Monday, Feb. 11

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• Admission
  PG-13, 117 min. Tina Fey and Paul Rudd go rom-drahm, while Lily Tomlin runs circles around everyone.
• The Angels' Share
  NR, 101 min. Scottish social-realist director Ken Loach is back with a new movie about young delinquents and a whisky-distillery heist.
• Arthur Newman
  R, 101 min. Colin Firth and Emily Blunt star in this road picture about two people who try to escape their identities but fall in love and learn to accept their responsibilities.
• At Any Price
  R, 105 min. This family drama puts a human face on corporate agribusiness.
• Baadshah
  NR, 158 min. Action, romance, comedy, and thrills abound in this new Telugu film.
• Before Midnight
  R, 109 min. This third European outing with Celine and Jesse is a grand accomplishment.
• The Big Wedding
  R, 90 min. In this wedding comedy, a bridegroom’s bitterly divorced parents (De Niro and Keaton) must pretend they’re still married to appease his Catholic birth mother.
• Blancanieves
  PG-13, 104 min. A period piece about two generations of matadors is fused with the Snow White fairy tale in this black-and-white Spanish charmer.
• Bless Me, Ultima
  PG-13, 106 min. This honest, earnest, and naturalistic kids’ story about growing up Mexican-American in 1940s New Mexico is based on the popular book.
• The Call
  R, 95 min. Halle Berry plays a 911 phone operator who takes a call in which everything's on the line.
• Camp
  PG-13, 95 min. A counselor and a troubled kid learn from each other while at camp.
• The Company You Keep
  R, 121 min. Members of the Weather Underground resurface in this contemporary thriller directed by Robert Redford.
• The Croods
  PG, 98 min. Animated cave dwellers are stealth charmers.
• Dark Skies
  PG-13, 97 min. Aliens mess with a suburban family's peace of mind in this unsettling, slow-burn thriller.
• Disconnect
  R, 115 min. This mawkish, preachy picture about technophobia has already dated itself.
• Epic
  PG, 102 min. This imaginative 3-D animated fantasy takes place in a forest world.
• Escape From Planet Earth
  PG, 89 min. In this 3-D animated movie, a famous astronaut from another planet becomes trapped on Earth – aka the Dark Planet. Interplanetary shenanigans ensue.
• Evil Dead
  R, 91 min. Fans of the original horror trilogy have nothing to fear from this gory new reworking.
• Fast & Furious 6
  PG-13, 130 min. The curiously addictive fast-cars franchise is still committed to excess.
• Filly Brown
  R, 99 min. A young, Latina hip-hop artist gets a shot at a record contract only if she is willing to compromise her ideals.
• The First Grader
  PG-13, 103 min. In Kenya, an octogenarian takes the government's promise of an education for all to heart and joins the 6-year-old reciting their ABC's.
• 42
  PG-13, 128 min. Jackie Robinson's story is told as a socially conscious moral tale about the malevolence of segregation.
• From Up on Poppy Hill
  PG, 91 min. This latest film from the Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli is dubbed into English.
• The Gatekeepers
  PG-13, 96 min. Six retired directors of Israel’s domestic intelligence agency candidly reflect.
• G.I. Joe: Retaliation
  PG-13, 110 min. This overflowing action stew is loaded to the brim with half-formed ideas, action stereotypes, and hints of characters.
• Gimme the Loot
  NR, 81 min. This prize-winning indie debut follows two wannabe graffiti artists on one long night.
• Girl Rising
  PG-13, 101 min. This documentary showcases the power of education to change lives as it follows nine girls from around the world.
• A Good Day to Die Hard
  R, 97 min. Bruce Willis' John McClane is like Wile E. Coyote – always in the wrong place when things blow up but always persevering.
• Graceland
  NR, 84 min. Ron Morales’ hostage thriller is a fluorescent-lit tour of the city’s seedy underbelly.
• The Great Gatsby
  PG-13, 141 min. A great American novel does not always a great movie make, but Baz Lurhmann, a director of delirious excess, certainly seems an apt fit for the Roaring Twenties.
• The Hangover: Part III
  R, 100 min. The hard-R comedy trilogy concludes with more mortal peril and questionable taste.
• Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
  R, 88 min. The titular siblings turn bounty hunters after a traumatic childhood incident with an oven.
• Home Run
  PG-13, 113 min. A pro ballplayer with a substance-abuse problem goes back home for rehab, and finds Christian redemption by coaching a Little League team.
• The Host
  PG-13, 125 min. Andrew Niccol writes and directs this romantic, science-fiction thriller that's based on a novel by Stephenie Meyer.
• The Iceman
  R, 106 min. Michael Shannon stars as a contract killer with a double life.
• Identity Thief
  R, 111 min. Melissa McCarthy is a comic storm system to Jason Bateman's straight man in this latest variation on the road trip from hell.
• In the House
  R, 105 min. A pleasurably heady thriller from French auteur François Ozon.
• The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
  PG-13, 100 min. Steve Carell and Steve Buscemi play squabbling old-school magicians whose reign on the Vegas strip is threatened by a daring stunt magician played by Jim Carrey.
• Iron Man 3
  PG-13, 130 min. It's more of the same, but the same is pretty good.
• It's a Disaster
  R, 88 min. This dark comedy by UT grad Todd Berger is built around a likable ensemble.
• Jack the Giant Slayer
  PG-13, 114 min. Despite a terrific cast, intelligent direction, and state-of-the-art special effects, this fairy tale's gigantic shoes remain unfilled.
• Jurassic Park
  PG-13, 127 min. It's every species for themselves in this Spielberg dinosaur blockbuster now out in 3-D.
• Life of Pi
  PG, 125 min. This time Ang Lee's tiger is not crouching; this animal has its claws out and has only an adolescent boy for companionship – or vice versa.
