This Week in Screenings 7/21-7/27
Friday 7/21
I remember being really impressed by the animation when this came out. I wonder what it looks like in a theater now.
Velvet Goldmine | Paramount Theatre
This movie turned me gay.
Saturday 7/22
Presented by Robert Rodriguez.
This movie also turned me gay.
Mary Poppins | Paramount Theatre
Step in time!
THE LEOPARD | Austin Film Society
Film producer Carolyn Pfeiffer will be at AFS this weekend showing three movies and promoting their new book Chasing the Panther: Adventures and Misadventures of a Cinematic Life.
DANCEHALL QUEEN | Austin Film Society
Part of the Carolyn Pfeiffer screenings.
Jamaican movie about a dancehall superhero.
Sunday 7/23
An American in Paris | Double Feature with The Band Wagon | Paramount Theatre
To me these are the best kind of movies to see at the Paramount. It just really feels like they belong there.
The last of the three Carolyn Pfeiffer screenings.
Rock musical starring Meatloaf.
Man searches for lost dog. But apparently this blends with short films the main character has made. Sounds like a really cool special event screening.
FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980) | Galaxy Theatres
$5 Screening.
Zero degrees of Kevin Bacon.
Monday 7/24
Hyperreal presents Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams in a movie about Richard Nixon.
History Of Television: THE YEAR OF THE SEX OLYMPICS | Austin Film Society
Streaming on Twitch or live on Austin Public. BBC teleplay and I mean with that title why wouldn’t you watch.
Tuesday 7/25
Tilda Swinton doing the most and Quinton Crisp is Queen Eliabeth.
$2 screening. Why not.
I’m sure there is one person out there that will be happy I included this.
LE FILMEUR | Austin Film Society
Part of the ESSENTIAL CINEMA: YOU'RE MY GREATEST TREASURE: 10 EXERCISES IN INTIMACY series.
Mirror Mirror (1990) | Alamo Drafthouse
Goth Teen Horror.
Part of the Terror Tuesday series and looks like it’s sold out.
FYI they are renovating the large theater and these tickets are going fast lately.
Wednesday 7/26
Lost in Translation | Paramount Theatre
It’s Suntory time.
Hocus Pocus | Blue Starlite Downtown
30th Anniversary screening.
Art student begins photographing Black men out of fear they will soon be extinct.
Newly restored movie from 1998.
This score is so great. You walk out of the theater feeling like you could fly.
Thursday 7/27
Paper Moon | Laguna Gloria Ampitheater
I was just thinking about how I wanted to watch this since I read an article about Tatum O’Neal surviving a stroke.
I’m gay and I watch a lot of movies
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