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  The Before Trilogy

  Even in Austin, Richard Linklater’s home turf, and even at the Austin Film Society, which Linklater himself founded in 1985, opportunities to see his defining Before trilogy in 35mm are few and far between. Each film follows roughly the template started in 1995’s Before Sunrise, when American student Jesse (Ethan Hawke) convinces a French woman named Celine (Julie Delpy) to debark for a night spent wandering Vienna before he flies home in the morning, only 2004’s Before Sunset moves the walk & talk to Paris, 2013’s Before Midnight to Greece. Cycling through serendipity, second chances, and the bracing reality of a day-in, day-out partnership, the Before trilogy is a whole meal. Don’t miss the chance to feast on it on the big screen. – Kimberley Jones

  Feb. 7-8

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  Wild at Heart (1990)

  The late, great David Lynch was many things – arguable genius, surrealist auteur, lover of American cuisine and cigarettes, and an unrepentant “honorable horndog,” as one Twitter user put it on the occasion of his death last month. As the season of love sets upon us, let us honor Lynch’s legacy with his horniest of films, Wild at Heart, which follows Nicolas Cage’s Sailor and Laura Dern’s Lula on a cross-country crime-filled road trip fleeing Lula’s crazed Wicked Witch mother Marietta – a sublimely deranged Diane Ladd. The controversial winner of the 1990 Cannes Palme d’Or prize, this author’s favorite film distills the best of Lynch’s horndoggery – starkly violent, unbearably sexy, with a genuine beating heart of gold. These days, “this whole world is wild at heart and weird on top,” indeed. – Lina Fisher

  Double Trouble, Feb. 7; AFS Cinema, Feb. 7-8, 11 & 13

  AFS Cinema

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  Special Screenings

  

  Wild at Heart (1990)

  The late, great David Lynch was many things – arguable genius, surrealist auteur, lover of American cuisine and cigarettes, and an unrepentant “honorable horndog,” as one Twitter user put it on the occasion of his death last month. As the season of love sets upon us, let us honor Lynch’s legacy with his horniest of films, Wild at Heart, which follows Nicolas Cage’s Sailor and Laura Dern’s Lula on a cross-country crime-filled road trip fleeing Lula’s crazed Wicked Witch mother Marietta – a sublimely deranged Diane Ladd. The controversial winner of the 1990 Cannes Palme d’Or prize, this author’s favorite film distills the best of Lynch’s horndoggery – starkly violent, unbearably sexy, with a genuine beating heart of gold. These days, “this whole world is wild at heart and weird on top,” indeed. – Lina Fisher

  Double Trouble, Feb. 7; AFS Cinema, Feb. 7-8, 11 & 13

  Double Trouble