• The Lords of Salem
  R, 101 min. With his fifth horror feature, writer/director Rob Zombie proves he's a unique visionary in a repetitive cinematic genre.
• Monsters, Inc.
  G, 92 min. Re-released in 3-D.
• Mud
  PG-13, 130 min. Hypermasculine yet soulfully romantic, this coming of age story with thriller elements stars Matthew McConaughey.
• The New Juarez
  NR, 81 min. This partisan film essay attacks both the United States and Mexican governments for the massive violence in Juarez.
• No
  R, 110 min. Gael García Bernal stars in this lo-fi drama about the role advertising played in the ouster of the Chilean despot, General Pinochet.
• No Place on Earth
  PG-13, 83 min. A spelunker in the Ukraine turns amateur sleeuth as he tries to make sense of the remnants he finds in a cave: They were left by Jews who hid there from the Nazis.
• Oblivion
  PG-13, 126 min. Tom Cruise stars in this science-fiction outing that favors style over substance.
• Olympus Has Fallen
  R, 120 min. It''s Die Hard at the White House as a lone man battles the terrorists who take the building with diabolical force.
• Oz the Great and Powerful
  PG, 130 min. Neither a besmirching nor a instant classic, this sometimes clunky prequel in which James Franco plays the Wizard when he was a mere, young huckster also has Sam Raimi's ravishing visuals.
• Pain & Gain
  R, 130 min. One of the dirty secrets of modern American filmmaking is what a skilled director Michael Bay really is.
• Pieta
  NR, 104 min. South Korea's Kim Ki-duk makes his most commercial film yet, but it's still full of queasy-making moments.
• The Place Beyond the Pines
  R, 140 min. A melodrama, multigenerational epic, heist film, and motorcycle-fetish movie are all rolled into one in this Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper headliner.
• Quartet
  PG-13, 98 min. A charming, funny, and sentimental comedy/drama about former opera singers living in a home for retired musicians.
• Renoir
  R, 111 min. Renoir is great at capturing an Impressionist atmosphere on film but this story about the family relations is dramatically inert.
• Safe Haven
  PG-13, 115 min. Director Lasse Hallström can't find the pulse in this Nicholas Sparks sudser starring Julianne Hough and Josh Duhamel.
• The Sapphires
  PG-13, 99 min. Exuberant but fairly formulaic, this Australian film is a backstage story about an all-girl singing group from the outback in the Sixties.
• Scary Movie 5
  PG-13, 85 min. This parodic auto-mash-up of Paranormal Activity, Black Swan, The Evil Dead, and more is even worse than you think.
• Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's
  PG-13, 93 min. This doc about the storied department store stays relentlessly on-message.
• The Shining
  R, 142 min.
• Side Effects
  R, 105 min. Jagged turns and sinuous style are the mark of Steven Soderbergh's taut drama, which stars the very well-cast Rooney Mara and Jude Law.
• Silver Linings Playbook
  R, 122 min. David O. Russell finds finds another family in distress; Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence kept it consistently fun.
• Snitch
  PG-13, 113 min. A socially conscious action adventure that stars Dwayne Johnson, Snitch is an indictment of our federal minimum-punishment guidelines for drug offenses.
• Spring Breakers
  R, 94 min. In turns appealing and horrifying, those contrasts are at the heart of Harmony Korine’s latest outing.
• Star Trek Into Darkness
  PG-13, 132 min. The Star Trek reboot may be overly familiar, but it's still a hell of a lot of fun.
• Starbuck
  R, 109 min. A sperm donor learns 20 years after the fact that he is the father of 533 children in this mild, French-Canadian comedy.
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
  R, 98 min. The Texas hills are again alive with the sound of chainsaws.
• To the Wonder
  R, 112 min. Terrence Malick makes a swift return to our screens with this evocative story about the stages of love.
• Trance
  R, 108 min. Danny Boyle's film swerves unevenly between moods and motivations, from heist film to psychosexual thriller, and dreamy logic to amped-up action.
• Trash Dance
  NR, 68 min. The process used by Austin choreographer Allison Orr to create this dance piece for garbage trucks and sanitation workers is revealed in this fascinating documentary record.
• 21 & Over
  R, 93 min. Some clever moments rescue this fall-down-drunk comedy from its baser instincts.
• The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2
  PG-13, 115 min. The Twilight's over, and the darkness has just begun.
• Tyler Perry Presents Peeples
  PG-13, 95 min. This likable comedy is equal parts silly and sweet.
• Tyler Perry's Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor
  PG-13, 111 min. Perry's melodrama centers an ambitious, married woman's dalliance with a handsome billionaire.
• Upstream Color
  NR, 96 min. Shane Carruth's film is arthouse science fiction at its most compelling yet cryptic.
• Warm Bodies
  PG-13, 98 min. Last time in the director’s chair, Jonathan Levine made the feel-good cancer movie 50/50; now he's back with a clever and heartfelt zombie rom-com.
• Wreck-It Ralph
  PG, 101 min.

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• The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
  PG, 126 min. Big Screen Classics
• Airplane!
  PG, 86 min. Ticket includes three-course menu.
• Alien
  R, 117 min. Cinemark Classics. The modern horror film meets the space opera in this outstanding film that launched a small franchise.
• All About My Mother
  R, 101 min. Puro Chingon Social Club and Free & Queer Cinema. Free.
• American Beauty
  R, 118 min. Cinemark Classics. This Oscar winner is a bleak comedy of suburban mores and one man's sudden rejection of the arrangement.
• American Graffiti
  PG, 110 min. Chef du Cinema. Ron Deutsch will prepare a classic American meal that befits this classic American movie set in 1962 California. See www.centralmarket.com for the menu.
• Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy Quote-Along
  PG-13, 91 min. Action Pack
• Angels With Dirty Faces
  97 min. Summer Film Classics: Celebrating the 90th Anniversary of Warner Bros. Pictures. After growing up together in New York's mean streets, one boy becomes a lifelong criminal (Cagney) while the other serves God (O'Brien), and a pre-stardom Bogart plays the att...
• Annie
  PG, 126 min. Alamo Kids' Camp. See it today, for tomorrow there will be another filmed version.
• Anonymous
  PG-13, 130 min. Austin Public Library: Austin Upon Avon. This conspiracy-minded potboiler questions the veracity of Shakespeare's authorship.
• Argo
  R, 120 min. Austin Public Library: Weeknight Cinema – Manipulating Media. Free.
• Armageddon
  PG-13, 150 min. Master Pancake. Mocking this movie will be like targeting something as big as an asteroid.
• Austin Jewish Film Festival
  See "The Austin Jewish Film Festival Reaches Out," April 12, for details.
• Babe
  G, 92 min. A pig finds his destiny – and it's not as Christmas dinner.
• Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour
  Whole Earth Provision Co.. This traveling showcase of international short films and documentaries about outdoor adventure and exploration focuses on mountain adventures and cultures from around the worl...
• Beau Travail
  NR, 90 min. Austin Film Society: Summer Free for All
• Beauty Is Embarrassing
  NR, 90 min. AIGA Austin. You may not know his name, but you know Wayne White's artwork from Pee-wee's Playhouse or his MTV award-winning design work.
• Beetlejuice
  PG, 92 min. Free.
• Before Sunrise
  R, 101 min. The star-crossed affair of Jesse and Celine started with this soulful romance, set in Vienna.
• Before Sunset
  R, 80 min. Part two of the Before trilogy sees Jesse and Celine reconnect, this time in Paris.
• Benny & Joon
  PG, 98 min. Man Crush. Naïf meets waif in this touching yet whimsically unrealistic tale of love amongst society's write-offs.
• Best in Show
  PG-13, 90 min. Sunset Cinema. $10 dog and cat adoptions and free burgers from Jack in the Box accompany the outdoor screening. Leave pets at home.
• Beverly Hills Cop
  R, 105 min. This action-comedy vehicle presents Murphy at his very best.
• The Big Lebowski Quote-Along
  R, 117 min. Action Pack
• The Big Sleep
  NR, 114 min. UT Department of Radio-Television-Film. Perhaps the very best Philip Marlowe screen adaptation, The Big Sleep sizzles with the Bogey-Bacall chemistry and crackling dialogue full of innuendo. Caroline Frick, RTF assi...
• Blazing Saddles
  R, 93 min. Cinemark Classics. Brooks’ early reputation as a film director rests with the success of this raunchy Western spoof. A great cast is eclipsed by the hilarious performances of Korman and Kahn, wh...
• The Blues Brothers
  R, 133 min. Blue Starlite Drive-In
• BMX Bandits
  NR, 88 min. Kids' Club. Nicole Kidman made her screen debut at the age of 16 in this Aussie teen picture about bikers, some bank robbers, and a carton of walkie-talkies.
• Boarding House
  R, 88 min. Terror Tuesday. This wild horror film is essentially a paranormal home movie shot on video and transferred to film – in 1982.
• Bonnie and Clyde
  NR, 111 min. Summer Film Classics: Lovers on the Run
• Brave
  PG, 100 min. Austin Public Library: Family Movies. Free.
• Braveheart
  R, 177 min. Classics. Gibson directs and stars in this rousing 13th century epic about the Scottish freedom fighter William Wallace.
• Breakfast at Tiffany's
  NR, 115 min. Blue Starlite Drive-In: Valentine's Week
• The Breakfast Club
  R, 97 min. Girlie Night
• Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
  R, 112 min. Badass Digest Presents. Twistedly comic and openly bitter, this film is brought to life by those two maniacs: Peckinpah and Oates.
• Bullitt
  PG, 113 min. Summer Film Classics: Celebrating the 90th Anniversary of Warner Bros. Pictures. One of the cinema’s very best car-chase sequences – set amid the hilly, windy San Francisco streets – caps this quintessential Steve McQueen policier. (Double bill: Cool Hand Luke.)
• Bye Bye Birdie
  G, 112 min. Broadway Brunch. Great music and brilliant performances by Ann-Margret, Paul Lynde, and Dick Van Dyke.
• Cabaret
  PG, 128 min. Broadway Brunch. Minnelli and Grey sparkle and the Fosse flash is everywhere in evidence in this winner of eight Academy Awards.
• Calle 54
  G, 105 min. Tarde de Documental. Superstars of Latin jazz are captured as they perform in the studio.
• Casablanca
  NR, 102 min. Master Pancake. Mock-out in Morocco by the Pancake comedy levelers.
• Charade
  NR, 114 min. Big Screen Classics. The sexual chemistry between Hepburn and Grant, when set against the suave thriller's tumultuous backdrop of shifting identities, makes this movie an enduring favorite.
• The Children
  R, 93 min. Terror Tuesday. A nuclear accident turns the area's children into radioactive zombies.
• Choose Your Own Pancake
  Master Pancake Theater. Bring a DVD of your choice to the show, the audience will select a favorite entry, and Master Pancake will do an instant mockery.
• Cleopatra
  NR, 243 min. Classics. Taylor, Burton, and Harrison are sublime in this sweeping epic of love and nations, a film that also earned Oscars for its cinematography, art direction, special effects, and costumes.
• Cool Hand Luke
  NR, 126 min. Summer Film Classics: Celebrating the 90th Anniversary of Warner Bros. Pictures. No failure to communicate here – Cool Hand Luke is one of the sharpest prison dramas ever, although it's graced with some very humorous portions as well. It can also be seen a...
