This Week in Screenings 9/29-10/5
Soft ginger cookies and rye crisps with beer cheese included with your ticket purchase.
Or you could smuggle in a flask like the alcoholics in this movie.
Not really, don’t get me in trouble.
Shaun of the Dead: Halloween at the | Blue Starlite Downtown
Fun zombie movie downtown on a roof.
Black Francis's The Golem (Silent Movie Day!) | Blue Starlite Central & downtown
Sounds really cool, the silent movie The Golem with soundtrack by Pixies’ Black Francis aka Frank Black.
Also playing for Silent Movie Day.
Lon Chaney and Joan Crawford.
Directed by Tod Browning who also made Freaks.
The Greasy Strangler with Live Q&A | Alamo Drafthouse
Includes a Q&A with Sky Elobar who plays Brayden.
Be a smoothie and order your favorite creamy cocktail.
Saturday 9/30
You could watch it on Saturday or wait until October 3rd.
My Neighbor Totoro (Subtitled) Brunch | Alamo Drafthouse
I feel like we got a little break from Miyazaki movies but this week they are back.
I did make it a point to see each one in the theater.
Ghostbusters: Halloween Month at the | Blue Starlite Downtown
The first Ghostbusters movie.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife | Blue Starlite Downtown
The most recent Ghostbusters movie.
Little Shop of Horrors: Welcome to Halloween Month | Blue Starlite Central
Suddenly Seymour.
Brazil: Director's Cut + Triangle of Sadness Double Feature | Alamo Drafthouse
Part of the Nia DaCosta double feature series.
And again, I love the pairing thematically.
Sunday 10/1
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS | Galaxy
This is the middle one and it’s 3hrs and 55min long.
But they have really nice seats.
The Exorcist 50th Anniversary | Cinemark
RIP William Friedkin.
Musical numbers and yakuza in the same movie.
Ring, Ring: A Doorbell Cam Fantasia (presented by Museum of Home Video) | Austin Film Society
Viral doorbell cam mixtape.
How could you not want to see this.
The partnership with Hyperreal: Crown and Club series.
A lot of these visuals stick with me even though I never understood these movies.
Monday 10/2
Doctor Sleep | Alamo Drafthouse
The long awaited followup to The Shining.
But it’s actually better than it should be.
Mike Flanagan is great. I really liked Midnight Mass.
Hyperreal Film Club presents Austin’s own Jared Padalecki in the remake of the classic horror spectacle.
The original is one of the first 3D movies and this remake is one of the first movies featuring Paris Hilton.
Tuesday 10/3
A.I. Artificial Intelligence | Alamo Drafthouse
There are still seats available at the Slaughter Lane location.
Terror Tuesday appears to be sold out but they are showing it again on 10/6.
Part of the “ghost trilogy” that includess The State I Am In and Ghosts
I’ve only seen Undine by Christian Petzold which isn’t part of that trilogy but still a good enough advertisement to see more of their movies.
Wednesday 10/4
Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone | Blue Starlite Central
Starting all over at the drive-in.
The Addams Family: Halloween at the | Blue Starlite Central
I like this one but Values is my fav.
THE CRAMPS AND THE MUTANTS: THE NAPA STATE TAPES | Austin Film Society
Art punk bands The Mutants and The Cramps playing a concert as Napa State Psychiatric Hospital in 1978.
Weird Wednesday presents the Village People movie.
Like who was it made for? Children? Adult Gay men? Both?
It is an experience not to be missed.
Thursday 10/5
Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets | Blue Starlite Central
That’s cute, I guess you can watch this in the forest.
The Craft: Halloween Month at the | Blue Starlite Central
Spooky teen witches.
NOSTALGHIA | Austin Film Society
Andrei Tarkovsky’s movie about a guy in Italy. I remember seeing this a long time ago and thinking these movies are not for me. But since then I’ve seen more of Tarkovsky’s movies and maybe I should give this another shot.
I’m gay and I watch a lot of movies
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