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Special Screenings for Tue., May 6

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Barry Lyndon (1975)

In December 2021, X (né Twitter) user dotflan posted a 26-second video that would forever change how internet denizens interpreted period piece Barry Lyndon. By combining the thumping lyricism of 21 Savage’s “a lot” with Ryan O’Neal as perfect imbecile Lyndon failing up social classes before failing right back down to abject poverty, the once-thought-tedious historical epic finally reads to everyone as hilarious as it truly is. Pull on up to any Austin-area Drafthouse and join the growing Kubrick-funny reclamation movement. – James Scott

May 3-7

Alamo Drafthouse Mueller, Alamo Drafthouse Slaughter Lane, Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, Alamo Drafthouse Village, Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline
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Hell Drivers (1967)

As Quentin Tarantino correctly observed, “British guys fucking love Hell Drivers.” Dubbed the English Wages of Fear, Cy Endfield’s gritty masterpiece opens up AFS Cinema’s new series, This Nation’s Saving Grace, highlighting soot-covered gems from the 1950s and early 1960s UK, including Teddy Boy classic Beat Girl, Soho strip club crawl The Small World of Sammy Lee, and All Night Long, a reenvisioning of Othello in London’s jazz scene. But with an all-star cast of postwar British cinema, including comedy legends Alfie Bass and Sid James, Herbert Lom, Patrick McGoohan, a never-better Stanley Baker, and a very young Sean Connery, and a high-stakes plot about corruption and disposable employees, Hell Drivers puts the “essential” in AFS’s Essential Cinema. – Richard Whittaker

May 6 & 10

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Barry Lyndon (1975)

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Hell Drivers (1967)