creek
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Master Pancake: ARMAGEDDON @ Ritz PAUL WILLIAMS: STILL ALIVE @ Ritz Kids Club: RETURN TO OZ @ Ritz Afternoon Tea: THE YOUNG VICTORIA @ Lake Creek Action Pack: 80S Sing-Along @ Slaughter
Terror Tuesday: INVASION OF THE BLOOD FARMERS @ Ritz
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Action Pack: 80S Sing-Along @ Village
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Tough Guy Cinema: THE TERMINATOR @ Ritz Music Monday: GET CRAZY @ Ritz Action Pack: THE BIG LEBOWSKI Quote-Along @ Slaughter
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Man Crush: BENNY & JOON @ Ritz Terror Tuesday: MAUSOLEUM @ Ritz
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Tough Guy Cinema: THE TERMINATOR @ Ritz Weird Wednesday: SURPRISE TITLE @ Ritz
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DAZED AND CONFUSED Quote-Along @ Ritz JIGGY CRUNK Sing-Along @ Ritz
NEW RELEASES
THE SEASONS FRESHEST FILM FARE, FROM EXPLOSIVE HOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTERS TO THE BUZZ-WORTHIEST INDIE DRAMAS AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN.
ZERO DARK THIRTY
PROMISED LAND Opens 1/4 TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 3D Opens 1/4

Prepare to have your face ripped off! IN 3D! In 1974, THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE was released. Five kids. A Volkswagen van. And the inhuman, cannibalistic Sawyer family. To the landscape of horror cinema, this was pretty much the equivalent of God floating down to earth, erasing all forms of disease, and incinerating white people with cornrows. In other words, TCM changed everything and made the world better. After four decades of semi-sequels, requels, and reboots, the franchise returns with TEXAS CHAINSAW 3D, the first-ever direct sequel to the original film. TCM3D gets down to what really counts. Theres no attempt at irony. No smug selfawareness. This is Leatherface in all his glory -- hacking, chopping, and sawing everything that gets in his path, while opening up a new world of possibilities for the infamous Sawyer family. This movie isnt another re-imagining. Its a reason to throw up your fists and rejoice. With TEXAS CHAINSAW director/writer/creator Tobe Hoopers approval and appearances from original series cast members Marilyn Burns (Sally from TCM), Bill Moseley (Choptop from TCM2), and Gunnar Hansen (the original Leatherface!), this is the one that gets it right. (Joseph A. Ziemba) Gus Van Sant teams up with Matt Damon and John Krasinski in this political drama, which focuses on two corporate associates visiting a small, rural town. Their goal is to obtain drilling rights for the land, but the locals are hesitant. The main resistance comes from a teacher who fights their attempts with help and support from many in the community. The script was written by Damon and Krasinki, who usually work in front of the camera. They, along with Frances McDormand and Rosmarie Dewitt, also lead the impressive cast. With Van Sant at the helm PROMISED LAND is a political and emotional gut punch: a rarity in todays Hollywood.
GANGSTER SQUAD Opens 1/11

Los Angeles in 1949 was anything but the City of Angels. Sean Penn stars as Mickey, the New York-born mob king who oversees the majority of L.A.s drugs, guns, and prostitutes. This is Mickeys town from his hired goons to the corrupt politicians and police. Everyone works for Mickey. That is except for a few LAPD straight shooters, led by Josh Brolin and Ryan Gosling, whose main goal is to take Mickey down. Emma Stone, Giovanni Ribisi, Robert Patrick, and Anthony Mackie round out a stellar cast. This is a throwback to 1940s Hollywood, an industry that thrived on film noir and gangster pictures.
ZERO DARK THIRTY Opens 1/11

Director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boals highly anticipated follow-up to the critically acclaimed, game changing Best Picture winner THE HURT LOCKER is nothing short of a masterpiece. The film focuses on the 10-year manhunt and killing of Osama bin Laden at the hands of SEAL Team Six. While the eventual end of the terrorist leader will not be a surprise Bigelow and Boal tackle the subject in complicated and interesting ways, making a film that delivers on all fronts. The cast, headed by Jason Clarke and Jessica Chastain, is equally impressive. With ZERO DARK THIRTY Bigelow and Boal create a relevant and complicated military thriller for our time.
NEW RELEASES
JOHN DIES AT THE END Opens 1/25

Don Coscarelli is the creative cyclone behind PHANTASM, THE BEASTMASTER, and BUBBA HO-TEP. JOHN DIES AT THE END is Don Coscarellis first full-length movie in a decade. Its a totally unpredictable (and totally awesome) horror-comedy gorefest with a gigantic frozen meat monster. These are all facts. Soy Sauce is a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. In fact, its so out-ofbody that it enables users to achieve inter-dimensional travel. And also come back to earth as monsters. John (Rob Mayes) and Dave (Chase Williamson) are college dropouts that partake of the Sauce while trying to make a living as ghostbusters. Naturally, an otherworldly assault soon threatens the entire universe and its up to John and Dave to save humanity. Thats where normalcy ends. Disgusting insects! Hell! Paul Giamatti as a curmudgeon reporter! Based on David Wongs cult novel of the same name, JOHN DIES AT THE END is like a mutant three-way between John Carpenter, William S. Burroughs, and THE ICE PIRATES. There are lysergic tangents, slimy creature effects, and seriously unhinged gags that will make you laugh. And then cringe. And then ask yourself how its possible to have so much fun while wondering why your face has turned into a bug. Basically, youll never look at Soy Sauce the same way again. Thats the Coscarelli guarantee. (Joseph A. Ziemba)
THE LAST STAND Opens 1/18

AHNULD teams up with Jackass Johnny Knoxville in THE LAST STAND. Schwarzenegger plays an ex-LAPD officer who, after a failed operation, is now resigned to being the sheriff of a sleepy border town. His days of playing solitaire on his computer are over when an escaped drug kingpin is heading his way in an attempt to get to Mexico. Now the sheriff and his ragtag police force must ban together and get ready for the face off of their lives. This much potential for silliness and explosions should make any Schwarzenegger fan giddy!
SIDE EFFECTS Opens 2/8

Rooney Mara stars as Emily, a woman who has taken to prescription drugs to deal with her recent anxiety. Most of it stems from her husbands (Channing Tatum) upcoming release from prison. The pills seem to be working as the two begin to slowly fall back into a loving marriage. Soon, though, things unravel as Emily begins to have unexplainable, dangerous side effects to the medication that lead to startling revelations. Co-starring Jude Law and Catherine Zeta-Jones, Steven Soderberghs SIDE EFFECTS is a taut and sophisticated psychological thriller.
WARM BODIES Opens 2/1

Upending the zombie genre WARM BODIES follows R, a zombie who is walking the earth doing what his kind do: grunt, moan and search for brains. R craves them specifically to get high on the memories they hold. Things get interesting when he eats the brains of a suicidal teen and, by doing so, falls in love with the guys girlfriend. Eventually their idiosyncratic relationship builds a bridge between the dead and undead, the effects of which are bigger than the two could imagine. John Malkovich and Rob Corddry co-star in this funny, unlikely romantic comedy that proves that you dont need a pulse to have a heart.
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES Opens 2/13

For those who are sad to see the TWILIGHT series come to an end can get their supernatural romantic fix with BEAUTIFUL CREATURES. When Lena comes to the small southern town of Gaitlin she quickly catches the eye of young Ethan. He wants nothing more than to get out of his boring hometown and is drawn to Lenas outsider nature. But his interest in her is tested when he learns that she possesses supernatural powers. Soon after, the two begin to uncover dark secrets about the town and their families. BEAUTIFUL CREATURES is anything but your usual comingof-age romance.
A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD Opens 2/14

Bruce Willis is back again as John McClane and this time hes keeping things in the family. In the franchises fifth installment McClane travels to Russia to help his estranged son, Jack, only to find out that Jack a CIA agent whos on assignment in Europe to stop a nuclear weapons heist. Now its up to father and son to save the world from nothing less than total destruction. We all knew one McClane kicking ass was awesome, so the thought of two may take us to an unprecedented badass level for the DIE HARD franchise. Yippee Ki-Yay!
THE ACTION PACK
TAKE YOUR LOVE OF POP CULTURE TO THE NEXT LEVEL WITH ACTION PACKS INTERACTIVE MOVIES, PARTIES AND EVENTS!
FERRIS BUELLERS DAY OFF Quote-Along
THE BIG LEBOWSKI Quote-Along Dirs. The Coen Brothers, 1998, R, 117 min SR Mondays
Man, this is one of those movies that you dont just quote-along with when youre watching it; if youre at all like me you quote this movie every day, all through your regular life, and at times you forget that some of the things you say all the time are actually from the movie. Well from now on, that aggression will not stand, man, because at long last the Action Pack has put together THE BIG LEBOWSKI Quote-Along and we cant wait to see all of our Little Lebowski Urban Achievers out at the theater. As always with a Quote-Along, all of your favorite lines will be subtitled karaoke-style so it will be easy to yell out, Nobody f*cks with the Jesus! at exactly the right time (youre on your own for getting the accent, though). Well have a giant-sized bowling game on stage before the film, a bunch of props to help make the best moments of the film come to life (including a bag of Walters dirty whites) and MORE!
THE TOTALLY 80s Sing-Along LC 1/ 4, 1/11, 1/18 : RZ 1/ 3, 1/10, 1/17, 1/24 : SR 1/12, 1/19, 1/26 : VL 1/13, 1/20, 1/27
The Action Pack is proud to announce that, beginning this January, were going to have weekly Totally 80s Parties at a whole bunch of Alamo theaters, and every weeks show will be a completely new mix! Youre going to need a closet full of leg warmers and expect to go through several pairs of fishnet gloves. Each week youll get an new mix of subtitled music videos featuring all of the best pop artists of the 80s, youll never see the same show twice. As you read this, our Action Pack DJs are hard at work creating mixes that move from Def Leppard to Madonna with a healthy dose of Depeche Mode to bridge the gap. Of course each week well also have an assortment of extra props and favors to make the show a party, so expect plenty of glow sticks, balloons, streamers and more. Oh yeah! And because thats not enough excitement well also have our emcees open each show with a karaoke contest. Its going to be the raddest party of 2013, every week of the year! (Henri Mazza)
THE ACTION PACK

