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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
PG, 81 min. This pleasant throwback to the live-action Disney films of yore provides brisk fun for all.
R, 98 min. The doll from hell is back.
PG, 118 min. This Annie is of our time, even if we've grown remote from spunky little girls.
The Babadook
NR, 93 min. Tyro helmer Jennifer Kent conjures a disturbing spook story about a mother, a son, and an unnerving presence in their house.
The Best of Me
PG-13, 117 min. It's getting hard to tell one Nicholas Sparks adaptation from another amid all the dross.
Beyond the Lights
PG-13, 116 min. A popular singer finds the courage to be herself with the help of a friendly cop.
Big Eyes
PG-13, 105 min. Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz play the Keane couple, the artists behind the craze of those ubiquitous portraits of wide-eyed waifs.
Big Hero 6
PG, 108 min. Witty charm, lively animation, and a swift pace help this animated superhero story rise a cut above.
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
R, 119 min. A Hollywood star falls to earth with mad, exhilarating results.
The Book of Life
PG, 95 min. Dia de los Muertos provides a colorful and vivid background for this animated film.
The Boxtrolls
PG, 97 min. The third time isn't the charm for this animated film from the studio that gave us the magical Coraline and ParaNorman.
R, 114 min. When Edward Snowden was in that hotel room in Hong Kong sharing his initial intel about NSA surveillance, Laura Poitras' was there with a camera to film his disclosures.
Dolphin Tale 2
PG, 107 min. Wholesome family franchise doesn't rock the boat.
Dr. Cabbie
NR, 101 min. In this Canadian comedy, an Indian doctor can only find work in Toronto as a cabdriver.
Dracula Untold
PG-13, 92 min. Prince Vlad fights off the Turks with with a little old-school vampirism.
Dumb and Dumber To
PG-13, 109 min. They're ba-ack!!!
The Equalizer
R, 131 min. Denzel Washington and Antoine Fuqua deliver the action goods one more time.
Exodus: Gods and Kings
PG-13, 150 min. Batten down the hatches! The plagues are here!
Force Majeure
R, 118 min. Blackly funny, yet lightly brutalizing, this Swedish film observes a married couple for whom a passing threat turns into an existential crisis.
R, 134 min. The performances by Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, and Mark Ruffalo anchor this drama, which nearly sinks from its weightiness.
R, 134 min. Brad Pitt commands a Sherman tank in the waning days of World War II, and teaches his men the simple algorithm of war: Kill or be killed.
The Gambler
R, 111 min. Mark Wahlberg has one of his juiciest roles ever as a creative-writing professor by day and a compulsive gambler by night.
Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me
PG, 116 min. Touching documentary captures Campbell's final tour, which is made more poignant and brave because of the musician's worsening Alzheimer's.
Gone Girl
R, 149 min. When a lady vanishes, David Fincher holds the moral compass.
The Good Lie
PG-13, 110 min. A well-told story about four lost boys and girls of the Sudan in America gets a welcome assist from Hollywood.
The Great Invisible
PG-13, 92 min. Doc looks at the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the lives of residents in the Gulf area.
Guardians of the Galaxy
PG-13, 120 min. These lesser-known, misfit, comic-book characters are a grand addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
PG-13, 144 min. The concluding chapter of Peter Jackson's Tolkien tales brings us full circle.
The Homesman
R, 122 min. Hilary Swank and Tommy Lee Jones point their wagon east while confronting the myths of the Old West.
Horrible Bosses 2
R, 108 min. Common work-related frustrations erupt into a fitfully funny wish-fulfillment comedy.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
PG-13, 123 min. Katniss Everdeen goes from Hunger Games victor to emblem of the revolution.
The Imitation Game
PG-13, 114 min. Brilliant World War II codebreaker Alan Turing, whose story is told here, was a pioneering figure in computer science as well as a closeted homosexual.
PG-13, 169 min. Majesty and mawkishness combine in Christopher Nolan's film about humans' last-ditch attempt to find a habitable planet in another galaxy.
Into the Woods
PG, 124 min. The Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine musical, a pastiche of classic fairy tales turned on their heads, gets a thoroughly cinematic workout.
John Wick
R, 101 min. Keanu Reeves and the filmmakers deliver the goods in this well-constructed revenge picture.
The Judge
R, 141 min. This drama starring Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall sounds better on paper than it is in practice.
Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas
PG, 80 min. The former teen heartthrob turned evangelical entrepreneur shows how to put the faith back into Christmas.
R, 99 min. Keira Knightley stars with Chloë Grace Moretz in Lynn Shelton's likable but aimless film about arrested adolescence.
Left Behind
PG-13, 110 min. God help us: Nic Cage is up against the Rapture.
Lingaa (Tamil)
NR, 174 min.
Lingaa (Telugu)
NR, 174 min.
Listen Up Philip
NR, 109 min. The director of The Color Wheel is back with this film about a narcissistic and abrasive young novelist.
R, 88 min. Scarlett Johansson goes totally badass in this far-fetched but riveting Luc Besson action film.
The Maze Runner
PG-13, 113 min. Of all the dystopian teen fables, this one based on James Dashner's popular novel is one of the best.
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
PG, 97 min. This well-worn premise still has some life in it.
R, 117 min. Jake Gyllenhaal gives a terrifically fierce performance as a tenacious and delusional self-actualizer.
No Good Deed
PG-13, 84 min. Idris Elba plays a home invader hell-bent on terrorizing Taraji P. Henson's suburban mom.
On Any Sunday: The Next Chapter
PG, 90 min. Everything you wanted to know about riding and racing motorcycles is revealed in this encyclopedic doc.
The One I Wrote for You
PG, 110 min. This filmed-in-San Antonio indie tells a familiar tale about the soul-sucking music industry, but does so with an engaging cast and contemporary spin.
PG-13, 89 min. Hasbro's soothsaying board is the MacGuffin in this teen horror film.
Pelican Dreams
G, 80 min. The director of The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill is back with a personal doc about these "flying dinosaurs," which have always fascinated her.
Penguins of Madagascar
PG, 92 min. You can hardly lose with animated penguins … and how about that cameo from Werner Herzog?
NR, 153 min. Bollywood comedy.
Point and Shoot
NR, 83 min. This documentary follows an American man's motorcycle trip through Northern Africa and the Middle East, during which he takes up arms against Muammar Gaddafi in Libya.
The Pyramid
R, 89 min. A team of U.S. archeologists becomes lost and hunted in the labyrinthine catacombs of a buried pyramid.
NR, 103 min. Jon Stewart makes his directing debut with this story about a journalist's imprisonment in Tehran.
St. Vincent
PG-13, 103 min. Bill Murray plays a hard-hearted grouch who warms to his new neighbors – Melissa McCarthy and her young son.
The Tale of Princess Kaguya
PG, 137 min. Stunningly beautiful, Studio Ghibli's latest animated film is a real work of art.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
PG-13, 101 min. The slang-slinging, sewer-dwelling, pizza-loving lot are back.
The Theory of Everything
PG-13, 123 min. Based on Jane Hawking's memoir about her marriage to the scientist Stephen Hawking, this film really shows what goes into a relationship.
Top Five
R, 101 min. Chris Rock is on a roll with this funny yet pointed comedy, which he wrote and directed, and also stars in.
PG-13, 137 min. The heroic story of Louis Zamperini, who endured harrowing hardships during World War II, is the subject of Angelina Jolie's second movie.
NR, 114 min. Bollywood thriller.
Uzumasa Limelight
NR, 103 min. The hero of this beguiling Japanese film is a kirare-yaku or "sliced actor" – a certain kind of Japanese actor/stuntman who always dies by sword in the shadows.
R, 107 min. A student's desire to become a better drummer comes at the cost of becoming a supplicant to a monstrous teacher.
R, 115 min. Reese Witherspoon stars as Cheryl Strayed in this autobiographical trek of expiation.
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
NR, 83 min. This is one of the best of all the Abbott and Costello features. The pair meets up not only with Frankenstein, but also the Wolfman, Count Dracula, and the Invisible Man for a...
R, 93 min. CineMondays: The Best of the Rip-Offs. This African-American variation on The Exorcist was out of circulation for years because of lawsuits by Warner Bros. that argue that the resemblance is too close.
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
PG, 103 min. Zzang!!!. Wonderfully fun, albeit markedly chaotic and incoherent, Buckaroo Banzai is one of those movies that has earned a strong cult reputation on the basis of its mile-a-minute cros...
Adventures of Captain Marvel
Sprocket Society: Secret Sunday Matinees. Weekly episodes of this Forties serial are followed by a "secret classic feature." Shazam!
The Adventures of Tintin
PG, 107 min. Alamo Kids' Camp. Free.
The African Queen
NR, 105 min. Summer Film Classics: World War I Film Series. Bogart and Hepburn battle World War I Germans and each other in this classic demonstration of how opposites attract. The script is by Huston and James Agee. (Double bill: Gallipoli.)
After Tiller
PG-13, 85 min. Cinema East. After the assassination of Dr. George Tiller, what's life like for the 4 remaining doctors who perform late-term abortions in this country?
R, 124 min. Only at the Alamo. This animated science fiction based on a graphic novel set the modern standard of excellence for Japanese anime despite the movie's emphasis on blood and violence.
The Alamo
PG-13, 135 min.
Alex in Wonderland
R, 110 min. Austin Film Society: The Creative in Crisis. Sutherland plays a director who's hot off a successful blockbuster and is now agonizing over his next project in Mazursky's semi-autobiographical film. This series is curated...
R, 117 min. Badass Digest Presents. The modern horror film meets the space opera in this outstanding film that launched a small franchise.
R, 137 min. 70mm at the Ritz. Sigourney Weaver returns for more alien encounters in this sequel directed by Cameron, but this time she's determined to wipe out the critters for good.
All About Eve
R, 138 min. Summer Film Classics. With a stunning 14 Oscar nominations for the cast and crew, this show-biz classic is as wicked and sophisticated as they come. (Double bill: The Bad and the Beautiful.)
All Is Lost
PG-13, 106 min. Austin Public Library: Weeknight Cinema – Solo Survival. Free.
All Over Me
R, 90 min. Homo Arigato!. A teenage girl's journey of sexual discovery is played out amidst the rock clubs of Hell's Kitchen in this riot grrrl classic.
All That Heaven Allows
NR, 89 min. Austin Film Society: Rebel Rebel. Wyman plays a proper middle-class widow who falls in love with the gardener (Hudson) who prunes her bushes. Not only is there a problem with his social class and his belief sy...
All That Jazz
R, 123 min. Austin Film Society: The Creative in Crisis. In dazzling spectacle and dance, choreographer Fosse recounts less-than-flattering aspects of his life story, including drug use and womanizing.
All the President's Men
PG, 138 min. Badass Digest Presents: The News in Cinema. It's the movie that inspired a generation of students to apply to journalism school.
Almost Famous
R, 122 min. The News in Cinema
Altered States
R, 102 min. IFC Slightly Off Cinema. In this uneasy blend of the extreme visuals of director Ken Russell and the bloated dramaturgy of writer Paddy Chayefsky (who disowned this adaptation of his novel), Hurt play...
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
G, 87 min.
AMC Best Picture Showcase
Philomena, Dallas Buyers Club, The Wolf of Wall Street, and 12 Years a Slave will screen.
R, 122 min. Girlie Night. Celebrate love and little twists of fate in this sepia-in-Technicolor portrait of Paris.
American Astronaut
NR, 91 min. Cinema41. Scripted and directed by the frontman of the musical group the Billy Nayer Show, American Astronaut is an imaginative and resourceful spectacle. Director Cory McAbee will disc...
An American in Paris
NR, 115 min. Summer Movie Classics: The Fifties. Even if you think you've seen this musical dozens of times, you haven't really seen it until you've watched it on the big screen. Minnelli and his collaborators are all at the...
PG-13, 89 min. NCM Fathom: RiffTrax Live. The best giant snake film to star Ice Cube gets the mocking it deserves.
Andy Warhol's Dracula
R, 103 min. Homo Arigato!. This companion piece to Andy Warhol's Frankenstein emphasizes the sexual component of the vampire myth. As the Count, Udo Kier requires virgin blood and goes off to Italy expe...
Angels Sing
PG, 90 min. CapCityKids Present. This benefit screening of this locally shot Christmas film will have writer Turk Pipkin in attendance. Each ticket will include a complimentary copy of his novel, plus cocktails and appetizers.
Animal Crackers
NR, 98 min. Marx Brothers Retrospective. Hooray for Captain Spaulding, the African explorer (Groucho Marx) who is the guest of honor at one of Mrs. Rittenhouse's tony dinner parties. This movie features the Marx Brothers at their zaniest.
PG, 126 min. Summer Film Classics: Musicals. It's the film adaptation of the Broadway phenomenon: that musical about America's favorite Depression-era foundling. (Double bill: Jesus Christ Superstar.)
Antonio Gaudí
NR, 72 min. American Institute of Architects Austin. This documentary about the unique work of the famous Catalonian architect Antonio Gaudí is directed by the Japanese filmmaker who made Woman of the Dunes 20 years earlier. Ins...
Any Given Sunday
R, 162 min. Stone's ham-fisted tale of a professional football team is full of excess and machismo (and a ripped out eyeball).
The Apartment
NR, 125 min. Cinema Cocktails. Lemmon plays a company man who tries to climb the corporate ladder by loaning out his bachelor pad to illicitly trysting higher-ups. As usual, office politics makes for some s...
The Apparition
PG-13, 82 min. Austin Public Library: A Haunting. A supernatural presence is released during a college experiment.
Arsenic and Old Lace
NR, 118 min. Summer Film Classics: Getting to Know You. Two seemingly harmless old ladies murder their gentlemen callers. More hilarity ensues. (Double bill: The Shop Around the Corner).
PG, 97 min. Summer Film Classics: New York Socialites. Classic performances are delivered by all involved; Gielgud even won an Oscar for this dipsomaniacal comedy. (Double bill: The Last Days of Disco.)
Arthur Christmas
PG, 100 min. Alamo Kids' Camp
Ashes and Diamonds
NR, 105 min. AFS Essential Cinema. This powerful anti-war film is the best of Wajda's early work and a touchstone of Polish cinema. It takes place on the last day of World War II and finds an underground operat...
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
R, 160 min. Beautifully shot and masterfully directed, this may be the world's first epic of misguided hero worship.
NR, 89 min. Paramount 100. This 1934 French classic is a work of enduring poetry that has launched a thousand other movies. (Double bill: Grand Illusion.)
Austin Asian American Film Festival
Returning for its seventh year, this festival is a weekend of the most unique collection of Asian and Asian American films: 13 screenings, including Revenge of the Green Drago...
Austin Jewish Film Festival
Last day: Friday, April 4. Review the program at www.austinjff.org.
The Avengers
PG, 91 min. Summer Superhero Film Fest
G, 92 min.
Back to the Future
PG, 111 min. 1.21 gigawatts of pure nostalgia.
Bad Boys II
R, 150 min. Tough Guy Cinema. In this subtle and heartwarming sequel, Smith and Lawrence rethink their penchant for violence and open up a daycare center. Just kidding; many things explode.
Bad Ronald
NR, 74 min. Austin Film Society: History of Television. This TV movie presents a family who moves into a house that is already occupied by a psychopathic murderer.
Ball of Fire
NR, 111 min. AFS Essential Cinema: Barbara Stanwyck. In this recontextualized story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Stanwyck plays a streetwise nightclub entertainer who, on the run from gangsters, ends up hiding out in the...
The Band Wagon
NR, 111 min. AFS @ Marchesa Celebration Screening. Many astute people consider this witty backstage tale the greatest of all Minnelli's great musicals. Sublime performances, great musical numbers, and an inspired Betty Comden...
Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour
Whole Earth Provision Co.. This traveling showcase of international short films and documentaries about outdoor adventure and exploration focuses on mountain adventures and cultures from around the worl...
PG, 98 min. Based on a French comic strip, Fonda and her then-husband Roger Vadim had a good time with this outrageous movie about the adventures of a 41st century sexual explorer. It mak...
The Barber of Seville
NR, 170 min. Metropolitan Opera: Encore Presentation. Even after 200 years, Rossini's beloved opera still wows the crowds.
NR, 150 min. UT Radio-Television-Film Dept. and South Asia Institute. This heartwarming Bollywood tale shifts between the present and the past to tell the life story of a man who is deaf and mute but hasn't allowed these problems to impede his l...
Batman Forever
PG-13, 122 min. Master Pancake. Join John Erler, Mac Blake, David Jara, and Andrew Rosas as they head back to the Nineties to jovially overthrow Batman Forever.
Batman Returns
PG-13, 126 min. Classics. Gotham City is once again riven with crime, so Michael Keaton and director Tim Burton's Batman save the citizens from the megalomaniacs.
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
PG, 76 min. Mondo Presents. This animated Batman is from the same folks behind the TV cartoon series, and is a diverting take on the Caped Crusader.
Battleship Potemkin
NR, 75 min. Paramount 100: Early Silent Cinema. Eisenstein's dramatization of the 1905 naval mutiny starts as a protest strike when the crew is given rotten meat for dinner and ends in a street riot – and a horrific police...
Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booker
NR, 90 min. AFS Doc Nights. The overlooked New Orleans piano legend James Booker is the subject of this documentary. Dr. John has described Booker as "the best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius Ne...
Beautiful Girls
R, 113 min. Celebrity Guests. Timothy Hutton stops by for a Q&A after the screening of this ensemble romantic comedy.
Beauty and the Beast
NR, 95 min. Summer Film Classics: Forties Eye Candy. Cocteau unleashes his visual magic on the age-old story of a girl and her beast. Walls and statuary move unbidden and the otherworldly look of the film, costumes, and make-up...
Because of Winn-Dixie
PG, 105 min. Austin Public Library: Family Movie Night. Free.
Beerfest With Beerlympics
R, 110 min. Oktoberfest Olympics. Before Broken Lizard's comedy about the underground world of competitive beer drinking, there will be live Beerlympics games (starting at 1:30pm) at Glass Half Full to get your juices flowing.
PG, 92 min. In this wonderfully comic spook tale, a couple of mild-mannered ghosts call upon the obnoxious demon Betelguese to help them reinhabit their house from the new (and living) tenants.
Before Sunrise
R, 101 min. Blue Starlite Drive-In: Date Night. Richard Linklater takes one of the oldest romantic formulas in the book – strangers on a train – and creates a soulful melding of hearts, minds, and camera.
Being John Malkovich
R, 112 min. Jonze made an accomplished jump to the big screen (with the help of Charlie Kaufman's inventive script) in this twisted tale of love, identity, and marionettes.
PG-13, 91 min. Austin Parks & Recreation: Cine de Oro. This two-person character study features lovely performances that are models of restraint in what otherwise might have been a soppy melodrama.
G, 212 min. This winner of 11 Oscars tells the epic story of Jewish Ben-Hur prince and his best friend Messala in ancient Rome. It's a chariot-race classic.
The Best Man
R, 120 min. Films of 1999. Malcolm D. Lee, cousin of Spike, hits emotional pay dirt in this men's-eye-view of marriage, fidelity, and love.
The Best Years of Our Lives
NR, 168 min. Alamo 100. Three veterans return home after World War II and have difficulties adjusting to civilian life.
Beverly Hills Cop
R, 105 min. Cinemark Summer Classics. Action-comedy vehicle presents Murphy at his very best.
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
NC-17, 109 min. Big Broads and Meek Men: The Films of Russ Meyer. Chock-full of campy raunch and mega-mammaries unbound, the movie tells the story of a rock & roll girl group that does whatever – and whomever – it takes to succeed.
The Beyond
NR, 88 min. Fright Night. A woman inherits a hotel that was built over a gate to Hell. Man, I hate it when that happens. Don't forget your lawn chair.
PG, 104 min. Classics. Hanks is perfectly cast as this story's young boy who suddenly wakes up in a grownup body and facing all the problems that come with a grownup's life.
The Big Lebowski Quote-Along
R, 117 min. Action Pack
The Big Lebowski
R, 117 min. Blue Starlite Drive-In. New shit has come to light.
Big Meat Eater
NR, 82 min. Weird Wednesday. They don't make 'em like this anymore. This is a charming spoof of sci-fi and horror movies that might not make a lot of sense, but that won't stop your enjoyment anyway.
Big Trouble in Little China
PG-13, 99 min. Zzang!!!. Carpenter's jokey adventure tale stars Russell as a truck driver who becomes involved in a battle between good and evil in San Francisco's Chinatown. The Alamo will be screening a new 35mm print.
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
PG, 90 min. Austin Parks Foundation: Movies in the Park. Free.
The Birdcage
R, 119 min. Nathan Lane Birthday Bash. Based on its French predecessor, La Cage aux Folles, this American comedy tells the story of two gay men trying to pass as straight for a family gathering.
The Birds
NR, 120 min. Action Pack and Shiner White Wing Present. Free; advance reservations suggested.
Black Narcissus
NR, 99 min. Summer Film Classics: Foreign Independence. Three Anglican nuns attempt to transform a Himalayan palace into a convent, but, in addition to the physical challenges of the landscape, they are constrained by their own emo...
Black Orpheus
NR, 103 min. Noche de Pelicula
Black Sabbath
NR, 99 min. Enjoy this trilogy of horror stories while enjoying some superior Texas barbecue and throwing back some free Live Oak Pilz courtesy of Wright Bros. Brew & Brew.
PG, 93 min. Austin Public Library: Beyond the Bride of Bad Film Festival. Free.
The Blair Witch Project
R, 87 min. Love it or hate it, there's no denying its legacy.
PG-13, 104 min. A period piece about two generations of matadors is fused with the Snow White fairy tale in this black-and-white Spanish charmer.
Blaze Foley: Duct Tape Messiah
NR, 79 min. Austin Public Library: Weeknight Cinema – Texas Tunesmiths. Free.
Blazing Saddles
R, 93 min. Classics. Brooks' early reputation as a film director rests with the success of this raunchy Western spoof.
Bless Me, Ultima
PG-13, 106 min. Latino Heritage Month. This honest, earnest, and naturalistic kids' story about growing up Mexican-American in Forties New Mexico is based on the popular book.
Blood Rage
R, 82 min. Terror Tuesday. The gore in this slasher movie is all the fault of an evil twin.
Blood Simple
R, 97 min. Austin Film Festival: Made in Texas. With this first film, the Coen Brothers grabbed the national spotlight for their audacious visual stylings and the perception that the film and its makers sprang out of nowhere, fully formed.
NR, 111 min. AFS Arthouse. Not only does the film capture a sense of swinging London in the form of the freewheeling photographer played by Hemmings, but it also questions reality and our suppositions a...
Blue Ruin
NR, 90 min. Salunier served as the writer, director, and cinematographer of this multi-award-winning film about a loner on a mysterious mission. Saulnier and Macon Blair will be in attendance for a Q&A.
Blue Velvet
R, 120 min. The Complete David Lynch. Lynch scarred many a psyche with this look at an idyllic small town's sordid underbelly.
The Blues Brothers
R, 133 min. They're on a mission from God.
Bonnie and Clyde
R, 111 min. Classics. So definitive in so many ways, Bonnie and Clyde has become a modern touchstone. Wonderful performances accentuate the sharp script by Robert Benton and David Newman, while Art...
The Boogeyman
R, 82 min. Terror Tuesday. A mirror that witnessed a murder years earlier wreaks havoc when smashed into shards in this film directed by horror master Lommel, who was also a regular Fassbinder actor.
The Book Thief
PG-13, 131 min. Austin Public Library: Based on Books. Free
NR, 113 min. This Dutch film is a darkly nuanced fable that keeps the viewer consistently off-balance.
Boss Nigger
PG, 87 min. Weird Wednesday. In this blaxploitation Western comedy, a couple of ex-slaves decide it would be fun to become bounty hunters and hunt white folks for a change.
Bottle Rocket
R, 95 min. Save the Bottle Rocket Motel. This event, now in its fourth year, includes a screening of the film, costume contests, trivia challenges, and more.
R, 107 min. Free and Queer Cinema. The impressive co-directing debut of the Wachowski Brothers has visual style to burn – not to mention a hot story about two women who fall in love and plot to pilfer a couple...
R, 164 min. Concordia's College of Liberal Arts Big Screen Classics. Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, this film chronicles the life of one Texas family. A discussion follows the film.
Bram Stoker's Dracula
R, 128 min. Based on Books Halloween Edition Movie Series. Coppola's take on the very old story is deliciously fresh.
PG, 100 min. Austin Public Library: Family Movie Night. Free.
R, 177 min. Big Screen Classics. Gibson directs and stars in this rousing 13th century epic about the Scottish freedom fighter William Wallace.
Breakfast at Tiffany's
NR, 115 min.
Breakfast at Tiffany's Brunch
NR, 115 min.
Over the Edge
PG, 95 min. CineMondays: Teenage Wasteland. Free.
The Breakfast Club
R, 97 min. Master Pancake. Master Pancake goes to detention with the Brat Pack.
NR, 87 min. Austin Film Society: Godard vs. Truffaut. Godard's breakthrough film ushered in the French New Wave. The film's use of jump cuts and general insouciance lends this genre piece a stylistic energy.
R, 110 min. CineBrew. Film noir mystery blends with high school drama as a loner searches for his missing ex-girlfriend.
The Bride of Frankenstein
G, 75 min. This is the film that features Lanchester with that memorable shock of white streaked through her electric hairdo.
Bringing Out the Dead
R, 120 min. Films of 1999. It's Taxi Driver Redux as Schrader and Scorcese team up with Cage - giving one of his best performances - as a paramedic losing his shit.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
PG-13, 86 min. Bangarang!. Before the TV series, there was the movie in which a Nineties Valley Girl discovers her true calling.
PG, 113 min. Humpday Video Club. Free.
R, 112 min. Austin Film Society: Rebel Rebel. In this film from the director of The Battle of Algiers, Brando plays a mercenary who instigates a slave revolt in the Caribbean, only to have it backfire on the British inter...
But I'm a Cheerleader
R, 81 min. Out Youth Austin Presents. Campy film is fun viewing and shines a light on lipstick lesbians who are willing to put their pom-poms where their mouths are.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
PG, 112 min. Dynamic Duos. Redford leaped into superstar status when he paired up as the Sundance Kid to the already celebrated Newman's Butch Cassidy. They star as a couple of Western bank robbers who...
Bye Bye Birdie
G, 112 min. Flashback Family: Sixties Night at the LBJ. Great music and brilliant performances by Ann-Margret, Paul Lynde, and Dick Van Dyke.
The Cabin in the Woods
R, 105 min. Austin Public Library: Weeknight Cinema – Shocks in Shacks. Free.
R, 99 min. Classics. Anarchic comedy shenanigans wreak havoc in a country club, while Dangerfield steals the show.
Captains Courageous
G, 117 min. Paramount 100. This poignant film follows Harvey Cheyne, the spoiled child of a careless father, as he accidentally plunges overboard a trans-Atlantic ship and is taken aboard a rusty schoon...
NR, 170 min. NCM Fathom: The Met in HD
R, 97 min. Summer Film Classics: John Travolta. De Palma's classic creep show has dark undertones about the nastiness of teen spirit, emergent female sexuality, and rabid Christianity. Needless to say, Carrie is our favorit...
NR, 102 min. Food & Film: Valentine's Day Feast. See www.drafthouse.com for menu.
Case Closed
Austin Public Library: Anime Club. Japanese anime.
R, 178 min. Cinema Cocktails. Stone jumps into the deep end with those Scorsese made guys, De Niro and Pesci, as the director moves the action from New York to Vegas.
The Castle of Cagliostro
PG-13, 100 min. Miyazaki made his debut as a director of animated films with this story of the greatest gentleman thief of all time: Lupin III.
Cat People
NR, 73 min. Summer Film Classics: Noir-ish. In this great example of the Val Lewton style, which emphasizes foreboding and dread over visible horror, Simon plays a mysterious woman who believes she turns into a ferociou...
The Cheerleaders
R, 90 min. Weird Wednesday. This campy exploitation film finds the middle ground between soft- and hardcore.
R, 115 min. Food & Film: Dinner Party. For the complete menu, go to www.drafthouse.com.
PG-13, 113 min. Classics. This film adaptation doesn't so much recall the glory days of movie musicals as give it a new, era-specific reason to wake up and shake its tail feather.
Chicken Run
G, 84 min. Alamo Kids' Camp. Free.
Chinese Super Ninjas
NR, 107 min. Weird Wednesday. Also known as Five Element Ninjas.
Choose Your Own Pancake
Master Pancake Theater. Bring a DVD of your choice to the show; The audience will select a favorite entry, and Master Pancake will do an instant mockery.
Christmas Evil
R, 100 min. Vinegar Syndrome. There's a psycho loose in a Santa suit deciding who receives the gift of life.
Christmas Pops Sing-Along
Action Pack
Christmas Show
Master Pancake. This seasonal show features the Master Pancake regulars and clips from favorite holiday TV specials and other weird holiday programs.
A Christmas Story and Gremlins
Blue Starlite Drive-In: Double Feature
A Christmas Story Feast
The seasonal classic screens with a Chinese dinner feast. See www.drafthouse.com for the full menu menu.
A Christmas Story
PG, 98 min. Holiday Film Series. In this beloved holiday film, young Ralphie wants nothing more for Christmas than a Red Ryder, 200-shot, range-model air rifle, but he must convince Mom and Dad that, if lucky...
Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio
NR, 59 min. Documented in this film is Mockbee's Rural Studio, an architectural charity program in which students design and build structures for impoverished communities in rural Alabama...
Citizen Kane
NR, 119 min. News in the Cinema. Who knows if Citizen Kane is really the best movie ever made, as its reputation would have us believe? But this film sure ranks up there, and this Welles wunderkind classic de...
City Lights
G, 87 min. Chaplin gets a remix courtesy of James Anderson and the Austin Piazzolla Quintet, who will provide an improvised score to this silent classic.
The City of Lost Children
R, 117 min. Cinema Cocktails. This follow-up to Delicatessen is a dark and scary fairy tale that's jam-packed with enough strange characters and wild mythologies for at least three movies.
City of the Living Dead
NR, 93 min. Thursday Night Fright Night. A suicide in a church cemetery causes the portals of hell to open wide, allowing the dead to rise and take over. Also known as The Gates of Hell.
R, 89 min. Smith's feature debut is an outrageous, profane, and deliriously dead-on comedy that follows a day in the life of two young convenience/video-store clerks.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
PG, 137 min. Sound & Cinema: Movies on the Lawn. Join the Octopus project as they put their indelible spin the theme song to this classic sci-fi film.
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
PG, 90 min.
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2
PG, 95 min.
PG-13, 97 min. Girlie Night. Heckerling updates Jane Austen's Emma to Beverly Hills.
Coal Miner's Daughter
PG, 125 min. Wonderful performances (Spacek won on Oscar) anchor this biopic of country star Loretta Lynn's rise to fame. In a time before the TV music channels made star biographies into...
Coal Miner's Granddaughter
NR Mad Stork Cinema. Experimental narrative about a young working-class woman coming out queer in the Seventies. (Double bill: Imitations of Life.)
R, 90 min. Tough Guy Cinema With Mark Lester. A retired elite commando rescues his daughter from the clutches of a toppled dictator. Mark Lester in attendance.
PG, 100 min. Alamo Kids' Camp. Free.
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
R, 115 min.
The Craft
R, 100 min. Girlie Night. Teen witches made high school a dark and brooding place long before vampires took over as the kings of teen cool.
Cries and Whispers
R, 106 min. AFS Essential Cinema: Liv & Ingmar. In the late 1800s, two sisters and their servant watch a third sister on her deathbed. Through flashbacks and actions in the present, their individual stories unfold and their...
Critters 2
PG-13, 93 min. Terror Tuesday. Critter eggs are mistaken for benign Easter eggs.
R, 94 min. Cine Las Americas. Del Toro's first feature film is a stunning meditation on eternal life. All proceeds benefit the next Cine Las Americas International Film Festival. Dinner at 6pm, movie at 7pm.
The Croods
PG, 98 min. Family Fare
R, 119 min. Two Thumbs Up: Ebert's Picks. A staggeringly intimate look at the life of the famed cartoonist and his family. (Double bill: Dark City.)
PG-13, 85 min. Bangarang!. John Waters' Cry-Baby stars Johnny Depp as a a hip-swiveling, sensitive delinquent bent on winning the girl next door.
Curious George
G, 86 min. Alamo Kids' Camp
The Dance of Reality
NR, 130 min. Cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky's first feature in 23 years is a labor of mad, passionate love
The Darjeeling Limited
R, 91 min. Wes Anderson boards another train of ironic whimsy, although this time the train is quite literal and not just the train of thought in his head.
Dark City
R, 100 min. Stunning visuals highlight this story in which a city's inhabitants are the victims of some cosmic experiment being conducted by a race of aliens.
The Dark Knight Rises
PG-13, 164 min. Master Pancake and Mystery Guest Comedian. You can coun t on the Pancake gang to be battier than the Dark Knight.
The Dark Knight
PG-13, 152 min. The latest Batman film incarnation is a good fit for our age of anxiety. Mondo will be on hand after the screening hocking posters.
Dark Star
G, 83 min. Weird Wednesday. Gonzo sci-fi weirdness from Carpenter and Dan Alien O'Bannon.
Darker Than Amber
PG, 96 min. Austin Film Society: Auteur Obscure. Author John D. MacDonald's reluctant detective Travis McGee brings one more slimebag to justice.
Das Boot
R, 210 min. AFS: Jewels in the Wasteland. Back in 1981, when he was still working in his native Germany, director Petersen established himself as an action/suspense director par excellence. Set in a German U-boat duri...
Daughters of Darkness
R, 87 min. Blood and Roses: Love in Euro-Horror. This erotically charged bloodsucker tale about a lesbian vampire is drenched in vivid shades of red and a decadent Eurotrash atmosphere.
