DELIVERANCE
enough art and philosophy, but plenty of wanton and hilarious
violence to digest. Rupert Everett (My Best Friend's Wedding, A SAVAGE STREETS
Midsummer Night's Dream) stars as Francesco Dellamorte, a
With Linda Blair as a sometimes topless, crossbow wielding, 80's
gravekeeper in an Italian village. For some unexplainable reason,
the dead have the habit of rising from their graves a week after street punk vigilante, how far wrong can you go? Undefensable ON THE BANKS OF THE COLORADO
their deaths, and it is up to Dellamorte and his misshapen, retarded exploitation from the last great decade of the genre. There's enough SAT & SUN, MAY 19 & 20
jarring 80's in this flick to make your eyes bleed. (d. John Boorman, 1972, R, 102 min.) Join the Alamo for the first in a
assistant Naggi to put them back in their graves (via ye old
Fulci/Romero fashion i.e. shooting them in the head). A series of
series of non-traditional cinema outings: a canoe trip down the JUNE 27- MIDNIGHT
bizarre circumstances befall Dellamorte, as he tries to make sense
lower Colorado, terminating in a barbeque and concert by the side
KILL AND KILL AGAIN
SUPAREAL: LIVE DJ'S vs ANIME out of a world falling apart around him.
of the river. When the sun goes down, the 35mm projector will fire
up and we will watch Deliverance on a full size movie screen erected (1981, d. Ivan Hall, free admission) Steve Chase, secret kung-fu
THURS-SAT APRIL 5-7 MIDNIGHT on the banks of the rushing river. Deliverance is a shocking film JUNE 6 - MIDNIGHT agent for hire from Kill or Be Killed, is contracted by Kandy Kane,
($6, $4.50 students) Imagine a silent movie with beats instead of an classic. Based on the powerful James Dickey romance, the plot goes daughter of a famous scientist who has created an alternate fuel
orchestra, or seeing a film where the composer of the score is right like this: four friends decide to spend the weekend descending the BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE source from potato extract. Dr. Kane has been kidnapped by the evil
in the middle of the action: supareal is all that and more. In the dangerous and treacherous rapids of Georgia's last unpolluted (d. Dario Argento, 1970, 96 min, free admission) Sam Dalmas (Tony kung-fu cult leader "Marduk" who has discovered that all humans
tradition of the Alamo Drafthouse's silent film/alternative scores river, willing to test their manhood in this hostile environment. Musante) is an American reporter living in Rome who witnesses who ingest the potato fuel become brainwashed kung-fu zombies
This is just the premise of the most distressing and astonishing what appears to be a murder. Trapped by a glass wall, he can't
series, supareal blends Japanese animation and dj culture. Each motion picture filmed back in the seventies. With a budget no who obey only him. Steve gathers a rag-tag group of warriors (most
night features a different set of DJs and different anime features. intervene, but does manage to scare off the killer. Wounded, the of whom appear to be homeless alcoholics) to help him defeat
higher than 2 million dollars, the English filmmaker John Boorman
Thursday (Double Bill): Luna vs. Kite and grant stevens vs. Lain directed this terrific masterpiece about human cruelty (represented
victim survives, and Dalmas's curiosity drives him to look further Marduk: There's "Gypsy Billy" (the street brawler), "The Fly" (a
Friday: grant stevens vs. Perfect Blue by the local's inhabitants) and the fight for survival that lives inside into the story, but he soon finds himself and his girlfriend in zen-like white guy who talks in Confucius-speak), "Gorilla" (the
every mans heart (represented by Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight, Ned jeopardy and stalked by the would-be murderer. Director Dario huge black guy who can pick up a full grown man with each hand),
Saturday (Tag Team): Jason Jenkins and Coy C vs. Ninja Scroll
Beatty and Ronny Cox). Vilmos Szigmond's blinding photography Argento's debut film is a remarkable work, more restrained than and "Hot Dog" (the out of shape but psychotic "A-Team Murdock"
Perfect Blue will be screened in 35mm, all others, digital video
opposes two "parts": the untouched nature's beauty and the many of his later films. Based on an obscure l950s pulp novel, Bird guy). Please don't pass up the opportunity to check out this flick.
perversity that waits for them in the margins. Tickets are $50, and draws heavily on Hitchcock, as well as on American novelists such
THE GOLD RUSH include canoe or kayak rental, food, beer, and the movie. Tickets for as Dashiell Hammett and Cornell Woolrich.
Live musical accompaniment by The Asylum Street Spankers this event go on sale April 19 at 5:00 PM at the Alamo box office.
