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Special Screenings

SATURDAY MAY 18

  • Austin Youth Film Festival

    Young, independent filmmakers showcase their best work and conduct Q&As with film-industry pros. Three rounds of finalist films screen from 10am to 1pm.

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

  • Cabaret

    Cabaret (1972)

    Rated PG, 128 min

    Broadway Brunch: Minnelli and Grey sparkle and the Fosse flash is everywhere in evidence in this winner of eight Academy Awards.

    11:45AM Alamo Drafthouse at the Ritz, 320 E. Sixth, 512/476-1320

  • Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012)

    Not rated, 84 min

    Only at the Alamo: Using scenes from more than 450 films from the first century of cinema, Pálfi and his editors construct a film that is equal parts drama, comedy, and romance, and recontextualizes classic imagery while also celebrating it.

    4:30PM Alamo Drafthouse at the Ritz, 320 E. Sixth, 512/476-1320

  • The First Grader

    The First Grader (2011)

    Rated PG-13, 103 min

    African Leadership Bridge: In Kenya, an octogenarian takes the government's promise of an education for all to heart and joins the 6-year-old reciting their ABCs. Read a full review of The First Grader.

    8PM Stateside at the Paramount, 719 Congress, 512/472-5470

  • The Fruit Hunters

    The Fruit Hunters (2012)

    Not rated, 95 min

    Cinedigm: Docurama: In this film, “fruit detectives” from around the world search out exotic varietals and develop new ways to cultivate sustainable harvests, while movie star Bill Pullman’s fruit obsession leads him on a crusade to create a community orchard in the Hollywood Hills. For more on the film, see "Hungry for 'Fruit Hunters'", May 10.

    10AM Alamo Drafthouse Slaughter Lane, 5701 W. Slaughter Ln., 512/476-1320

  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

    Rated R, 95 min

    Austin fans have been dressing up and doing the "Time Warp" thing live for more than three decades. For more info, see www.austinrocky.org.

    11:59PM Alamo Drafthouse Village, 2700 W. Anderson, 512/459-7090

  • Totally Eighties Sing-Along

    Action Pack

    10PM Alamo Drafthouse Slaughter Lane, 5701 W. Slaughter Ln., 512/476-1320

  • The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1

    The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011)

    Rated PG-13, 117 min

    Master Pancake: This is the one where Bella sulks, Edward refuses sex, and Jacob takes his shirt off. Oh wait Read a full review of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1.

    7PM, 10PM Alamo Drafthouse at the Ritz, 320 E. Sixth, 512/476-1320

    • SPACES

  • Küçük Sinemalar

    Experimental Response Cinema: This program features a number of contemporary works from Turkey. Küçük Sinemalar encourages moving image works that do not fit within strict boundary conceptions of either video art or traditional cinema. The films and videos in this program tackle a number of subjects, including cell phone video abstractions, untrustworthy narratives, and a 16mm film essay on the middle-class activity of seaside vacations.

    7PM Arthouse at the Jones Center, 700 Congress, 512/453-5312

    • IMAX

    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

    This beams a day early into IMAX theatres. Read a full review of Star Trek Into Darkness.

  • 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.