This Week in Screenings 2/6-2/12
2/6 Friday
The Phantom of the Opera (2004) | Alamo Drafthouse
A lot of people like this stuff.
Brief Encounter | Alamo Drafthouse
Sad girl cinema club presents. Restrained British love.
Superstar Whitney Houston.
THE WEDDING BANQUET | Austin Film Society
The original one directed by Ang Lee.
CROSSING DELANCEY | HYPERREAL FILM CLUB
I aspire to be a pickle guy.
Gore Verbinski picked this ‘80s cult classic.
Napoleon Dynamite Live | Paramount Theatre
Napoleon will be there.
Tremors | Austin Public Library
Part of the Deep Dives into Popular films series. Always a fun movie to rewatch.
The Thing (1982) | Alamo Drafthouse
I watched this recently and was really impressed by the shot compositions.
Ciao! Manhattan | Alamo Drafthouse
Charli XCX picked this movie starring Edie Sedgwick.
LOVE ME HARD, LOVE ME DEEP | Austin Film Society
The start of the Pink Cuts series at AFS. Japanese Pink movies just in time for Valentines Day.
2/7 Saturday
I bet that tree star tastes amazing.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | Flix Brewhouse
I today found out Clash at Demonhead is a Japanese ‘80s video game.
I watched this on a plane and my experience wasn’t as nice as the one in the movie.
Twin Peaks Episodes 28-30 | Alamo Drafthouse
Skipped a few episodes.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show | Lake Creek 7
18+ show with live shadowcast.
2/8 Sunday
Beloved classic movie.
It has recently come to my attention that I have never seen this in a theater.
Queer Cinema: Lost and Found presents. Adaptation of the bisexual play No One's Afraid of Virginia Woolf! Yes, I’m calling the play bisexual.
SunGays presents. Italian Kiwi man falls in love.
2/9 Monday
Groundhog Day | Austin Public Library
A little late but I’ll take it.
My Best Friend’s Wedding | Alamo Drafthouse
I’m a sucker for a musical number.
Suntory time.
DROWNING BY NUMBERS | HYPERREAL FILM CLUB
Peter Greenaway is great at making beautiful weird movies.
This was my grandmother’s favorite movie.
THE BUSINESS OF FANCYDANCING | Austin Film Society
Starring Evan Adams from Smoke Signals.
Mystery Machine | Alamo Drafthouse
Rated R 100mins.
Rated R 1hr 45min.
Rated R 1hr 45min.
2/10 Tuesday
Presented by Odd World. Starring Gary Oldman pretending to be a little person. But also starring Peter Dinklage. From the director of Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby.
THE GREAT DEBATERS | HYPERREAL FILM CLUB
Black in America presents. Denzel Washington and Forest Whitaker are both in this.
Airline ticket prices increased by 15% in 1993. I’m not saying it was because of this movie but it could have been.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Flix Brewhouse
Directed by Michel Gondry and written by Charlie Kaufman. What a great team.
PASSING THROUGH | Austin Film Society
Essential Cinema series. Rarely screened movie about a Jazz musician and will be preceded by a Charles Burnett short.
Thirst | Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
Terror Tuesday presents a vampire movie by Park Chan-wook, director of No Other Choice. Also in theaters this week.
2/11 Wednesday
Moonage Daydream | Alamo Drafthouse
David Bowie Documentary using footage from throughout his career.
Tyra Banks jumpscare.
Book Club Meeting. All but one of Thomas Harris’s books have been made into movies.
Three Days of the Condor | Alamo Drafthouse
Robert Redford as a CIA agent during the cold war.
STOLEN KINGDOM | HYPERREAL FILM CLUB
Documentary about rule breakers in theme parks.
Never Talk to Strangers | Alamo Drafthouse
Weird Wednesday presents an erotic thriller starring Harry Dean Stanton.
2/12 Thursday
Raya and the Last Dragon | Austin Public Library
Family Film Night at the Howson Branch.
I'm so tired of all this traffic. I just can't wait until we get Out of Africa.
Coming to America | Paramount Theatre
Eddie Murphy comedy that came before Coming 2 America.
THEY CAME TOGETHER | HYPERREAL FILM CLUB
Very funny David Wain movie satirizing rom coms.
I’m gay and I watch a lot of movies
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