• Crazy, Stupid, Love.
  PG-13, 118 min.
• Cruel Intentions
  R, 95 min. Classics. In its fourth film rendition, Les Liaisons Dangereuses is adapted for the high school set.
• The Dark Crystal
  PG, 94 min. 70mm at the Ritz. The Muppets visit the dark side in this visually dazzling allegory about good and evil that appeals to both young and old alike.
• Dazed and Confused
  R, 103 min. Pub Run and Screening. The run begins at 6pm; register online at www.austintheatre.org. The event benefits Creative Action.
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
  PG, 94 min. Austin Public Library: Family Movies. Free.
• Dirty Dancing
  PG-13, 100 min. Blue Starlite Drive-In: Valentine's Week
• Dream Deceivers: The Story Behind James Vance vs. Judas Priest
  NR, 60 min. CineBrew. This documentary scrutinizes the famous case brought against Judas Priest by the parents of two troubled teens who committed suicide because of alleged backward masking on an...
• Drive
  R, 100 min. Cliff Martinez Live. Gosling plays a getaway driver in this seductive mix of brooding arthouse and heist-gone-to-hell genre picture. Composer Cliff Martinez will be in attendance.
• Drop Dead Gorgeous
  PG-13, 93 min. Classics. This parody of beauty pageants in the flyover states takes the form of a mockumentary filmed at Minnesota's Sarah Rose Miss Teen Princess America Pageant.
• Dumb and Dumber
  PG-13, 117 min. Cinemark Classics
• The Dynamite Brothers
  R, 90 min. Weird Wednesday. A young black man and a kung-fu expert team up against a drug ring in this low-budget auteur's film.
• E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
  PG, 115 min. Blue Starlite Drive-In. In honor of E.T.'s young star Henry Thomas (now a full-fledged adult) being inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame elsewhere on the Austin Studios campus this same night, t...
• 8 Mile
  R, 110 min. Off-Centered Film Festival. Eminen's semi-autobiographical story of a young, white rapper on the rise in Detroit has a soft-focus Hollywood tint.
• Enter the Dragon
  R, 97 min. Big Screen Classics. With Enter the Dragon – one of the all-time best martial arts action films and the first to be produced in the U.S. – master Bruce Lee exited the scene, his mysterious death a...
• Evel Knievel
  PG, 90 min. American Genre Film Archive: Deep Tracks. George Hamilton is cast as the famous daredevil in this biopic in which the character reflects on his life up to that point.
• Evil Dead II
  R, 85 min. Horror Show. This sequel to the movie that made the reputation of director Sam Raimi, producer Rob Tapert, and star Bruce Campbell is in many ways even more hellish and stylish than its predecessor.
• Face/Off
  R, 140 min. Tough Guy Cinema. Exhilarating performances from Cage and Travolta, as well as Woo's tremendously enjoyable action set-pieces make this a very entertaining action film.
• Fanboys
  PG-13, 90 min. Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Benefit. This shaggy comedy is an earnest, sweetly geeked tribute to fandom. Screenwriter Ernie Cline will be in attendance.
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  PG-13, 103 min. Blue Starlite Drive-In
• The Fifth Element
  PG-13, 126 min. Austin Parks Foundation: Movies in the Park. Besson's smart editing and sly sense of humor keep this science-fiction epic from bogging down. Despite a grim storyline, the film never takes itself too seriously.
• Finding Neverland
  PG, 106 min. Austin Film Festival: Conversations in Film. Depp delves into the mind of author J.M. Barrie in this adeptly realized celebration of the wonder of the imagination. Screenwriter David Magee will be present at this screeni...
• The First Grader
  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.
• The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T
  NR, 88 min. Kids' Club. In this wonderful live-action fantasy devised by Dr. Seuss, a piano student has a bad dream that his cruel teacher is ruling over a musical kingdom where 500 boys are trapped...
• Forbidden Planet
  NR, 98 min. Kids' Club. One of the greatest science-fiction films of all time, Forbidden Planet combines good drama with great special effects. And it has Robby the Robot to boot.
• Forrest Gump
  PG-13, 142 min. Cinemark Classics
• Friday
  R, 91 min. Off-Centered Film Festival: Beer Party. long with the movie, food trucks, and other entertainment, leading craft brewers from Central Texas will have their wares available for purchase. No one under 21 admitted. Not...
• From Dusty With Love
  NR, 72 min. Music Monday. This show brings you an assortment of music clips featuring Dusty Springfield at her best.
• Fuel
  NR, 111 min. Fuel is a two-hour pitch for biodiesel and the virtues of other alternative energy sources, which won the Audience Award for a documentary at Sundance. Josh Tickell will be in attendance.
• Galaxy Quest
  PG, 104 min. Badass Digest Presents. This is, essentially, a parody of Gene Roddenberry's TV world and its rabid fans.
• The Gates of Hell
  NR, 92 min. Terror Tuesday. A suicide in a church cemetery causes the portals of hell to open wide, allowing the dead to rise and take over.
• Gator Bait
  R, 93 min. Weird Wednesday. Exploitation queen and former Playboy Playmate Jennings is a Cajun hellcat who drives all the bayou boys wild while plotting her revenge.
• Ghostbusters
  PG, 107 min. Austin Parks Foundation: Movies in the Park. XXX
• Gnomeo & Juliet
  G, 84 min. Austin Public Library: Austin Upon Avon. Free.
• The Godfather
  R, 175 min. Cinemark Classics
• Goldfinger
  NR, 111 min. Master Pancake Theater. You, too, may be "shaken, not stirred," as the Pancake crew takes comic jabs at Oddjob and Pussy Galore.
