Please see PLEASE GIVE (2010)
Dir. Nicole Holofcener
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, 6/12/10, 9:45
I am hard on the Summer months when maybe I shouldn’t be. Yes, it is the worst part of the year cinematically, with the possible exception of Spring. The saving grace of the March-to-May period is that the tiny independents that premiered during the Winter in [...]
I wouldn’t mind picking up THE HITCHHIKERS (1972)
Dir. Beverly and Fred Sebastian
Alamo Ritz, 6/9/10, 11:59pm
This rough and tumble quickie is really good. Directed by the husband and wife time of Beverly and Fred Sebastian, who pleased me very much with their ‘Gator Bait, this picture’s got it all: women, women, women. But also crime, hippies, cars, guns, and did I [...]
A tragic realization upon seeing GET HIM TO THE GREEK (2010)
Dir. Nicholas Stoller
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, 6/5/10, 11:05am
Well, it’s early June, and that means that comedy fans are at their yearly crossroads. The TV season is over. That means that sitcoms and cartoons are done until September, and the boob tube is a wasteland of nothingness. Where can we, as a nation, [...]
Mink was here for PINK FLAMINGOS (1972)
Dir. John Waters
Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, 5/16/10, 6:45pm
We were lucky enough to have been visited by screen legend and trash queen Mink Stole last weekend. As I wrote about a few days ago, she was here with drag queen Peaches Christ to premiere their new film, All About Evil. As a bonus, we were [...]
Let me tell you ALL ABOUT EVIL (2010)
Dir. Joshua Grannell
Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, 5/15/10, 7:00pm
This weekend was surely a moment to remember in the Austin Texas film scene. We were visited not by one but by two screen legends: Cassandra “Elvira” Peterson, of Movie Macabre fame, and Mink Stole, the Dreamland doll who played Connie Marble, Taffy Davenport, and Peggy Gravel, among [...]
Madames are made in MOONLIGHTING WIVES (1966)
Dir. Joseph W. Sarno
Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, 5/12/10, 11:59pm
As I noted a few weeks ago, famed sexploitation filmmaker Joe Sarno passed away on April 26. The Alamo and Weird Wednesday hosted a memorial screening for the director this week, showcasing one of his best loved films, Moonlighting Wives. Unfortunately, the mechanical and proletarian Iron [...]
“Things are looking up for Milhouse!”
There are few things in this life that I can look forward to, movie-wise. A trip to New York is good, as I know I can return to all of the marvelous theatres in the best cinema town in the US. Terror Tuesday’s upcoming showing of Psycho II is also pretty damn exciting. [...]
RIP Joseph Sarno
Monday, April 26, we lost a friend of the cinema, sexploitation director Joseph W. Sarno. At the age of eighty-nine, Sarno passed away having made a significant contribution to erotic and underground cinema.
Stephanie Rothman double post: STUDENT NURSES (1970) and GROUP MARRIAGE (1973)
This past week, we were very fortunate indeed to have exploitation auteur Stephanie Rothman visiting our fair cinema for a double feature of her two films, Student Nurses and Group Marriage. Rothman was witty, charming, and, pardon me for saying this, a stone cold fox. She was one of the most gracious guests [...]
THE THING (1982) in 4k digital and the nature of image quality
Since the beginning of the cinema, whenever we watched movies from the past they have always been in deteriorated forms.
In the earliest days of the medium, nitrate prints of old movies were hauled out of make-shift storage facilities for re-examination. This practice was occasionally done in the silent era, but really picked [...]