A Day at the Races
NR, 111 min. Marx Bros. Retrospective. The Marx Brothers get caught up in the mayhem when a sanitorium (directed by a veterinarian played by Groucho) is taken over by a casino.
Dazed and Confused
R, 103 min. INK hosts their Welcome Back Picnic & Screening of this Linklater classic outside in the moonlight with top notch grub from Top Notch, all to benefit AIDS Services of Austin's...
Dear Pillow
NR, 86 min. Texas Spotlight: 10th Anniversary. This locally made film about the art of exploiting people's darker passions pushes sexual buttons meant to arouse and provoke, but never sate. All ticket sales will be donated...
Death Becomes Her
PG-13, 103 min. Cinema Cocktails. The film's wicked take on modern vanity is often hysterically on-target, although the plot never really takes off, as outrageous as it is and despite some pretty amazing special effects.
Death Laid an Egg
R, 86 min. Weird Wednesday. This Italian giallo thriller is set on a high-tech chicken farm run by a wife and husband, who makes a sideline of killing prostitutes.
The Decline of Western Civilization
NR, 100 min. Scoot Dive-Inn Theatre. Spheeris documents the Los Angeles punk scene, circa 1980, in this documentary that screens as part of a music series co-hosted by the Chronicle.
Def Leppard: Viva! Hysteria Concert
NCM Fathom. Britain's arena-rock band was captured live over nine nights during the group's spring residency at The Joint, located in the Hard Rock Hotel, Las Vegas.
R, 100 min. Cinema Cocktails. Set in a post-apocalyptic Parisian deli o' the damned, this is a lunatic's take on the future of man.
Demon Witch Child
NR, 90 min. Terror Tuesday. Another evil-possessed child attacks.
Dennis the Menace
This film adaptation is based more on the TV series than on the comic strip.
The Departed
R, 149 min. Classics. Scorsese finally scored an Oscar with this multi-award-winning crime story in which the cops and the criminals are often one and the same.
Despicable Me
PG, 95 min.
Despicable Me 2
PG, 98 min. Winter Kids' Camp. $1 of each ticket sold will be given to the LEEF Foundation and the LISD.
Destry Rides Again
NR, 94 min. Summer Film Classics: Hollywood's Golden Year. Dietrich croons "See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have" in this Western parody in which Stewart tames a rowdy frontier town. (Double bill: Goodbye Mr. Chips.)
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
PG-13, 110 min. Austin Public Library: Weeknight Cinema – Texas Tunesmiths. The literal and figurative institutionalization of Austin music and art legend Daniel Johnston is analyzed from many angles in this perceptive film profile.
Devil's Express
R, 82 min. Terror Tuesday. In this film, aka Gang Wars, an African-American man summons a demon from the subway system to rid his neighborhood of gangbangers. Lots of collateral damage occurs.
NR, 114 min. Summer Film Classics: The Fifties. Although it's been remade a couple of times, no version comes close to replicating the tension and psychological thrills of this French original. It's the story of a distastef...
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
PG, 92 min. Austin Public Library: Family Matinee. Free.
Die Hard
R, 131 min. Humpday Video Club. Free.
NR, 81 min. 5604 Manor Community Garden Group: Dinner and a Movie. Potluck dinner from 7-8pm. Screening at 8pm, with a discussion to follow.
Dirt Road to Psychedelia
NR, 72 min. Austin Public Library: Weeknight Cinema – Texas Tunesmiths. This documentary traces the changeover of Austin's youth culture from beatniks to hippies, folkies to rockers, and potheads to day-trippers – with side trips into all the music along the way.
Dirty Dancing
PG-13, 100 min. Nobody puts Baby in a corner!
Dirty Harry
R, 102 min. Tough Guy Cinema. Are you feeling lucky, punk?
Dirty Ho
NR, 103 min. Eastern Fury. One of the masterpieces of Hong Kong martial arts cinema (and not the nasty American title it might sound like) provides a showcase for deft star Gordon Liu, who portrays a pl...
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
PG, 110 min. Cinema Cocktails. Martin and Caine shine as rival con men on the French Riviera in this sterling comedy. Special cocktail menu available for this screening.
Do the Right Thing
R, 120 min. 1989: 25 Years Later. Spike Lee's provocative masterpiece. (Double bill: Roger & Me.)
Dog Day Afternoon
R, 130 min. CineMondays: How I Spent My Summer Vacation. Pacino stars in this strange-but-true story about a man who holds up an NYC bank to get the money for his lover's sex-change operation but quickly finds events spinning out of control.
Donovan's Reef
NR, 109 min. Supremely goofy in tone, the film pits Wayne (in his last Ford film) and Marvin as drunken pals who careen from one friendly brawl to the next. A Pacific island paradise becomes their silly playpen.
Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
PG, 101 min.
Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon
R, 88 min. Weird Wednesday. Asylum inmates take over the institution.
Dr. Butcher M.D.
R, 84 min. Terror Tuesday. This Italian horror movie features cannibals and zombies. Just be happy that this is one doctor that Obamacare won't cover.
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas
PG, 102 min.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
NR, 93 min. Concordia's College of Liberal Arts Big Screen Classics. It's one of the greatest - and undoubtedly the most hilarious - anti-war statements ever put to film. See it before the world ends. a discussion follows the screening.
NR, 75 min. Paramount 100: The Thirties. It's the movie that put Transylvania on the map and the role to which Bela Lugosi became forever linked. (Double bill: Frankenstein.)
Dracula vs. Frankenstein
NR, 90 min. Terror Tuesday. Dracula and the mad doctor conspire in this Adamson classic of low-budget trash.
Drunken Master
NR, 106 min. Off-Centered Film Festival: Beer Feast. Five dinner courses are accompanied by eight Dogfish Head beers. See www.drafthouse.com for menu.
Drunken Wu-Tang
NR, 95 min. Weird Wednesday. Wild chopsocky picture with crazy-sounding characters and a plot too wacky to encapsulate. Be prepared for turtle men, watermelon monsters, and lots and lots of wire work chor...
Duck Soup
NR, 70 min. Marx Brothers Retrospective. "Hail, Freedonia!" The Marx Brothers literally declare war, and no one is safe.
Dumb and Dumber
PG-13, 117 min. Cinemark Classics
Dumb and Dumber Quote-Along
PG-13, 117 min. Action Pack
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
PG, 115 min. Dynamic Duos. Phone home.
The Earrings of Madame de …
NR, 105 min. Criterion Presents. One of the most visually beautiful films ever made, this is Ophüls at his saddest and most elegant.
Eastern Condors
NR, 97 min. Eastern Fury. Did someone say Vietnam suicide mission?
Eat Drink Man Woman
NR, 124 min. Free 20th anniversary screening of this film about a widower/former chef and his three grown daughters. Free popcorn, too!
NR, 97 min. Austin Polish Society. A scrap-metal scavenger in Lodz is wrongly accused of a crime by the gang of brothers who run the neighborhood.
Edward Scissorhands
PG-13, 100 min. Classics. Burton's combination of fantastic and real imagery add to this story's dreamy but satiric edge.
NR, 90 min. Austin Film Society. Made in Austin a half-decade before The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Hooper's first feature is psychedelic and political. The film has been rediscovered and restored after a scree...
8 1/2
NR, 138 min. Austin Film Society: The Creative in Crisis. Mastroianni plays a film director who's just had a huge hit but is struggling to find an idea for his next project. Between fits and starts, he goes back through his life and...
PG, 95 min. Classics. As the titular elf, Ferrell embraces the comic absurd with arms outstretched.
Elf Quote-Along
PG, 95 min. Action Pack
R, 124 min. Afternoon Tea. Blanchett is indelible as Queen Elizabeth I, the 16th century monarch who took the British throne during divisive times.
PG, 120 min. Afternoon Tea. Matchmaker Emma is clueless when it comes to her own love life.
Emma Mae
R, 100 min. Austin Film Society: Rebel Rebel. A Southern girl moves to the Los Angeles ghetto, and after struggling to fit in, she falls in love with a young gangster who has her do his dirty work for him.
Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas
NR, 48 min. Alamo Kids' Club. Kermit the Frog hosts this classic Muppet musical Christmas tale with original songs from master tunesmith Paul Williams.
Ender's Game
PG-13, 114 min. Austin Public Library: Based on Books. Free.
PG, 102 min.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
R, 108 min. Alamo 100. Love is never having to say "I erased you."Love is never having to say "I erased you."
Eugene Onegin
NR, 245 min. Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD. Anna Netrebko and Mariusz Kwiecien star as the lovestruck Tatiana and the imperious Onegin in Tchaikovsky's fateful romance. An encore presentation will be broadcast on Wednesday.
Even the Rain
NR, 103 min. Noche De Pelicula. Amid citizen unrest in Bolivia, a Spanish film crew attempts to mount a revisionist history of Christopher Columbus.
The Exorcist
R, 121 min. As soul-frightening and technically mesmerizing as it ever was, The Exorcist proves that there's no ghost movie as scary as a Holy Ghost movie.
The Expendables 3
PG-13, 127 min. Master Pancake. Every now and then, a film comes along that is so perfect for the Pancake crew, they have no choice but to do their civic duty and mock it. The Expendables 3 is that movie.
PG, 109 min. Alamo Kids' Club. Hawke and Phoenix made their acting debuts in this movie about three kids who invent a spaceship in their backyard and are contacted by aliens.
Eyes Without a Face
NR, 88 min. Blood & Roses: Love in Euro-Horror. This French horror classic is a tale of a deranged surgeon and his obsession with restoring the mutilated face of his beloved daughter, who lost her own visage to a car accide...
The Faculty
R, 102 min. Austin Film Festival: Made in Texas Series. Co-written by Scream scribe Kevin Williamson and George Huang (Swimming With Sharks), The Faculty is pure Robert Rodriguez: jam-packed with action, suspense, humor, horror, an...
Family Plot
PG, 120 min. Summer Film Classics: Hitchcock Week. In his 54th and final film, Hitchcock creates a decidedly unusual tone, blending comedy and suspense. (Double bill: Frenzy.)
Fanny and Alexander
R, 188 min. Austin Film Society: Jewels in the Wasteland. This semi-autobiographical film from the great Swedish master's late career is regarded by many as his crowing achievement.
Fantastic Fest 2014
Devoted to horror, fantasy, sci-fi, action, and just plain fantastic movies from all around the world, Fantastic Fest kicks off its 10th year with opening night film The ABCs...
Fantastic Mr. Fox
PG, 87 min. Alamo Kids' Camp. Free.
R, 95 min. Tough Ladies of Cinema. The Coen brothers fill this tale of a kidnapping gone very wrong with their trademark graveyard wit and unique camera angles.
Fast Five
PG-13, 130 min. Master Pancake. The Pancake gang are sure to give these racers a run for their money.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
R, 92 min.
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
NR, 83 min. Big Broads and Meek Men: The Films of Russ Meyer. Three busty women race around in sports cars and occasionally get out and whoop the hell out of whatever icky men have crossed their path in this seminal softcore salvo.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
R, 119 min. Austin Beer Week: Beer Dinner. See www.drafthouse.com for menu.
Female Trouble
NC-17, 89 min. Austin Film Society: Rebel Rebel. John Waters' follow-up to his groundbreaking commercial success with Pink Flamingos was this over-the-top melodrama starring Divine.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
PG-13, 103 min. When Cameron was in Egypt's land ... let my Cameron go.
The Fifth Element
PG-13, 126 min. Bangarang!. Besson's smart editing and sly sense of humor keep this science-fiction epic from bogging down. Despite a grim storyline, the film never takes itself too seriously.
Fight Club
R, 140 min. Pixies rock music video preshow.
Fight for Your Life
R, 82 min. Weird Wednesday. A father avenges the rape of his daughter.
Firefly: The Marathon
Austin Browncoats. This charity event is part of the Weekend of Whedon; proceeds benefit Equality Now and SafePlace. The entire Firefly series will screen in back-to-back episodes.
The Fisher King
R, 137 min. Bangarang! Robin Williams Memorial Screening. A fanciful spiral of mythology, madness, cynicism, and salvation combining lofty aims with loopy flights of indulgence. All proceeds from the screening will benefit Comic Relief.
A Fistful of Dollars
NR, 96 min. Summer Film Classics: The New Frontier of the Sixties. It's the film that announced the arrival of spaghetti Westerns, put Clint Eastwood on the international map, boosted the careers of Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone, and is al...
Flight of the Butterflies
NR, 44 min. The life cycle of a monarch butterfly and its long-distance migration from Canada to Central Mexico is captured in this 3-D nature documentary that also focuses on the decades...
Flight of the Navigator
PG, 137 min. Alamo Kids' Club. A 12-year-old boy, time travel, a spaceship, federal agents, and an Eighties soundtrack collide in a rollicking sci-fi adventure.
The Fog
R, 89 min. Terror Tuesday. Killer fog in California.
PG, 107 min. Master Pancake. Let's hear it for the Pancake gang, as they put the screws to this charming celluloid time capsule.
For a Few Dollars More
R, 130 min. Summer Film Classics: The New Frontier of the Sixties. Rumor has it that Leone didn't want to make this sequel, but the production company refused to pay him for Fistful until he agreed. (Double bill: A Fistful of Dollars.)
Forbidden Film Fest: Banned Films
The Texas Burlesque Festival and Forbidden Fruit. This new festival will showcase and celebrate sex-positive films and artists. Wednesday kicks off with the film Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story by Beth Stephe...
Forbidden Planet
NR, 98 min. Summer Film Classics: The Fifties. One of the great science-fiction films of all time, Forbidden Planet combines good drama with great special effects. And it has Robby the Robot to boot. (Double bill: Invasion...
Forrest Gump
PG-13, 142 min. IMAX
Found Footage Festival
This live comedy event and screening features odd and amusing clips from videos found at thrift stores, garage sales, warehouses, and Dumpsters throughout the country. The scr...
If …
111 min. CineMondays: Teenage Wasteland. Free.
The 400 Blows
NR, 99 min. Austin Film Society: Godard vs. Truffaut. Truffaut's first and perhaps most affecting feature, The 400 Blows, tells the story of a young boy and his petty crimes and mischief. The freeze frame that concludes the movie...
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
NR, 113 min. Austin Film Society: New Romanian Films. Obtaining a back-alley abortion in Romania proves to be rivetingly tense in this visually spare but assuredly virtuosic film.
NR, 70 min. Paramount 100: The Thirties. They could have thrown out the mold for monster movies after they made this one. It's the mother lode to which we constantly return. (Double bill: Dracula.)
PG, 87 min. Alamo Kids' Camp
Freddy Got Fingered
R, 95 min. The Best of the "Worst". Free.
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
R, 96 min. Terror Tuesday. Freddy haunts his (never before mentioned) daughter in the final film of "Fredtember."
Free Birds
PG, 90 min.
NR, 116 min. Summer Film Classics: Hitchcock Week. Frenzy is one of the great latter-day Hitchcocks; great technique, great suspense, and very black humor drive this tale of an innocent man hunted by Scotland Yard for a series...
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
R, 91 min. Terror Tuesday. The misnomer in the title notwithstanding, this is the one that has that funny Crispin Glover dance scene.
Friday the 13th
R, 95 min. CineMondays: How I Spent My Summer Vacation. The film that spawned a franchise (and arguably a genre) still packs a punch, mostly thanks to Tom Savini's effects.
From Dusk Till Dawn
R, 108 min. Vampires, whiskey, sex, and Hayek's famous snake-dancing color this film. Robert Rodriguez, Fred Williamson, and Tom Savini will be in attendance. Williamson will also partake...
From Russia With Love
NR, 118 min. Summer Film Classics: James Bond Father's Day Weekend. A chess-playing criminal mastermind, a steroid-ridden übermensch, and the Teutonic dwarf with a poisoned shoe are out to catch and kill a Bond. (Double bill: Goldfinger)
PG, 102 min. Movies in the Park. Free.
Fruitvale Station
R, 90 min. The People's Task Force. This hot-button film creates a sad portrait of a young black man unjustly shot down. A discussion follows the film.
Funny Girl
G, 155 min. Summer Film Classics: Barbra!. In her debut film performance, Streisand portrays Fanny Brice, a vaudeville star whose life and loves are given the Hollywood treatment. (Double bill: The Way We Were.)
Gangs of New York
R, 168 min. Classics. The Lower East Side gang wars of the 1860s are brought to life by Scorsese.
The Gate
PG-13, 85 min. Terror Tuesday. The hole left in a boy's backyard from a removed tree stump turns out to be a demonic passageway.
The General
NR, 74 min. Paramount 100. The General is one of Keaton's best films. In this Civil War comedy, Keaton does battle with the General – only thing is the General is a stolen train, not a soldier. There's...
George Washington
NR, 89 min. Criterion Presents. Green's debut feature is a sublime tone poem about adolescence.
PG-13, 128 min. Classics. Whoopi won an Oscar, Demi made ceramics sexy, and Swayze said, "Ditto."
Ghost in the Shell
NR, 80 min. Anime. This exposition-heavy Japanese anime (by the producers of Akira) chronicles the adventures of a shapely, angst-ridden 21st-century female supercop as she and her equally badas...
