News from Slackerwood: Cinematexas, Raiders, and Heckler's Paradise
Filed under: Documentary, Foreign Language, Free Movies, News From Slackerwood, Other Festivals, Cinematical Indie
This week's local film festival is Cinematexas, which focuses on short, experimental films. Celebrating its eleventh year, the festival hired its first-ever guest artistic director, Ed Halter. The Austin Chronicle recently ran a great interview with Halter about his work with Cinematexas; the festival runs from Wednesday through Sunday.
If you're not drawn to short films, Austin has other moviegoing options:
- The AFS@ Dobie collaboration is back, in which indie/foreign films that missed Austin finally get a regular week-long run. This week's selection is the 2005 surrealist Czech feature Lunacy, which opens today at Dobie.
- It may be the only theater in the country still showing the unpublicized Mike Judge film, but Alamo on South Lamar is keeping Idiocracy around for one more week, with regular showings every day until Thursday.
- Alamo Downtown is showing the documentary Tales of the Rat Fink throughout the week: It'll screen Saturday, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday nights. The film, which focuses on the life and work of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, premiered earlier this year at SXSW.
- Now that school's back in session, Spider House has started showing free movies again. Sunday's double-feature looks like fun: The 1971 films Two-Lane Blacktop and Vanishing Point. The coffeehouse now posts its film schedule online.
- This week's entry in the Austin Film Society series "Surviving the Blacklist: Joseph Losey in Europe" is the 1963 film These are the Damned, in which a young Oliver Reed plays a teen gang leader. You can catch the movie on Tuesday night at Alamo Downtown.
- The Space, an art gallery on Airport Blvd, has started a free independent film series -- check the gallery's site for full listings. Tuesday night's film is Butterfly, a 2000 documentary about an environmental activist's two-year stint in a giant redwood.
- The Austin chapter of the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition is holding a fundraiser called "Reels for Teal" on Wednesday night. Buy a ticket to the Alamo on South Lamar event and you can watch Raiders of the Lost Ark while enjoying a four-course meal with an Egyptian theme. I don't think snakes are on the menu ... well, I hope not.
- Save Our Springs is hosting a free screening of the 2002 documentary Blue Vinyl (pictured above), about a filmmaker's research into the dangers of vinyl siding after her parents decide to re-side their home. The screening takes place on Wednesday night at Alamo on South Lamar.
- A remastered version of the original A Nightmare on Elm Street will hit Austin on Wednesday and Thursday nights. Local theaters showing the film include Gateway, both Tinseltown theaters, and Barton Creek Cinema. The movie is paired with a montage of slayings that take place throughout the -- how many of the films are there in the series now? Eight? Wow.
- Alamo's popular Heckler's Paradise night comes to the Village next Friday at midnight. At Heckler's Paradise, you can yell at the film all you want during designated times. The film to mock will be the made-for-TV movie Invisible Child, about a woman who believes she has a third (imaginary) daughter and the family who plays along with her. The trailer is unbelievable.
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