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Special Screenings

TUESDAY MAY 21
  • The Breakfast Club

    The Breakfast Club (1985)

    Rated R, 97 min

    Girlie Night: A John Hughes classic about different teenage "types" melting one another's shells. Read a full review of The Breakfast Club.

    7PM Alamo Drafthouse at the Ritz, 320 E. Sixth, 512/476-1320

  • Carnival of Blood (1970)

    Not rated, 87 min

    Terror Tuesday: A killer finds his victims on a carousel, then murders and dismembers them.

    10:15PM Alamo Drafthouse at the Ritz, 320 E. Sixth, 512/476-1320

  • Holiday Road (2012)

    Not rated, 71 min

    Toy Joy: This anthology comedy film tackles 12 months of holidays. Post-film Q&A with filmmakers, some of whom are local.

    7PM Violet Crown Cinema, 434 W. Second, 512/495-9600

  • Mystery Preview

    Master Pancake Theater: Mystery mocking.

    7PM Alamo Drafthouse Village, 2700 W. Anderson, 512/459-7090

  • Rockshow: Paul McCartney & Wings

    Rockshow: Paul McCartney & Wings (1980)

    7PM Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, 13729 Research, 512/219-5408

  • Teenage Dreams Pop Princess Sing-Along

    Action Pack

    7:25PM Alamo Drafthouse Slaughter Lane, 5701 W. Slaughter Ln., 512/476-1320

    • SPACES

  • All About My Mother

    All About My Mother (1999)

    Rated R, 101 min

    Puro Chingon Social Club and Free & Queer Cinema: Free. Read a full review of All About My Mother.

    7:30PM The North Door, 502 Brushy, 512/485-3001

  • Stop Making Sense

    Stop Making Sense (1984)

    Not rated, 88 min

    Film Tuesdays: Free. Read a full review of Stop Making Sense.

    10PM The North Door, 502 Brushy, 512/485-3001

  • Tokyo Story

    Tokyo Story (1953)

    Not rated, 136 min

    Austin Film Society: 35mm Treasures From the Janus Films Archive: 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.

    7PM The Marchesa Hall & Theatre, 6406 N I-35, 512/454-2000

    • BULLOCK MUSEUM

    1800 N. Congress, 512/936-4629

  • Flight of the Butterflies

    Flight of the Butterflies (2012)

    Not rated, 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 of fieldwork conducted by Canadian scientist Fred Urquhart.

  • Rocky Mountain Express

    Rocky Mountain Express (2011)

    Not rated, 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.

  • Star Trek Into Darkness

    Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

    Rated PG-13, 132 min

    J.J. Abrams doesn’t seem to have the itch to start from scratch. He rebooted Star Trek in 2009 with a narrative loophole that gave him free rein, and yet he still seems hesitant to test just how much rope he has. Abrams’ space isn’t the final frontier: The landscape reads more like, “Haven’t we been here before?” Well, yes, but a whirligig doesn’t go anywhere, either, and it’s still fun to watch it spin. Cumberbatch, playing a Starfleet officer gone rogue, is especially good as the morally complicated villain, and screenwriters Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, and fanboys’ favorite whipping boy, Damon Lindelof, keep the film moving at a quippy clip.There’s really no fat here until the film feints a climax only to lurch the coaster-car back up the hill again. The tentpoles are famous for tacking 20 minutes too long onto their summer cine-spectacles, and Abrams’ is no different. He just does it better. Read a full review of Star Trek Into Darkness.

  • 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.