FERRIS BUELLERS DAY OFF Quote-Along Dir. John Hughes, 1986, PG-13, 103 min RZ 1/3, 1/10, 1/17, 1/24 : LC 1/20, 1/24 : VL 1/20, 1/24 : SR 1/27, 1/30
Is there anyone cooler than Ferris Bueller? Obviously, thats a rhetorical question, because its not scientifically possible for anyone to be as rad as Americas favorite teenager playing hooky. In this 1986 John Hughes film, Ferris (Matthew Broderick) serves as a role model for adolescents everywhere, and his wisdom continues to inspire multitudes of high school students hoping to turn their ordinary day into something extraordinary. Want to fake out your parents? Just set up a stereo system with sounds of snoring and an elaborate rope pulley and mannequin system. Want to impress your girlfriend and best friend? Climb onto a parade float .. and sing the crap out of Danke Schoen! Even though no one can ever achieve Ferris level of greatness, the Action Pack is giving you the chance to step into the shoes of a legend with our latest quote-along. Shell out golden advice in Ferris smart aleck style, moan along with Cameron in Egypt-land and, of course, sing your heart out to Twist and Shout. Save Ferris! (Sarah Pitre)
MOULIN ROUGE Sing-Along Dir. Baz Luhrmann, 2001, PG-13, 127 min RZ 1/31, 2/7, 2/14 : SR 2/8 : LC 2/10
If youre a true romantic, you already know the story: Christian (Ewan McGregor) moves to Paris to pursue a Bohemian lifestyle and then of course falls into a doomed love affair with Satine (Nicole Kidman), the most beautiful girl at the Moulin Rouge. But until youve seen the movie and sung the songs and learned that lesson in a movie theater with 200 other heart-swept people, youll never really know what its like to be in love. Your heart will swell! Your lungs will burst! Your brain will explode with rainbows! Bring a date, or else make sure you choose your seat carefully, because you WILL end up falling in love with the person sitting next to you. As always, well have props for some special interaction, including blinking rings for Diamonds Are a Girls Best Friend and green glow sticks for the Green Fairy. And start warming up your leg muscles now, because were kicking off this whole shebang with a Can-Can dance contest! Your gift is your song, so come give it all youve got at the Moulin Rouge.
LOVE BITES Sing-Along RZ 1/31, 2/7, 2/14 : LC 2/13 : VL 2/8, 2/9 : SR 2/13
Its a fact: there is no better way to celebrate Valentines Day (and really, the entire month of February) than by singing and pumping your fist in the air to a soul shaking collection of both pro-love and love sucks power ballad music video hits from the 80s and 90s. Well celebrate the best artists of both decades with hits from the likes of Journey, Bryan Adams, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Seal, The Bangles, Def Leppard, Night Ranger, Meatloaf, Bonnie Tyler, Poison, Cyndi Lauper, Guns N Roses, and lots more! And as with every Action Pack Sing-Along, all of the music videos have been lovingly subtitled by hand so the lyrics are on screen for the entire crowd to sing-along to. Well hold lighters in the air and sway, well pound our fists at the sky in defiance of those who would dare not love us, and well do it all with teased hair and animal print tights on. Its the perfect dinner date or postdinner date or even no date activity! Youll fall in love with the music, after all, and thats all that matters. PLUS! Well start the night out with an air guitar competition featuring actual air guitars, as well as some special prizes for the winner of our Power Ballads Costume Contest - so get your 80s attire ready and your hair nice and big! (Henri Mazza)
DAZED AND CONFUSED Quote-Along Dir. Richard Linklater, 1993, R, 102 min RITZ 2/28
When DAZED AND CONFUSED hit the big screen in 1993, it made every living teenager wish they could go back in time to 1976. That was the year when a 14-year-old could buy alcohol without getting carded; when high school seniors could paddle the crap out of freshmen; when people could cruise around town with their trunks full of beer and their brains steeped in pot. If youve ever wanted to discuss George Washingtons alien obsession with Slater (Rory Cochrane) or hit on high school girls with Wooderson (Matthew McConaughey), the Action Pack is finally giving you the chance to party 1976-style with our DAZED AND CONFUSED Quote-Along! Weve subtitled your favorite lines so you can scream at freshmen with Darla (Parker Posey), praise Martha Washington for being such a hip, hip lady and sing along with the classic soundtrack. Freshmen, beware, because well be passing out paddles and other props (but no weed, sorry). This cinematic flashback will be more than just alright-- itll be alright, alright, alright! (Sarah Pitre)
FOOD & FILM
SO MUCH MORE THAN DINNER AND A MOVIE.
Valentines Day Feast: IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
Dinner Party: GROUNDHOG DAY Dir. Harold Ramis, 1993, PG, 101 min LC 2/2 : SR 2/2 Bangarang!: HOOK w/ Lost Boy Imaginary Feast! Dir. Steven Spielberg, 1991, PG, 144 min VL 12/30 : SR 1/3
THE PAN IS BACK! Peter is all grown up and Hook has kidnapped his kids and its up to Tink and the Lost Boys to remind him how to believe again. Some people might try and convince you that this movie is the bad apple of the Steve Spielberg bushel, but I am here to tell you that THOSE PEOPLE ARE FOOLS. This December, its time to remind yourself to never grow up and take the first star to your right and straight on til morning as we travel back to 1991 to celebrate the completely unnecessary but spectacularly enjoyable HOOK with the most imaginative (see what I did there) Lost Boy Supper you could ever dream of! Bangarang Peter...BANGARANG!!!!!!!!! (Greg MacLennan) At first, Harold Ramis GROUNDHOG DAY seems like a typical Bill Murray comedy, with the iconic leading man standing one step away from the rest of humanity, always quick with an ironic insult. But the film cleverly turns Murrays sarcastic outsider persona against him, and the film evolves into a sweet fable about humanity. Murray plays Phil Connors, an egotistical Pittsburgh weatherman who hates nothing more than Groundhog Day. He detests covering the annual festival in nearby Punxsutawney, Pa., and he especially despises sharing his name with the towns celebrated rodent. Phil hopes to get in and out of the small town as soon as possible, but a blizzard strands him overnight and Phil wakes up to find out there is no next day. Its still Feb. 2. Outside the people of Punxsutawney are celebrating Groundhog Day as if the previous 24 hours never happened and Phil is the only one caught in a feeling of deja vu gone wild! Now you can enjoy this instant comedy classic with a delicious menu that makes you relive the same ingredients over and over again in many different, mouthwatering ways!
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FOOD & FILM
Cinema Cocktails: PENNIES FROM HEAVEN Dir. Herbert Ross, 1981, R, 108 min RZ 2/4 & 2/5
Theres a world on both sides of the rainbow where songs come true and every time it rains, it rains...Herbert Ross (FUNNY GIRL, FOOTLOOSE) reteams Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters up in an attempt to recapture the romantic fireworks they created on that beach in THE JERK. And it worksthe ukulele strums at our heartstrings, and the magic of on-screen chemistry erupts off the screen. Here, Martin makes his first dramatic turn as an unsuccessful sheet music salesman who embarks on a sordid affair with a beautiful school teacher. The twists and turns along the way are far too tragic to spoil, but this dramatic musical is a complicated piece of dazzling spectacle and heart-wrenching drama. Its a stylized Depression-era piece where the characters escape into their imaginations and use popular songs of the time to express their inner longings for sex, money, and romance. If the allure of brightly colored, lavish musical sequences accompanied by custom, handcrafted (and delicious) cocktails arent enough for you, maybe the sight of Christopher Walken as a pimp strip/tap-dancing to Lets Misbehave will get you to the theater. (Greg MacLennan)
Valentines Day Feast: IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT Dir. Frank Capra, 1934, NR, 105 min VL 2/14
The comedies of the 30s and 40s are filled with runaway heiresses and the rambunctious cads that fall in love with them, but few manage to capture the sparkling chemistry achieved in this Oscar-winning Claudette Colbert/Clark Gable production. Colbert plays a spoiled, rich girl desperate to escape her fathers overbearing clutches and return to the arms of the man she loves, aviator King Westley. On the run from Miami to New York, she meets up with Peter Warne (Gable), a down-on-his-luck reporter whos stumbled upon the story of the century. Though his initial intentions are strictly geared toward his journalistic salvation, romance soon rears its head and the whole affair soon blooms into a semi-sweet adventure of legendary proportions. The film harkens back to an era of wit, charm and unfettered entertainment, made all the more perfect by a multi-course feast prepared for you and your main squeeze.
Valentines Day Feast: BEFORE SUNRISE Dir. Richard Linklater, 1995, R, 105 min LC 2/14 : SR 2/14
Richard Linklaters simple and beautiful tale of two travelers who decide to make an unexpected night in Vienna together one they will never forget. Ethan Hawke plays an American writer, Jesse and the always stunnning Julie Delpy is Celine, a French grad student. On a train ride from Budapest the two spark up a conversation, which leads to Jesse asking if Celine wants to spend the day with him. What starts as a casual encounter soon becomes an opus of deeply romantic interplay as Jesse and Celine slowly unmask their souls throughout the evening developing a strong bond neither can deny or resist. Looming is the inevitably or their departure as Jesse has to leave for home in the morning. Unapologetically, unabashedly romantic BEFORE SUNRISE is a perfect film to share with the one you love. This perfect night will be made even better as you enjoy it with an arrays of delicious courses inspired by the film.
Cinema Cocktails: NOISES OFF! Dir. Peter Bogdanovich, 1992, PG-13, 101 min RZ
The comedy where everyone gets caught in the act! Peter Bogdanovich directs Sir Michael Caine, Carol Burnett, Marilu Henner, John Ritter, and Christopher Reeve in this tale of a traveling theatre group engaging in perfect nonsense. If you love a dry, mean Michael Caine, wait till you see him flabbergasted as he tries to herd the cats of this theatre troupe into their opening night. Its a joyous adaptation of a play about the production of a bad one where actors act like actors and everything that can go wrong...does. The screwball dialogue is sharp, and the slapstick hits hard in this doomed production of drunks and the insane. If we can find a Michael Caine movie with alcohol, you can almost guarantee we are going to tap Bill Norris on the shoulder to handcraft some custom-made cocktails for an evening of hilarity and tasty beverages. So, grab a ticket and prepare yourself to get drunk on an evening of theatre, like the band playing on as the Titanic sank. (Greg MacLennan)
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MASTER PANCAKE
AUSTINS OWN AWARD-WINNING MOVIE MOCKING MAESTROS. FEATURING SLACKER WISECRACKER JOHN ERLER AND HIS PARTNER JOE PARSONS.
TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY
TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY Dir. James Cameron, 1991, R, 154 min RZ 1/11, 1/19, 1/25
Come see the hecklers of Master Pancake this January as we pull the plug on TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (1991). Also subtitled Youre not my REAL Dad, Terminator, this inventive sequel finds the Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) becoming a foster parent.to a disgruntled youth (Edward Furlong) who is driven to rebellion by the lofty expectations of his Mom (Linda Hamilton) and her equally lofty she-mullet. After being pursued by a mercurial Policeman (Robert Patrick) the movie climaxes with the Terminator taking his own life in a vat of lava, thus giving credence to the old adage: He who smelted it, dealt it. Forgive us our puns as we trespass against this 90s icon and pass sentence on Judgment Day this January. (John)
CASABLANCA Dir. Michael Curtiz, 1942, R, 102 min RZ 2/1, 2/2, 2/8, 2/9
You must remember this: mark your calendar for early February as Master Pancake mocks the romantic classic CASABLANCA (1942), featuring Humphrey Bogart as Rick - the Sam Malone of Morocco - and Ingrid Bergman as his Diane Chambers, plus more Nazis than you can shake a Swastika at. See the hecklers of Master Pancake point out the movies shoddy production values (what happened to the color?) and glaring homoerotic subtexts (the beginning of a beautiful friendship? Get a room!). You wont want to miss this rare event: never before or again will Master Pancake mock a movie featuring both Peter Lorre AND Sydney Greenstreet. Come enjoy as Master Pancake applies the fundamental things to CASABLANCA this February! (John)
OBSESSED Dir. Steve Shill, 2009, PG-13, 108 min RZ