• The Goonies
  PG, 114 min. From a story by Steven Spielberg, this kids' comedy is sick, rude fun.
• The Grace Lee Project
  NR, 68 min. A Korean American filmmaker uses her own name as a jumping-off point to explore cultural identity and assumptions.
• The Graduate
  NR, 105 min. Cinemark Classics. Four decades later and this comedy of anomie is still seducing us.
• Grease
  PG, 112 min. Blue Starlite Drive-In. Note that the screening takes place at a new location on the Austin Studios site.
• Hands on a Hard Body
  PG, 97 min. Texas Independent Film Network. Unpretentious insight into the nature of human aspiration can be found in this documentary about the yearly contest in which Jack Long Nissan of Longview, Texas, gives a new h...
• The Happy Poet
  NR, 85 min. Stateside Independent. This locally made comedy, which premiered at South by Southwest ’10, about the owner of an organic health-food stand recounts his struggles to make a difference in a corporate...
• Heaven's Gate: Director's Cut
  R, 216 min. Big Screen Classics. Crucified for its record-setting budget and reputation for being the ruination of United Artists, Heaven's Gate has never received the critical attention it deserves. The film...
• Hell High
  R, 84 min. Terror Tuesday. A troubled teacher goes berserk on four juvenile delinquents.
• The Hidden
  R, 96 min. Terror Tuesday. Aliens are on the loose in America.
• High Noon
  NR, 85 min. UT Department of Radio-TV-Film: Community Screenings. A quintessential showdown caps off this enduring Western morality tale. After the screening, Professor Charles Ramirez Berg will lead a discussion of the film's cinematic techniques.
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
  PG-13, 166 min. Austin Public Library: Family Movie Matinee. Free.
• Hotel Transylvania
  PG, 91 min. Austin Public Library: Family Movie Matinee. Free.
• The Hunger Games
  PG-13, 142 min. Master Pancake. The bounty of The Hunger Games will be like a fatted calf to the Pancake mockers.
• I, the Worst of All
  R, 105 min. Based on the book The Traps of Faith by Octavio Paz, this Argentinean film takes place in 17th century “New Spain” (Mexico) and Juana Ines de la Cruz enters a nunnery to pursu...
• Ice Age: Continental Drift
  PG, 87 min. Austin Public Library: Austin Upon Avon. Free.
• Invasion of the Blood Farmers
  PG, 84 min. Terror Tuesday. Some farmers in upstate New York need to harvest a certain blood type in order to revive their queen. Not for the squeamish.
• The Iron Giant
  PG, 86 min. Alamo Summer Kids Camp. Free.
• It Happened One Night
  NR, 105 min. Valentine's Day Feast. This classic comedy is the first movie ever to sweep the five major Oscar categories.
• James Brown: Live at the Boston Garden, 1968
  NR, 80 min. Music Monday. This is the famous James Brown concert that was broadcast on WGBH in Boston on April 5, less than 24 hours after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
• Jason and the Argonauts
  NR, 104 min. Ray Harryhausen Memorial. Pay tribute to special effects master Ray Harryhausen, who passed away on May 7, by revisiting one of his most-loved films.
• Josie and the Pussycats
  PG-13, 98 min. Music Monday: Girlie Night. It's far more subversive than the Seventies Hanna-Barbera cartoon on which it's based.
• Jumanji
  PG, 104 min. Classics
• Jurassic Park
  PG-13, 127 min. Autism Society of America: Sensory-Friendly Films. In 2-D.
• Kill Castro
  R, 90 min. Weird Wednesday. The CIA and the Mob team up in South Florida to assassinate Fidel Castro in this, no doubt, purely fictional B movie helmed by the award-winning director Workman.
• Koch
  NR, 95 min. AFS Doc Nights. The subject of this documentary is the colorful, former mayor of New York City, Ed Koch, who happened to die on the day the movie was released. See "How'd He Do?" for an inter...
• Kung Fu Panda
  PG, 91 min.
• The Last Dragon
  PG-13, 109 min. Off-Centered Film Festival: Beer Feast. Dogfish Head founder and head brewer Sam Calagione hosts.
• The Last Starfighter
  PG, 101 min. Zzang!!!. After a teen wins his highest score on the video game Starfighter, he is recruited to test his abilities in real combat, though all is not as it seems.
• Lawrence of Arabia
  PG, 216 min. Cinemark Classics. This desert epic won seven Academy Awards and is best appreciated on the big screen. It's the biography of adventurer T.E. Lawrence, played by O'Toole in his first starring role.
• Legally Blonde
  PG-13, 96 min. Girlie Night
• The Legend of Hillbilly John
  G, 89 min. Weird Wednesday. A wandering hillbilly guitar-slinger wanders through time and space.
• Leprechaun
  R, 92 min. Master Pancake With Doug Benson. A greed-addled leprechaun goes on a killing spree in search of his pot o' gold.
• Life of Pi
  PG, 125 min. Austin Public Library: Weeknight Cinema – Aquatic Allegories. Free.
• Little Giants
  PG, 107 min.
• A Little Princess
  G, 97 min. Afternoon Tea. From the exquisite costumes to the remarkable set design to the superb performances, this fairy tale comes to life.
• Little Women
  PG, 115 min. Afternoon Tea: Mother's Day. See drafthouse.com for menu.
• Lost in Translation
  R, 102 min. Drink Tank. Neyah White, brand ambassador for Suntory Whiskey will present a seminar on the unique traditions and expressions of Japanese Whiskey. Each ticket includes a tasting flight an...
• M
  NR, 105 min. Lang's unnerving tale of a deranged child-killer (with Lorre in a star-making turn) is a riveting example of Expressionist filmmaking.