Ghost Rider
PG-13, 110 min. Off-Centered Film Festival: My Favorite Film. Marc Calderaro, perhaps this film's staunchest defender, will deliver a live commentary throughout the course of the film.
PG, 107 min. It's been 30 years since Murray first got slimed, so it must be time for a re-release.
PG, 201 min. Summer Film Classics: An Epic Finale. If Texas had a state movie, then Giant would be it.
NR, 110 min. Tough Ladies in Cinema. There is no sexier creature than Rita Hayworth in Gilda. The film tells a sick and twisted tale of love and money south of the border – dangerous games played out by sadists a...
Gimme Shelter
R, 91 min. Alamo Goes to '11. Quite by accident, the film documents the famous Rolling Stones concert at Altamont Speedway, which ended in a concertgoer being stabbed to death. Through time, the film has b...
Girl Rising
PG-13, 101 min. Project Schoolhouse Presents. This documentary showcases the power of education to change lives as it follows nine girls from around the world.
R, 154 min. Classics. These Coliseum slavery capers earned a Best Picture Oscar.
Glengarry Glen Ross
R, 100 min. From Script to Screen: Four Films Written by David Mamet. David Mamet's story of salesmen caught in their unique form of hell also offers a cornucopia of fine performances.
The Godfather: Part II
R, 200 min. Summer Film Classics. Just as good as the first one, this sequel skips from Vegas to Sicily to Cuba. (Double bill: The Godfather.)
The Godfather
R, 175 min. Big Screen Classics. This is just about as great as a movie's ever gonna get.
PG-13, 139 min. NCM Fathom: RiffTrax Live. Join Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett as they skewer one of the worst entries in that Japanese monster's career.
NR, 98 min. This is the original and uncut version, albeit newly digitally restored, of the 1954 Japanese monster picture. English subtitled.
Goke: Body Snatcher From Hell
PG, 84 min. Humpday Video Club. Free.
The Gold Rush
NR, 82 min. Those classic scenes of Chaplin eating his shoe and a storm-blown cabin teetering over the cliff belong to none other than The Gold Rush, one of Chaplin's sweetest and most humble movies.
NR, 111 min. Summer Film Classics: James Bond Father's Day Weekend. Two words: Pussy Galore. Two more words: martini specials. (Double bill: From Russia With Love.)
The Golem
NR, 91 min. Blue Starlite Drive-In: Double Feature. A score by the Pixies frontman Black Francis will accompany the film. This silent film is based on the Jewish folktale of the golem and is remembered as a high point in German...
Gone With the Wind
G, 238 min. 75th Anniversary Screening. It's been three quarters of a century since Rhett Butler first didn't give a damn.
Good Will Hunting
R, 126 min. Robin Williams Tribute Series. Williams won an Oscar for his performance in this film.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
R, 176 min. This is the quintessential spaghetti Western and also concludes Leone's great trilogy, which began with Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More. Long, funny, and featuri...
The Goonies Quote-Along
Action Pack
The Goonies
PG, 114 min. Alamo 100. From a story by Steven Spielberg, this kids' comedy is sick, rude fun.
Gosford Park
R, 137 min. Afternoon Tea. The servants know all in this Altman mystery set in a British countryside estate in the Thirties.
NR, 84 min. AFS Essential Cinema: Contemporary Filipino Films. The kidnapping of the daughter of a politician gets complicated when the wrong girl is abducted.
The Graduate
NR, 105 min. Shiner Soundtrack Series. Plastics, my boy, plastics!
The Grand Budapest Hotel
R, 99 min. Wes Anderson's film is a marvelous spectacle: spry, sly, and rich with microdetailed production design and tickling tributes to cinematic forebearers.
Grand Illusion
NR, 112 min. Paramount 100. This movie by Jean Renoir earns near-top billing in every cinephile's list of the greatest films of all time. (Double bill: L'Atalante.)
The Grapes of Wrath
NR, 128 min. Summer Film Classics: The Great Depression. John Ford translated the John Steinbeck Depression-era classic novel into an equally classic movie. The displaced Joad family from Oklahoma speaks for all Americans. (Double b...
Grasp of the Lorelei
R, 85 min. Blood & Roses: Love in Euro-Horror. Girls at a boarding school are terrorized by the Lorelei monster that comes out at night.
PG, 112 min. Classics. What's 36 years old and keeps on ticking? Or should that be sliding? The answer is Grease, the multigenerational phenomenon and one of the most widely seen movie musicals on the planet.
Grease Sing-Along
PG, 112 min. Action Pack
The Great Dictator
NR, 128 min. Summer Film Classics: A Weekend With the Little Tramp. Chaplin plays two roles in his legendary satire of Adolf Hitler, which he also wrote and directed. Released one year before the U.S. entered the war, the film ridicules an ene...
The Great Invisible
PG-13, 92 min. AFS: Premieres and Special Events. The Deepwater Horizon spill, in which an estimated 210 million gallons were loosed into the Gulf of Mexico, is examined from the locals who are still recovering to the BP empl...
The Great Muppet Caper
G, 95 min. Alamo Kids' Club. Free.
Great White Shark
NR, 40 min. This 3-D film explores the great white's place in our imaginations and fears, while concentrating on key aggregation points in the waters off Mexico, South Africa, Los Angeles, and New Zealand.
PG, 106 min. Austin Horror Society
PG, 91 min. Weird Wednesday. An 18-foot-tall grizzly bear terrorizes a state park, and it's up to a ranger and his sidekick to rid the campers of the beast.
Groundhog Day
PG, 103 min. Food & Film. See www.drafthouse.com for menu.
The Gruesome Twosome
NR, 71 min. Terror Tuesday. Lewis' follow-up to Blood Feast.
Guys and Dolls
NR, 152 min. Summer Film Classics: Musicals. Damon Runyon's Times Square comes to life in this musical about a traveling craps game – and a gambler and a missionary who fall for each other, despite their best intentions....
R, 93 min. Blue Starlite: 22 Nights of Halloween
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
NR, 126 min. Eastern Fury. Takashi Miike remakes Masaki Kobayashi's 1962 film about a penniless samurai who commits the ritual act of suicide.
Hard Boiled
NR, 126 min. Tough Guy Cinema. This film approaches something like a kind of Zen violence, an aria of muzzle-flashes, bullet hits, and tightly-edited explosions.
A Hard Day's Night
NR, 85 min. Where a pop star like Elvis churned out silly movies with phony plots, props, and pretense, the Beatles launched into movies playing hyperbolic versions of themselves and thei...
NR, 101 min. AFS: Premieres and Special Screenings. When Dan Harmon was fired from Community, he hit the road with a traveling podcast and a documentary filmmaker in tow. the results are funny, candid, and insightful. After the...
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
R, 87 min. IFC Slightly Off Center. Slider food special.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
PG, 142 min. Alamo Kids' Camp. Free.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
PG, 152 min. Alamo Kids' Camp
NR, 104 min. Easter Sunday Celebration. James Stewart is a tippler who sees a six-foot invisible rabbit that no one else sees – and you think you have problems?
Hausu (House)
R, 88 min. CineMondays: Japanamania. This 1977 Japanese film is a surreal, indefinable piece of horror/comedy, a must-see film for lovers of the inscrutable, the grotesque, the funky, and the eccentric.
Heavy Metal
R, 90 min. Music Mondays. With music by Blue Oyster Cult, Black Sabbath, Cheap Trick, Devo, Grand Funk Railroad, Sammy Hagar, Journey, Nazareth, Stevie Nicks, this animated anthology is a heady mix of...
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
R, 91 min. Everyone's favorite surgically botched transsexual from East Germany lights up the screen.
The Help
PG-13, 146 min. This Southern civil-rights era story about white women and their black maids is saved by the film's deeply moving cast.
R, 119 min. Austin Public Library: Weeknight Cinema: Artificial Amore. Free
High and Low
NR, 142 min. Austin Film Society: Japanese Master Filmmakers. Based on Ed McBain's King's Ransom, a Western detective novel, High and Low is a taut Japanese thriller about a kidnapping gone wrong and the business mogul who must decide be...
High Fidelity
R, 113 min. Alamo Goes to '11. This relatively faithful adaptation of Nick Hornby's beloved music-culture novel is a smart and funny relationship film.
High Noon
NR, 85 min. Summer Film Classics: The Fifties. A quintessential showdown caps off this enduring Western morality tale. (Double bill: The Quiet Man.)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
PG, 108 min. Austin Public Library: Based on Books
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
PG-13, 166 min. Austin Public Library. Free.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
PG-13, 161 min. Austin Public Library. Free
Hocus Pocus
PG, 95 min. Blue Starlite: 22 Nights of Halloween
The Holy Mountain
R, 114 min. Trippy imagery, religious overtones, and hallucinatory symbolism are the hallmarks of this epic film from cult visionary Jodorowsky.
Home Alone
PG, 102 min. Classics
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
Austin Public Library: Family Movie Night. Free.
PG, 144 min. Austin Public Library: Family Movie Night. Free.
Horror Remix: Road Rash
Horror Remix. Clips from movies that combine horror and bikers will be presented in two hours: Content is from Nightmare Beach and Mad Foxes.
Horse Feathers
NR, 68 min. Marx Brothers Retrospective. Groucho Marx plays the president of Huxley College, who recruits the wrong football players to beat school rival Darwin College. It's an excellent Marx Brothers picture.
Hot Rod
PG-13, 83 min. Off-Centered Film Festival: Beer Party With Lonely Island. Cross Napoleon Dynamite's endearing optimism with Ben Stiller's total commitment to his goofy characters, and you'll wind up with a character something like Andy Samberg's hap...
Hotel Transylvania
PG, 91 min. Alamo Kids' Camp. Free.
The House by the Cemetery
NR, 78 min. Terror Tuesday. Pro tip: If you're going to purchase a creepy old house, make sure you scout out the basement before you move in.
How to Train Your Dragon 2
PG, 102 min. Austin Public Library: Family Movies
Howard the Duck
PG, 110 min. Giant Size Comics Podcast Present. This notorious George Lucas-produced flop stars the Marvel Comics character: a foul-mouthed, cigar-chomping duck. Co-creator and illustrator Val Mayerik will be there for the...
The Howling
R, 91 min. Terror Tuesday. A TV newswoman goes on a therapeutic retreat after a traumatic experience but instead encounters werewolves in this sharp and amusing film.
Hubble 3D
NR, 45 min. This documentary follows NASA's May 2009 mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
The Hudsucker Proxy
PG, 111 min. Cinema Cocktails. This Coen brothers film is a goofy ode to genres and eras gone by. Although it's a little less "weird" than much of their work, it still retains a mannered and quirky air with...
PG, 126 min. Alamo Kids' Camp. Free.
The Hunger Games
PG-13, 142 min. Master Pancake. The bounty of The Hunger Games will be like a fatted calf to the Pancake mockers.
Hurricane on the Bayou
NR, 40 min. Hurricane on the Bayou started production before Katrina and switched gears after the catastrophe. The film tells the stories of four musicians, highlighted by a jazz, blues,...
NR, 113 min. Rebel Griot: The Films of Djibril Diop Mambety. Mambéty transfers Friedrich Dürrenmatt's tragi-comic play The Visit from Switzerland to Senegal. An economically depressed village hopes that a rich, new resident, who in her...
I Am Divine
NR, 90 min. Homo Arigato!. Harris Glenn Milstead, the actor better known as the 300-pound sex symbol named Divine who appeared in those early John Waters' movies, is remembered in this doc.
Ice Age: Continental Drift
PG, 87 min.
Ice Age: The Meltdown
PG, 90 min. Cinemark Movie Clubhouse
Imitations of Life
NR Mad Stork Cinema. This psychoanalytic essay culls found footage from early cinema, Hollywood films, television shows, and more. (Double bill: Coal Miner's Granddaughter)
In the Heat of the Night
NR, 109 min. Cinema Club. A black man (Poitier) is falsely arrested for murder in a racist Southern town. But he turns out to a prominent Philadelphia attorney, and once released he and the bigoted she...
Independence Day
PG-13, 145 min. Blue Starlite Drive-In: Fourth of July Weekend. Enjoy an onscreen fireworks display after the film.
The Indian in the Cupboard
G, 96 min. Pajama Party. The excellent animation and sly wit make this an above-average kids' fantasy.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
PG-13, 125 min. Dynamic Duos. The third entry in this adventure series is an improvement on the second (a prequel), although it can't be said that The Last Crusade breaks any new ground. Sean Connery is in...
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
PG, 118 min. Class of 1984
PG, 106 min. Austin Public Library: Family Movie Night. This fantasy adventure, in which characters come to life when the books they're in are read aloud, boasts a strong cast and an ingrained love for reading and the well-told tale.
Inland Empire
R, 172 min. The Complete David Lynch. Just sit back and let this mindfuck of a movie do the driving.
The Insider
R, 157 min. Crowe takes on the tobacco industry in this gripping drama.
PG-13, 169 min. Majesty and mawkishness combine in Christopher Nolan's film about humans' last-ditch attempt to find a habitable planet in another galaxy.
Interview With the Vampire
R, 123 min. Master Pancake. There is much to mock in Jordan's adaptation of Anne Rice's homoerotic classic.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
NR, 80 min. Summer Film Classics: The Fifties. This is the original, Eisenhower-era version of the sci-fi story in which a community of human beings is replaced by identical-seeming but emotionless pod people. (Double bill...
The Iron Giant
PG, 86 min.
It's a Wonderful Life
NR, 129 min. Holiday Film Series. Double bill: White Christmas.
Jack the Giant Slayer
PG-13, 114 min. Winter Kids' Camp. $1 of each ticket sold will be given to the LEEF Foundation and the LISD.
James Brown: Live at the Boston Garden, 1968
NR, 80 min. Music Monday. This is the famous James Brown concert that was broadcast on WGBH in Boston on April 5, less than 24 hours after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Jane Eyre
PG-13, 115 min. Afternoon Tea
PG, 124 min. Universal recently released this classic summer blockbuster in a 4K digital transfer, so it will look as fresh as it did on its release nearly 40 years ago.
The Jerk
R, 94 min. LMAO Dinner Theatre. The Jerk reigns supreme in the movies-about-really-stupid-men department.
Jesus Christ Superstar
PG, 103 min. Summer Film Classics: Musicals. Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock opera gets the full-scale movie treatment. (Double bill: Annie.)
R, 188 min. Classics. Oliver Stone gives the "lone gunman" assassination theory a run for its money.
Jingle All the Way
PG, 90 min. Schwarzenegger fights the crowds as he tries to get his son the perfect toy.
John Carpenter's Escape From New York
R, 99 min. Austin Parks Foundation: Movies in the Park. Canceled due to rain.
Johnny Firecloud
R, 94 min. Weird Wednesday. When he returns to the reservation after his military service, an Indian man finds his tribe victimized by the white man. How do you say Walking Tall in Navajo?
Journey Into Amazing Caves
NR, 38 min. This film follows expedition leaders as they tunnel through Greenland's ice caves, explore the aquatic chambers beneath the jungles of the Yucatan, and rappel the limestone ca...
Jules and Jim
NR, 104 min. AFS Essential Cinema. In this enduringly transcendent love story, Truffaut traces the relationships among three lovers and friends over the years. Moreau dominates every fragment of the movie with...
Julien Donkey-Boy
R, 94 min. Cinemaker Manifesto: Dogme 95. Korine took Lars von Trier's "vow of chastity" and came up with this fuzzy drama about a schizophrenic and his dysfunctional family.
The Jungle Book
G, 78 min. Movies in the Park
Jurassic Park
PG-13, 127 min. Master Pancake. See the Pancake merrymakers point and laugh at the prehistoric beasties (and Jeff Goldblum).
Justin Timberlake Sing-Along
Action Pack
The Karate Kid
PG, 126 min. Sam Adams Beer Dinner. Full menu online at www.drafthouse.com.
Key Largo
NR, 100 min. Bogart & Bacall. A terrific cast does great things with this adaptation of a Maxwell Anderson play in which Robinson plays a gangster who holds several people hostage in a Florida hotel during a storm.
The Kid
NR, 54 min. Paramount 100. The Kid (1921) is a sentimental comedy that pairs the Tramp with a foundling. (Double bill: Safety Last.)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
R, 110 min. Thanksgiving wouldn't be complete without this charming story about a bride who was left for dead on her wedding day and seeks revenge against them that done her wrong. Part 2 screens on Wed.
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
R, 127 min. Revenge is a dish best served bold – and deliciously, by Quentin and Uma.
Kill or Be Killed
PG, 90 min. Weird Wednesday. South African martial-arts movie features Nazis and a midget.
King Corn
NR, 88 min. First Friday Film Series. Appealing inquiry into the politics of food, public health, and the reasons why corn has become an ingredient in virtually everything we eat.
King of the Hill
PG-13, 103 min. Criterion Presents. A young boy who's separated from his family spends time in a dilapidated hotel in this Depression-era drama. Soderbergh's film is a lyrical piece of well-crafted passion that...
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
R, 103 min. Tough Guy Cinema. Black's directorial debut is a trippy tribute to L.A. noir and a genre-busting attack on Hollywood pretensions.
