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  CAMP Film Festival

  This intriguing new indie festival is a bit of a mystery, but offers a few numbers to wet your whistle: 2 days, 10 shorts, 1 feature, 8 workshops, 5 music performances, and 1,000 creatives in the heart of Austin. Filmmaker Natalie Lynn (travel doc Borderless), short-form creators Gawx and Jake Frew, and Patreon CEO Jack Conte are a few of those 1,000 creatives, and if that strikes you, grab a $65 weekend pass to get access to all the films and four panels (Studio Passes are sold out). – Kat McNevins

  April 26-27

  Paramount Theatre

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  Happy Gilmore (1996)

  Either you grew up with parents who despised the Sandman and all his buffoonery, or you’re me and Happy Gilmore was background noise to half your childhood. (The other half being scored by, of course, Billy Madison.) Since Adam Sandler’s continued and quite lucrative streaming deal with Netflix farts out a sequel to the golf goof this coming July, theatres all over the country – including here in ATX – are screening the off-kilter original. Typical Sandler protag Happy has proven himself too hot for the hockey ice, and in an effort to help his grandmother pay off IRS back taxes, he utilizes his slapshot skills to get into golf. While Sandman obviously shines, this movie’s greatest legend is in the late Carl Weathers as mentor figure Chubbs Peterson, whose golf career – and two-handedness – were cut short by an alligator attack. It’s also the first instance of Julie Bowen as a Sandler love interest, a role she repeats in Hubie Halloween. – James Scott Read a full review of Happy Gilmore.

  April 25 - 26 & 29, Alamo Slaughter Lane, Lakeline & Mueller; April 27 & 30, Violet Crown Cinema

  Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline, Alamo Drafthouse Slaughter Lane, Alamo Drafthouse Mueller, Violet Crown Cinema

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  The Cartoons of Max Fleischer

  In the early history of American animation, the only name that came close to the legendary status of Walt Disney was Max Fleischer. But while Disney looked to European fairy tales for inspiration, Fleischer was pure Americana with a subversive twist. His shorts were sinister, chaotic, creative, and sexy, the jazz era given cartoon vibrancy. Without a studio like Disney to archive his work, much of it has been lost or degraded. However, thanks to the efforts of his granddaughter Jane Fleischer Reid and the team at Fabulous Fleischer Cartoons Restored!, his massive back catalog is finally being restored to their lost glory in gorgeous 4K. Catch classics featuring Fleischer originals like Betty Boop and Popeye – and some of the very first onscreen appearances by Superman – in this beautiful and wild trip through Fleischer’s crazy world. – Richard Whittaker

  April 26-27

  Alamo Drafthouse Mueller, Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar

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  The Comedy Film Festival

  From rejection is born success: This is the origin of Austin’s Comedy Film Festival, which started after founder Eric Alan Rousseau received rejections from over 50 film fests. Even after his movie, Lucky Doug, got into the festival circuit, Rousseau felt “comedy films were not a genre well represented in the festival circuit and were instead usually shoehorned into a film festival somewhere.” As you can imagine by the event’s title, comedy takes center screen here: Programming from Friday to Sunday focuses on not only showing submitted comedy flicks but also panels on the practical art of making funny films. Guffaws encouraged, but please: Cellphones should stay silent. That’s not the kind of clown you wanna be. – James Scott

  April 23-27

  AFS Cinema, Galaxy Highland 10

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  Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

  Crossovers are nothing new these days. In fact, is it really a movie without an unexpected and irrelevant cameo? But here’s a movie where every guest star was a real star. Every time two characters appeared onscreen, it was an almost impossible achievement of interstudio friendship. Yes, having Daffy Duck and Donald Duck acting in the same scene really was that big a deal. Oh, yeah, and it was a complete revolution in filmmaking, having cartoons and non-animated characters (that’s “real people” to you and me) interact in an utterly convincing way. It’s also the greatest introduction to film noir a kid can ever have, with Private Eye Eddie Valiant (a never-better Bob Hoskins) forced to partner with movie star and murder suspect Roger Rabbit (voiced by Charles Fleischer) to save Toon Town from a conspiracy that’s part Looney Tunes, part Chinatown. – Richard Whittaker

  April 17-27

  Doc's Drive In Theatre