Celebrate Valentines Week as Master Pancake shoots an arrow through the heart of OBSESSED (2009). Panned by critics -- a dismal 20% on Rotten Tomatoes -this glossy thriller has so much eye candy youll need to go home and floss your eyeballs when its done. Beyonce Knowles stars as a suburban housewife (right!). Idris Elba (THE WIRE, PROMETHEUS) plays her husband Derek, an executive at a financial firm. Ali Larter (VARSITY BLUES, LEGALLY BLONDE) is the deranged new temp at the office who takes one look at Dereks portfolio and decides she has to manage his assets. But not if Sasha Fierce has anything to say about it: the movie climaxes in a catfight so epic that it won the MTV Movie Award for Best Fight and helped get Razzie nods for both Beyonce and Larter. This VDay weekend come see Master Pancake slap a restraining order on OBSESSED. (John)
ARMAGEDDON Dir. Michael Bay, 1998, PG-13, 153 min RZ 2/22 & 2/23
This Spring you wont want to miss a thing as Master Pancake nukes ARMAGEDDON (1998). Michael Bays scientifically preposterous space opus features Bruce Willis as the worlds greatest deep-core driller, Harry Stamper, who is recruited to save the earth from a giant asteroid. The film boasts a huge cast of personalities (Owen Wilson, Steve Buscemi, Michael Clarke Duncan), laughable science, and a love scene involving Liv Tyler and Ben Affleck doing foreplay with animal crackers while her real-life dad Steven Tyler belts out a love song on the soundtrack. This February/March come see Master Pancake (John Erler, Joe Parsons) and special guest Charlie Hodge obliterate ARMAGEDDON. (John)
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Mystery Movie Mock w/ Joel Hodgson RZ 1/18 Joel Hodgson Live: RIFFING MYSELF RZ 1/18
Joel Hodgson, the genius creator of the Peabody Award-winning Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) and Cinematic Titanic, comes to the Alamo Drafthouse for an undeniably special engagement -- his brand new one-man show: Riffing Myself. The mastermind behind movie riffing opens up about life and the origins of his comedic career, beginning with a quest to find the ultimate ventriloquist dummy. Expect to delve deep into the history of B-movies, hear the legendary origin story behind MST3K and its humble beginnings at local Minneapolis-St.Paul station KTMA TV 23, and the host of TV pilots and other projects that have made up Joels professional life. Get to know the man who provided you with countless laughs on the Satellite of Love alongside Tom Servo, Crow T. Robot, Gypsy, Cambot, and everybodys favorite Magic Voice with an evening of rich stories, hilarious anecdotes, and some tender moments mixed in. (Sam Prime) In the not too distant future...the stars and planets have truly aligned to bring you the best Master Pancake show yet! Joel Hodgson, the creator and star of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and the undisputed maestro of movie-mocking will join the Master Pancake troupe for a special engagement riff session. Whats the movie? Well, its a bit of a mystery, you see, so we arent allowed to reveal it just yet. We can, however, say this: its a bit of a legend round these parts. Master Pancake Theater is part of the Alamo tradition of pairing bad movies with live comedy (and beer)! Its smart, fast, and bust-a-gut funny. Voted BEST COMEDY TROUPE the last four years by the readers of the Austin Chronicle (2008-2011), Master Pancake features slacker wise-cracker John Erler, his partner Joe Parsons, and a rotating band of Austins funniest comics going up against the worst that Hollywood has to offer. From Pancakes John Erler himself, about Hodgson and MST3Ks influence on Master Pancake: We wouldnt be doing what were doing without MST3K. Were huge fans. You wont want to miss this once-in-a-lifetime engagement! (Sam Prime)
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PURPLE RAIN Dir. Albert Magnoli, 1984, R, 111 min SR 1/7 & 1/14 : LC 1/14 & 1/21 : VL 1/21 & 1/28
There are vanity projects, and then theres PURPLE RAIN. In his semiautobiographical film debut, Prince stars as The Kid, a hard luck boy from Minneapolis who dresses like a swarthy pirate and is desperate to catch his big break and launch his musical career. Hes also desperate for love and really angry about his messed up parents (apparently their fighting sounds like doves crying, which is soooo annoying). He meets a girl, a beautiful young singer named Apollonia (played by... Apollonia) and it seems like everything might just work out... but of course it doesnt. Basically, PURPLE RAIN is a showcase for Princes musical numbers and his aforementioned swishy pirate regalia. Clunky and implausible, it probably should never have been green-lighted by any studio in its right mind. But thankfully it was. Not only was it just made, but it was a pretty big hit. And, because of the accompanying album, the world knows the glory of When Doves Cry, Lets Go Crazy, and of course, Purple Rain.
APOCALYPSE: A BILL CALLAHAN TOUR FILM Dir. Hanly Banks, 2012, NR, 60 min RZ 1/7
For the past 25 years, under both the Smog moniker and under his own name, Bill Callahan has cultivated an indelible legacy as both a pioneer in the lo-fi movement, and a songwriting talent thats developed into simply one of our countrys greatest. Offering voyeuristic glimpses into a meticulously constructed universe of disaffection and disorder, his painfully intimate songs ping-ponging wildly through a scrapbook of childhood recollections, failed relationships, bizarre fetishes, and dashed hopes. (AMG) Shot on the U.S. leg of his 2011 tour, APOCALYPSE: A BILL CALLAHAN TOUR FILM is an impressionistic collection of live performances and scenes from the road. Filmmaker Hanly Banks explores the changing landscape through the windows of Bills tour van through California, the midwest, and back to the Big Apple, in a psychedelic tapestry of footage from one of the most talked-about traveling acts of last summer. (The Cinefamily)
WHAT DID YOU EXPECT?: ARCHERS OF LOAF LIVE AT CATS CRADLE Dir. Gorman Bechard, 2012, NR, 89 min RZ 1/14
Combining in-your-face concert footage along with rare interviews of the band, WHAT DID YOU EXPECT? documents the Archers of Loafs 2011 reunion tour and captures the excitement and explosive energy of two hometown concerts played at Cats Cradle in Chapel Hill, NC. In director Gorman Bechards book, Archers of Loaf were the greatest indie rock band of the 90s. No one had more energy on stage. No one put out better records. And to be able to capture that power on film was a challenge and a thrill. Featuring twenty songs with concert audio, including such favorites such as Audiowhore and Web In Front, as well as rarities like Bacteria and All Hail the Black Market. In between the songs, all four band members weigh in on subjects ranging from how exactly they came up with what is considered one of the worst band names of all time, to whats changed about life on the road since 1991, and how they actually miss their old van.
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THE DEVIL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON Dir. Jeff Feuerzeig, 2005, PG-13, 110 min, 35mm RZ 1/21
Artfully melding current footage, vintage performances, home movies, and dozens of recorded audiotapes, director Jeff Feuerzeigs 2005 doc superbly depicts the brilliance and madness that go hand in hand with subject Daniel Johnston -- the immensely talented, deeply troubled reclusive artist and one of our citys beloved folk heroes. Johnstons near lifelong struggles with manic depression with delusions of grandeur, his wild fluctuations, numerous downward spirals, and periodic respites are examined in a moving -- and often thoroughly heartbreaking -- way. Testimony from supportive friends and a deeply committed family add a rich layer to his personal history, but it is Johnstons poetic songs interwoven throughout the film, that tell their own passionate, haunting, and truly unforgettable story.
BEWARE OF MR. BAKER Dir. Jay Bulger, 2012, UR, 100 min RZ 1/28
If you recognize the name Ginger Baker, you likely recall his involvement in the British rock supergroup Cream and/or the blues-rock band Blind Faith as the infamous drummer. However, it wasnt until the early 1970s that Baker achieved his artistic prime. During a concert tour to Nigeria, Baker met influential afrobeat musician Fela Kuti and in that one moment forever altered his perception of what music was, could be, and ought to affect. Baker spent six years in total living in Nigeria, working closely with the father of Afrobeat as a kind of musical and spiritual cleansing the purity of devoting yourself to music as an art form, instead of simply a means to a paycheck. However, after Baker left Nigeria in 1976, the temptations of the modern rock world proved too seductive and Bakers life story takes a regrettable downturn. As Baker looks back on his life in the present, though, the regrets are few. Living life in fierce, bold directions has its consequences and takes its toll. His story is of a man who has experienced a rollercoaster of a life and has survived to share stories and pass on some laughs before everything is said and done. (Sam Prime)
STREETS OF FIRE Dir. Walter Hill, 1983, PG, 93 min, 35mm RZ 2/4
STREETS OF FIRE is quite simply my favorite film of all time. Its been said that Walter Hill is a real mans director, but this is belied by the cross-gender, crosscontinental cult appeal of his rock n roll masterpiece of vigilante justice. Originally intended as a trilogy until American audiences broke Hills heart with poor box office, STREETS OF FIRE stars heartthrob Michael Pare (notice I didnt say former heartthrob) as Tom Cody, a soldier of fortune who is summoned by his sister (THE WARRIORS super-tuff Deborah Van Valkenberg) to rescue his old flame, rock goddess Ellen Aim (a 19-year old Diane Lane) from a pack of PVC-clad bikers from the wrong end of town (who are headed up by Willem Dafoe and Fears Lee Ving). Add to this mix Rick Moranis as Ellens current boyfriend/manager Billy Fish, a tough-as nails Amy Madigan as Codys sidekick McCoy, an early appearance by Bill Paxton, and the always effervescent 80s staple E.G. Daily and youve got yourself a movie that can pretty much do no wrong. The merits of STREETS OF FIRE are many: its stunning production design, its no-fat dialogue, its crew of rotating editors who set the standard for modern editing techniques (for better or for worse), and of course, the music - courtesy of songwriters Jim Steinmann and Stevie Nicks, and amazingly bolstered by The Blasters as the house band at Torchies Bar (Torchies itself being a consistent character in Hills early films). Dont miss this rare bigscreen celebration of everything that is good and right about movies. After all, tonight is what it means to be young! (Kier-La Janisse)
STRANGER THAN PARADISE Dir. Jim Jarmusch, 1984, R, 89 min, 35mm RZ 2/11
Nearly thirty years ago, Jim Jarmusch launched onto the international film scene with his second feature film following PERMANENT VACATION, a part-road trip, part-minimalist East Village masterpiece: STRANGER THAN PARADISE. Made for about $90,000, the film took the film festival circuit by storm as the American independent feature film of the year, winning a Special Jury Prize at Sundance, the Golden Lion at Locarno, and lastly the prestigious Camera dOr, awarded for best first theatrically-distributed feature film. Shot and composed to the hypnotic and essential score by composer/actor John Lurie, with some Screamin Jay Hawkins thrown in for good measure, STRANGER THAN PARADISE proves a humble amalgam of talent, a bunch of soon-to-be-famous friends who made a movie together. STRANGER THAN PARADISE is the starting point for collaborations that would last a lifetime most notably Jarmusch, Lurie, and his then-girlfriend, now wife, Sara Driver. The music is of a time and place, just as the story of the film affects an aimless nostalgia for nothing in particular. Characteristic of young men and women of the 80s, STRANGER THAN PARADISE also rings true with todays youth, who similarly search for relevance in an increasingly unfamiliar world. Come and join us for the ride. (Sam Prime)
PAUL WILLIAMS STILL ALIVE Dir. Stephen Kessler, 2011, PG-13, 87 min RZ 2/18
Paul Williams is unquestionably one of the greatest songwriters of last century and there was a time in the 1970s that everywhere you looked, you saw Paul Williams. From Brian De Palmas PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE to episodes of THE LOVE BOAT, his songwriting made him an international superstar. However, the congenial and jovial Paul Williams that the public knew back then was a far different character than his offstage persona, one that relied heavily on drugs and alcohol to maintain a high-functioning rock n roll lifestyle. As a result, Williams faded into the ether and seemingly disappeared from pop relevance. Director Stephen Kessler, touched by Williams music, learns that he is in fact still alive and so reaches out to him about making a documentary. Initially an objective flashback on a life lived and fame given up for mental health, PAUL WILLIAMS STILL ALIVE becomes something altogether different, a film essay where the director is as much part of the narrative as the subject himself. Williams and Kessler evoke a strained, if amiable, relationship that is hilariously genuine and that gradually reveals how a man whose ego spun out of control has harnessed his demons, remained sober, and now celebrates life. (Sam Prime)
GET CRAZY Dir. Allan Arkush, 1983, R, 92 min, 35mm RZ 2/25

Arkushs follow-up to his beloved ROCK N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL offers up an even more outrageous look at rock, roll, sex and drugs! Its New Years Eve in New York City and a wicked promoter has a plan to hatch a massive concert at the biggest venue in town. As the bands and the fans start showing up at The Saturn, things do indeed Get Crazy. Every conceivable musical stereotype is on the lineup for the night: a Bob Dylan-esque character played by Lou Reed; Reggie Wanker (Malcolm McDowell), an egotistical rocker in the Mick Jagger mold who ends up having a conversation with his penis; and an all-girl new-wave band called Nada who arrive in a beat up old Chevy with a license plate that says GET BENT. The trunk pops open and out comes the bands secret weapon: an aggressive punk rock maniac named Piggy (Fears Lee Ving). He immediately bashes his head into a wall, signs a contract by smashing his skull into the form and punches a stagehand in the gut. Go Piggy! The rest of the insane cast includes tons of cult movie favorites and rockers including Mary Woronov, Paul Bartel, Clint Howard, Dick Miller, Linnea Quigley and many more! Rabid, manic and totally raging!
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RAW FORCE aka KUNG FU CANNIBALS Dir. Edward D. Murphy, 1982, R, 86 min, 35mm RZ 1/8
Time to grab a shotgun and take a double-barrel blast straight to the forehead, because you CAN NOT TAKE the epochal omegawave that is, was and always will be RAW fucking FORCE!!! If you think youve been entertained in the past, here is your white-hot scholarship to FUN SCHOOL!! Blue-skinned undead samurai? Check! Cannibalistic rump-chasing monks? Yes sir!! Drunken kung-fu yacht party? To the max!!! Wall-eyed flesh-trading seaplane pilot with a Hitler moustache? Man ohhh MAN!!! In absolute honesty, all this is just the tip of the trashberg! Blowtorches blaze, teeth fly, bullets zing, dialogue is botched and cages full of virgins are sent to their heartless demise! So packed with action, youll have to blink every three seconds to keep your eyes from catching on fire! The legendary Cameron Mitchell (THE TOOLBOX MURDERS) semi-stars in this Filipino/American co-production that would have brought the world to its knees if it wasnt 200,000 YEARS AHEAD OF ITS TIME! If you see just one movie in your entire life, it better be here, now, tonight: RAW FORCE! If youre blind, deaf and comatose, only one film will STILL kick your ass through the wall: RAW FORCE!! Look, I dont care if youre reading this at a funeral...scream it out loud right now: RAAWWW FORRRCE!!! (Zack)
CRAWLSPACE with writer/director LIVE! Dir. David Schmoeller, 1986, 80 min, 35mm RZ 1/1
Vein-throbbing, foaming, red-eyed maniac Klaus Kinski was the most notorious wildman to ever torment a filmmaker. His on- and off-screen rampages against his collaborators are the stuff of legend, and have been the subject of documentaries, articles and countless muttered rumors. In Kinskis autobiography, he detailed several of these thunderous clashes (a few chapters after allegedly having sex with his teenage sister), but none were more epic than the chaos tornado he caused on the set of CRAWLSPACE. By 1986, the German actor had achieved absolute delusional godhood, and no director could stand in the way of his selfdeclared genius. Not even underappreciated David Schmoeller, the man behind overlooked horror treasure TOURIST TRAP, could rein in Kinskis mania for a story about an ex-Nazi landlord who tortures and annihilates his slum-dwelling boarders. The result is a deeply uncomfortable celluloid war between a monstrous megalomaniac and the universe that could not hold him. (Zack)
TREMORS Dir. Ron Underwood, 1990, PG-13, 96 min, 35mm RZ 1/15

