Five Movies to See in Austin This Week

Did you survive Austin’s Icepocalypse after clogging up the lines at H-E-B buying all the Schweppe's fizzie waters and various iterations of pasta? There’s still some random boxes of tagliatelle left, if you look closely, and everyone has calmed down from the hubbub, so should you need to embrace some cinema culture this week, we’re here to help.

Inherent Vice

Paul Thomas Anderson's rollicking screen adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's novel is a gas. As I once put it, ”One of Pynchon's strengths is his ability to deftly marry the highbrow with the lowbrow so seamlessly that you are learning about some obsolete mathematical system while laughing at a fart joke. And Anderson, thankfully, gets that. He blends noir, slapstick, and melancholy; he takes both the weight and the levity, and the results are a bittersweet, sun-dappled reverie. My advice? Relinquish yourself to this hazy tapestry, and let the film take over. Squares need not apply.” Showing in glorious 70mm.
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La Sociologue et L'Ourson

AF – Cine Club
The Austin chapter of Alliance Francaise brings another Gallic gem with this doc on family, same-sex marriage, and a stuffed teddy bear. Highly recommended. Seating is limited.
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Tr*mp Th*s

Experimental Response Cinema
I'm just gonna let the folks at ERC take over: "Experimental works in this program respond to a year of racism, sexism, homophobia, religious intolerance, environmental degradation, corporate greed, Wall Street malfeasance, gun violence, corruption, voter suppression, foreign intervention in elections, defunding health care, human rights, income inequality, BLM … well it’s an endless list, not to mention buffoonery, narcissism, pathology, lies, obsessive twittery …."
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Antiporno

A group of actors on the set of a porn film begin swapping roles in the latest film from the director of Why Don't You Go Play in Hell? Let the mental mayhem begin.
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The Boy Friend

Time Kills Critics: The Musical Films of Ken Russell: An understudy for a musical catches a break and becomes a star in this heady tribute to Hollywood musicals of yore.
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