• Mad Men
  
• A Man Escaped
  NR, 95 min. Criterion Collection: Arthouse Monthly. Based on the account of Resistance leader André Devigny’s escape from Montluc prison fortress, hours before he was due to be executed, this story is certain to have struck res...
• Mansfield Park
  PG-13, 110 min. Afternoon Tea. This adaptation of Jane Austen's third novel is infused with liberal doses of modern attitudes and autobiographical tidbits from the author's life.
• Massacre of Pleasure
  R, 70 min. Weird Wednesday. French sex-crime film.
• Mean Girls
  PG-13, 97 min. Classics. Girl cliques are eviscerated in this knowing comedy.
• Miami Connection
  NR, 83 min. This incoherent mass of Eighties kitsch is the brainchild of tae kwon do master and motivational speaker Y.K. Kim.
• Midnight in Paris
  PG-13, 94 min. Blue Starlite Drive-In: Valentine's Week
• The Mighty Ducks
  PG, 100 min. Austin Film Festival: Made in Texas Family Films. This peewee hockey film is directed by a San Antonio native.
• A Mighty Wind
  PG-13, 91 min. Music Monday. Christopher Guest and his recurring cast of players give Sixties-era folk music a gentle poke in the ribs.
• Miller's Crossing
  R, 115 min. Cinema Cocktails. The Coen brothers go for the bravura in this highly stylized period gangster drama. Personal codes of honor come face to face with raw emotions and the result is a black-and-w...
• Mirchi
  NR, 155 min. In Telugu with no subtitles.
• Mister Scarface
  R, 84 min. Austin Film Society: Auteur Obscure. This stylishly violent Italian crime film is by one of the pulp masters.
• Mommie Dearest
  PG, 129 min. Mother's Day Brunch. Expect live talkback and wire hangers distributed to every attendee.
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  PG, 90 min. Blue Starlite Drive-In: The Long Center. Get ready for Spamalot.
• Moulin Rouge
  PG-13, 135 min.
• Moulin Rouge Quote- and Sing-Along
  PG-13, 127 min. Action Pack
• Nashville
  R, 159 min. Big Screen Classics. Altman raised the bar with this American tapestry set on the eve of the American Bicentennial. It's a wonderful examination of a range of American personalities gathering in N...
• Neon Maniacs
  R, 91 min. Terror Tuesday. Teenagers discover mutants living in the Golden Gate Bridge, but no one will believe them.
• Network
  R, 121 min. Austin Public Library: Weeknight Cinema – Manipulating Media. This is a prescient, sharply drawn, and award-winning comedy written by Paddy Chayevsky about the depths to which one unscrupulous television station will sink,
• The Neverending Story
  PG, 92 min. Alamo Kids' Camp. In this inventive and inspiring fantasy, the book that's read by the story's hero actually comes to life.
• Night of the Creeps
  R, 88 min. Terror Tuesday. Alien brain parasites infect a univeristy fraternity member in 1959, although they remain dormant until a pledging incident unthaws them 25 years later and turns everyone into...
• Night of the Living Dead
  NR, 96 min. Blue Starlite Drive-In: Haunted Halloween. Due more to how it makes you think rather than what it shows, Romero's granddaddy of the modern flesh-eating zombie movies gets under your skin.
• Ninotchka
  NR, 110 min. Summer Film Classics: Celebrating the 90th Anniversary of Warner Bros. Pictures.. Garbo and a wonderful supporting cast star in this romantic comedy in which Garbo plays a no-nonsense Russian agent who is sent on a mission to Paris but succumbs to the city'...
• The Notebook
  PG-13, 121 min. Girlie Night. The love sap flows freely in this movie romance told in retrospect.
• Obsessed
  PG-13, 92 min. Master Pancake. Beyoncé plays a housewife who fends off her husband's stalker. Nothing to mock here, right?
• Oceans
  G, 84 min. Mommy Film Society, Little Helping Hands, and West Austin Youth Academy. Happy Earth Day. Purchase tickets through www.tugg.com.
• Office Space
  R, 89 min. Blue Starlite Drive-In. Beavis and Butt-head preshow.
• On the Town
  NR, 98 min. Cinema Cocktails. Now that Fleet Week has been sequestered, celebrate sailors on the town with this filmed-in-New-York musical. The Big Apple has rarely been as shiny. The romance is sweet, the...
• Once
  R, 85 min. Chef du Cinema. Ron Deutsch will present a four-course Irish-meets-Czech meal and pair it with this musical romance.
• Pee-wee's Big Adventure
  PG, 90 min. Blue Starlite Drive-In. Note that the screening takes place at a new location on the Austin Studios site.
• Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii
  G, 60 min. Music Monday. Pink Floyd performs in concert in a Pompeii amphitheatre and are also shown rehearsing in the Abbey Road studios.
• A Place at the Table
  PG, 80 min. Center for Public Policy Priorities. xxxxx
• Portrait of Wally
  NR, 90 min. Screenings at the Blanton. UT Associate Professor Shea's documentary is an engrossing account of how this Egon Schiele painting changed hands over the years. The director will be on hand to discuss the film.
• Pride & Prejudice
  PG, 127 min. Girlie Night
• The Princess Bride
  PG, 98 min. Austin Public Library: Family Movies. Free.
• Purple Rain
  R, 111 min. Do you know what it sounds like when a dove cries?
• Raging Bull
  R, 128 min. Cinemark Classics. De Niro scored an Oscar for his oversized portrayal of boxer Jake La Motta in Scorsese's note-perfect movie about a man who was his own worst enemy.
• Red Desert
  NR, 118 min. Austin Film Society: 35mm Treasures From the Janus Films Archive. Antonioni's first film in color shows him making full use of this new element. Set in industrial northern Italy, Red Desert stars beautiful Monica Vitti as a dysfunctional wom...