We at Terror Tuesday always strive to present you with unseen treaures and R-rated (!) obscurities, but sometimes its more important to just grab whats good and slap it on the screen. TREMORS was the last great American monster movie, filled with hell-spawned wildness and family-friendly gore created before computers showed up to permanently poop the party. The plot: carnivorous, subterranean wormbeasts gobble up the townsfolk of Perfection, Nevada, chasing hobos up telephone poles and swallowing station wagons whole. Kevin Bacon battles the hideous giant worms with a gusto not seen since FOOTLOOSE. At his side is the incredible Fred Ward, BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINAs Victor Egg Chen Wong and Reba McEntire and FAMILY TIES Michael Gross as gun-obsessed survivalists! Followed by three sequels and a TV series that are straight doodoo. (Zack)
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TRICK OR TREAT Dir. Charles Martin Smith, 1986, 98 min, R, 35mm RZ 1/29
In the mid-80s metal was king, and headbanging horror was a film genre onto itself. Video age ragers like BLACK ROSES, SHOCK EM DEAD and ROCK N ROLL NIGHTMARE illustrated the many dangers of Satans mix tapes. But TRICK OR TREAT shreds through all competition, unveiling the story of hard-rocking geek Eddie (Marc Price a.k.a. Skippy from FAMILY TIES) and his devotion to recently deceased sonic hellmaster Sammi Curr. When an eviled-up Curr returns from the grave (via backwards masking, of course), things heat up for anyone whos ever done Eddie wrong, and soon a small town is awash in the flames of blazing retribution in this action-injected showdown between the human race and the unstoppable forces of The Dark Lord himself! Featuring a blistering soundtrack plus cameos from ear mangling warriors Ozzy Osbourne and Gene Simmons! HAIL SATAN!! (Zack)
NINJA III: THE DOMINATION Dir. Sam Firstenberg, 1984, R, 92 min, 35mm RZ 1/22
Before you go and throw some damn fool fit about how this isnt even a horror movie, or how its unacceptable that Terror Tuesday would run ANY film from the director of BREAKIN 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO, youd better consider some facts. First off, NINJA III is a straight-up supernatural possession epic; the blue-collar martial arts cousin to the almighty original EXORCIST. Only in this case, lil Linda Blair is exchanged for high-kicking aerobics instructor Lucinda Dickey, lead actress from (yep) BREAKIN 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO. And her soul is controlled -- not by a demon -- but by a blood-starved ninja master-bastard bent on vengeance and supreme annihilation. The opening golf course slaughterstorm immediately sets the stage for an IQ-shattering attack against all five senses. Oh, and dont worry if youve never seen the two previous NINJA installments...because the folks who made this one sure seem to be in the same boat. (Zack)
RACE WITH THE DEVIL Dir. Jack Starrett, 1975, PG, 88 min, 35mm RZ 2/5
When you race with the Devil...youd better be faster than HELL. Everyone knows that the best entertainment is made by Satan. Those of you who regularly attend this series and Weird Wednesday have a familiarity with his talents, and are no doubt huge fans of his work. RACE WITH THE DEVIL ranks with THE EXORCIST and ROSEMARYS BABY as his finest achievements, this film having the advantage of containing zero babies/children. Instead, youll be scorched by a brimstoneblazing array of Texan black arts cultists performing bone-shattering automotive stunts, wicked sacrifices and kamikaze attacks. On the receiving end of Satans three-pronged pokey stick are Peter Fonda and the immeasurably talented Warren Oates as two urban goofballs whove taken their wives out into the badlands for an RV getaway. Turns out RV stands for Ritual Violence, and these big city lunks are in for a bare-fisted firestorm of Luciferial wrath. One of the single greatest movies ever released. No shit. (Zack)
THE HIDDEN Dir. Jack Sholder, 1987, R, 96 min, 35mm RZ 2/12

Alien invaders are such major turds! They come to our planet completely uninvited, take over our bodies, listen to blistering heavy metal, commit explosive, murderous crimes and then exit our bullet-ridden corpses to possess a new host. So rude! Well, in 1987, Jack Sholder decided he wasnt gonna stand for it any more and directed the most white-knuckle-violent xenophobic action meltdown in horror history! An L.A. cop must face off against an interplanetary body-hopping convict with a penchant for machine guns, rocket launchers and flamethrowers. No one is spared: old men, police sergeants and strippers are all direct targets for this pan-galactic parasitic jerkwad. Luckily, the local law enforcement is joined by a mysterious laser-bearing stranger (TWIN PEAKS Kyle MacLachlan) who seems dead-set on extraterrestrial eradication. Featuring countless savage shoot-outs and an unconditional disregard for human life, THE HIDDEN tops the charts as a 100% unparalleled rocket-fueled brutalityfest! (Zack)
INVASION OF THE BLOOD FARMERS Dir. Ed Adlum, 1972, PG, 84 min, 35mm RZ 2/19
All right. Enough pussyfootin around. Were unleashing the celluloid beast! When films bear titles like I DISMEMBER MAMA and I EAT YOU SKIN, theyre immediately destined to send them into the Golden Halls of exploitation infamy. Sadly, some of these movies dont live up to the misanthropic promise of their monickers. BUT! This omegacrazed barnburner is so intent on meeting, exceeding, and just-plain-eating expectations that it sent early 70s audiences into a whole new dimension; one jam-packed with unhinged Druidic cults, mad scientists, psychopathic hillbillies, mummified goddesses, vampirism and the most deeply nightmarish cast in low-budget history! A hyperdriven whirlwind of violence, insanity, black magic and overalls, unstoppable in its frenzy to disgust and entertain. Essential!! (Zack)
MAUSOLEUM Dir. Michael Dugan, 1983, R, 96 min, 35mm RZ 2/26

Some horror movies came to being solely to prove that true entertainment has NO RULES. Dig to the bottom of the 80s terrorbarrel, and beneath all the latex disfigurements and blood-soaked lingerie, youll find this sparkling gem of lowbudget filth. A woman (professional naked lady Bobbie Bresee) is infected with some of that no-good Satanic darkness upon visiting her mothers grave, and she soon embarks on a logic-defying spree of telekinetic head-burstings, sexual mutilations and high-octane unholy transformations, including one memorable segment where her breasts become carnivorous goblin heads. This inevitably leads to some stress in her relationship with her husband, played by notorious screen dud/former child evangelist Marjoe Gortner, as well as SANFORD & SONs wisecracking LaWanda Page as the maid who wont take shit from demons or anyone else. Throw in one crazed gardener, Mephisto-spawned lazerlight and a brutal disregard for all rational motives or dialogue, and youre in for the best sub-zero-intellect cinematic aneurysm of your life. (Zack)
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THE BODY SHOP Dir. J.G. Patterson Jr., 1973, X, 73 min, 35mm RZ 1/2
The Doctor Is Out... Of His Mind! Astonishingly, epically weird regional madscientist/horror oddity. When a plastic surgeon loses his wife Anita he becomes completely unhinged and makes plans to create a new, even more perfect Anita 2.0 using spare parts he finds attached to other women who are actually using them already. In other words, he kills a bunch of women and chops them up, but he has a reason. A number of movies have been made with this premise, but none has ever been as incompetent and crazily compelling as this effort from backwoods North Carolina magician and live spook show impresario Pat Patterson. Patterson, who is probably the most unattractive man in the history of the planet, seduces young beauties at will, and with his hunchbacked assistant (named Greg, naturally) he soon has the laboratory awash in blood and gore - or possibly raspberry jello, which is exactly what it looks like. More laughs per second than practically any other movie youve seen - THE BODY SHOP is unmissable! (Lars)
SON OF BLOB Dir. Larry Hagman, 1972, NR, 91 min, 35mm RZ 1/16
In the years before Dallas the late Larry Hagman was best known as the buttoned-down astronaut who dreamed of Jeannie. But secretly he had a wild streak high and wide enough to land a 747 on. When he wasnt toasting another sunrise with his next-door neighbor Keith Moon or dropping acid with David Crosby he was working hard to get this, his dream project, made. Its a very strange, very loose sequel to the 1958 teen horror classic THE BLOB. The free-wheeling performances and absurdist humor are unlike any other movie weve ever seen. Hagman was obsessed with making this movie, often going without sleep for days on end, deeply worrying his friends and associates. Unfortunately the film was critically ignored upon release and Hagman retreated to the forest where he lived like an animal for several years before accepting the role of J.R. Ewing and becoming the man you love to hate. More popular than ever, he was nonetheless a scorned man whose one-of-a-kind film-making genius has never been fully appreciated. Until now. Join us for this very rare screening of Larry Hagmans one and only film as a director. (Lars)
THE FACE WITH TWO LEFT FEET Dir. Neri Parenti, 1979, NR, 87 min, 35mm RZ 1/9
The Italian film industry had a pretty good track record throughout the 80s for identifying a popular movie trend and latching on to it, making rip-off after rip-off until the market was saturated. They did it with muscleman movies, westerns, vigilante films, post-apocalyptic road rallies, and many more. If there was even a little money left in the piggy bank, the Italians were there with a hammer in five seconds. Which brings us to this weird little item, also known as THE LONELY DESTINY OF JOHN TRAVOLTO. Its the first and only Travoltasploitation movie. Its about a hotel cook named Gianni who cant dance but is frustratingly in love with the sexy blonde DJ (Cicciolina) at the nightclub Johns Fever. When one of the cooks coworkers draws a mustache and beard on a poster of John Travolta everyone somehow finally notices that Gianni looks exactly like Travolta and the game is on. From then on, its all about transforming the schlub into a disco machine, and winning the ladys heart. Stupid, offensive and illegal in 19 countries. Youre welcome. IN ITALIAN ONLY - NOBODY SAID THIS SHIT WAS GOING TO BE EASY! (Lars)
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TEEN LUST With Director James Hong In Person! Dir. James Hong, 1979, R, 89 min, 35mm RZ 1/23
Holy shit! This outrageous farce, directed by longtime character actor James Hong, is like a wholly American distillation of late-period Luis Bunuel. Good taste is roughly elbowed aside and black-humored perversity reigns inside as we are introduced to lovely young Carol (Kristen Baker), a police academy cadet who has family problems. Her gross father is always on the make for her, her mother drinks like a sailor on a three-day shore leave, and her model-airplane obsessed retarded brother wants to marry her. Fortunately she has her police work, which largely consists of dressing like a hooker and being groped by perps, that is when shes not being groped by the other cops. Her problems arent confined to home and work though, even when she tries to spend a little quiet time with her hot-rodding boyfriend, shes dragged from the car by a gang of amorous 8-year-olds (while the theme from THE PEOPLES COURT blasts on the soundtrack). When she seeks religious counsel, the family priest tells her hes gay, and that all Hitler needed was a hug, which only serves to confuse her. But the confusion is just beginning as things really get strange. (Lars)
BIG BAD MAMA with Special Co-Host Joe Bob Briggs Dir. Steve Carver, 1974, R, 84 min, 35mm RZ 1/30
In the 60s and 70s moviegoers really got a nostalgic hard-on for Americas shady criminal past. BONNIE AND CLYDE really set it off of course, along with DILLINGER, CHINATOWN, THE GODFATHER, THE STING and many more. By 1974 the cycle seemed to have pretty much run its course. That was when Roger Cormans New World pictures entered the fray with this charming little number. And they cleaned up at the box office. BIG BAD MAMA was one of the top grossers of the year. Angie Dickinson, looking like the centerfold of Readers Digest, stars as the foxy no-good mother of two foxy no-good daughters: Robbie Lee (SWITCHBLADE SISTERS) and Susan Sennett (Candy from THE CANDY SNATCHERS). Together they ramble all over the depression-era heartland, conning and fleecing every sucker they can find. Its a violent, funny, fast-paced classic and youll love it. Costarring Big Bill Shatner as the only man in the universe who could tame Big Bad Mama. (Lars)
GONE WITH THE POPE Dir. Duke Mitchell, 1976, NR, 83 min, 35mm RZ 2/6
A hustling crook gets the bright idea to kidnap the pope and demand $1 ransom from every Catholic on the planet! Its a pretty great premise, but this recently rediscovered film has so much more. The writer/director/star Duke Mitchell had been kicking around in show business for years, including a stint as a Dean Martin impersonator, before picking up a camera and doing it himself. His film MASSACRE MAFIA STYLE was promising enough with its brutal violence and goombah philosophizing, but GONE WITH THE POPE is a major movie rediscovery. Mitchells dark but humane worldview is given full expression here and the movie is loaded with action, humor and real heart. Unforgettable and truly great. (Lars)
RUDY RAY MOORE: EAT OUT MORE OFTEN Dir. Rudy Ray Moore, 1970, NR, 35mm RZ 2/13
A mega-rare 35mm screening of the late, great comic Rudy Ray Moores standup film. Moore was a highly idiosyncratic comic who had a long career traveling the chitlin circuit of black nightclubs and doing comedy routines that were a raw mix of gags, insult humor and proto-rap music. It was an odd mix, and also hysterically funny. Moores DOLEMITE movies were a big success so this concert movie was made to satisfy audiences who loved Dolemite as well as Richard Pryors meteorically popular stand-up movies. Like all of Moores work it exceeds every expectation of strangeness, much of it is dubbed, and Moores act is full of obscure references, but its all very funny, even if you find yourself scratching your head afterwards. (Lars)
MASSACRE OF PLEASURE Dir. Jean-Pierre Bastid, 1966, NR, 70 min, 35mm RZ 2/20
Completely insane French crime-sex film with a gorgeous high contrast visual aesthetic and a jumbled plot that exists for no other reason than to propel the viewer from one unsavory scene of sex or violence to another. A Rosetta Stone of sleaze that Im still trying to decipher years later. It seems to be about a drug and prostitution ring that puts a contract out on its rivals but the film was extensively re-edited by the American distributor to eliminate any time-wasting scenes of plot exposition so its often hard to determine who that naked woman is or why those junkies are beating that guy up. No complaints though. A cluster bomb of sex, violence and pure mid-60s European Cool. I really cant compare this to any other movie, its more like a particularly vicious black and white dream that messes up your whole day. (Lars)
SURPRISE TITLE RZ 2/27

