This Week in Screenings 5/3-5/9
Friday 5/3
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | Cinemark | Violet Crown | IPIC | Alamo Drafthouse | Regal | Galaxy | Southwest Theater | Cinépolis | Flix Brewhouse | AMC
The first Star Wars.
$2 environmentalist movie for kids.
Car movie for kids.
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | Alamo Drafthouse
Educational.
Say Anything | Alamo Drafthouse
This is the one where he holds up the boom box.
Got Michael Bay into the Criterion Collection.
Saturday 5/4
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 Movie Party | Alamo Drafthouse
It’s the beginning of the end.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Regal
The one with the Basilisk.
Miracle Mile | Alamo Drafthouse
Part of the Alamo Drafthouse Time Capsule 1989.
What I like most about these series is when there’s a movie I’ve never heard of that someone considered interesting enough to include in a review of 1989.
Santa Sangre | Alamo Drafthouse
You can’t talk about Holy Mountain and not go see Santa Sangre.
Rocky Horror Picture Show | Southwest Theaters
A lot of the front row seats are all bought up.
The French Connection | Alamo Drafthouse
Great chase scene.
HER DOG SATAN | EastSide Cinema
1991 vampire thriller featuring Austin based musicians in the punk scene.
Sunday 5/5
Steel Magnolias 35th Anniversary | Regal | Flix Brewhouse | Cinemark
Everyone should see this movie.
Grease!- Sing-A-Long | Blue Starlite Central
Makes sense to watch Grease in a car.
A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY | Austin Film Society
Edward Yang’s 4hr movie about being a kid in Taiwan in the 1960’s.
It’s totally worth the 4hrs.
Good Hitchcock movie with Grace Kelly and Ray Milland.
Presented by Hyperreal Film Club.
This is why you don’t play with Ouija boards.
Monday 5/6
The Amazing Spider-Man | Alamo Drafthouse | Cinemark | Regal | AMC
Continuation of the Spider-Man re-release.
Now with Andrew Garfield.
Tuesday 5/7
Vanishing Point (1971) | Alamo Drafthouse
This is the best era for car movies.
WITHIN OUR GATES | Austin Film Society
Oscar Micheaux series at AFS.
I’m excited, because when do you get to see this stuff in a theater?
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) | Alamo Drafthouse
Part of the Terror Tuesday series.
They are gonna show every one of these movies.
This is the first one.
Wednesday 5/8
The Big Lebowski Movie Party | Alamo Drafthouse
Every now and then you have to watch this movie.
$5 screening of a different pot movie.
ACE IN THE HOLE | Austin Film Society
Noir canon returns.
This one is still relevant.
Mystery Manga #1 | Alamo Drafthouse
Part of the Weird Wednesday series.
They are doing a series of movies based on manga.
Sounds like a good time.
Thursday 5/9
I think the Second Semifinal of Eurovision is streaming on Peacock and it’s the stronger lineup in my opinion.
I’m gay and I watch a lot of movies
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