• Repo Man
  R, 92 min. Film Tuesdays. Free.
• Return to Oz
  PG, 110 min. Kids' Club. In this sequel, Dorothy is locked in a mental hospital, although she escapes and returns to Oz, where she discovers war has broken out. The movie also features Will Vinton Claymation.
• Rise of the Guardians
  PG, 97 min. Austin Public Library: Family Movie Matinee. Free.
• Rocky
  PG, 119 min. Austin Parks Foundation: Movies in the Park
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  R, 95 min. Austin fans have been dressing up and doing the "Time Warp" thing live for more than three decades.
• Roman Holiday
  NR, 119 min. Hepburn won an Oscar and popular acclaim in this story of a princess who breaks free of the palace and has a romantic fling. Dalton Trumbo wrote the screenplay while blacklisted.
• The Rookie
  G, 129 min. Austin Film Festival: Made in Texas Family Films
• The Room
  R, 99 min. Actor Philip Haldiman will be in attendance for a Q&A following this campy movie.
• Rudy
  
• Run Fatboy Run
  PG-13, 95 min. Austin Marathon. Pegg stars in this rom-com that veers between a sentimental redemption tale and stomach-turning sight gags. All proceeds will be donated to Superhero Kids.
• Samsara
  PG-13, 99 min. The director of Baraka returns with this wordless tone poem filled with stunning images.
• Schizopolis
  NR, 96 min. Cinema41. Soderbergh works both sides of the camera as actor, writer, and director of this most personal – and idiosyncratic – of all his projects.
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
  PG-13, 112 min. Austin Parks Foundation: Movies in the Park. This glad-hearted and furiously funny piece of pop entertainment is told in the vernacular of video games.
• The Searchers
  NR, 119 min. UT Department of Radio-TV-Film: Community Screenings. Regarded by many as Ford's masterpiece and one of the greatest films of all time, this John Wayne Western is a meditation on survival, the loss of faith, and the death of hero...
• Selena
  PG, 127 min. Puro Chingon Social Club and Free and Queer. Selena Quintanilla Pérez, the barrier-crashing Tejano singer who was murdered at the age of 23, is the subject of this biopic that was also the breakout film role for Jennifer Lopez.
• Serenity
  PG-13, 119 min. Austin Browncoats: Weekend of Whedon. This annual event will benefit Kids Need to Read. Serenity will screen, along with other works from creator Joss Whedon, including Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along and Firefly.
• Sergeant York
  NR, 134 min. Summer Film Classics: Memorial Day Weekend. A Tennessee mountain farmer relinquishes his pacifist religious principles and goes off to fight in World War I and becomes an acclaimed war hero. As played by Cooper and dire...
• Seven
  R, 107 min. Bangarang!
• The Shining
  R, 142 min. Big Screen Classics. Although the pairing of Stanley Kubrick and Stephen King sounds weird, this creepy thriller totally works.
• Sideways
  R, 123 min. Blue Starlite Drive-In. This is a sophisticated date movie about male midlife malcontents and the women who love them. Note that the screening takes place at a new location on the Austin Studios site.
• The Silence of the Lambs
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• Singin' in the Rain
  NR, 103 min. Big Screen Classics. Arguably the greatest movie musical of all time, Singin' in the Rain features terrific performances and music, sensational Technicolor images, and a plot that hinges on the pr...
• Sixteen Candles
  PG, 93 min. Blue Starlite Drive-In: Date Night
• Snow White and the Huntsman
  PG-13, 127 min. Austin Public Library: Family Matinee. Free.
• The Song Remains the Same
  PG, 137 min. Music Monday. Led Zeppelin performs at Madison Square Garden, although the concert film is intercut with fantasy sequences.
• The Sound of Music
  NR, 174 min. Mother's Day Brunch. See drafthouse.com for menu.
• Sparrows
  NR, 84 min. Cinema Club. Pickford produced and starred in this silent melodrama as the tomboy guardian of abused orphans on a baby farm in the Southern swamps. Guest curator Christel Schmidt, the edit...
• Speed
  R, 116 min. Tough Guy Cinema. Action. Action. Action. More Action.
• Spirited Away
  PG, 125 min. Rolling Roadshow: Feast. The meal will be prepared by Hawaii's Chef Andrew Le. Reservation required.
• Stand by Me
  R, 87 min. Sunday Movie Night. A Stephen King novella provides the source for this reflective memory piece about youth in the Fifties. The young cast is a true knockout.
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
  PG, 113 min. Master Pancake. Owen Egerton joins the nerd mockers.
• Star Trek Into Darkness
  PG-13, 132 min. See "First Runs" for review.
• Stars Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi
  PG, 135 min. Summer of 1983. On the film's 30th anniversary, the Alamo is one of two venues where this original trilogy classic will screen.
• Stop Making Sense
  NR, 88 min. Film Tuesdays. Free.
• Stranger Than Paradise
  R, 89 min. Music Monday. Jarmusch threw down the gauntlet to indie filmmakers everywhere with this moody black-and-white excursion into the hipster heart of America.
• Surf II: End of the Trilogy
  R, 91 min. Weird Wednesday. The fact that there is no Surf I is typical of the humor in this spoof of Seventies gore films and Sixties surfer films.
• Swingers
  R, 108 min. Cinema Cocktails. “You’re so money and you don’t even know it.”
• Swoon
  NR, 92 min. Cinema41. This classic of the New Queer Cinema intrigues with its dreamy romanticism and eroticization of the infamous child murder committed by Leopold and Loeb in 1923. A conversation...
• Taxi Driver
  R, 113 min. Big Screen Classics. A true cinema classic, Taxi Driver combines the talents of Scorsese, De Niro, screenwriter Paul Schrader, composer Bernard Herrmann, and others to create an eternally haunting...
