News from Slackerwood: Pee-Wee, Transformers, and The Dude
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Austin is chock-full of special screenings and film events this week, so let's just get right to them.
- This week's AFS@Dobie film is Sophie Scholl: The Final Days. The 2005 German film about University of Munich students during WWII will run all week at Dobie Theatre.
- Dude, Lebowski Fest is in Austin this weekend. Friday night's event includes live music and a midnight screening of The Big Lebowski, and Saturday night's main event features bowling (after sunset, natch) and other fun related to the cult-like film.
- One of the first times I was allowed to drive a car without a parent around was to see Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (my first Tim Burton film). Now Rolling Roadshow is hosting a benefit screening for Austin Yellow Bike Project on Saturday night near the Yellow Bike shop at 2013 E. 51st. If you ride your bike to the event, you get discounted admission and VIP seating. (If only Alamo Drafthouse had a basement where they could screen this film, that would be ideal.)
- I love the silent movies with live music accompaniment that Alamo Downtown schedules regularly. On Sunday night, the theater is showing Harold Lloyd's film Girl Shy with a score performed by local band Django's Mustache.
- Alamo Drafthouse has been advertising The Transformers: The Movie as "the one cartoon movie from the Eighties that deliberately made kids cry." Is this true? Find out when the movie plays late nights at Alamo Village from Monday through Saturday.
- The Austin Underground Film Festival will take place on Tuesday night at Alamo on South Lamar. The festival's goal is to "showcase independently produced movies, with a special themed section for socially conscious and/or political films." Tuesday's lineup of shorts includes The Old Negro Space Program, which I caught on the Web awhile ago and found pretty entertaining. The evening also includes live music.
- A fundraiser for the documentary Zombie Girl: The Movie will take place on Tuesday night at The Blue Theater. The documentary is about local filmmaker Emily Hagins, who received a grant to help shoot the zombie film Pathogen when she was 12 years old. Clips from the documentary and from Pathogen will be shown at the event.
- The Da Vinci Code is playing all around Austin this week, but only Alamo Drafthouse offers a themed feast to accompany the film. On Tuesday at South Lamar or Wednesday at Village, you can enjoy a five-course dinner, including wine pairings, while watching the movie. Usually I wish Alamo would schedule screenings of their dinner-and-movie films without the dinner option (it's not cheap), but for once I have the opposite wish: to have the delicious-sounding meal without sitting through the movie.
- Austin Film Society's 20th anniversary screenings continue on Wednesday at Alamo Downtown with the 1960 Italian epic Rocco & His Brothers.
- Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival (aGLIFF) is sponsoring "All that Gender Will Allow: The Films of Mocha Jean Herrup" on Thursday night at Arbor Great Hills. The evening of shorts from the local filmmaker and drag king includes the hilarious "What If ..." series in which famous films are updated to Austin locales, as well as excerpts from Herrup's feature-length documentary A Few Good Dykes.
- Rolling Roadshow ends its current run of "Movies in the Park" at Republic Square Park in style this Thursday night, with Dazed and Confused. The movie starts just after dark, and not only is admission free, but free root beer will be available if you get there early.
- Finally, in advance of The Puffy Chair opening in theaters on June 2, Screen Door Film and St. Edward's University are hosting a preview screening on Wednesday 5/31 followed by a panel discussion with filmmakers Jay and Mark Duplass about low-budget indy filmmaking. The event is free, but you must reserve a seat in advance and seating is limited.
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5-19-2006 @ 2:18PM
Adam Chance said...
Cry? yes, DEATH of MANY loved characters!
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