Kung Fu Panda
PG, 91 min. Alamo Kids' Camp
Kung Fu Panda 2
PG, 90 min.
NR, 164 min. AFS: Art Horror. Japanese compendium of four ghost stories that feature samurais, balladeers, monks, and spirits.
PG, 101 min. Blue Starlite Drive-In. David Bowie's crotch bulge is even bigger at the drive-in.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains
R, 87 min. Invincible: Five Tough Films. Back before anyone knew what a riot grrrl was, Diane Lane starred as one in this notorious flop, which also features members of the Clash and the Sex Pistols.
The Lady Eve
NR, 94 min. Cinema Cocktails. Preston Sturges' delirious humor sets up Henry Fonda's wealthy dope to be taken by Barbara Stanwyck's seductive con-artistry.
Lady Terminator
R, 82 min. CineMondays: The Best of the Rip-Offs. An ancient evil possesses the body of a young anthropologist and embarks on a killing spree in this Indonesian knock-off that is still better than Terminator: Salvation.
The Last Boy Scout
R, 105 min. Action Pack. I'll defer to the late, great Roger Ebert on this one: "a glossy, skillful, cynical, smart, utterly corrupt and vilely misogynistic action thriller."
The Last Days of Disco
R, 120 min. Summer Film Classics: New York Socialites. The third film in Stillman's "comedy of mannerlessness" trilogy. (Double bill: Arthur.)
The Last Dragon
PG-13, 109 min. Zzang!!!. Motown's Berry Gordy produced this karate picture starring two one-named wonders, Taimak and Vanity, and a selection of Motown B-sides. Able-handed veteran Schultz directs.
The Last Starfighter
PG, 101 min. Big Screen Classics. After a teen wins his highest score on the video game Starfighter, he is recruited to test his abilities in real combat, though all is not as it seems.
The Last Unicorn
G, 92 min. Aquasana Kids Night Out. In this animated feature, a brave unicorn and a magician fight an evil king who wants to exterminate all unicorns. Free.
The Last Waltz
PG, 117 min. Scoot Dive-Inn Theatre. The Chronicle continues co-hosting this series of music related films. This week, it's the document of the Band's final tour.
NR, 88 min. The Influences of David Lynch. One of the all-time murder-mystery movie classics, Laura stars the beguiling Tierney in the title role. Also of note are the delightful performances of Webb as a jaundiced rep...
Lawrence of Arabia
PG, 216 min. 70mm at the Ritz. This desert epic won seven Academy Awards and features Peter O'Toole, who died last month, in his first starring role as the adventurer T.E. Lawrence.
PG, 114 min. Blue Starlite Drive-In. Magical fantasy.
The Legend of Billie Jean
R, 96 min. Invincible: Five Tough Films. A Texas teen gets caught up in a cross-state fight for justice when bullies trash her brother's scooter.
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
PG, 91 min. Alamo Kids' Camp
The Lego Movie
PG, 100 min.
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
PG, 113 min. Alamo Kids' Camp. Free.
Leprechaun 2
R, 85 min. Master Pancake With Doug Benson. You can count on these folks to skewer St. Patrick's Day.
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
R, 118 min. CineMondays: God Bless You, Mr. Murray. Free.
Life Itself
R, 115 min. The life of Roger Ebert is celebrated in this documentary by the director of Hoop Dreams.
Life of Pi
PG, 125 min. Spotlight Taiwan in Austin. This time Ang Lee's tiger is not crouching; this animal has its claws out and has only an adolescent boy for companionship – or vice versa. A slideshow precedes the film, and...
The Limey
R, 89 min. With its throughline themes of memory and time, Soderbergh's fractured revenge tale is one of the best films of the Nineties.
Lion Ark
NR, 100 min. This documentary about animal rescue in Bolivia has a matinee preview in the afternoon followed by a red carpet premiere and a VIP reception in the evening. For more info, see...
Little Giants
PG, 107 min. Celebrity Guests. James Ferguson, one of the writers of this peewee football comedy, will be in attendance.
The Little Mermaid
G, 83 min. Austin Public Library: Family Movie Night. Free.
Little Monsters
PG, 100 min. Zzang!. Monsters under the bed.
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
G, 85 min. Alamo Kids' Club. this animated feature, based on the character created by cartoonist Winsor McCay at the dawn of cinema.
Little Women
NR, 115 min. Paramount 100. Louisa May Alcott's beloved novel becomes an unforgettable silver screen adaptation with this George Cukor film starring Katharine Hepburn as Jo, a young girl and aspiring aut...
Little Women
PG, 115 min. Afternoon Tea. Louisa May Alcott's March sisters remain resonant in a new season.
Loaded Guns
PG, 96 min. Weird Wednesday. A stewardess, carnies, acrobats, and mobsters: ultraviolent comedy for the sick and twisted.
NR, 152 min. The Influences of David Lynch. Nabokov's satire is sensationally cast, with Winters and Sellers delivering some of their best work ever.
The Long Kiss Goodnight
R, 120 min. Tough Guy Cinema. Davis plays a suburban mom, amnesiac, and trained-to-kill bottle blonde.
Lord of the Rings Trilogy Hobbit Feast
PG-13, 640 min. Food and Film. See www.drafthouse.com for menu.
Los Angeles Plays Itself
NR, 169 min. As the capital of the movie industry, Los Angeles (and its streets and homes) has played host to more film productions than any other city. This personal documentary looks at...
The Losers
R, 95 min. Hell's Angels on Reels. Sending Hell's Angels into Vietnam to rescue a presidential advisor might not have been the CIA's best move, but film fans are all the better for it.
The Lost Boys
R, 97 min. Fright Night. Beer specials and free popcorn, and don't forget your lawn chair.
Lost Highway
R, 135 min. The Complete David Lynch. Enigmatic even by Lynchian standards, Lost Highway is a hallucinatory orgy of visual and aural elements and clues that continue to beguile.
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
PG, 94 min. Cinema41. An affectionate parody of 1950s sci-fi movies, the ultralow-budget The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra spoofs 'til it poops.
Love Actually
R, 135 min. Classcs. This merry skein of loves lost and found in holiday-season London is written and directed by the Four Weddings and a Funeral scribe.
The Mad Magician
NR, 72 min. The Mad Magician is a follow-up to House of Wax – another low-budget horror film starring Vincent Price as an unstable craftsman who goes over the edge.
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
PG, 85 min.
The Magic Blade
NR, 97 min. Eastern Fury. A forerunner of the wave of wire-fu fantasies of the Nineties, the film features a supernaturally gifted swordsman who wants to be a boxer.
The Magic Christmas Tree
NR, 60 min. Weird Wednesday. A magic ring grants a boy three wishes, so he abducts Santa Claus and all his toys.
Magic Mike
R, 109 min.
The Magic of Flight
NR, 39 min. The history of human attempts to re-create the effortless flight of birds is ably recounted before the film turns to the dizzying aerobatics of the Blue Angels, the flight dem...
The Magnificent Seven
PG-13, 128 min. Summer Film Classics: The New Frontier of the Sixties. This Western adaptation of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai finds seven gunman struggling to protect a village from ruthless bandits. (Double bill: The Misfits.)
R, 188 min. Films of 1999. This sprawling, meaning-laden spectacle stumbles more often than not, but the performances and the level of intimacy achieved makes it a singular experience.
Make Way for Tomorrow
NR, 91 min. Paramount 100. This heart-wrenching tale was one of the most moving and unflinching portrayals of the Great Depression to come out of Hollywood. An elderly couple lose their home to foreclos...
The Maltese Falcon
NR, 101 min. Cinematic Crime. Based on a Dashiell Hammett novel (adapted for screen by Huston, in his directorial debut), The Maltese Falcon is film noir at its finest. Humphrey Bogart stars as detective Sam Spade.
PG-13, 100 min. Austin Public Library: A Haunting. Free.
Man of Steel
PG-13, 143 min.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
NR, 123 min. Whiskey Flight. This is the American classic that uses the now-famous line: "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." Ford addresses the complexity of heroism in a poetic manner.
Man With a Movie Camera
NR, 68 min. Austin Film Society: Avant Cinema. In this groundbreaking silent Russian film, a vast array of creative camera and editing techniques are used to convey a day in the life of a cameraman observing his city. The...
Maniac Cop 2
R, 90 min. Horror Show. The second part of a trilogy written by Larry Cohen, this movie continues the exploits of an undead zombie cop who has many axes to grind, so to speak.
Marie Antoinette
PG-13, 123 min. Afternoon Tea. Coppolla paints the queen as the ultimate party girl.
Mary Poppins
G, 140 min. Alamo Kids' Camp
PG-13, 132 min. Austin Fim Society: John Sayles Presents. Based on an actual incident, Matewan dramatizes the union-organizing and strike-breaking in a West Virginia coal-mining town.
The Matrix
R, 139 min. Classics. The film blends pop psychology, cyberpunk lore, and stunning visuals.
Meet Me in St. Louis
NR, 113 min. Holiday Film Series. Set during the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904, this musical is heavy on the Americana but loaded with great songs and performances. Margaret O'Brien received a special Oscar f...
R, 116 min. Cinematic Crime. Christopher Nolan's breakthrough movie is a film noir thriller with a gimmick.
NR, 147 min. Paramount 100: Early Silent Cinema. One of the great silent classics, Metropolis is a futuristic fantasy about the mechanization of society. Eighty years after its release, the film has lost none of its Expressionistic fervor.
Miami Connection
NR, 83 min. This incoherent mass of Eighties kitsch is the brainchild of tae kwon do master and motivational speaker Y.K. Kim.
Midnight in Paris
PG-13, 94 min. Cinema Cocktails: Whiskey Flight. Allen's film will be accompanied with whiskey-centered libations inspired by Philip Greene's book, To Have and Have Another, about the life, works and favorite drinks of Ernes...
R, 127 min. AIDS Walk Austin: National Coming Out Day. Gus Van Sant's deeply heartfelt film features a magnificent performance by Sean Penn as the crusading gay activist Harvey Milk. Cleve Jones, who is portrayed in Milk by Emile...
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
NR, 101 min. Concordia's College of Liberal Arts Big Screen Classics. This is the master of subversion's most subversive work, a wartime romantic comedy built around a small-town sweetheart getting drunk and knocked up by a soldier she can't rem...
Miss Congeniality
PG-13, 110 min. Chick Flix. America's Sweetheart plays a detective who goes undercover to vie in a beauty pageant.
Modern Times
NR, 87 min. Summer Film Classics: A Weekend With the Little Tramp. Modern Times is Chaplin's last silent film (although it includes clever background sounds and a music score by Chaplin) and also the final screen appearance of his Little Tram...
Mommie Dearest
PG, 129 min. Mother's Day. Expect live talkback and wire hangers distributed to every attendee. Hosted by Rebecca Havemeyer.
Monkey Business
NR, 77 min. Marx Brothers Retrospective. As stowaways on a luxury liner, the Marx Brothers are unsinkably funny.
The Monster Squad
PG-13, 81 min. Zzang!!!. Kiddie horror film has young aficionados encountering a whole spectrum of monsters.
Monsters University
G, 110 min. Austin Public Library: Family Movie Night
Monsters, Inc.
G, 92 min. Austin Public Library: Halloween Family Fun and Film Fest. Free.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
PG, 90 min. Austin Parks Foundation: Movies in the Park. In their second feature film, the wacky Brits do a number on Arthurian legend and the Middle Ages.
Mood Indigo
NR, 125 min. MS 150 Fundraiser. The League's open up their house for this intimate feast and screening of Gondry's latest film. See menu online at www.drafthouse.com.
NR, 124 min. Films in Person. This powerful fiction film concerns the repercussions in an African village when one woman protects four young girls from the customary genital circumcision. Dr. Fehintola Mos...
Moonlighting Wives
NR, 86 min. AFS: Arthouse. A suburban prostitution ring is exposed in Sarno's scathing critique of bourgeois morality.
Moonrise Kingdom
PG-13, 94 min. Beautiful dreamers and full-time schemers once again dominate Anderson's exacting imagination.
PG, 102 min. Food & Film: Valentine's Day Feast. See www.drafthouse.com for menu.
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
PG-13, 130 min. Austin Public Library: Summer Movies. Free.
Motel Hell
R, 102 min. Terror Tuesday. When spending the night at this place, don't opt for the smoked sausage.
Mouse Hunt
PG, 98 min. Alamo Kids' Camp. Free.
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
PG, 91 min.
Ms. 45
R, 80 min. Drafthouse Films Presents. One of the best women's revenge movies of all time, Ms. 45 stars Lund (aka Tamerlis, who is also the screenwriter of Bad Lieutenant) as a mute woman who, after being raped twi...
Much Ado About Nothing
PG-13, 111 min. Afternoon Tea. Branagh, as the film's director and star – captures Shakespeare's captivating comic romance at the peak of flavor.
Mulholland Drive
R, 146 min. The Complete David Lynch. Some have called this mesmerizing film the culmination of Lynch's career, embodying nearly all of his obsessions in one phantasmagorical dreamscape.
The Muppet Christmas Carol
G, 85 min. Alamo Kids' Camp. The Muppets bring cheer to Ebenezer Scrooge.
The Muppet Movie
G, 94 min. Alamo Kids' Camp. Free.
Muppets From Space
G, 82 min. Austin Public Library: Family Matinee. Free.
Muppets Most Wanted
PG, 112 min. Family Movie Matinee
My Best Friend's Wedding
PG-13, 104 min. Chick Flix. This quirky, convoluted rom-com finds Roberts scheming to marry her best friend, after he becomes engaged to someone else.
My Little Chickadee
NR, 83 min. Dynamic Duos. The double entendres fly as fast as the bullets in this Western comedy.
My Man Godfrey
NR, 95 min. Paramount 100. In this Art Deco screwball comedy, socialite Carole Lombard finds William Powell while on a scavenger hunt and, thinking that this victim of the Depression needs a job, hires...
My Neighbor Totoro
G, 86 min. Miyazaki Madness. This Japanese children's tale about magical forest creatures is from the magisterial Hayao Miyazaki.
My Night at Maud's
PG, 110 min. Cinema41. Belonging to Rohmer's cycle of films called "Six Moral Tales," My Night at Maud's features Trintignant as a devout and uptight Catholic who becomes infatuated with a woman who...
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
NR, 91 min. The Complete David Lynch. Lynch may have just been the producer on this film, but his fingerprints are all over this beguiling tale of a man's descent into madness.
Napoleon Dynamite
PG, 86 min. Austin Public Library: Family Movie Night. Free
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
PG-13, 97 min. Special menu.
National Lampoon's Vacation
R, 98 min. Summer Film Classics: Hughes and Candy. Hey, Underpants! (Double bill: Stripes).
National Velvet
NR, 125 min. Summer Film Classics: Irresistable Forces. Twelve-year-old Elizabeth Taylor is in top form here as young Velvet Brown, a girl who is determined to enter the Grand National and ride her horse to victory. (Double bill:...
Need for Speed
PG-13, 130 min.
The Neverending Story
PG, 92 min. Classics. In this inventive and inspiring fantasy, the book that's read by the story's hero actually comes to life.
A New Leaf
G, 102 min. Mixed Nuts: A Selection of Demented Comedies. A playboy's trust fund is about to run out, and the only solution he can find to his financial predicament is to marry a wealthy but klutzy and socially inept botanist (played...
Newsies: The Sing-Along
PG, 121 min. Action Pack
Nicholas Nickleby
PG, 132 min. Afternoon Tea. Charles Dickens' picaresque teems with wonderful performances and bright direction by McGrath (who also did the same for Jane Austen in Emma).
Night at the Museum
PG, 108 min.
A Night at the Opera
NR, 92 min. Marx Brothers Retrospective. The Marx Brothers take on high society with typically zany results.
Night of the Bloody Apes
R, 83 min. Terror Tuesday. A Mexican wrestler meets up with a mad scientist who decides to transplant a gorilla heart in the human body of a wrestler.
Night of the Living Dead
NR, 96 min. Only at the Alamo: Bird Peterson. Romero's zombie classic is presented with a new music score by Bird Peterson, aka Andrew Hoke.
A Nightmare on Elm Street
R, 92 min. Class of 1984
Nine to Five
PG, 110 min. Girlie Night. Who says feminism can't be funny? Three working women lasso respect and laughs.
Ninja Scroll
NR, 94 min. A ninja-for-hire finds himself in a fight with monsters in this classic of Japanese anime.
No Country for Old Men
R, 122 min. Food & Film: Beer and Cheese Pairings. The Coen brothers display magnificent form with this Cormac McCarthy tale about intransigent evil in the modern West.
North by Northwest
NR, 136 min. Summer Film Classics: Hitchcock Week. One of Hitchcock's very best comic thrillers, North by Northwest features scene after unforgettable scene – including those with the crop duster and Mount Rushmore. (Double bi...
NR, 84 min. Paramount 100. In the realm of vampire films, this 1922 silent is the original mother lode. No one since has matched vampire Max Schreck's creepy loathsomeness. Director Murnau's German Expr...
