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In May 2003, Travis Doss opened the first Alamo franchise location (West Oaks Mall) in Houston, Texas with six screens. “The Exorcist” (1973) — The grab-you-by-the-collar intensity of an experimental theater production made by a docu-realist cinemaniac. No other possession movie has felt this dangerous either before or since. This was also Alamo's entry into the DFW market, notes Alamo Drafthouse Cinema North Texas & Twin Cities CEO Bill DiGaetano.
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Do kids even get new movies like this anymore? Movies that show youth as golden and about how greatness is within you. Your powers are determination, cleverness, and the people who love you. James Wallace’s intro about the director and his work fired us up to watch anything from his long career.
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I like when The Secret Screening gets extra odd with films that I didn’t see coming in this series. Exploitation flicks about monsters biting peoples’ faces off are great, but it’s cool that there’s also room in there for The Magic Christian, the Terry Southern adaptation with a British twist that sits on the edge of cult status. It’s an Acid Generation comedy that mixes cartoonish gags with a bone-dry English sense of wit to an effect that only feels more brain-scrambling over time.
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On the surface, it lays down the blueprint for all “buddy cop” movies. It’s got the detective partners who bicker like an old married couple. It’s got the superior officer who has to chew out their asses over their loose cannon tactics.
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I first saw The Magic Christian on TV many years ago and thought it was a mess. Seeing it again on the big screen (very nice 35mm print, by the way, that’s holding onto its colors well), I still think it’s a mess, but I kept watching and I got into its taste of 1969. I got into connecting the dots from it to Monty Python’s Flying Circus, which perfected this style soon after.
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New seats are reportedly being delivered next week. In 2003, the Alamo Drafthouse, under the direction of CEO Terrell Braly, opened on Research Boulevard in northwest Austin. The Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek had seven screens, all dedicated to new movies.
Many in the room knew the movie well while I hadn’t seen it in about thirty-five years and this was an amazing way to flash back. The crowd was with this movie, laughing, cheering, and applauding at every moment that called for it. Meanwhile, Allen (who made an appearance in the intro and went back up a for a post-movie Q&A, in addition to autographs and handshakes in the lobby after all of that) was a charmer who appreciated the love. He had his answers to questions locked and loaded and he looked like he could still fit in his old Cru Jones costumes. Me, I stared up at the light and sifted through old memories. I got refreshed on the value in “triumph of the underdog” cliches.
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So this one, Pyun’s biggest hit, won over the room right away. It’s one of those movies that demonstrates how the sword & sandal genre peaked in the 80s. It was the right time for shirtless warriors with triple-bladed swords fighting evil wizards to a booming orchestral score. And am I right to doubt that today’s digital effects could ever out-charm this film’s practical low-budget fantasy world? I’m of the generation that discovered this Mexican kiddie flick oddity on Mystery Science Theater 3000 about a hundred years ago.
They’re products of a whole sick system. Let’s also note that the super-cool scene in which a car gets crushed in careful detail by a farm combine got one of the biggest mid-movie applause breaks that I can recall from The Secret Screening. A post-Bonnie and Clyde, Depression-set gangster movie done in the New World Pictures way.
The answer is yes, because it’s funny and this is just a movie, but Rush doesn’t put on the hard sell. If you think that these characters are ALL dirtbags, he seems to be fine with that. Let’s also mention that James Wallace framed this selection as a tribute to the late James Caan and that the 35mm print was a knockout, full of analog warmth and lively color with no weird splices or rough patches. My ability to order a beer from my seat was the only reminder I had that I wasn’t in 1974. I never expected Robert Altman to show up in the Secret Screening, but on this hot Texas night, he did and it was perfect.
Our favorite Monday night thing still shows plenty of AGFA prints, but now sometimes turns to other sources for an even more expansive selection of mind-blowers, head-scratchers, flashbacks, and bloodbaths. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution.
To be honest, I hadn’t seen this cult classic yet. What I’d heard about it over the years gave me the impression that it was a “so bad it’s good” movie. Tammy and the T-Rex is a comedy that knows exactly how absurd and campy it is. Like a John Waters film though, it’s not for everybody.
“Batman,” “Do the Right Thing,” “UHF,” “Sex, Lies, and Videotape,” “Tie Me Up! Recently we had the chance to chat with Isgar about his love for film and his programming work at Alamo (drafthouse.com). Some of the biggest country stars in the world will take the stage at the 2024 Academy of Country Music Awards, set to take place at the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco on Thursday, May 16. In 2010, after the return of former co-founder Tim League as CEO, the company launched Drafthouse Films, a film distribution company named after, and inspired by, the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema chain. In June 2017, the current largest Alamo opened in Springfield, Missouri with 14 screens seating 1,050 people.
After graduating in 2013, Austin felt like the right place to relocate, given its rich film culture and opportunities. During my first month there, I volunteered for Alamo’s annual genre festival, Fantastic Fest, and got accepted to the Austin Film Society’s internship program. From there, I was either working server shifts at Alamo, helping with events and trailer cutting for AFS, or attending screenings at both.
The chain has since opened locations in Lake Highlands, the Cedars District, Las Colinas, and Denton. The Richardson location was the first Alamo Drafthouse to open in the Dallas-area, taking the place of an old Pep Boys auto parts store. The location holds historic community significance, as it is within the community’s first shopping center, constructed in the 1950s following the expansion of Central Expressway into the Richardson City limits. A third San Antonio location (Stone Oak) opened on November 5, 2010, with six screens. Life happens and sometimes you miss out on shit.
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