News from Slackerwood: Keanu, Aelita, and Fried Worms
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This month, other cities around the U.S. are getting a taste of what Austin enjoys all year long: Alamo's Rolling Roadshow outdoor movie setup, which is travelling around the country with the Netflix Rolling Roadshow tour. Austin Chronicle writer Marjorie Baumgarten has a lovely, touching essay in this week's issue about her personal experiences watching Rolling Roadshow films at Monument Valley. Meanwhile, Austin still has a great lineup of special screenings and movie events.
- The Sinus Show has picked an easy target to mock this month: Keanu Reeves on a surfboard. The Sinus guys will be adding their humorous commentary and skits to Point Break at Alamo Downtown on Friday and Saturday nights for the next three weeks.
- The Paramount's Summer Film Classics offers a variety of films this week: Bye Bye Birdie and Giant (these are not a double-feature) on Saturday and Sunday, a French gangster double-feature of Touchez Pas Au Grisbi and Classe Tous Risques on Monday and Tuesday, and Black Orpheus on Wednesday. The Paramount has new or restored prints of most of these movies.
- Need more Mozart in your life? Alamo Downtown is showing Amadeus on Sunday night, with a live chamber-music performance beforehand.
- Free coffeehouse movies: Cafe Mundi is showing the documentary Bukowski: Born Into This on Monday night. On Thursday night, Jo's Hot Coffee will screen O Brother, Where Art Thou? with live music beforehand.
- The Austin Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (aGLIFF) continues its Filmmaker Series on Wednesday night with a spotlight on local filmmaker Alpha. The program at the Arbor includes two 2006 shorts, Drive and Confessions, as well as the feature Chronicles of Halcyon, which premiered at aGLIFF last year.
- This week's Weird Wednesday midnight film at Alamo Downtown is about snakes on a ... submarine. Admission is free to the 1974 made-for-TV film Fer-de-Lance, which stars David Janssen and Hope Lange.
- Alamo Lake Creek will host the band The Invincible Czars as they perform a live accompaniment to the 1924 Russian silent film Aelita, Queen of Mars on Thursday night.
- Tickets are now on sale for Austin Film Society's premiere screening of How to Eat Fried Worms on Sunday afternoon, August 20 at the Arbor. The film was shot around Austin, and several cast members will attend the screening.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
8-13-2006 @ 11:52AM
Bob Budowniczy said...
I like them ;)
Interesting news.
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