Nosferatu: The Vampyre
PG, 124 min. Austin Film Society: Arthouse. Kinski makes a worthy successor to Max Schreck as the ghoulish Count Dracula in Herzog's atmospherically creepy and contemplative Nosferatu.
The Notebook
PG-13, 121 min. Master Pancake Theater. The love sap flows freely in this movie romance told in retrospect, and so will the Master Pancake quips.
Nothing Bad Can Happen
NR, 110 min. The title is grimly ironic: In fact, a whole lot of bad things happen in this German horror film.
NR, 101 min. Summer Film Classics: Hitchcock Week. Bergman and Grant sizzle in this espionage tale written by Ben Hecht. Bergman is an undercover spy whose mission forces her to feign love for Nazi-sympathizer Rains instead of...
R, 85 min. Homo Arigato!. The third chapter in Araki's teen-angst-run-riot-in-L.A. triptych is as gorgeously messy as the first two films. Presented by Mouthfeel; preshow by Young Creature; hosted by Ursula.
The Nut Job
PG, 86 min.
Obvious Child
R, 84 min. Jenny Slate stars as a standup comic in this indie film about abortion that comes snuggled in the broad strokes of a quirky comedy.
NR, 145 min. Broadway Brunch. Rogers & Hammerstein will keep you tapping your toes and the Alamo staff will keep bringing you mimosas and other brunch goodies.
R, 120 min. Only at the Alamo. This 2003 revenger from Korean upstart Chan-wook Park is a multilayered, intensely performed, shockingly violent, and viscerally visual tour de force.
On the Waterfront
NR, 108 min. Summer Film Classics: Fifties Brando. This one's still a contender in anyone's book. Screenwriter Budd Schulberg's exposé of the corruption in the dock workers' unions won eight Oscars and remains as stirring as e...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
R, 133 min. Big Bads of Cinema. Oscar-sweeping film classic is derived from the Ken Kesey novel.
127 Hours
R, 94 min. Austin Public Library: Weeknight Cinema – Solo Survival. This unrelenting tour de force examines the human spirit under extreme duress.
Only Lovers Left Alive
R, 123 min. In this hypnotic love story, Jim Jarmusch gives us vampires who are bohemian outsiders and not blood-sucking freaks.
Only the Young
NR, 72 min. Texas Independent Film Network. This gorgeously shot documentary impression of three teenagers in Santa Clarita, California, effectively captures the sensation of youth on the verge. Co-Director Elizabeth Mi...
The Oracle
R, 94 min. Terror Tuesday. This story about a possessed apartment is directed by Roberta Findlay, whose career was mostly devoted to soft-core pornography. Here, lesbianism mixes with violence and death.
Out of Sight
R, 124 min. UT Radio-Television-Film Department. Soderbergh adapts Elmore Leonard in this caper movie that features great performances, gritty milieus, and clever creative flourishes. Colin Tait, the co-author of The Cinema...
The Outsiders
PG, 91 min. Cinebrew. Austin Eastciders celebrates the release of new tallboy cans of their Original Dry Cider by screening this classic coming-of-age story.
R, 90 min. This multilayered animated film captures the childlike, helter-skelter chaos and curiosity of the human mind.
PG, 96 min. Alamo Kids' Camp. Free.
R, 82 min. Halloween Movie Night. Austin Eastciders will be tapping their Smoked Brisket Cider, made with Micklethwait's brisket, as part of Austin Beer Week. Free samples of smoked sausage will also be availa...
Paris Is Burning
R, 76 min. Austin Film Society: That's Genuis. This landmark documentary is a study of the subculture of New York City's drag balls. Young, gay, and disenfranchised men find glamour, limelight, and family in the context of...
Paris, Texas
R, 147 min. Criterion Presents. After an absence of several years, a man tries to recover his relationship with his absent wife and son. The roundabout screenplay by Sam Shepard and adapted by Kit Carson, th...
PG-13, 93 min. Austin Public Library: Based on Books. Free.
Part Time Wife
R, 90 min. Weird Wednesday. A woman comes between two brothers.
R, 88 min. Noche de Pelicula. In this Mexican comedy, a man who has always portrayed the devil in the town's annual nativity play is miffed when the new pastor recasts the role.
Patch Adams
PG-13, 115 min. Robin Williams Tribute Series. Call me all the names you want, but this shameless tearjerker is a horrible way to remember Williams. The real Patch hated it.
Paths of Glory
NR, 86 min. AFS Essential Cinema. Douglas fights the military system in this grim depiction of French army politics during World War I. Kubrick's film vividly depicts the harsh realities of war and remains a great anti-war drama.
The Patriot
R, 164 min. Fulmore Middle School Movie Series
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
PG, 90 min. Sound & Cinema: Movies on the Lawn. It's a good bet that the Urban Achievers Brass Band, who performs before the screening, will be playing "Tequila."
Pee-wee's Big Adventure Quote-Along
PG, 90 min. Action Pack
Peeping Tom
NR, 101 min. Austin Film Society: Terror in the Isles. This abundantly creepy, and always controversial, British movie never goes out of style. A cameraman for the movies by trade, this killer's fetish has to do with photographing...
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
PG, 106 min. Winter Kids' Camp. $1 of each ticket sold will be given to the LEEF Foundation and the LISD.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
PG-13, 103 min. Austin Public Library: Based on Books. Free.
PG, 104 min. Afternoon Tea. In this film adaptation of Jane Austen's posthumous novel, a young woman faces a suitor that her snooty family made her reject eight years earlier, but who has now come into his own fame and fortune.
Pete's Dragon
G, 128 min. Alamo Kids' Camp
R, 87 min. Terror Tuesday. This delightfully inventive horror movie seen from the point of view of three kids showcases creepy flying spheres that suck out human brains.
The Phantom of the Opera
NR, 79 min. Paramount 100. Remadde a bunch of times, this original silent film story follows a mad, disfigured musician who kidnaps a young opera singer and holds her captive in the catacombs of the Par...
The Philadelphia Story
NR, 112 min. Classics. This film is a seamless screwball comedy about a priggish, upper-crust beauty who finally gets her comeuppance and learns some tolerance.
Pink Floyd: The Wall
R, 99 min. Shiner Soundtrack Series. Another brick in the wall.
The Pink Panther
NR, 113 min. Sound & Cinema. Henry Mancini's indelible theme song gets the local treatment as the Jeff Lofton Quartet performs before Edward's and Seller's comic classic.
R, 94 min. Terror Tuesday. Flesh-eating fish are released into the water after a government experiment goes awry.
The Pirates!: Band of Misfits
PG, 88 min.
A Place at the Table
PG, 80 min. The issue of hunger in America is on the menu in this stirring documentary. The film will be followed by a Q&A. Proceeds will benefit Urban Roots.
The Place Beyond the Pines
R, 140 min. Austin Public Library. Free.
PG, 91 min. Movies in the Park. Free.
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
R, 93 min. Big Screen Classics. Here comes that Thanksgiving holiday perennial again.
Austin Public Library: Family Matinee. Free.
Point Break
R, 120 min. CineMondays: How I Spent My Summer Vacation. Bigelow stages the film's action sequences with a brutal efficiency (they almost redeem the movie), but she can't keep the increasingly silly script in check.
The Polar Express
G, 100 min. Holiday Classics. Chris Van Allsburg's magical tale of the Christmas Eve re-education of a Santa-doubting adolescent gets the motion-capture treatment.
Polk County Pot Plane
PG Weird Wednesday. Inspired by real events, this movie was produced by Georgia state legislators wishing to "educate" the populace.
PG, 114 min. Classics. A spectacularly spooky film about a host of ghosts that get hold of a 5-year-old girl.
PG-13, 105 min. A gladiator slave must rescue his secret love before Vesuvius erupts.
Poor Pretty Eddie
R, 92 min. Weird Wednesday. Uggams plays a jazz singer whose car breaks down in rural Georgia, where she's taken in by a twisted innkeeper (Winters) and her homicidal boyfriend.
PG, 114 min. Robin Williams Memorial Screening. Critically drubbed at the time of its release, Altman's Popeye is faithful to the spirit of the old comic strip and animated cartoons, and Williams brings a lot of heart to hi...
Porco Rosso
PG, 94 min. Miyazaki Madness. A 1920s Italian aviator, who has the face of a pig, deals with combat, love, and competition in this animated film.
PG-13, 102 min. Austin Public Library: A Haunting. This dual love story spanning two centuries, taken from A.S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning novel, is handled with typical LaBute pessimism.
The Power of Nightmares
NR, 180 min. This three-part BBC series examines the two groups that have fed the public belief in a hidden terror network: the American neo-conservatives and the radical Islamists.
The Prestige
PG-13, 135 min. Two rival magicians are locked in a lifelong quest for supremacy, which leads them down a slippery slope of hairpin twists and triple-turns in this Christopher Nolan movie.
Pretty in Pink
PG-13, 96 min. Girlie Night. In this John Hughes-written and produced teen tale, Ringwald plays a girl from the wrong side of the tracks who doesn't know what to do when asked out by a rich hunk.
Pretty Woman
R, 117 min. Classcs. This is a contemporary fairy tale about a hooker and her Prince Charming.
The Pride of the Yankees
NR, 127 min. Summer Film Classics: Yankee Pride. Cooper delivers one of his best performances as the ballplayer Lou Gehrig, whose career was cut short by disease. (Double bill: Yankee Doodle Dandy.)
The Princess Bride Quote-Along
PG, 98 min. Action Pack
The Princess Bride
PG, 98 min. Pajama Party. William Goldman adapted his whimsical, comedic novel into a fairy tale for the screen.
Princess Mononoke
PG-13, 135 min. Miyazaki Madness. This Japanese animated feature is packed with an environmentally aware storyline and breathtaking animation.
The Professional
R, 110 min. Tough Guy Cinema. An enigmatic hitman becomes the unlikely caretaker of and mentor to the girl next door. The film features wonderful performances and lots of visual panache.
NR, 109 min. Classics. The Bates Motel is always open in Hitchcock's enduring, game-changing horror classic.
The Public Enemy
NR, 84 min. Paramount 100. This criminal tale excited audiences and landed the kinetic Cagney on the movie map. Now a classic, this is the movie in which Cagney famously crams a grapefruit into Mae Clar...
Pulp Fiction
R, 154 min. Hey, my name's Paul and this shit's between y'all.
Pulp Fiction Quote-Along
R, 154 min. Action Pack
The Punk Singer
NR, 80 min. Free and Queer Cinema. Local punk quartet Feral Future will play in addition to the screening of this Kathleen Hanna biopic.
Purple Rain
R, 111 min. Classics
The Quiet Man
NR, 129 min. Summer Film Classics: The Fifties. This John Ford love song to the mythic Ireland of drunken blarney and sassy lasses is also one of the master's greatest. (Double bill: High Noon.)
Raging Bull
R, 128 min. Alamo 100. De Niro scored an Oscar for his oversized portrayal of boxer Jake La Motta in Scorsese's note-perfect movie about a man who was his own worst enemy.
The Raid 2
R, 150 min. This breathtaker is a relentless wall of action filmmaking that sets a new, bloody standard.
Raiders of the Lost Ark
PG, 115 min. Alamo 100. Indiana Jones, a dashing Saturday matinee idol for the modern age, is one of Spielberg and Ford's best creations.
Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Blue Starlite Drive-In: Double Feature. Why does it have to be snakes?
Raising Arizona
PG-13, 92 min. Blue Starlite: Mother's Day. The Coen brothers sealed their place in film history as more than just a novelty act with this demented comedy about an infertile couple that steals a baby. The family values...
PG, 107 min. Kids' Camp
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
R, 80 min. Quite the opposite of treacly holiday fare, this European import features one very bad Santa.
"The Rat Race" and "Timbaktu"
Indie Meme and Green Gate Farms. "The Rat Race" (D: Miriam Chandy Menacherry; 52 min.) is an award-winning documentary about the rat catchers of Mumbai who set out nightly with a quota to bring back 30 dead r...
Rear Window
PG, 114 min. Classics. One of Hitchcock's most accessible films is also one of his most gleefully deviant, dealing as it does with such fun urban pastimes as voyeurism and spousal mayhem.
NR, 130 min. Summer Film Classics: Hitchcock Week. Hitchcock's first American film remains one of his creepiest. This Daphne du Maurier story relates the plight of a new bride who lives in the perverse shadow of her husband's...
Red River
NR, 133 min. Summer Film Classics: Remembering Montgomery Clift. Clift makes his screen debut in this magnificent Western as the surrogate son of a driven cattleman, played by Wayne. But father-son conflicts arise during a cattle drive, and...
The Red Shoes
NR, 133 min. Summer Film Classics: Forties Eye Candy. To follow the demands of her art or her heart: That's the dilemma faced by the ballerina in this movie, which tells a story that has piqued young girls' interest in ballet for...
PG, 195 min. Austin Film Society: Jewels in the Wasteland. Beatty directs and stars in this dramatic rendering of the life of American journalist John Reed and his involvement in the Communist Party and the Bolshevik Revolution. The p...
Reservoir Dogs
R, 99 min. Bangarang!. Mr. Pink has some seriously misguided views on the service industry.
The Return of the Living Dead
R, 91 min. Terror Tuesday. O'Bannon wrote and directed this take-off on George Romero's original Night of the Living Dead. Return proposes that the U.S. government has locked up the zombies in undergrou...
Return of the Swamp Thing
PG-13, 88 min. Terror Tuesday. In his penultimate film, Jourdan is the evil Dr. Arcane, who keeps a scientific menagerie of mutated creatures, but the only creature the returning Swamp Thing has eyes for is Locklear.
The Return
NR, 103 min. Austin Film Society: Russian Films of the Past Two Decades. A long-absent father returns to his family in this prize-winning Russian drama, and for his two young sons the unexplained reason for his return is as mysterious as his absence.
The Revisionaries
NR, 83 min. In Austin, Texas, fifteen people influence what is taught to the next generation of American children. Once every decade, the highly politicized Texas State Board of Education...
Rich Hill
NR, 91 min. Arthouse Monthly: Evan West Benefit. This Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner is a documentary about the turbulent lives of three boys living in an impoverished Midwestern town, and the fragile family bonds that sus...
Ride Along
PG-13, 100 min.
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
NR, 91 min. Weird Wednesday. This outlandishly over-the-top martial arts film is not for the faint of heart.
G, 96 min. Alamo Kids' Camp
Rio 2
G, 101 min.
Rise of the Guardians
PG, 97 min.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
PG-13, 110 min. Gorilla Run. A portion of ticket sales will support the January 25th Austin Gorilla Run, which benefits the Mountain Gorilla Conservation Fund.
Risky Business
R, 98 min. This film was Cruise's breakthrough performance, albeit for dancing in his underwear.
Road House
R, 114 min. 1989: 25 Years Later. The ne plus ultra of Eighties action movies. (Double bill: Back to the Future: Part II.)
The Road Warrior
R, 94 min. Beyond Mad Max but pre-Thunderdome, this second part of the series is a mythic Western for postapocalyptic times.
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
PG-13, 143 min. Master Pancake Theater. There's nothing funny about men in tights, right?
PG-13, 116 min. This pointless reboot is a castrated version of Paul Verhoeven's grim, überviolent 1987 action film about a viciously murdered Detroit cop who is reconstructed as a machine th...
R, 103 min. Tough Guy Cinema. Half man and half machine, but fully lethal, this RoboCop is indestructible.
Robot & Frank
PG-13, 90 min. Older Americans Month. This weird, winning little movie explores what happens to the essential self as the memory goes. this screening is presented by H.A.N.D., a local nonprofit that assists senior...
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
R, 95 min. Austin fans have been dressing up and doing the "Time Warp" thing live for more than three decades.
Rocky Mountain Express
NR, 45 min. Giant IMAX cameras were strapped to a 1930s steam engine from the Canadian Pacific Railway to follow its trek through the Rockies from Vancouver to Calgary.
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
R, 91 min. Girlie Night. Sweet-natured, unpretentious, and full-throttled comic acting make this reunion movie loopy fun.
The Room
R, 99 min. CineMondays: The Best of the "Worst". Free.
NR, 80 min. Summer Film Classics: Hitchcock Week. Hitchcock famously experimented in Rope with temporal structure (the film is shot in supposed real time in 10-minute-long takes). It tells the story of two thrill murderers wh...
Rosemary's Baby
R, 136 min. Polanski's first American movie is adapted from the Ira Levin book, and it remains a masterpiece of droll humor and inbred horror.
PG, 107 min. Blue Starlite Drive-In: Date Night. Steve Martin does a modern version of Cyrano de Bergerac. (Double bill: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.)
The Royal Tenenbaums
R, 108 min. Supper Club With Micklethwait Craft Meats. Anderson's big generational saga woos the audience with its humor, spirit, style, and ability.
Rudo y Cursi
R, 103 min. Noche de la Pelicula. Y Tu Mamá También actors Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna reteam for this cautionary tale about soccer-playing brothers.
Football's favorite underdog returns to the big screen.
Run Angel Run
R, 95 min. Hell's Angels on Reels. King of the biker movies, William Smith sells out his motorcycle gang and goes on the lam with his girlfriend.