• The Terminator
  R, 108 min. Tough Guy Cinema. As the cyborg from the future, the body-building actor scores by combining his iconic physique with a compellingly told story that requires him to speak very little dialogue.
• Texas: The Big Picture
  NR, 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.
• There's Something About Mary
  R, 119 min. Blue Starlite Drive-In: Date Night. A classic from the kingpins of comedy.
• The Thin Red Line
  R, 160 min. Malick's film, which is based on James Jones' Guadalcanal novel, is a lyrical and introverted study of the curiously destructive relationship between man and nature. Purchase...
• Titus
  R, 162 min. Austin Public Library: Austin Upon Avon. Taymor creates a spectacularly imaginative piece of Shakespearean cinema set in a world out of time.
• Tokyo Story
  NR, 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.
• Tommy Boy
  PG-13, 97 min. As a mismatched pair, Farley and Spade have their comic moments, with the big galoot playing off the little jerk.
• Top Gun
  PG, 110 min. Back in theatres in 3-D, you can bet that Maverick, Goose, Iceman, and the gang lose none of that loving feeling.
• True Romance
  R, 118 min. Bangarang!. With a script by Quentin Tarantino and zealous direction by Tony Scott, this love story/chase film is not your usual hearts and flowers.
• TV Party
  NR, 91 min. Austin Film Society: Avant Cinema. Glenn O'Brien hosted, with co-host Chris Stein (of Blondie), a seminal NYC cable access show from 1978 to 1982, which was directed by underground filmmaker Amos Poe and open t...
• The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1
  PG-13, 117 min. Master Pancake. This is the one where Bella sulks, Edward refuses sex, and Jacob takes his shirt off. Oh wait …
• 2046
  R, 129 min. Austin Film Society: Asia – Hot and Cool. At once tremendously dense and gossamer-thin, this period romance/sci-fi hybrid from Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-Wai is a riot of sight and sound that has an irresistible, elemental pull.
• The Unforeseen
  NR, 88 min. S.O.S. Alliance. Executive-produced by Robert Redford and Terrence Malick, Dunn's award-winning documentary looks at the history of Barton Springs, Gary Bradley's role in development issues, a...
• Up Your Teddy Bear
  R, 89 min. Weird Wednesday. Also known as Mother, this seriously weird movie stars Newmar as the corporate exec at a toy company who tries to hire toy designer Cox but is met with rejection because he th...
• Used Cars
  R, 113 min. Zzang!!!. Hilarious comedy about struggling used car salesmen.
• The Wages of Fear
  NR, 131 min. Austin Film Society: 35mm Treasures From the Janus Films Archive. One of the all-time great truck movies, The Wages of Fear is set in a third world hell, where the American oil industry controls the economy. Four men are offered the hopeless...
• The Walking Dead
  PaleyFest. Captured live from the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Friday, March 1, this one-night event provides an opportunity to join the show's cast as they screen exclusiv...
• Wayne's World Quote-Along
  PG-13, 92 min. Moontower Comedy & Oddity Fest
• We Bought a Zoo
  PG, 124 min. Austin Public Library: Family Movies. Free.
• West Side Story
  NR, 151 min. Cinemark Classics. It's Sharks and Jets time when this timeless Leonard Bernstein musical with the Jerome Robbins kick-steps starts rolling.
• When I Rise
  NR, 74 min. Texas Independent Film Network. This documentary revisits the struggle of Barbara Smith Conrad, a gifted black music student at the University of Texas in 1956 who became a target of racial discrimination an...
• The Whole Shootin’ Match
  NR, 101 min. Sunday Movie Night. This debut film by Pennell, the trailblazing Texas filmmaker, was recently restored. It remains a delightfully talky, slice-of-life comedy that focuses on two over-the-hill dreamers.
• The Wild Bunch
  R, 144 min. Tough Guy Cinema. Peckinpah’s treatise on the codes of honor by which men live speaks across the ages with its enduring commentaries on morality, professionalism, and loyalty. A brilliant scrip...
• The Wild Pussycat
  R, 88 min. Weird Wednesday. A woman investigating her sister's death goes toe-to-toe with a sadistic pimp.
• William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet
  PG-13, 121 min. Bangarang!
• The Wiz
  G, 133 min. Music Monday. Follow the yellow brick road to discover this Ross and Jackson collaboration that updates the original and reverses its racial palette.
• The Wizard of Oz
  G, 101 min. Austin Parks Foundation: Movies in the Park. XXX
• Wreck-It Ralph
  PG, 101 min. Austin Public Library: Family Movies. Free.
• Wrong Numbers
  NR, 75 min. Austin Film Festival: Made in Texas. Looking to "score some beer" is this film’s ostensible storyline; an unending stream of colorful characters and challenging camerawork is the film’s raison d’être. It's the fi...
• Yojimbo
  NR, 110 min. Big Screen Classics. One of the most popular of all Kurosawa's movies, Yojimbo has also provided the template for Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars and Walter Hill's Last Man Standing. The plot...
• You Got Served
  PG-13, 90 min. Girlie Night: Danceoke. Local crews compete live by reenacting routines onstage while the movie plays.
• The Young Victoria
  PG, 100 min. Afternoon Tea. The emotions of the teenage Princess Victoria are the subject of this well-made palace tale.
• Zazie dans le Métro
  NR, 89 min. Austin Film Society: 35mm Treasures From the Janus Films Archive. Adapted from a novel full of wordplay by Raymond Queneau, this early Malle film follows the adventures of a 12-year-old girl on the loose in Paris.
• Zombieland
  R, 87 min. A Tribite to the Twinkie. A hilarious script and seamless performances make this a quite tasty zomcom. Plus, every attendee gets a Twinkie.