Continuing our new tradition of blind offerings from the film vaults, this is a rare screening of a movie youve probably never seen before. These surprise screenings have encompassed all genres from kids movies to freewheeling drug-mania, and all points in between. The common denominator: all are brain-smashingly amazing. A warning in advance to everyone who tries to pry the title out of me in advance dont waste my time with small bills. (Lars)
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A NEW AND CONTINUING SERIES DEDICATED TO EXHIBITION OF FILM ON THE LEGENDARY 70MM FORMAT.
70mm: THE UNTOUCHABLES
70mm: THE UNTOUCHABLES Dir. Brian De Palma, 1987, R, 119 min, 70mm RZ 1/26 - 1/28
De Palmas thrilling, historical crime epic shown in seventy larger than life millimeters! Federal Agent Eliot Ness, played by a thin, wiry Kevin Costner, is on a mission to bust the most notorious gangster of our modern era, bootlegger Al Capone (Robert De Niro). The year is 1930. The place is Chicago. The good intentions meant by the Volstead Act pave a dubious road to hell: one that includes competitive organized crime, secret saloons known as speakeasies, and corruption that goes from the State St. gutter trash to the very top. This windy city pastel noir runs dark with a tincture of blood and booze, featuring an Oscarwinning performance by Sean Connery as Irish-American officer Jim Malone and a memorable homage in a striking end sequence to Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisensteins BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (1925). Paired with custom Prohibition-era cocktails by our Beverage Director, Bill Norris, THE UNTOUCHABLES on 70mm is a must-see! (Sam Prime)
70mm: VERTIGO Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1958, NR, 129 min, 70mm RZ 2/9 & 2/10
Although Hitchocks tale of murder and obsession is now hailed as a masterpiece that wasnt the case when it was first released in 1958, and its easy to see why. Filled with original ideas and bold choices and themes VERTIGO was, for lack of a better term, ahead of its time. Jimmy Stewart plays the films central figure, retired detective Scottie Ferguson and his performance is a brilliant mix of contained internal struggle and showy melodrama. Matching Stewarts crazily perfect and bizarre turn is the gorgeous Kim Novak, who tackles the tricky role of Scotties love interest. The great Saul Bass contributes mesmerizing title sequences along with a trippy dream sequence and Bernard Hermanns score is beautiful, chilling and timeless. All these things are great, but most of all VERTIGO displays Hitchcock working at the top of his powers. He takes chances and succeeds wildly on all fronts. Now you can experience all of these elements working together in perfect cinematic harmony in big, beautiful 70mm!! (R.J. LaForce)
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NEW AND OLD BELOVED TREASURES OF THE CINEMA BROUGHT BACK TO THE BIG SCREEN.
BIG SCREEN CLASSICS
DJANGO
DJANGO Dir. Sergio Corbucci, 1966, NR, 91 min LC 1/6, 1/9 : SR 1/6, 1/8 : RZ 1/7 : VL 1/7, 1/10
Back when Quentin Tarantino was still in a booster seat, this rampaging, vengeance-crazed Italian powderkeg ripped open the spaghetti western genre, leaving a trail of corpses and about a hundred sequels and knock-offs. Unmatched euro-star Franco Nero is Django, a tortured drifter who wanders the populated wastelands of a nightmarish west, dragging a heavy coffin through the sands behind him. He stumbles across a small, dying town filled with banditos, racists and unwashed psychopaths, and it doesnt take long before the lead heats up and the bodies lay cold. Sure, Sergio Leones iconic Man with No Name trilogy had already firmly established the European western, but DJANGO director Corbucci assaulted it with as much grit, grime, rage and mania as youd find in the actual lawless days of free-range homicide. Its a major achievement in dust-choked, breakneck misanthropy, now restored and ready for rediscovery in the light of the new Tarantino film (which also co-stars Franco Django Nero himself!). So drink a gallon of kerosene, set your mother on fire and head on down to the Ritz for the most explosive, amoral, blood-hungry western of the 20th century: DJANGO!!
DIAL M FOR MURDER 3D Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1954, PG, 105 min SR : 1/12 & 1/13 LC 1/19, 1/20, 1/23 : VL 1/28 & 1/31
Alfred Hitchcocks DIAL M FOR MURDER (1954) is back on the big screen and digitally-restored to its original eye-popping 3D format! Shot in Natural Vision, a format that introduced the world to 3D cinema in 1953 with titles like Arch Obolers Bwana Devil and Andr de Toths House of Wax, Hitchcocks tale is a drawing room thriller, a story of domestic horror that is born from within. Noted Hollywood actor Ray Milland portrays Tony Wendice, an ex-tennis pro who gives up fame and fortune for the woman he loves, Margot Mary Wendice (the inimitable Grace Kelly). Upon learning that his wife is engaged in a torrid affair with an American crimefiction writer, who then shortly thereafter pays the married couple a personal and unwelcome visit, Tony becomes filled with anxiety, jealousy, and intense rage. He crafts a brilliant and devious plan to strike back against his unfaithful wife, but nothing quite goes as planned. DIAL M FOR MURDER shows what happens when the perfect murder... goes perfectly wrong.
SINGIN IN THE RAIN Dirs. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952, G, 103 min LC 2/9 & 2/10 : VL 2/16 & 2/17 : SR 2/16 & 2/17
There are two types of people in the world: Those who love the classic musical extravaganza SINGIN IN THE RAIN and those who havent got around to seeing it yet. Hollywoods last great masterpiece of entertainment, SINGIN IN THE RAIN is a heartwarming love story, a fabulous comedy, and a loving tribute to Hollywood history that is at once educational and hilarious. And the songs. You cannot forget about the songs. Even the unlucky few who havent been graced with the film know the iconic Good Morning, Broadway Melody, and Make Em Laugh. Even more so, the title song Singin in the Rain is engraved so deeply in our cultures musical heritage that I bet youre singin it in your head as you read these words. I know I am. The dancing sensation Gene Kelly co-directs (with musical legend Stanley Donen) and stars alongside the energetic comic genius Donald OConnor and the beautiful and talented Debbie Reynolds in this beloved and epic, glorious motion picture.
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CINEMA CLASSICS, DEEP CULT CUTS, DIRECTOR RETROSPECTIVES, CELLULOID RARITIES, VHS SLEAZE AND MORE. EVERYTHING FOR THE DISCERNING FILM JUNKIE.
Zzang!!!: AMAZON WOMEN ON THE MOON
The Late Show: EDWARD SCISSORHANDS Dir. Tim Burton, 1990, PG-13, 105 min, 35mm RZ 1/4 & 1/5
There is a reason that, of all the films Tim Burton has directed and of all the films Danny Elfman has scored, this film stands out as their favorite of their respective works. EDWARD SCISSORHANDS is a work of staggering imagination and hopeless beauty. Johnny Depp finds a way straight into your heart with the use of only 169 words and an innocently blank stare. Weve all been that outsider, maybe not with leather gimp wear, but weve all been that person on the outside dying to get in...but without a clue in the world how to do it. Tim Burton has made his living off of these outsider creations, but none have connected with me so completely as the spectacular wonder of Edward Scissorhands. The unrequited love and monosyllabic gut-punchingly pure responses will leave even the strongest of men with tear-streaked faces. And that is why this December, as our hope for snow grows, we will gather at the Alamo Drafthouse to celebrate the snow-bringer, EDWARD SCISSORHANDS. (Greg MacLennan)
Gorilla Run: PLANET OF THE APES Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner, 1968, G, 112 min, 35mm RZ 1/6
PLANET OF THE APES can be called many things. It is groundbreaking for John Chambers brilliant makeup work. It is epic because of the imagination involved in not only creating a new world, but also realizing that world with original, eyepopping sets. The best description of this 1968 sci-fi classic, though, is intelligent. The story is well-known, an astronaut crew crash lands on a strange planet where Apes are intelligent and Man is seen as the inferior animal. Michael Wilson and Rod Sterlings script, based off of Pierre Boulles novel, is a clever mix of satire, sci-fi and adventure. Franklin J. Schaffner uses this amazing blueprint and makes a though-provoking film that will still make you laugh, feel uneasy while being 100% entertained the whole time. Headed by a brilliantly archetypal performance by Charleston Heston PLANET OF THE APES may have been the beginning to a never-ending stream of Hollywood material, most of which is terrible. But looking at the film by itself, this merging of truly sci-fi themes with a B-movie narrative remains one of the most famous American films from the 60s because of its quality. Over the years, with countless sequels, rip-offs, and remakes, that seems to have been forgotten. (R.J. LaForce)
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Zzang!!!: DEATH WISH 3 Dir. Michael Winner, 1985, R, 92 min, 35mm RZ 1/13
Look...people have their differences. Politics, religion, blah blah blah. But we can certainly all agree that there will never be another human whos 1/10th as powerful, as brutal, as handsome, as all-around perfect as Charles Charles Bronson Bronson. So Zzang!!! is ripping apart the new year with this action demigods most unconscionably violent movie, a mindlessly berserk assault on criminals, crime, and everything else that can be shot, exploded, bludgeoned or otherwise murdered. Bronson re-ignites his celebrated vigilante character Paul Kersey for a fully automatic free-for-all into the deepest recesses of heartless, bullet-flavored mayhem. See Americas least responsible hero singlehandedly take on New Yorks darkest denizens, a nigh-feral pack of shit-eating punk gutteroids with heroin for brains and ten fingers on the trigger. Its the rarest, rippin-est exercise youll ever experience in sheer Bronsonism, a.k.a. the undersung art of thunderously destroying your opponents with a bazooka. Youre either with us...or youre meat. ZZANG!!! (Zack)
HeckleVision: ANACONDA Dir. Luis Llosa, 1997, PG-13, 89 min VL 1/27

