The Austin Chronicle

  • FILM

Special Screenings

Thursday, May 24

  • The Goonies Quote-Along

    Action Pack

    7PM Alamo Drafthouse at the Ritz, 320 E. Sixth, 476-1320

  • Nineties Alternative Sing-Along

    Action Pack

    10PM Alamo Drafthouse at the Ritz, 320 E. Sixth, 476-1320

  • Pillow Talk

    Pillow Talk (1959)

    Not rated, 105 min

    Summer Film Classics: Kickoff Weekend – Celebrating 100 Years of Universal Pictures: This quintessential Hudson-Day sex comedy has the pair sharing a telephone party line as though it were a king-size bed with satin sheets.

    9:35PM Paramount Theatre, 713 Congress, 472-5470

  • To Kill a Mockingbird

    To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

    Not rated, 129 min

    Summer Film Classics: Kickoff Weekend – Celebrating 100 Years of Universal Pictures: This atmospheric Southern Gothic was adapted for the screen by Horton Foote from Harper Lee's prize-winning novel about a widowed lawyer with two young children who takes on the locally scandalous job of defending a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman. Peck won an Oscar for his work, and Duvall made his screen debut as the mythic Boo Radley.

    7PM Paramount Theatre, 713 Congress, 472-5470

    • IMAX

    1800 N. Congress, 512/936-IMAX

  • Flying Monsters 3D

    Flying Monsters 3D (2011)

    Not rated, 40 min

    This inquiry into the evolution of the winged vertebrates called pterosaurs is deftly aided by the use of CGI and 3-D.

    Thursday (5/24), 12:30pm, 4:30, 6:30pm

  • Ocean Wonderland

    Ocean Wonderland (2003)

    Not rated, 41 min

    Underwater 3-D digital cinematography captures diving expeditions in the Bahamas and the Great Barrier Reef.

    Thursday (5/24), 9:30am, 1:30pm

  • Texas: The Big Picture

    Texas: The Big Picture (2003)

    Not rated, 39 min

    Panoramic shots of Texas grace the screen as the state is shown to be a land capable of producing everything from grapefruit to microchips.

    Thursday (5/24), 10:30am, 2:30pm

  • To the Arctic 3D

    To the Arctic 3D (2012)

    Rated G, 40 min

    Immense glaciers and melting ice must be navigated by a mother polar bear and her two seven-month-old cubs in this intimate 3-D documentary filmed at the top of the world.

    Thursday (5/24), 11:30am, 3:30, 5:30pm

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