Run Lola Run
R, 81 min. Films of 1999. This exuberant and creative film amps things up for a run of nonstop action that tantalizes the senses with an adrenaline rush of stimuli. Required viewing.
R, 123 min. This free screening presented by the Circuit of the Americas, should get you revved up for Formula One weekend, or at least provide a cheaper alternative.
Russian Ark
NR, 96 min. Austin Film Society: Russian Films of the Past Two Decades. It's fitting that this tour de force of modern cinema closes this Russian series. Sokurov filmed this technical marvel in a single, uninterrupted, Steadicam take that leads us...
RxSM Self Medicated Film Expo
This unofficial film expo returns for its fifth year, March 6-13. This year's lineup features 130 indie films from 21 countries, 25 first-time filmmakers, 12 student filmmaker...
NR, 113 min. Cinema Cocktails. The chauffeur's daughter (Hepburn) finds love with an aging tycoon who is trying to keep her away from his playboy brother.
Safety Last
NR, 78 min. Paramount 100. This is the movie that features Lloyd's climatic stunt famously performed - without a net - on the side of a 12-story building. (Double bill: The Kid.)
NR, 91 min. Summer Film Classics: Documentary Double Feature. The Maysles brothers, illustrious pioneers of the fly-on-the-wall documentary style, present a timeless portrait of four hard-sell salesmen of ornate Bibles as they peddle the...
The Sandlot
PG, 101 min. Austin Public Library: Family Movie Night. Free.
Santa vs. Satan
NR, 95 min. Foleyvision. In Foleyvision, new sound effects, music, and dialogue are dubbed in over the original film – and performed live by local genius Buzz Moran. The title of this one pretty much says it all.
Saturday Night Fever
R, 119 min. Classics. Singlehandedly, the success of Saturday Night Fever – today mostly regarded as disco camp – kept the all-but-dead Hollywood musical dance format alive for at least one more decade.
PG-13, 92 min. Free and Queer Cinema. Teen satire softly pokes at the hypocrisies of organized religion.
Saving Private Ryan
R, 168 min. Concordia's College of Liberal Arts Big Screen Classics. One of the most realistic depictions of what it must be like to engage in modern warfare. A discussion follows the film.
R, 100 min. 10th Anniversary
R, 170 min. Classics. Pacino's drug lord Tony Montana holds a special place in the warped iconography of the American Dream. This blood-curdling drama penned by Oliver Stone is a tale for the ages...
The School of Rock
PG-13, 108 min.
PG-13, 101 min. Humpday Video Club. Free.
The Searchers
NR, 119 min. B Movies and Bad History. Regarded by many as Ford's masterpiece and one of the greatest films of all time, this John Wayne Western is a meditation on survival, the loss of faith, and the death of hero...
The Secret Garden
G, 101 min. aGLIFF Presents. Neither talking down to children nor pandering to their parents, The Secret Garden functions something like a fairy tale in which the primordial and psychosexual concerns are...
The Secret of NIMH
G, 82 min. Kids. Animated adventure features lab animals that are as smart as humans.
The Secret of Roan Inish
A satisfying swirl of history, nature, and folklore that speaks to all ages.
PG-13, 104 min. This free screening presented by the Circuit of the Americas will get you revved up for Formula One.
Sense and Sensibility
PG, 135 min. Afternoon Tea. The lively and funny screenplay adaptation of Jane Austen written by Emma Thompson, who also stars, was rewarded with an Oscar.
The Sentinel and The House of the Devil
Hump Day Video Club: Satan's Vixens. Free.
PG-13, 119 min.
Sergeant York
NR, 134 min. World War I Film Series. A Tennessee mountain farmer relinquishes his pacifist religious principles and goes off to fight in WWI and becomes an acclaimed war hero. As played by Cooper and directed by...
Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird
G, 88 min. Alamo Kids' Camp. Free.
Set it Off
R, 121 min. Free & Queer Cinema. This action-heist drama about four young African-American women from L.A.'s housing projects is as much a story about friendship as a story about crime. The screening benefits ALLGO.
Shakespeare in Love
R, 113 min. Afternoon Tea
Shanghai Express
NR, 80 min. Dietrich and von Sternberg. Dietrich and her Svengali director von Sternberg board the Chinese rails, which leads to political and sexual intrigue. Visually exotic, the film earned an Oscar for cinematog...
Shaun of the Dead
R, 97 min. You've got red on you.
The Shawshank Redemption
R, 142 min. Classics. Frank Darabont's debut feature is a prison drama based on a Stephen King novella.
She Done Him Wrong
NR, 66 min. Paramount 100. Young Cary Grant is invited by bawdy Mae West to come visit her sometime in this classic West work. In this, her best film, West adapts her popular stage character Diamond Lil...
She-Devils On Wheels
NR, 83 min. Hell's Angels on Reels. The Maneaters (shouldn't they be called the She-Devils?), an all-girl motorcycle gang, terrorize a small Florida town in this cash grab of the bikersploitation genre.
Shepard & Dark
NR, 92 min. The turbulent but creative connection between theatre legend Sam Shepard and writer and collector Johnny Dark is explored in this documentary. This screening is held in conjun...
The Shining
R, 142 min. Blue Starlite: 22 Nights of Halloween
Shogun Assassin
R, 86 min. Weird Wednesday. This film is a fascinating Americanized amalgam of two Lone Wolf and Cub Japanese movies: Lightning Swords of Death and Baby Cart at the River Styx.
The Shop Around the Corner
NR, 97 min. Summer Film Classics: Getting to Know You. This smart and stylish Lubitsch comedy was remade as You've Got Mail. In the 1940 version, most of the action takes place within the small shop. Stewart and Sullavan work side...
NC-17, 131 min. Benson Movie Interruption. This will be a pretty easy target for Benson and co., as they crack wise over this once maligned film.
PG, 85 min. Alamo Kids' Camp. Free.
The Silence of the Lambs
R, 118 min. Classics
Silent Night, Deadly Night
R, 82 min. Fangoria Presents. Santa Claus is on a killing spree.
Silent Night, Deadly Night: Part 2
R, 88 min. Terror Tuesday. The brother of the killer in Part 1 is back for revenge.
The Silent Partner
R, 106 min. Weird Wednesday. In this clever crime drama, adapted for the screen by Curtis Hanson, a bank teller outwits a robber, which then causes a cascade of complications.
Sin City
R, 126 min. Get ready for the sequel by refreshing yourself with the characters of this noir crime thriller.
Singin' in the Rain
NR, 103 min. Big Screen Classics. Arguably the greatest movie musical of all time, Singin' in the Rain features terrific performances and music, sensational Technicolor images, and a plot that hinges on the pr...
Sinner's Blood
NR, 81 min. Hell's Angels on Reels. Bikers, LSD, and incest all come together in this rough and twisted tale.
Sister Act
PG, 100 min. Homo Arigato!. Ursula hosts this screening that is equal parts sing-along, drinking game, and live action re-enactment.
Sixteen Candles
PG, 93 min. Girlie Night. In Sixteen Candles, John Hughes nails just about every aspect of the teenage experience. Plus, Ringwald is radiant as the eternal teen looking for love.
Sleepaway Camp
R, 88 min. CineMondays: How I Spent My Summer Vacation. This classic slasher film is injected with some gender politics.
Sleepless in Seattle
PG, 105 min. Classics. One of the signature love stories of the Nineties, Sleepless in Seattle basks in the idea of romantic love while also tweaking the notion.
R, 86 min. Terror Tuesday. Slithis, a sea monster created by nuclear radiation, terrorizes Venice, Calif.
Smoke Signals
PG-13, 88 min. Austin Public Library: Based on Books. This voyage of discovery based on Sherman Alexie's novel tells a story about friendship and father-and-son knots among Couer d'Alene Indians, a tale that resonates on the reservation and off.
The Smurfs 2
PG, 104 min.
The Smurfs
PG, 86 min.
R, 83 min. Weird Wednesday. Snakey is a demented guy who kills half the town with his snakes and happens to despise Wednesdays.
Bangarang!. This outdated hacker comedy/thriller with a lot of star wattage does not hold up as well as you think it does.
Some Like It Hot
NR, 119 min. Cinema Cocktails. If Billy Wilder achieved nothing else in his entire career, he would still rank as one of the great masters of cinema for pulling off this comic tour de force. Specially theme...
Something's Gotta Give
PG-13, 125 min. Benson Movie Interruption. Doug Benson and other comedians talk back to the movie.
Son of Blob
PG, 91 min. Austin Film Society: Auteur Obscure. Before he became J.R. Ewing, Larry Hagman directed this comic horror movie about a scientist whose wife defrosts the blob he brought back from the North Pole.
The Sound of Music Sing-Along
NR, 174 min. AIDS Services of Austin. Saturday's screening is hosted by Rebecca Havemeyer. Purchase advance tickets through ASA, and all proceeds will benefit the organization in addition to providing admission to...
The Sound of Music
NR, 174 min. Blue Starlite Drive-In: Musicals at the Drive-In
The South Park Movie Sing-Along
In addition to harmonizing with those lovable potty-mouthed South Park tykes, there will be many props to go along with the show.
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
R, 80 min. Films of 1999. What would Brian Boitano do?
Soylent Green
PG, 97 min. Summer Movie Nights. A world suffering from massive overpopulation and eradicated food supplies eats a mysterious food product called Soylent Green. Luckily, you don't have to, as the meat merchan...
Space Jam
PG, 87 min. Kids Camp
PG, 96 min. Mel Brooks takes parodic aim at Star Wars. Zaniness results.
Spaceballs Quote-Along
PG, 96 min. Action Pack
NR, 184 min. Summer Film Classics: 70mm Week. Kubrick's gladiator film is the pinnacle of sword-and-sandal epics, and who isn't a sucker for stories about rebellious slaves? This is the kind of movie the Paramount's screen was made for.
Spice World
PG, 93 min. Live Drag Queen Shadow Cast. A cast of drag queens from Vancouver will prance on stage to lip-sync along with all the Spice Girls' musical numbers.
Spirited Away
PG, 125 min. Miyazaki Madness. A young girl is trapped between the real and the ghost worlds in this classic animated Japanese film that filters Western fantasias and Eastern-angled spookiness through an outré sensibility.
Spy Kids
PG, 90 min. Benefit screening for Pond Springs Elementary School.
The Spy Who Loved Me
PG, 1977 min. Summer Film Classics: James Bond Father's Day Weekend. It's a classic James Bond tale of Russian subs, nuclear warheads, and a man named "Q." (Double bill: Goldeneye.)
Stand by Me
R, 87 min. Classics. This sweet, nostalgic movie is one of the best things Rob Reiner has been involved with in his career. A Stephen King novella provides the source for this reflective memory pi...
Star 80
R, 103 min. Austin Film Society: Jewels in the Wasteland. The brief life and sordid death of Playboy Playmate and budding screen actress Dorothy Stratten at the hand of her unbalanced husband is the subject of this infamous incident...
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
PG, 119 min. In this absurd tale, the Enterprise gang lands in Golden Gate Park and fans out to search for whales in order to save the world.
Stardust Memories
PG, 91 min. Austin Film Society: The Creative in Crisis. Although Allen vehemently denied that this film was autobiographical, it's hard not to take it as such, as a successful filmmaker attends a retrospective of his work while waffling between two women.
State and Main
R, 102 min. Humanities Reasearch Center: From Script to Screen – Fours Films Written by David Mamet. Mamet's story about a big-budget Hollywood production that steamrolls into a little Vermont town is told with a gentle smirk. Hand-selected archive material from the David Mam...
Steel Magnolias
PG, 117 min. Girlie Night. Women's bonds are admired in their many facets in this hilarious ode to Southern womanhood.
Stolen Kisses
NR, 90 min. Austin Film Society: Godard vs. Truffaut. The third film in Truffaut's Antoine Doinel series follows the young man as he drifts through an array of jobs and loves. Some regard the film as Truffaut's finest work. Truff...
Stone Cold
R, 92 min. Bangarang!. A cop goes undercover to infiltrate a white supremacist biker gang that runs drugs.
Stop Making Sense
NR, 88 min. Alamo Goes to 11. With this film, Demme and the Talking Heads conceived and delivered one of the very best rock & roll films ever made.
The Straight Story
G, 111 min. The Complete David Lynch. Lynch created a piece of American poetry, an elegiac ode to a 73-year-old man's defiant act of raging against the dying of the light. In its own way, The Straight Story might...
Strangers on a Train
PG, 106 min. Humpday Video Club. Free.
Stray Dog
NR, 122 min. Austin Film Society: Japanese Master Filmmakers. This film from early in Kurosawa's career is a contemporary film noir set in post-World War II Tokyo. Mifune plays a detective who is on a mission to relocate his stolen gun and find a killer.
A Streetcar Named Desire
NR, 122 min. Summer Film Classics: Fifties Brando. Brando reprised his Broadway role in this 1951 multi-Oscar winner. His (and playwright Tennessee Williams') Stanley Kowalski has become a certifiable American icon. (Double bi...
Streets of Fire
PG, 93 min. Tough Guy Cinema. This is a kickass Walter Hill action movie in which a rock & roll frontwoman (young Diane Lane) is kidnapped by bikers (led by Willem Dafoe) and then rescued by her shirtless ex (Michael Paré).
R, 105 min. Summer Film Classics: Hughes and Candy. Bill Murray and Harold Ramis play affable deadbeats who join the army for a change of pace. Basic training hadn't been this much fun since Laurel and Hardy joined up. (Double...
Stunt Rock
NR, 86 min. Off-Centered Film Festival. Legendarily bad movie combines stuntwork and heavy metal music. The tagline reads: "Death Wish At 120 Decibels."
Sullivan's Travels
NR, 91 min. Summer Film Classics: The Great Depression. Sturges bites the hand that feeds him while goofing on cinematic artistes who think they're above the fluff and want to make only "important" films. The movie also features Mc...
Summer Rental
PG, 87 min. CineMondays: How I Spent My Summer Vacation. This breezy film sees Candy square off against some spoiled fat cats.
Summer Wars
PG, 114 min. Cinema 41. Summer Wars is a lovely, subtle, and award-winning Japanese anime film about families, social media, and summer love.
Sunset Boulevard
NR, 110 min. The Influences of David Lynch. Wilder's cynical edge is finely honed in this darkly amusing satire of the Dream Factory that more than informed Lynch's Mulholland Drive.
Super Fuzz
PG, 97 min. Weird Wednesday. Nuclear radiation imbues a cop with superpowers.
Super Troopers Quote-Along
R, 100 min. Central Texas Crime Prevention Association. Contests and other shenanigans promised. Proceeds will help provide resources and training for Texas crime prevention practitioners and law enforcement officers.
R, 90 min. Eastern Fury. Chan as at the top of his game in this highly entertaining and breathtaking action film.
Superman: The Movie
PG, 143 min. Tough Guy Cinema. This Superman combines cheeky attitude with wowwy effects and genuine thrills to tell the story of the genesis of the Man of Steel.
R, 86 min. Terror Tuesday. A witch put to death in the 17th century seeks extremely bloody revenge.
R, 98 min. Thursday Night Fright Night. Free.
Sweet Smell of Success
NR, 96 min. The News in Cinema. Still remarkably pungent, this sordid tale about the entertainment business stars Lancaster as an all-powerful Broadway gossip columnist and Curtis as the smarmy publicity age...
Swiss Family Robinson
NR, 128 min. Alamo Kids' Club. No one knows how to shipwreck a family as well as the folks at Disney.
SXSW Film Festival 2014
As the conference part of the SXSW Film Festival fades into the rearview and the SXSW Music Festival picks up speed, don't forget that film festival screenings continue throug...
Synecdoche, New York
R, 124 min. Austin Film Society: The Creative in Crisis. A theatre director's magnum opus begins to overtake his life as the lines between fiction and reality grow increasingly blurred in Kaufman's directorial debut, a sprawling, am...
The Talented Mr. Ripley
R, 139 min. Patricia Highsmith's most famous creation gets a prestigious adaptation. All involved are at the top of their game.
Tales From the Crypt Presents Demon Knight
R, 92 min. Bangarang!. Good performances and lots of blood and gore can't save this illogical TV-to-screen story from itself.
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
PG-13, 105 min. Big Screen Classics. Ferrell runs comic circles around NASCAR.
PG, 92 min. Austin Public Library: Family Movie Night. Free.
NR, 90 min. Cinema Club. Bogdanovich's first film is a contemporary horror movie that still holds up. Boris Karloff essentially plays himself as a movie star who thinks the era's headlines have surpas...
Tattooed Under Fire
NR, 56 min. Jung and Film. Soldiers and their custom of getting tattooed pre- and post-deployment is the subject of this documentary by UT film professor and cinematographer Schiesari. From a tattoo par...
Teen Wolf
PG, 91 min. Michael J. Fox plays a high-schooler whose life is disrupted when he starts howling at the moon.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
PG, 88 min.
The Ten Commandments
NR, 220 min. Classics. DeMille's Technicolor version of this Biblical tale is a durable and star-studded extravaganza. The movie sports Oscars for its special effects. Special Good Friday matinee.