A group of documentary filmmakers (J. Lo, Ice Cube and Owen Wilson) are traveling through the Amazon to film a mysterious tribe. Along the way they pick up an insane Jon Voight who promises to help them, but is really on the hunt for worlds largest, deadliest snake. What follows is a nonstop, white-knuckled river boat ride down the Amazon peppered with exceptional over-acting and A GIGANTIC CGI SNAKE THAT EATS PEOPLE. Words cannot convey the level of enjoyment you will derive from this 1997 classic. Just put your trust in the film and your own wit as we fire up this screening of Anaconda in HECKLEVISION! If an all-star cast of Academy Award winners and A GIANT SNAKE arent enough to keep you entertained, all your heckles will be sent LIVE, streaming to the screen for the audiences enjoyment. You dont know shit about the shit were in out here! (Greg MacLennan)
Bangarang!: DICK TRACY Dir. Warren Beatty, 1990, PG, 101 min, 35mm RZ 1/16
Most kids can claim ignorance that the young version of themselves had no idea who Dick Tracy was when they first went to see him in the theater. Heck, they probably barely knew who Warren Beatty was. All they knew was the colors were vibrant, the characters looked insane, and Dick Tracy had a hat they would have worn proudly (and a radio communicator watch that they HAD to have). Now, its not often you so vividly remember seeing a movie at such a young age, and its even rarer when you remember how great a movie was and grow up to still appreciate that film. But DICK TRACY is that film. How could you forget the Madonna, the Dustin Hoffman, the Al Pacino, the Glenne Headley, the breathy music, and what has to be undisputedly the most visually faithful comic book adaptation ever made (dont even give me your CGI Robert Rodriguez counter arguments). This movie has REAL sets with REAL actors wearing insane amounts of makeup in a 1930s gangster movie for kids. Warren Beatty called in what had to be EVERY favor he could to assemble one of the most impressive cast lists ever. Dont think about it, dont hesitate, just raise your wrist to your mouth and say Im on my way! BANGARANG! (Greg MacLennan)
Tough Guy Cinema: THEY LIVE Dir. John Carpenter, 1988, R, 93 min RZ 1/19 & 1/21 : SR 1/19 & 1/24 : VL 1/19 & 1/23
You see them on the street. You Watch them on TV. You might even vote for one this fAll. You Think theyre people just like you. Youre wrong. Dead wrong. Rowdy Roddy Piper stars as a homeless drifter who stumbles aCross a box full of Hyperadvanced sunglasses that provide him with the sight to view skinless spacemen who are subliminally enslaving humans. If youve got a Thing for WWF wrestlers acting, this movie is for you! If you like balls-out action and explosions, tHis movie is for you! If you apprEciate social commentarY and satire, well guess what Mr. Smarty Pants? You have to see this fiLm! I dont care who you are or what you like, if you are a red-blooded, breathIng humanoid, you must Vow to sEe this movie! This month Tough Guy Cinema is championing the toughest of the tough without the use of in-theater pyrotechnics. Were doing a pure celebration of fisticuffs and machine guns with this in-your-face celebration of pain, one-liners and the longest fist fight as a result of not wanting to wear sunglasses you have ever seen. So come and witness John Carpenter genius in full force, backed by a rocking 80s synth soundtrack and FREE sunglasses and bubblegum for all! Im giving you a choice: either put on these glasses or start eatin that trash can. (Greg MacLennan)
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AGFA Deep Tracks: THE RETURN OF CAPTAIN INVINCIBLE Dir. Philippe Mora, 1983, PG, 96 min, 35mm RZ 1/20
Say, what happens when a superhero stops being a superhero? If you have ever found yourself wondering this in the twilight hours of the morning, you might want to be sitting down as you read the following sentences that detail Philippe Moras THE RETURN OF CAPTAIN INVINCIBLE. In short, when a famed World War II-era superhero, Captain Invincible (Alan Arkin), gets canned in a McCarthy-type hearing for his alleged communist leanings, as well as flying without a license and a public indecency charge, he becomes a raging alcoholic. Inevitably, Earth as we know it cannot survive without the aid of its hero Captain Invincible. When Invincibles ageold rival, the diabolical Mr. Midnight (Christopher Lee), steals a bizarre government prototype called the hypno-ray and threatens to use it against first New York City and then THE WORLD, the Captain must be coaxed back into action. Having forgotten how to use all his powers, he must reluctantly retrain himself back to sobriety until justice can once again be properly served. Directed by Philippe Mora (best known for MAD DOG MORGAN) and with a script by Stephen E. de Souza (the dude who wrote DIE HARD), this film is the oddest of odd cinematic birds, the veritable first and last of its kind: the worlds only superhero movie-musical! Prepare yourself!!! (Sam Prime)
THE LOVE GOD w/ host Joe Bob Briggs LIVE! Dir. Nat Hiken, 1969, NR, 101 min, 35mm RZ 1/30
Don Knotts was comedy in the shape of a man. An underweight, neurotic wreck of a man who had the ability to make both children and oldsters laugh til they puked. Through his celebrated role on THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW and multiple features like THE INCREDIBLE MR. LIMPET and THE GHOST AND MR. CHICKEN, Knotts established an immortal legacy of uproarious family entertainment. BUT! His funniest film of all is criminally forgotten, shoved under the rug because it was too shocking for audiences to endure! No foolin; in 1969, Americas most beloved G-rated entertainer unleashed his comic masterwork, in which he plays the reluctant overlord of a massive porn empire! See the perennial virginal goofball kneedeep in lady-lust, cowering on his heart-shaped bed as dame after dame throw themselves at his trembling, tiny frame! Its a chaotic typhoon of sex, organized crime, sex, rock n roll and S!E!X! I personally say THE LOVE GOD ties with PEEWEES BIG ADVENTURE as the funniest movie of all time, but legendary silver screen spelunker Joe Bob Briggs will be on hand to lay out the power behind the most gut-busting Hollywood film youve probably never seen. (Zack)
Video Hate Squad: DEVIL STORY Dir. Bernard Launois, 1985, NR, 72 min, VHS! RZ 1/27
A completely indescribable trash-fueled hellwreck from...France?!?!! Yep, when no one was looking, those darn wine-sipping, art-worshiping sissies actually managed to unleash the craziest experience youll ever have with a black plastic rectangle. This only-on-VHS treasure is like something that fell out of Charles Mansons ear while he was piloting a space shuttle into the sun. If you like ghost horses, pirate ships that explode out of mountains, mummy romances, hideously deformed Nazi sadists and man-eating crabgrass, have I got the tape for you. NOTE: the back of the VHS box has a synopsis that has absolutely nothing to do with this movie, and starts with the following sentence: At a party at a haunted mansion, drugs and alcool are everywhere. Alcool. Join us for what is honestly the least sane film to hit the Alamo screen: The one...the only...DEVIL STORY!!! (Zack)
Bangarang!: TRUE ROMANCE Dir. Tony Scott, 1993, R, 120 min, 35mm LC 2/7 : VL 2/13 : RZ 2/18, 2/20
Stealing, Cheating, Killing. Who said romance is dead? Would you like to go get some pie with me? Its the line that every guy used after 1993. If a girl ever said yes to a Sonny Chiba triple feature followed by some good conversation and a slice of pie, youd be a damned fool not to marry her right then and there. Alabama is a prostitute sent by Clarences boss to give him a good time on his birthday. Shes a clumsy sort, and the last thing she ever expected on her first week on the job was to fall in love. Sure, you could be the jaded type who scoffs at love at first sight, or you could sit down and embrace the unfiltered passion roller coaster ride that is TRUE ROMANCE. Nine-camera Tony Scott directs from a (pre-PULP FICTION) Quentin Tarantino script to create one of the most indelible 90s masterpieces. Its got the voice of a generation as Christian Slater leads an 90s all-star cast including Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Bronson Pinchot, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldman, Christopher Walken, and Samuel L. Jackson. So, come get choked up with the rest of us this February as we celebrate the masterstroke of the dearly departed Tony Scotts career. Three words went through my mind endlessly, repeating themselves like a broken record: youre so cool, youre so cool, youre so cool. (Greg MacLennan)
Tough Guy Cinema: THE TERMINATOR Dir. James Cameron, 1984, R, 107 min SR 2/10 : LC 2/17 : RZ 2/25, 2/27
Ill be back. Youd be a fool to argue that there is any man tougher than AHNULD Schwarzenegger as his physical prowess demands attention. It didnt take long for AHNULD to flip from bad guy to good guy because it simply wasnt believable that any man would stand a chance in a physical battle with this mountain of muscles. Few ever dared to go mano y mano with this Herculean god of cinema, but one such man was Kyle Reese (Mr. Michael Biehn). The genre legend, and star of some of the best sci-fi and action films of all time, traveled through time to stop this hulking machine from destroying humanitys only hope for survival, the soon-to-be tougher than nails, Sarah Connor. If you demand leather-jacketed balls-to-the-wall excellence from your action cinema, Tough Guy is here to deliver this February! Were readying our in-theater pyrotechnics and throwing this James Camera sci-fi classic on the big screen for your white-knuckled enjoyment. And, just because its February, we made sure to include a little romance for you. How do you stop an indestructible, future robot that will stop at nothing to fulfill its mission? Only time will tell. (Greg MacLennan)
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Asian Invasion: LIFELINE Dir. Johnnie To, 1997, NR, 108 min, 35mm RZ 2/3
After the international success of Ron Howards BACKDRAFT, Hong Kong master filmmaker Johnnie To responded with his own firefighter action movie - and it burns. Its about a hard luck fire brigade - when we meet them theyve all just gotten severe food poisoning - who welcome a tough new by-the-book chief after losing yet another commander to injury. To introduces the characters in the manner of a classic war movie: theres the young kid, the lionhearted hero who wont play by the rules, and the woman whose husband disapproves of her profession. For the first hour we get to know the team, at work and at play, in much the manner wed expect of this type of film. Then the movie takes a turn into true brilliance as the squad becomes trapped in a massive warehouse inferno and must rely upon their skills and character to rescue its inhabitants and escape. The filmmaking during this 40-minute-long sequence is some of the best you will see anywhere, and all the time youve invested getting to know the characters finally pays off. 90% of the shots during the climax of the film involve actual, towering walls of flame. The actors and crew were in real danger and the human drama and excitement are hot to the touch. A little known and underappreciated classic. See it on the big screen! (Lars)
FOURPLAY Dir. Kyle Henry, 2013, NR OPENS 2/8