APRIL 25, 7:00 & 9:45
(d. Charlie Chaplin, 1925, 81 min, $10, $12 day of show) Chaplin
conceived this oddball tale from accounts of the Donner party
cannibal tragedy in the western Sierras. In fact, much of the film
was shot outside Truckee, only miles from the site of the famous
incident. Austin's infamous old-timey acoustic ensemble, The
Asylum Street Spankers perfectly compliment the mood and style
of the hard-drinking, hard-living prospector town. The Spankers MAY 23 - MIDNIGHT
premiered this score at the Alamo last year and have since toured it MAN FROM DEEP RIVER
everywhere from Hoboken to San Francisco. BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE (1973, d. Umberto Lenzi, Free admission, Aka: Sacrifice, Mondo
The Austin Film Society presents:
THURS-SAT, MAY 3-5 MIDNIGHT Cannibale, Deep River Savages and the Last Survivor) Man From Deep
(1989, d. Stephen Herek, 90 min., $5) Early in his career, Keanu River is an early entry into the long tradition of Italy-spawned
THE TEXAS DOCUMENTARY TOUR Reeves took the role he was destined to play, a role that continues white-man-learning-the-savage-ways-of-the-jungle film. Directed
NATURAL HISTORY OF THE CHICKEN to creep into every performance he has given since: Ted "Theodore" by Umberto "Cannibal Ferox" Lenzi, and featuring the ample assets
of A-list jungle savage beauty Me Me Lai.
WED, APRIL 11, 7:30 Logan. Some deem Bill and Ted as the nadir of post-modernity,
(d. Mark Lewis, 60 min., $6, $4.50 students, KLRU members & AFS) where history is flattened out, where the dead, largely white,
largely European-American, largely male Great Figures are made
Most of us best know the chicken from our dinner plates: whether
APR 25- MIDNIGHT the subject of infantile mockery, taken out of the period in which TOXIC AVENGER - THE DIRECTOR'S CUT
as thigh, wing or drumstick. We barely pause a moment to consider
RUN ANGEL RUN they dominated and dumped into one where the majority of yokels JUNE 7-9, MIDNIGHT
the bird's other virtues. This new film by Mark Lewis (Cane Toads (1985, d. Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman, $5) "As a child I loved
don't even know their name. We here at the Alamo don't know
and RAT) expands the frontiers of popular awareness and (1969, d. Jack Starret, 95 min., free admission) King of the biker to stay up late and watch USA Up All Night This allowed me to
much about that. What we do know is this movie ROCKS, it's one
delightfully exposes how this small, common and seemingly simple movies, William Smith (Any Which Way You Can, Invasion of the Bee sample pretty much every major Troma movie, and I discovered
of the funniest, most-quoted, worthy-of-repeat-viewing teen
animal can reveal itself to be as complex and grand as any of God's Girls) sells out his motorcycle gang for a national magazine article the meaning of the phrase "guilty pleasure". As I got older I stayed
movies ever created, and bringing this class of movie to you may
creatures. The film not only allows us to rethink our relationship and has to go on the lam to escape the wrath of the California biker
just be the Alamo's predestined purpose. Before the film check out away from Troma, as their movies radiated the kind of feeling you HAIL TO THE KING BABY!
with a creature we have heretofore taken for granted but also it community . Director Jack Starret also directed such cultural
the World Premiere of the locally made short: Bill and Ted's Matrix. On an amazing double bill with HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT get from wearing a shoddy Halloween mask too long and getting BRUCE CAMPBELL WEEKEND
milestones as the Dukes of Hazzard, Starsky and Hutch and Quentin
provides us a lens by which we look at ourselves. A "Natural
Tarantino's fave: The Dion Brothers. MAY 24-26, MIDNIGHT nauseous inhaling the cheap rubber fumes. But after sampling the JUNE 28-30
History" for an animal like no other. (1981, d. Gerald Potterton, 90 min, R, $5) "It's pro-drugs, pro-sex, delightful Tromeo & Juliet I decided to return to my roots and check The man, the myth, the zombie killing LEGEND, Bruce Campbell,
pro-hot- chicks-with-their-tops-inadvertently-falling-off. It's in six out the directors edition of the classic Toxic Avenger. While I was returns to the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in a blaze of glory. We
rockin', variable-quality animated segments, and makes almost no right in remembering the films as the guiltiest of pleasures, the will be premiering his new documentary film Fanalysis, which
sense whatsoever, except for the way every female winds up getting cheap charm of the film was undeniable, and there was a ton of turns the tables on the fanboy community and examines the
naked one minute after appearing on screen. This is probably one of gore in the movie that I never saw on T.V. Arms are severed, guts phenomenon of fandom from the eyes of the star. Bruce will also
the few films ever in which two stoned aliens accidentally vacuum are ripped out, seeing-eye dogs are shot, and children's heads are introduce screenings of Evil Dead 2 and be signing copies of his
into their Pac-Manesque spaceship an Earthwoman secretary, who crushed- and it all looks pretty good! You really can't bad-mouth brand new book: If Chins Could Kill, Confessions of a B-Movie
is in turn hit on by a robot: "I've been programmed to be fully Actor. Check www.drafthouse.com for details and ticket
a movie that has its hero stuff a little old lady in a washing
proficient in sexual activities. Wanna go steady?" The robot
information.