10 Things I Hate About You
PG-13, 94 min. Girlie Night. This updated version of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew provides a sharp examination of teen dating rituals.
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
R, 93 min. Scoot Dive-Inn Theatre. This music series co-hosted by the Chronicle continues with the big screen adventures of Jables and KG. Awesome sauce!
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
R, 137 min. Tough Guy Cinema. This one hails from back in the day when James Cameron and ILM still had something to prove.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
R, 83 min. Celebrating its 40th anniversary with a new restoration, this horror classic still packs a punch.
Texas: The Big Picture
NR, 39 min. Texas is shown to be a land broad enough to produce everything from grapefruit to microchips.
The Night of the Hunter
NR, 93 min. Summer Film Classics. The great Charles Laughton's only film as a director is a hauntingly beautiful classic. With a screenplay by James Agee, the story has Mitchum playing a larcenous and psychoti...
Thelma & Louise
R, 128 min. Stone Beer Dinner. See www.drafthouse.com for menu.
The Thief of Bagdad
NR, 155 min. Paramount 100. Magic carpets, a magic rope, dragons, and a valley of fire – it's The Arabian Nights in its first Hollywood adaptation. Fairbanks' perpetually nimble and virile presence grabs...
The Thin Man
NR, 93 min. Paramount 100. The characters are the invention of Dashiell Hammett, although the urbane chemistry between Loy and Powell as Nick and Nora Charles is the ultimate in dipsomaniacal detective...
The Thing
R, 108 min. Tough Guy Cinema. John Carpenter helms this remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic about shape-shifting aliens from the Antarctic.
The Third Man
NR, 93 min. Summer Film Classics: Orson Welles, Renaissance Man. Based on a story by Graham Greene, the movie is a noir classic set in a shadowy postwar Vienna. It's one of Welles' best-remembered roles, and the film's now-familiar zither m...
13 Going on 30
PG-13, 97 min. Girlie Night. Magic wishing dust allows Garner to completely skip over her teens and 20s.
This Is Spinal Tap
R, 82 min. Rock & roll parodies hardly ever get more spot-on than this.
PG-13, 113 min.
Three Amigos Quote-Along
Action Pack
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
R, 121 min. Austin Film Festval: Made in Texas. Taking a page from Peckinpah, Jones crafts a powerful modern Western. Tommy Lee Jones and several crew members will partake in a Q&A after the screening.
Three Kings
R, 115 min. Bangarang. This modern classic is a war movie with a conscience, an action movie with a funny bone, a caper movie with a shifting agenda.
Thunder Soul
PG, 83 min. Austin Public Library: Weeknight Cinema – Texas Tunesmiths. This documentary tells the story of the Kashmere Stage Band, and before the film is through this high school band you've never heard of will have earned a top spot on your personal hit parade.
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
PG, 76 min. Kids' Camp
The Times of Harvey Milk
NR, 87 min. Summer Film Classics: Documentary Double Feature. Documentary about San Francisco's first gay supervisor, who was murdered along with Mayor George Moscone by Dan White. (Double bill: Salesman)
Times Square
R, 111 min. Invincible: Five Tough Films. One of the first studio movies to highlight the punk scene, Time Square is the story of two runaways from a mental institution who live on the streets before hooking up with a...
PG-13, 194 min. Classics
Titans of the Ice Age
NR, 45 min. Computer-generated imagery brings to life this mysterious era of the Ice Age.
To Be or Not To Be
NR, 99 min. RTF Community Screening. This classic film is one of the greatest satires of all time. Professor Kathy Fuller-Seeley will talk about Lubitsch after the screening.
Tokyo Story
NR, 136 min. Summer Film Classics: The Fifties. One of the great Japanese master's great meditations on mortality occurs as an elderly couple visits their grown children – a visit that is greeted dispassionately. Double bill: Ikiru.)
PG, 111 min. Blue Starlite Drive-In: Musicals at the Drive-In
Tommy Hancock: West Texas Muse
NR, 64 min. Austin Film Society. The Texas fiddler, songwriter, bandleader, and Supernatural Family paterfamilias Tommy Hancock is the subject of this profile created by longtime Austin filmmaker Dwight Adair.
Top Gun
PG, 110 min. Big Screen Classics. Maverick, Goose, and the boys light up the skies one more time.
Top Hat
NR, 99 min. Cinema Cocktails. Hands down, this is the best Astaire-Rogers musical ever. Nothing more needs to be said.
El Topo
NR, 125 min. One of the first midnight cult movies, Jodorowsky's El Topo created a mystical allure that in turn inspired fervent admirers.
Total Recall
R, 109 min. Tough Guy Cinema. This futuristic science fiction is based on a Philip K. Dick short story, and features award-winning special effects (and, no, we don't mean Ah-nuld).
Totally Eighties Sing-Along Dance Party
Action Pack
Touch of Evil
PG-13, 113 min. Summer Film Classics: Orson Welles, Renaissance Man. Sleaze and corruption in a Mexican border town are played to the max in this Welles classic. (Double bill: Macbeth.)
Toy Story 2
G, 92 min. Austin Film Festival: Family Films. Co-writer Rita Hsaio will be in attendance for a Q&A after the screening.
PG-13, 82 min. Terror Tuesday. The titular creatures take over an apartment building trying to open a parallel dimension in this Eighties horror film that spawned two (completely unrelated) sequels.
Troll 2
PG-13, 95 min. CineMondays: The Best of the "Worst". Free.
The Trouble With Harry
NR, 99 min. Summer Film Classics: Hitchcock Week. Hitchcock's comedic charms shine in this delightful story about a corpse that just won't stay buried. In the interim, the dead body brings two couples together in love and get...
True Lies
R, 141 min. Blue Starlite Drive-In: Father's Day Date Night
The Truman Show
PG, 104 min. Life is a 'round-the-clock "reality" TV program in this before-its-time film, and Truman Burbank (Carrey) is its unwitting subject/hero/leading man. (
PG, 96 min.
Turkish Wizard of Oz
NR, 100 min. Buzz Moran's Foleyvision. In Foleyvision, new sound effects, music, and dialogue are dubbed in over the original film – and performed live. Here, a Turkish knockoff of the Hollywood classic gets the Foleyvision treatment.
20 Feet From Stardom
PG-13, 90 min. This film is an extended hosanna to an undersung artist, the backup singer.
20,000 Days on Earth
NR, 97 min. Nick Cave ruminates on his creative process in this film that depicts a day in the life of the much beloved artist.
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
PG-13, 130 min. Master Pancake Theater. Laugh at their jokes, or the Pancake gang will sink their fangs into you.
Twin Peaks Marathon
All episodes - except for the pilot - will screen back-to-back, testing the fortitude of the true fan. Presumably, cherry pie and endless coffee will be on the menu.
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
R, 135 min. Blue Starlite Drive-In: Anniversary Show
2001: A Space Odyssey
PG, 139 min. 70mm at the Ritz. 2001: A Space Odyssey remains a peerless classic – a complete and total film experience, magnificent in its scope and expression, singular in its vision and ambition.
PG-13, 97 min. Summer Movie Nights. Sponsored by Full and Content and I Luv Video, this new summer film series is accompanied by a special meal put together by the folks at Micklethwait Craft Meats. This week, i...
Uncle Buck
PG, 100 min. Summer Film Classics: Hughes and Candy. The only thing better than being left home alone is being left home with John Candy's Uncle Buck. (Double bill: Planes, Trains & Automobiles).
Under Our Skin
NR, 104 min. This documentary probes the human, medical, and political dimensions of Lyme disease, its treatment, and diagnosis. There will be a Q&A after the film; all donations will bene...
Under the Sea 3D
NR, 40 min. The impact of global warming is examined in the waters of Southern Australia, New Guinea, and elsewhere in the Indo-Pacific region.
The Undertaker and His Pals
NR, 63 min. Terror Tuesday. A crooked undertaker and a gang of leather boys sell human flesh to a greasy spoon in this comic horror film.
R, 127 min. Classics. Eastwood's multiple award-winning Western.
Unholy Rollers
R, 88 min. Weird Wednesday. A rags-to-riches story on roller skates, Unholy Rollers is a flaming-hot, action-packed, Jennings B-movie vehicle.
The Unknown
NR, 65 min. Movies & Music. A weird one, even for the director of Freaks, this is a carny story about a criminal who hides out among the circus performers and pretends he has no arms. The Alamo and the A...
R, 73 min. Homo Arigato!. Fashion photographer Douglas Keeve turns his camera on designer Isaac Mizrahi for an intriguing and often funny look into the making of a seasonal fashion collection.
Up in the Air
R, 109 min. Austin Film Festival: Jason Reitman Live From the Director's Chair. Reitman will be in attendance to provide live commentary about this popular film.
The Usual Suspects
R, 108 min. A modern classic with style to burn.
V for Vendetta
R, 132 min. Only at the Alamo. in honor of Guy Fawkes Day, here's a futuristic slice of pop-culture agitprop for you.
Valley Girl
R, 95 min. Austin Film Society: Jewels in the Wateland. This is one of the great teen romance movies: It's Romeo and Juliet played out between an L.A. punk rocker and a Valley girl. Cage has never appeared more soulful.
Vanished Empire
NR, 104 min. Austin Film Society: Russian Films of the Past Two Decades. Set in 1973, this film portrays the Soviet Union's youth rebelling against the state of things by going underground to find drugs, sex, and rock & roll.
Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure
NR, 100 min. NCM Fathom: Exhibition. The National Gallery, London, offers a fresh look at the artist Johannes Vermeer, the painter of Girl with a Pearl Earring. The exhibition focuses on his art in relation to music of the day.
PG, 130 min. 70mm at the Ritz. One of the thrill master's most psychologically dense and twisted films in which obsession, commitment, and dual identities merge to create a voluptuous tale of thwarted love.
R, 87 min. Austin Film Society Halloween Party. Cronenberg's most viscerally successful film shows a world in which TV seduces and kills its consumers.
The Visitor
R, 108 min. Drafthouse Films Presents. Drafthouse Films has picked up and restored the extended cut of this little-seen curiosity. It's a supernatural Italian film about a possessed girl and features cast members w...
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
R, 96 min. Scoot Dive-Inn Theatre. This music-themed series (co-sponsored by the Chronicle) continues with this parody of musician biopics.
NR, 100 min. Criterion Presents. Roeg's second film centers on two British children stranded in the Australian desert who are led back to civilization by an Aboriginal male. The fascination of the movie comes...
Walking With Dinosaurs
PG, 87 min.
Warm Bodies
PG-13, 98 min. Austin Public Library: Based on Books. Free.
The Warriors
R, 90 min. Tough Guy Cinema. Hill's visually riveting tale about gangland warfare in New York City unfolds like a violent, comic-book Western. Gang colors, desolate streets and subway platforms, and graff...
R, 161 min. Dragon's Lair
R, 98 min. Alamo Goes to 11. Documentary of a concert in the summer of 1972, with Albert King, Richard Pryor, and many others.
The Way We Were
PG, 118 min. Summer Film Classics: Barbra!. The story of Jewish left-wing ugly duckling and the WASP prince with whom she falls in love encapsulates its time and emotions with knowing precision. (Double bill: Funny Girl.)
Wayne's World Quote-Along
PG-13, 92 min. Action Pack
Wayne's World
PG-13, 95 min. LMAO Dinner Theatre. Our favorite cable access dudes hit the silver screen.
We Are the Best!
NR, 102 min. A captivating portrait of 13-year-old proto-punk girls in 1982 Sweden.
We Will Rock You: The Queen Sing-Along
Action Pack
The Wedding Singer
PG-13, 96 min. Date Night Theater. Eighties nostalgia is in full bloom in this comedy that also kickstarted that whole rapping grandma thing.
NR, 105 min. Austin Film Society: Godard vs. Truffaut
Weird Science
PG-13, 94 min. Classics. In this prescient John Hughes comedy, two nerdy teen boys create the woman of their dreams – except in Hughes' world, dreams are never wet and girls are always pretty in pink.
West Side Story
NR, 151 min. 70mm at the Ritz. It's Sharks and Jets time when this timeless Leonard Bernstein musical with the Jerome Robbins kick-steps starts rolling. This Spanish Harlem Romeo and Juliet tale is one for the ages.
Wet Hot American Summer
R, 97 min. Spoof of old summer-camp sexcapades is performed by a sprawling cast of comedic hams.
What About Bob?
PG, 99 min. CineMondays: God Bless You, Mr. Murray. Free.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
NR, 134 min. Summer Film Classics: Irresistable Forces. The Bette Davis/Joan Crawford Grand Guignol thriller. (Double bill: Persona.)
When Harry Met Sally …
R, 96 min. It's the film that probes the ancient question of whether friends can sleep together and still remain friends. When they're as cute as Ryan or as funny as Crystal, guess what the long-term answer is.
White Christmas
NR, 120 min. Classics. Whether you're a seasoned regular or a newbie, this Irving Berlin holiday classic about four entertainers falling in love and saving a Vermont inn is essential seasonal froth.
White Dog
PG, 89 min. Austin Film Society: Jewels in the Wasteland. With typically blunt, disturbing, combative, unconventional storytelling, Fuller tackles the disease of bigotry with this story about a racist dog.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
NR, 129 min. Summer Film Classics: Irresistable Forces. Taylor and Burton spark, shock, hurt, and shout down everyone they love, but mostly each other in this groundbreaking look at lovers and other strangers. (Double bill: National Velvet.)
The Wild Angels
R, 93 min. Hell's Angels on Reels. This landmark biker picture stars a pre-Easy Rider Fonda in a sensationalistic story about a marauding biker gang. This, and five other films, play this weekend to coincide wi...
Wild at Heart
R, 127 min. The Complete David Lynch. Lynch won the Palme d'Or at Cannes for this surreal Southern Gothic. The film screens in 35mm, and that's rockin' good news. BYO cockroaches.
Wild in the Streets
PG, 97 min. Weird Wednesday. Crazed screenwriter Robert Thom penned this AIP exploitation picture about what happens when the voting age is lowered to 14 and the new electorate votes in a fascist pop idol.
William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet
PG-13, 121 min. Blue Starlite Drive-In: Valentine's Week
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
G, 98 min. Ultimate Willy Wonka Party. Two of the original kids from the movie will be present for a Q&A after the screening.
Winter's Bone
R, 100 min. Austin Public Library: Weeknight Cinema – Crises in the Cold. Set in the Ozark Mountain backwoods of Missouri, this tense drama is an exceptionally good film.
The Witches
PG, 91 min. Afternoon Tea. A boy's vacation turns into a nightmare when he discovers his hotel is hosting a convention of witches. Jim Henson's Creature Shop provides the witches and mice; the original...
The Wizard of Oz 3-D
PG, 101 min.
The Wizard of Oz
G, 101 min. Classics. Follow the yellow brick road.
The Wizard
PG, 100 min. Alamo Kids' Camp
The Woman Chaser
R, 87 min. The film adaptation of the Charles Willeford novel screens locally in celebration of its online release. A Q&A and after-party follow the screening.
A Woman Is a Woman
NR, 84 min. Austin Film Society: Godard vs. Truffaut. Model-turned-starlet-turned-Godardian spouse Anna Karina seizes the screen as a contemporary woman who works as a topless performer and decides that she wants to have a baby....
The Women
NR, 143 min. Summer Film Classics: Hollywood's Golden Year. This Hollywood bitchfest is an enduring favorite that features a constellation of top female stars (in an exclusively female cast) dishing the dirt on each other like there's...
Wonder Women
PG, 82 min. Weird Wednesday. A female doctor dispatches her kung-fu minnions to steal the organs of male athletes to sell to seniors seeking the secret of youth.
Yankee Doodle Dandy
NR, 126 min. Summer Film Classics: Yankee Pride. The life and times of showman George M. Cohan are brought to life by Cagney, whose robust singing and dancing are a kinetic wonder and earned him an Oscar. (Double bill: The P...
You've Got Mail
PG, 116 min. Girlie Night
Young Adult
R, 94 min. Celebrity Guests: Jason Reitman. Actors Charlize Theron and Patton Oswalt prove as riveting a combo as writer Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman. Reitman will be present to conduct a Q&A after the film.
Young Frankenstein
PG, 105 min. Brooks was in his film prime when he directed this spoof of the old Universal horror movie. Peter Boyle as the Monster performing "Puttin' on the Ritz" is priceless comedy.
Young Sherlock Holmes
PG-13, 109 min. Zzang!!!. Sherlock Holmes is the original Spy Kid in this Chris Columbus-penned story about the master sleuth as a youth. The more one knows about Holmes lore, the more the film's fores...
You're Next
R, 94 min. Fright Night. This smart and scary thriller screens for free, just don't forget your lawn chair.
PG, 113 min. Alamo Kids' Camp. Free.
R, 156 min. The director of Fight Club and Se7en switches gears here from psychological thrillers to something that more closely resembles a police procedural.
PG-13, 89 min. Blue Steel!
Zoolander Quote-Along
R, 90 min. Action Pack