This Week in Screenings 1/5-1/11
Friday 1/5
Very intrigued by this ‘80s French movie.
Looks like a Death Wish type thing.
Alamo is showing it all week.
Great on mushrooms.
Part of a 1999 series Alamo is doing.
Along with:
Run Lola Run and The Iron Giant
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: Extended Edition | Alamo Drafthouse
Or you can wait and watch the Whole Thing at Cinemark on Saturday
11.5 Hours.
Jonathan Glazer has only made four movies.
Get hyped for The Zone of Interest.
PEEPING TOM | Austin Film Society
4k restoration of the horror classic.
Saturday 1/6
2001: A Space Odyssey | FlixBrewhouse
I think I say it every time but this is more fun in a theater.
Fiddler on the Roof… | - Blue Starlite Downtown
With a live fiddler and a cocktail hour.
A lot of people say this is the best one.
I don’t say that, but a lot of people do.
Being John Malkovich | Alamo Drafthouse
Continuation of the 1999 series.
I love a good series.
Get hyped for The Zone of Interest with Nicole Kidman and Anne Heche.
Part of the Queer Cinema Lost and Found series.
And with a title like that it has to be good.
Sunday 1/7
Because of this movie, men of a certain age are always telling me to not call them Shirley.
O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Blue Starlite Central
Good Bluegrass Coen Comedy.
Nicolas Cage is so unhinged in this and Cher is great as always [insert emojis here].
GODARD CINEMA & TRAILER OF A FILM THAT WILL NEVER EXIST: PHONY WARS | Austin Film Society
It’s a doc about Godard followed by his last short.
Monday 1/8
Charlie Chaplin classic playing at the video store.
Hyperreal Film Club is back and ringing in this new year with Gregg Araki’s polyamory movie.
Tuesday 1/9
FIRST NAME: CARMEN | Austin Film Society
Continuation of the Godard in the ‘80s Series.
Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan | FlixBrewhouse
This is one of the good ones.
I think the even numbered ones are supposed to be the good ones but then I remember 5 being good. Isn’t that the one with the whales?
From Beyond | Alamo Drafthouse
‘80s slime from Terror Tuesday.
Wednesday 1/10
$5 screening of this teenage classic.
Looks like this is a theme for January at this theater.
Both NW and SW locations.
The Violent Years | Alamo Drafthouse
Weird Wednesday presents Ed Wood script Girls Gone Wild.
Thursday 1/11
Another Thursday to catch up on on those new releases they keep putting out