APR 11 - MIDNIGHT proceeds to promise her a Jewish wedding. At this point, you either
are absolutely desperate to see this movie or are completely turned
machine. If you're a gore fan with a high thresh hold for bad taste,
then give the Toxic Avenger another shot- I did, and I'm a better
THE CRAVING off beyond belief, so I'll stop." - Brown University Film Society Review person for it. I think." - IMDB
(1980, d. Paul Naschy (Jacinto Molina), free admission) A.k.a
Return of the Wolf Man. An evil witch brings back to life the The Aurora Picture Show presents SAT
infamous Elizabeth Bathory, who was executed several centuries BEST OF THE AV GEEKS Vulcan Video and the Austin Chronicle present JUNE 30
ago for murdering young women and bathing in their blood. Hong Kong Sundays
THURS, APRIL 26 9:30 FRI
Naschy is a God of Spanish horror cinema.
($6, $4.50 students) Skip Elsheimer, founding geek of Raleigh, FROM BEIJING WITH LOVE
North Carolina's A/V Geeks, comes to the Alamo with fabulously SUN, MAY 6 6:00 & 8:45 JUNE 8
bizarre educational and training films from his immense film (d. Stephen Chow, 1994, $6.50 adult, $4.50 student) The comic
collection. "I now find myself with more than 8000 16mm stylings of Stephen Chow Sing Chi once again grace the
educational films in my house. I spent most of the nineties Alamo screen for a 3rd Hong Kong Sunday. If you missed God
collecting film from school and government auctions. These films of Cookery or Forbidden City Cop then this is another perfect
were regarded as obsolete and useless by the state who would take opportunity to be introduced to the Chinese Mo Lai Tao
anything to get rid of them. If I didn't get them, who knows where (translated as "makes no sense") comedy. FBWL delivers
they would have ended up - a dumpster, maybe? So now I show action, romance, and comedy in true HK fashion. The plot
the films every chance I get and have planned various projects, to concerns 007's return to service from a hiatus as a meat Ain't It Cool News, The Austin Chronicle, Sapient &
exploit their hidden celluloid riches. " Skip Elsheimer, AV Geeks In Big Brothers Big Sisters present the Saturday Morning Film Club
vendor. Expect to see familiar "hong kong-ified" elements
this program expect to see gory fake industrial accidents, a Disney
from the James Bond series- gadgets, guns and girls! MAD MONSTER PARTY
THURS-SAT, APRIL 12-14 MIDNIGHT animated sex ed film, a film about meat processing and marching SAT, MAY 26, NOON
(1994, d. Kevin Smith, 92 min, $5) Fresh out of film school (yes, he bands, an LSD trip film and more! (d. Jules Bass, 1967, free admission for kids and accompanying
went), Smith directed a modest 16mm black and white feature with a adults) Mad Monster Party is a fantastic addition to our cultural
landscape. The Jack Davis designed puppets, the Harvey Kurtzman
budget not even sufficient for a car purchase. But with help from a (Mad Magazine) style satire, the great voices (including the
multi-credited cast and a script full of witty bar-stool jokes with irreplaceable Boris Karloff) and the surf guitar/spy music/monster
language that would ban you from grandma's house forever, the mash soundtrack all combine to make a unique viewing experience, JUNE 13- MIDNIGHT JUNE 30, 12:00 NOON
result: is an instant cult classic. Clerks is Kevin Smith's theatrical enjoyable for all ages. Most importantly, this film presents the CRITTERS (d. Roger Corman, 1963, 86 min, G, free admission for kids and
debut (initially released on a whopping 50 screens) and hits a chord MAY 9 - MIDNIGHT greatest assortment of classic monsters in one epic story - Dracula,
The Werewolf, Frankenstein's Monster, The Creature, Dr. Jekyll and (1986, d. Stephen Herek, 82 min, R, free admission) Bounty hunters
accompanying adults) Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price and
a very young Jack Nicholson team up with director Roger Corman
with today's "tweener"-aged crowd. The far-from-Baby-Boomers, but CAN I DO IT TILL I NEED GLASSES Mr. Hyde, The Mummy, King Kong, The Invisible Man, The from outer space track down furballs with a taste for flesh that are and composer Les Baxter to create the quirkiest, funniest Edgar
not quite Gen-Xers get the most out of this flick. Throw in a high Hunchback of Notre Dame and the Peter Lorre inspired Igor! Mad
(d. I. Robert Levy, 1974, R, free admission, 73 min.) Robin terrorizing a small town. Great low-budgeter that's funny and Allen Poe send-up ever created. Although the sets are creepy, the
school degree and your enjoyment level increases ten-fold. See Monster Party was produced by the Rankin/Bass team and features
Williams' first feature film effort is a wacky sex comedy, the the stop motion animation featured in better known holiday classics
frantic stuff. An absolute gem. Followed by three sequels. Hell, on-screen action is wacky and fun for all ages, the cinematic
deleted scenes, the alternate ending and rare Kevin Smith tidbits even Roger Ebert liked it, give it a shot. equivalent of the Disneyland Haunted Mansion.
likes of which hasn't been seen in theaters in 20 years. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman.
before the film.