An anthology-of-shorts feature film, FOURPLAY is four tales of sexual intimacy: in Skokie, a woman falls for her pastors dog; in Austin, an unmarried couple find an unusual way to resolve their debate about having a baby; in Tampa, a man searches for nirvana in a public restroom; and in San Francisco, a transvestite prostitute faces a challenging assignment. A few incarnations of these stories have previously been released as short films, some of which screened at Cannes Directors Fortnight. (Austin Film Society)
Sprocket Society presents: THE LEMON GROVE KIDS MEET THE MONSTERS Dirs. Ray Dennis Steckler & Ted Roter, 1965, NR, 78 min, 35mm RZ 2/3
In Laugh-O-Color! Exploitation wildman Ray Dennis Steckler (a.k.a. Cash Flagg) took to filmmaking like a cannibal takes to a fresh, warm baby, unlocking unknown worlds of horror, crime, rock n roll and general smut throughout a brilliant career in off-Hollywood insanity. When not wallowing in his various perversities, he and his long-time leading lady Carolyn Brandt popped out a family. And where most of the eras proud parents might shoot some Super-8 footage of babys first steps, Steckler and companys home movies took the form of madcap, full-scale film productions featuring alien creatures, man-eating gorillas, trigger-happy mobsters and monsters monsters MONSTERS! Friends, kids and neighbors would be shanghaied and transformed into mummies, martians and murderers to appear before Stecklers red-hot lens! Screened here in an INCREDIBLY rare 35mm print, this is a non-stop eruption of belly-shaking gigglesnorts and head-scratching hysteria from one of cinemas most lawless pioneers! Or as Steckler put it on the movies original poster: A funny, funny film guaranteed to tickle the whole family cute! What?!! (Zack)
Zzang!!!: AMAZON WOMEN ON THE MOON Dir. Various, 1987, R, 85 min, 35mm RZ 2/10
What would happen if you took all the funniest filmmakers and actors of the 80s and threw them in one giant blender? Theyd die in a tremendous swirl of shrieking gore!! Good thing that didnt happen. Instead, they all collaborated on the nutsiest, zaniest, most uproarious comedy anthology of any century: AMAZON WOMEN ON THE MOON! Witness an all-star cast of goofbone maniacs and Hollywood legends take on nudity, video piracy, interstellar travel, venereal disease and even death, all under the sure comic hands of Joe Dante, John Landis and more. Whether youre watching Michelle Pfeiffer give birth to a potato or Ed Begley Jr. running naked through the streets, youll be laughing until your intestines pop out your nose. Phil Hartman, Bryan Cranston, Sybil Danning, the mighty Rip Taylor and a zillion others unleash a silly-assed whirlwind thatll powder your brain with unrelenting humorosity! So join us for the ultimate antidote to seriousness. If you dont completely lose it during Arsenio Halls electrocution scene, youre just not human. ZZANG!!! (Zack)
THE WORLDS GREATEST SINNER Dir. Timothy Carey, 1962, NR, 77 min, 35mm RZ 2/13
MONUMENTALLY RARE 35MM SCREENING! NEVER RELEASED ON VIDEO! Hollywood maverick Timothy Carey was called plenty of things in his day: Genius...Rebel...Nut. Sometimes all three. He was cast in major features by courageous directors like Stanley Kubrick and John Cassavetes, often playing a towering heavy or a leering criminal overlord. He brought a wildly unique fire to every role, and intensified it beyond comprehension for his own feature, which he wrote, directed, produced and starred in: THE WORLDS GREATEST SINNER. In it, Carey plays insurance salesman Clarence Hilliard, who one day decides to change his name to God and build a powerful religion, using sex and rock n roll as his recruiting tools. Its a truly legendary masterwork of outsider filmmaking that profoundly shocked audiences wherever Carey screened it (often renting out the theater and even running the projector himself). Half a century later, the largely unseen film has become one of cinemas great curiosities, impossible to find and entirely deserving of its infamy. Youve never experienced anything like it, and you never will again. Grab the snake, sip the blood, and sacrifice yourself to the inhuman artistry of Timothy Careys visionary blue-collar epic. After all, you dont want to anger God, do you? (Zack)
Video Hate Squad: HAMBURGER - THE MOTION PICTURE Dir. Mike Marvin, 1986, R, 90 min, VHS! RZ 2/17
HAMBURGERS...FOR AMERICAAAA!!! A decade before GOOD BURGER, this VHS-only fast food frenzy slapped us in the cortex with a mega-mongoloidal onslaught of deep-fried buffoonery. Teenage sex magnet Russell finds himself enlisted at BusterBurger University, where his hornbag hijinks raise the wrath of Dick Butkus, and result in endless comic episodes for every 80s comedy stereotype known to man. That zany fat guy just cant stop eating! That elderly dean just cant keep his nymphomaniac wife under control! And the colleges mad science professor just cant stop injecting the campus nerd with hypodermic needles filled with bird cum! Waitaminnit. Ahem. ANYWAY!...Its a relentless storm of grease, gags and gratuitous nudity, peppered with countless chunks of 80s insanity, burger-based rock anthems and what is possibly the most racist fart joke to ever invade a VCR. Come expand your beltline while you shrink your brain with this deliciously tasteless ode to comedy excess! BusterBurgers WILL be available at the screening. (Zack)
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BECAUSE SOME THINGS ARE JUST WAY TOO COOL FOR ANY OTHER THEATER IN AUSTIN (HECK, SOMETIMES THE WORLD).
Tough Guy Cinema presents RUSSELLMANIA!!!
Zzangarang!: BILL AND TED Double Feature!!! Dirs. Stephen Herek & Peter Hewitt, 1989 & 1991, PG-13, 180 min, 35mm RZ 1/6
Our 80s worship series Zzang!!! collides with our 90s-obsessed series Bangarang to bring you this long overdue, transcendental double-whamazoid of 35mm timetraveling wildness! Join San Dimas most righteous duo as they totally rewrite both the past and the future to bring historys greatest icons to the mall and the water park. But its just not enough! So after we get all ziggy-piggy with Napoleon and So-Crates, were gonna join these most non-bogus air guitar masters for a rampaging journey through the afterlife. With the time-space continuum conquered, Bill S. Preston, Esquire and Ted Theodore Logan will take on death incarnate and even Satan himself in a rampaging ruckus starring aliens, evil Easter bunnies, good robot usses...and non-good robot usses! Its a radically mangulating excursion through the myriad impossibilities of 20th Century comedy, and well be right there with you, sitting on our excellently huge martian butts, for the double feature that can only be summed up with one word: STAAATIONNNN! (Zack)
BACK TO THE FUTURE Marathon Dir. Robert Zemeckis, 1985, 1989, 1990, PG, 342 min LC 1/27 : SR 1/27
Slam some trash into your DeLoreans fluxcapacitor and set the dials for 1985, when we traveled back in time for the very first...time. The BACK TO THE FUTURE films filled every brain in the world with new possibilities, made tiny Michael J. Fox a major box office star and contributed to more unlikely crazes than we can count. In true reverence of the 80s most whiplashing teen scifi series, were LIVING THE ADVENTURE by immersing ourselves in Doc Browns maddest science and Martys craziest adventures. After touring through the 50s well travel to the far-off year of 2015, where hoverboards are king. Finally, well visit lawless 1885, where cattle were devoured by hungry bandits and a damn train could break the time barrier. So crank up the Huey Lewis, put the pedal to the metal and break all laws of physics!!!
Tough Guy Cinema presents RUSSELLMANIA!!!: The Kurt Russell Mega-Marathon! Dir. Various, 487 min, 35mm RZ 1/20
Too often, great Hollywood luminaries are celebrated AFTER their deaths. Why not raise our fists/swords/guns in the air to champion our greatest living actor while hes still around to hear about it? Because no still-livin soul from rotten ol Hollywood has consistently given us more pure, unadulterated entertainment than the mighty KURT RUSSELL. Whether hes busting funnybones or breaking jaws, that goooood Russell Muscle has been flexing across the silver screen since 1963. That spells exactly 50 DAMN YEARS of square-jawed, good-natured, no-nonsense action, drama and hiiiii-larity from the most affable guy in America. SO! We at the Alamo are unleashing a 5-MOVIE MARATHON of Mr. Russells greatest hits, kicks and double-barreled blasts. The titles are top secret, but youll be obliterated by everything from under-appreciated bullet-blammers to crowdpleasing ass-scorchers to knee-slapping wham-slammers. PLUS a special menu, rare 35mm trailers, free tie-in surprises and even an unexpected guest or two. So sharpen your jaw into a rectangle and head on down for the worlds most blazing celebration of modern movie manhood...This! Is!! RUSSELLMANIA!!! (Zack)
SIDE BY SIDE Dir. Christopher Kenneally, 2012, NR, 99 min RZ 2/2 & 2/3
I never would have thought that Keanu Reeves would lead the important discussion of the future of film in the Digital Age. However, in Christopher Kenneallys engaging documentary about 35mm vs. digital practices and standards for motion picture exhibition, that is what he does. SIDE BY SIDE is a documentary with unprecedented access to the film community, featuring the likes of Martin Scorsese, Walter Murch, David Lynch and George Lucas alternately waxing poetic and speaking fatalistically about 35mm as the exhibition standard of yesteryear. In the course of these discussions, Reeves and others take into account the unquestionable need to archive 35mm film materials alongside digital, the unique challenges inherent in each, and how best to educate a world in the midst of a gargantuan transition. Anyone who has even a passing interest in the conversation of film versus digital ought to see this film. It has an extraordinary power to begin conversations and serious debates on this topic -- and that is precisely its purpose. SIDE BY SIDE is a balanced look at both film and digital, allowing each format to speak for itself in the guise of their respective filmmaker champions. The viewer must then decide for his/herself what digitality means for the future. (Sam Prime)
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GIRLIE NIGHT
CELEBRATING THE MUCH-LOVED BUT OFTEN NEGLECTED GENRE OF SLUMBER PARTY MOVIES. AT GIRLIE NIGHT, YOU CAN SQUEE AND SWOON WITHOUT SHAME. SERIOUSLY.
THE NOTEBOOK
Man Crush: THE STING Dir. George Roy Hill, 1973, PG-13, 129 min SL 1/9: RZ 1/29
Thus far, Man Crush has celebrated men with great abs, flowing locks and sensitive souls. Now, were kicking it old school with THE STING, featuring not one but two of the most handsome legends of the silver screen. In this 1973 film, winner of seven Academy Awards, Paul Newman and Robert Redford play grifters determined to pull off the ultimate con in 1936 Chicago. Its a comedic, high stakes caper, jumping with intense poker games, assassins, FBI hunts and, of course, beautiful women. With a rollicking ragtime soundtrack and charming vintage style, this movie is an absolute pleasure, and Redford and Newman elevate it to dazzling levels. It comes as no surprise that these men are such convincing con artists, because after one look at Paul Newmans devilish blue eyes and Robert Redfords cocky grin, were all suckers. Director George Roy Hill defied several laws of physics in order to pack so much foxy masculinity into one movie, and no matter how the sting goes, the audience is guaranteed to get lucky. (Sarah Pitre)
DIRTY DANCING Dir. Emile Ardolino, 1987, PG-13, 100 min RZ 1/15, 1/22 : LC 1/16 : SL 1/23
When DIRTY DANCING came out in 1987, it changed my life. Partly because I realized that my parents would never take me to a family summer camp, which meant that I would never be able to fall in love with Patrick Swayze in a Hungry Eyes montage, which obviously meant that my life was basically ruined. While that was sort of a short-term impact, the films more permanent legacy is its role as the mother of all dance movies. As I breathlessly watched Baby and Johnny stun the country club set to the soaring notes of Time of Your Life, I realized that dance had the power to CHANGE things! Dance could overcome social and racial barriers; it could break down prejudice; it could even transform a really annoying person like Baby into someone awesome! Thanks to DIRTY DANCING, I came to understand the power of dance, and consequently discovered my favorite genre of film: the dance movie. With such a monumental legacy, this cinematic masterpiece deserves our utmost respect, as well as a high amount of romantic mega-sighs. And theres no better place to celebrate it than Girlie Night, where chair dancing is encouraged and absolutely no one will be put in a corner. (Sarah Pitre)
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GIRLIE NIGHT
Afternoon Tea: THE KINGS SPEECH Dir. Tom Hooper, 2010, R, 118 min LC 1/26
Colin Firth has already been the king of many womens hearts for a long time. But when he took on the role of King George VI, he secured his place in cinematic history. In this deeply compelling yet whimsically delightful film, Firth plays a man with a debilitating fear of public speaking, which is obviously a problem when you happen to be the King of England on the brink of World War II. Desperate to help her husband, Queen Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter) enlists the unorthodox expertise of Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush), who forces the the King to undergo a series of seemingly ridiculous yet ultimately effective exercises. Based on the true story, this movie is a stirring tale of an unconventional friendship; in other words, expect to cry a few happy tears into your tea cup. And even though proper etiquette is important at Afternoon Tea, we wont be offended if you laugh with your mouth full of scone, because this film also happens to be wonderfully funny. (Sarah Pitre)
THE NOTEBOOK Dir. Nick Cassavetes, 2004, PG-13, 123 min LC 2/6 : RZ 2/12, 2/19 : SR 2/20
Valentines Day is meant to be shared with someone you love. Thats why, for Februarys Girlie Night, were presenting THE NOTEBOOK, so we can all spend some quality time with our boyfriend, Ryan Gosling. In this cryfest of cinema based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks, country boy Noah (Gosling) charms his way into city girl Allies (Rachel McAdams) heart, but can their love endure the trials of family prejudice and the tribulations of war? More importantly, can you handle how incredibly sexy Ryan Gosling looks shirtless? Or with a beard... in the rain? Or basically, any time he lights up the screen with his foxy golden presence? Some claim this film isnt realistic, but honestly, the only exaggeration is James Marsden temporarily winning over Gosling because AS IF. Featuring one of the hottest kisses of all time, this film is like crack for your lady parts, and well celebrate our addiction together without shame at Girlie Night. So hey girl, dont miss it! (Sarah Pitre)
Afternoon Tea: THE YOUNG VICTORIA Dir. Jean-Marc Valle, 2009, PG, 105 min LC 2/23
Being Queen always seemed like such a good gig. You get to wear gorgeous dresses and enormous jewels, live in a palace and tell people what to do. But as THE YOUNG VICTORIA proves, being Queen can also be really, really hard. Based on the true story, Victoria (the exquisite Emily Blunt) must fight against opposing forces within the royal family to claim her independence and exert her power as the new Queen. As she wrestles for control amidst political manipulations and back-stabbing, Victoria discovers a universal truth-- everything feels better when youre in the company of a handsome man. After she meets Prince Albert (Rupert Friend), their friendship evolves into an epic romance that will leave you sighing wistfully with your hand over your heart. (You should also plan on using that hand for fist pumping, because Victoria is a total badass.) Feel like royalty, minus the stress, at this months edition of Afternoon Tea, where you can sip on tea, snack on treats and ascend the throne of refined entertainment. (Sarah Pitre)
Man Crush: BENNY & JOON Dir. Jeremiah S. Chechik, 1993, PG, 98 min RZ 2/26
Johnny Depp has played a crazy candy maker, a cry baby and a drunken pirate. Hes seduced countless women, hosted tea parties and pruned garden bushes with his hands. But to celebrate our man crush on this fine actor, there is only one film that truly captures all of his magnificent facets, and that film is BENNY & JOON. As Sam, an oddball Buster Keaton wannabe, Depp displays his incredible capacity for emotion, his excellent grasp of comedy and his flair for the eccentric. His characters sweet courtship of the mentally unstable Joon (Mary Stuart Masterson) is studded with delightful reenactments of famous Keaton and Charlie Chaplin bits, and he can enchant you simply by putting a few rolls on some forks. Hes sensitive, hes thoughtful, and hes positively dreamy. And as if that wasnt enough, the movie features a bonus man crush in the form of mega handsome Aidan Quinn, who plays Benny, Joons overprotective brother. Whether youre Team Quinn or Team Depp, come fall under the mesmerizing spell of a movie so fantastic, we would walk 500 miles just to see it. (Sarah Pitre)
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FAMILY FUN
A SELECTION OF NEW AND OLD CLASSICS FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY
Free Kids Club: KING KONG VS. GODZILLA
Aint It Cool, Austin Chronicle and Toy Joy present Free Kids Club: KING KONG VS. GODZILLA Dir. Ishiro Honda, 1962, NR, 91 min, 35mm RZ 1/26
This dang planet just aint big enough for the both of em! Youll tumble to the rumble when the worlds most titanic celebrities engage in earth-shaking clawto-paw combat, as the fate of our species dangles in the balance. Its the most monumental monster mega-war around, directed by the creator of the original GODZILLA and featuring more oversized stompin and rompin than you can shake a volcano at! See scientists scurry and miniature tanks explode beneath the wrath of the two truly gigantic giants of the big screen, all filmed in blazing color. Its trans-continental creature craziness to fire the imaginations of everyone, young n old, big big BIG or small. Come rampage through the smoldering ruins of 20th Century monsterdom with KING KONG VS. GODZILLA!
Free Kids Club: RETURN TO OZ Dir. Walter Murch, 1985, PG, 113 min, 35mm RZ 2/23 Alamo Kids Camp: MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO Dir. Hayao Miyazaki, 1988, G, 96 min LC 1/1 - 1/3
One of Japanese animation innovator and legend Hayao Miyazakis best and most loved films. Here is a childrens story made for the world we should live in, rather than the one we occupy. A film with no villains. No fight scenes. No evil adults. No fighting between the two kids. No scary monsters. No darkness before the dawn. A world that is benign. A world where if you meet a strange towering creature in the forest, you curl up on its tummy and have a nap. (Roger Ebert) The magical land of Oz has seen many film adaptations since L. Frank Baum published its inaugural chronicle in 1900. Most of us are familiar with the 1939 classic THE WIZARD OF OZ, but Im gonna go ahead and say it: This 80s sequel does Oz best. RETURN TO OZ truly captures Baums boundless imagination, with an incredible array of handmade special effects including stop-motion, robotics, and probably a touch of actual wizardry. When Dorothy revisits Oz with her talking chicken, they find it in shambles, its citizens victimized by the evil Gnome King and his army of Wheelers. Theyre joined by new friends like Tik-Tok and Jack Pumpkinhead, and must face great dangers to rescue Princess Ozma and restore the Emerald City to its former glory. A staggering epic of thrills and pure creativity, and one of the best family films of ANY century!
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The Dionysium offers a unique, innovative program of debate, lecture, declamation, theatrical presentation and music in a salon-like atmosphere on the first Wednesday of every month at the Alamo South Lamar. Audiences enjoy offerings not to be found elsewhere in Austin, including the recitation of famous speeches, participatory discussion in a formal, moderated context, and the opportunity to participate in the recreation of Ancient rituals. A typical Dionysium show will feature a lecture, a declamation, a drinking song, a film or live musical performance, an appeal to Dionysus, a fiction-writing contest, and plenty of strong drink. But the heart of every Dionysium is the debate, pitting two experts against each other in toe-to-toe parliamentary combat. Dionysium debate resolutions have covered everything from Social Security reform to the future threat of genocidal robots.
The Golden Hornet Project presents: AMADEUS Dir. Milos Forman, 1984, PG, 160 min
Golden Hornet Project (GHP) has launched a project to complete Mozarts unfinished Requiem, in collaboration with composers from the rock, hip-hop, video game and avant-garde music scenes. To support this monster project, which will be completed and presented to the public in 2014, we are hosting a series of screenings of the film AMADEUS over the next two years. Each screening will include a live choral performance of The Requiem work in progress performed by members of Texas Choral Consort with GHP co-artistic directors Peter Stopschinski and Graham Reynolds in attendance. Based on the stage play by Peter Shaffer, AMADEUS tells the tale of Salieri, a famous composer who is tormented and ultimately goes mad because of his jealousy of the infinitely more talented Mozart. His utter mediocrity when compared to Mozart is too much to bear, and Salieri hatches a plan to kill the brilliant composer.
Tough Guy Cinema: STARSHIP TROOPERS w/ Screenwriter Ed Neumeier Dir. Paul Verhoeven, 1997, R, 129 min, 35mm RZ 2/2
Ten years after their collaboration on ROBOCOP (1987), director Paul Verhoeven and screenwriter Edward Neumeier team up again to create a modern blockbustin classic, a fable-like satire of fascism in a pro-war future society. STARSHIP TROOPERS has guns, big-ass bugs, and several megatons of outer space machismo, but to leave it at that would be to sell this film dangerously short. STARSHIP TROOPERS is by far one of the smartest, subtlest critiques of modern civilization out there today. As Verhoeven said of the films central message: war makes fascists of us all. Although it masquerades as a straight up, propaganda-lovin journey through the vastness space, in reality it is far much more. Would you like to know more? If yes, youll have to buy your ticket, join up now, and do your part to make this event a outstanding success! As always, the screening will feature in-theater pyrotechnics and screenwriter Edward Neumeier will join us post-show via Skype! (Sam Prime)
Cinema Club: CRACKING UP with guest Bryan Connolly Dir. Jerry Lewis, 1983, PG, 89 min, 35mm RZ 2/3
Love him or hate him -- and we sure recommend loving him -- Jerry Lewis remains one of the top entertainers and innovators in movie history. When he wasnt slipping down a flight of stairs or designing new methods of high-end goonery, the ex-vaudevillian was blazing new trails, writing and directing some of the must thunderous comedy hits of the century, and even developing technology that would change Hollywood forever. His directorial works like THE BELLBOY and THE NUTTY PROFESSOR helped shape the worlds understanding of big-screen comedy, and he never stopped pushing for bigger and more bizarre methods at getting big laughs. This led to his ultimate creation CRACKING UP, an explosion of ideas that reveal Lewis comic lightning at a manic apex. For his final ride in the directors seat, Lewis truly let er rip, upending hilarity in everything from suicide to sandwiches. Lewis is a one-man assault squad of comedic invention, busting off sight gags, slapstick bits and multiple glavin-flavins with more speed than a cheetah on a banana peel. Austins foremost Jerry Lewis historian Bryan Connolly joins us for this rare 35mm celebration of genius disguised as retardation. (Zack)
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AUSTIN FILM SOCIETY
TUESDAYS AT ALAMO SOUTH LAMAR $5 AFS MEMBERS (FREE WITH AFS PASS) / $8 ALL OTHERS
2046
Austin Film Society Essential Cinema Tuesday Nights @ 7:00pm at Alamo Village $8 General Admission / $5 AFS Make and Watch members / Free admission for AFS Love and Premiere members ASIA: HOT AND COOL Jan 8 Feb 12, 2013
The East Asian powerhouse continues to provide the world with a wide array of fascinating films, especially from Japan, South Korea, China (including Hong Kong), and Southeast Asia. For this series we will present a retelling of Dangerous Liaisons in the courts of 18th century Korea, the epic story of the indigenous struggles of the Seediq people against Japanese occupiers in 1930s Taiwan, a sweeping drama about a Chinese Wall Street family at the end of the 19th century, a touching story of unrequited love among young Japanese students in 1968, a sensitive portrait of an elderly woman discovering how poetry helps her escape distasteful aspects of modern living, and finally a sumptuous erotic tale set in Hong Kong and Sinapore and the future. All these films are absolute gems of cinematic beauty and intriguing storytelling. Chale Nafus
WARRIORS OF THE RAINBOW: SEEDIQ BALE Dir. Wei Te-sheng, 2011, 154 min VL 1/15
On the island of Taiwan in 1930 an aboriginal tribe of Seediq rise up against their Japanese oppressors in this lush epic of national pride.
UNTOLD SCANDAL Dir. E Je-yong, 2003, NR, 124 min, 35mm VL 1/8
The 18th century novel of scandalous seduction among the aristocrats, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, gets a scintillating new look in this beautiful Korean film adaptation.
EMPIRE OF SILVER Dir. Christina Yao, 2009, 113 min, 35mm VL 1/22
A wealthy banking family maneuvers to survive political upheavals in the waning days of Imperial China brought on by the Boxer Rebellion and early revolutionary outbreaks.
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HABIBI RASAK KHARBAN Dir. Susan Youssef, 2011, 85 min
An ancient Sufi parable finds new form in a forbidden love between two Palestinians, classmates in a West Bank university, but forbidden to see each other in Gaza, primarily because of differences in economic class, not religion or ethnicity.
Austin film Society Doc Nights Free for AFS Love and Premiere Members / $5 for AFS Make and Watch Members and Students with School ID cards / $8 All Others
NORWEGIAN WOOD Dir. Tran Anh Hung, 2010, 133 min, 35mm VL 1/29
Love can last too long, especially for the young protagonists of this sensitively filmed romance.
POETRY Dir. Chang-dong Lee, 2010, 139 min, 35mm VL 2/5

