News from Slackerwood: More Than Just QT Fest
Filed under: Quentin Tarantino, News From Slackerwood
The biggest Austin film event this week is Best of QT Fest, which starts on Monday 4/24 and runs through Sunday 4/30. If you weren't lucky enough to grab one of the badges, you can still try for standby tickets on the night of specific screenings. Although the festival is taking over Alamo Drafthouse Downtown for the better part of a week, other local theaters have a number of options for your big-screen enjoyment.
- I first learned about The Music Lovers in a Harlan Ellison essay I read when I a teen, and his description of the asylum scene completely freaked me out. Fortunately, it was slightly less disturbing on screen that it was in my head. If you don't understand what I mean, you can see for yourself when Alamo Downtown shows the 1970 Ken Russell film about Tchaikovsky on Sunday 4/23, with live concert music beforehand.
- In the mood to see Nicolas Cage's Elvis imitation, Laura Dern
clad in supremely trashy slutwear, Willem Dafoe with scary teeth, and Diane Ladd acting completely psycho? Alamo
Village is showing Wild at Heart nightly from Monday 4/24 through Thursday
4/27, and then at midnight Friday and Saturday.
- Alamo Lake Creek is showing Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story nightly from Monday 4/24 through Thursday 4/27, and then at midnight Friday and Saturday. The 2004 comedy is about the highly competitive sport of paintball.
- The Austin Film Society series "Three Actresses Abroad," switches its focus to Josephine Baker this week. She stars in the 1934 film Zou Zou, which screens on Tuesday 4/25 at Alamo Downtown.
- Ben Hur is the "Widescreen Classics" selection at Alamo South Lamar this week. Alamo is advertising an archival-quality print of the epic film, which they'll show on Tuesday and Wednesday 4/25 and 4/26.
- The Austin Film Society's 20th anniversary screenings continue this month with Wild Boys of the Road, a 1933 William Wellman movie. The film screens on Wednesday 4/26 at Alamo on South Lamar.
- To honor Administrative Professionals' Day, Alamo Lake Creek is showing Secretary on Wednesday 4/26. Please, for the love of God, don't bring your secretary to this film without warning, even if he or she is a James Spader fan.
- Blowin' Up a Spot is a film festival that focuses on female filmmakers and other artists. This year's festival runs from Thursday 4/27 through Sunday 4/30 and includes workshops, short and feature films, and other performers.
- The Alamo on South Lamar has just acquired a Wurlitzer organ, and they're breaking it in on Thursday 4/27 with a screening of the silent film Phantom of the Opera. Local film composer Graham Reynolds will be performing his own score for the Lon Chaney classic.
- What we have here, is ... Movies in the Park, showing Cool Hand Luke on Thursday 4/27 at Republic Square Park. Free admission, and naturally there's an egg-eating contest beforehand (but not one for dismantling the nearby parking meters).
- If you didn't see enough bunny rabbits to satisfy you at Easter, you can catch one of the biggest rabbit movies at Alamo South Lamar on Saturday 4/29 at noon. No, I don't mean Donnie Darko ... this is a Kids' Club movie. I'm talking about Harvey, the 1950 Jimmy Stewart film. Admission is free.
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