Disturbed by the thuggish behavior of the grandson she is raising, an elderly woman confronts her failing memory by focusing on the delicate wonders of nature in preparation for writing poetry.
2046 Dir. Wong Kar-wai, 2004, 129 min, 35mm VL 2/12

Sex is easy, love is difficult in this stunning Wong Kar-wai/Christopher Doyle exploration of flirtation, passion, and ineradicable memories.
GREGORY CREWDSON: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS Dir. Ben Shapiro, 2012, 78 min VL 1/16
A fascinating portrait of an audacious photographer who creates giant format photos of street scenes in disappearing small towns of the American Northeast.
CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM/IBRAHIM 7: FILMS OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND BEYOND Feb 2/19 - April 2
The Middle East and North Africa continue a journey through uncertainty to the absolute unknown. This past year has seen so much turmoil with only little glimmers of hope (perhaps). Syria is still melting down, with threats of chemical warfare waged by the government of Assad. The new Egyptian government quickly moved from a positive peacemaker role in the perennial Palestine/Israel stalemate to a proclamation of absolute power. Iran still threatens a nuclear future, while Israel continues to spread the settlements into the West Bank despite a near majority world outcry. In this seventh annual presentation of six films, we will continue looking at the lives of an array of people as depicted by filmmakers native to the region, with an emphasis on Turkey, Iran, Israel, Palestine, and Egypt. Chale Nafus
Austin Film Society and the Austin Jewish Film Festival Present:
THIS IS NOT A FILM Dir. Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, 2011, 75 min, 35mm VL 2/19
Although prohibited from making, writing, or even discussing films, Iranian director Jafar Panahi becomes the subject of a digital film sneaked out of Iran in a cake.
KOCH Dir. Neil Barsky, 2013, 95 min VL 2/13

A comprehensive examination of the life and times of three-time mayor of New York City, Ed Koch, beloved by some, berated by others, but never boring.
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2013

COMING TO AN ALAMO NEAR YOU

Terror Tuesday: TREMORS @ Ritz

Man Crush: THE STING @ Ritz

Terror Tuesday: TRICK OR TREAT @ Ritz

COMING TO AN ALAMO NEAR YOU

Master Pancake: CASABLANCA @ Ritz

Girlie Night: THE NOTEBOOK @ Ritz

OFFICE SPACE Quote-Along @ Ritz Action Pack: 80S Sing-Along @ Ritz

Terror Tuesday: INVASION OF THE BLOOD FARMERS @ Ritz

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ZERO DARK THIRTY Opens 1/11

JOHN DIES AT THE END Opens 1/25

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WARM BODIES Opens 2/1

BEAUTIFUL CREATURES Opens 2/13

A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD Opens 2/14

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FERRIS BUELLERS DAY OFF Quote-Along

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FOOD & FILM

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OBSESSED Dir. Steve Shill, 2009, PG-13, 108 min RZ

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THE DEVIL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON

GET CRAZY Dir. Allan Arkush, 1983, R, 92 min, 35mm RZ 2/25

TREMORS Dir. Ron Underwood, 1990, PG-13, 96 min, 35mm RZ 1/15

THE HIDDEN Dir. Jack Sholder, 1987, R, 96 min, 35mm RZ 2/12

MAUSOLEUM Dir. Michael Dugan, 1983, R, 96 min, 35mm RZ 2/26

BIG BAD MAMA with Special Co-Host Joe Bob Briggs

SURPRISE TITLE RZ 2/27

70mm: THE UNTOUCHABLES

BIG SCREEN CLASSICS

Zzang!!!: AMAZON WOMEN ON THE MOON

HeckleVision: ANACONDA Dir. Luis Llosa, 1997, PG-13, 89 min VL 1/27

FOURPLAY Dir. Kyle Henry, 2013, NR OPENS 2/8

ONLY AT THE ALAMO

Tough Guy Cinema presents RUSSELLMANIA!!!

AUSTIN MUSIC HALL

CD RELEASE PARTY w/ Wild Child, Telegraph Canyon and Magnolia Sons

WED FEB 20 THE BELMONT

THUR FEB 28 THE BELMONT

A SELECTION OF NEW AND OLD CLASSICS FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY

Free Kids Club: KING KONG VS. GODZILLA

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POETRY Dir. Chang-dong Lee, 2010, 139 min, 35mm VL 2/5

2046 Dir. Wong Kar-wai, 2004, 129 min, 35mm VL 2/12

KOCH Dir. Neil Barsky, 2013, 95 min VL 2/13

For an extra special