The Sound and the Fury

Local theatre Alamo Drafthouse teams silent films with live musical scores by favorite Austin acts.

"...their seats when the Lumiere brothers debuted the first films of trains barreling into the station. Ditto for the..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

"I Made a Movie, and They Didn't Want It!"

Shut out by distribution companies, indie filmmakers go DIY when it comes to getting their movie out there.

"...favor automatically guaranteed theatrical distribution, then scads of indie films would be playing at the mall multiplex right now...."

July 11, 2003 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Something Weird

How Tim League discovered 110 drive-in films in an East Prairie warehouse and other stories of disappearing celluloid.

"...Prairie stood a rickety warehouse containing a cache of films from the tail-end of the drive-in era: 976-Evil; the..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

You Don’t Even Have to Go to the Movies Anymore

You really shouldn’t stop going to the movies

"...to the rule. Specifically: Klown is distributed by Austin-based Drafthouse Films, which has made a point of opening in..."

Aug. 16, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Boy Wonder at 100

Alamo Drafthouse screens Orson Welles centennial retrospective

"...Welles, and also a two-months-long retrospective at the Alamo Drafthouse at the Ritz, curated by Drafthouse programmer Tommy Swenson...."

April 3, 2015 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Alamo South Pulls Out All the Stops For Closing Bash

Cramming everything you love about the Drafthouse into one night

"...1974 classic and the upcoming sequel Texas Chainsaw 3D. Drafthouse Films will host a first look at Kim Ki-Duk's..."

Dec. 19, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Flesh & Blood

The Drafthouse thinks you could do with a little more Udo. That's why they're bringing in German legend Udo Kier for the weekend.

"...the course of a career that spans some 140 films -- something of a legend in his own time...."

Dec. 6, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Kickstart Your Weekend: The American Genre Film Archive

Protecting movies, one frame at a time

"...Established in 2009 by Alamo Drafthouse founders Tim and Karrie League, AGFA was set up..."

May 30, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Searching for Once Upon a Time

Why Monument Valley – again part of the Netflix / Alamo Drafthouse Rolling Roadshow this summer – is such a magnetic place for me

"...John Wayne, the director and star who made 14 films together. Filmed in the "breathtaking panorama of VistaVision" (as..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

After Atom

AFS presents the films of Kinji Fukasaku, Japan's premier post-war director.

"...into a bravura catalog of vibrant and blisteringly angry films that would make him that country's most successful director...."

Sept. 28, 2001 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

Roar: The Blood Stays in the Picture

Star John Marshall on lions and the world's craziest home movie

"...years, it's finally getting a US release, courtesy of Drafthouse Films and Olive Films, with a limited (but ever..."

April 29, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Not Fade Away

The evolution of the Blue Starlite Urban Drive-in

"...crowds and parking challenges of, for instance, the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, and you've got drive-in heaven all over again...."

April 3, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Fest Announces Keanu Reeves as 'Man of Tai Chi'

Plus 'Big Bad Wolves' and 'Nightbreed - The Cabal Cut' and more

"...the globe. This year there's not one but two films from India, plus a documentary about narcocorridos, the drug..."

July 24, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Way We Watch Now: Case Studies

Five experiments in theatrical-on-demand

"...promote it as a documentary screening at the Alamo Drafthouse, but that wasn't going so well. So he switched..."

June 22, 2012 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW 08 Film Festival

Enjoy the madness while it lasts.It's here.

"...time a wide selection of narrative features, documentaries, short films, music videos, and numerous sidebars will screen. Look for..."

March 14, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

All in the Presentation

John Bullington's and James Holmes' culinary performance art: now showing at an Alamo Drafthouse (or elsewhere) near you

"...Austin film lovers who packed the Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar during the opening weekend of Charlie..."

Aug. 5, 2005 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Best Worst Movie

Premiering in Austin, this documentary is about the purportedly "best worst movie" ever made, Troll 2, and its enthusiastic fans.

"...the honor instead, and the routes by which certain films slip into the cultural zeitgeist can often be as..."

April 23, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Holywood Squares?

A local church rents out the Alamo Drafthouse South for a conference on Christians and film

"...these questions. The church has rented out the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar for their third annual Growth in Grace..."

April 13, 2007 Screens Feature by Toddy Burton

SXSW Film Festival Reco 2002

"...be a wide selection of narrative features, documentaries, short films, music videos, and retrospectives. These categories are further broken..."

March 8, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Film Festival 2002

"...be a wide selection of narrative features, documentaries, short films, music videos, and retrospectives. These categories are further broken..."

March 8, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Getting Real Weird at Fantastic Fest

Two gems from the Weird Wednesday archive connect the genre fest to the Alamo Drafthouse's history

"...late-night dive into the 35mm vaults of the Alamo Drafthouse, the forgotten children of cinema. Exploitation, sexploitation, blaxploitation, nunsploitation,..."

Sept. 17, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

"Tales of the Obsessed" Comes to Town

The new Drafthouse series celebrates wonderful weirdos

"...the upcoming release of Ingrid Goes West, the Alamo Drafthouse tapped writer/director Matt Spicer to curate a program of..."

July 28, 2017 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Beware 'The Visitor'

Drafthouse Films brings space oddity to screens tonight

"...The Alamo's distribution wing Drafthouse Films acquired 1977 head scratcher The Visitor early this..."

Nov. 1, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Alamo's Action Man

Programmer Greg MacLennan on the world's most ridiculous job

"...If you're a regular at the Alamo Drafthouse, you've probably seen one man's work more than any..."

Oct. 13, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Stuck on James Franco's 'Tar'

Franco discusses students, learning, the creative process, and more

"...Last night at the Alamo Drafthouse at the Ritz, to an audience of film enthusiasts..."

March 7, 2013 Screens Post by Eli Black

Austin and the Academy

'The Tree of Life,' 'Bullhead' score Oscar nominations

"...for Best Cinematography. Slightly more improbable seeming? The Alamo Drafthouse – in a former life known simply as a..."

Jan. 27, 2012 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Austin and the Academy

'Tree of Life,' 'Bullhead' score Oscar nominations

"...been on Oscar shortlists for months. Slightly more left-field? Drafthouse Films, the distribution arm of the Alamo Drafthouse, has..."

Jan. 24, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2010

The boys are back with another self-explanatory edition.

"...& Mike Sick & Twisted fest to the Alamo Drafthouse means a new year has begun. You can always..."

Feb. 26, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Make 'Em Laugh (And, Yes, Even Learn)

The Alamo Drafthouse inaugurates a new film appreciation series with Ninotchka

"...elucidate. It's a new, bimonthly series from the Alamo Drafthouse, an outfit more commonly known for genre enthusiasms: the..."

Jan. 29, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Just Another Manic Monday

The Alamo Drafthouse's music / film synergy: Music Mondays and more

"...day during Faithfully: the Journey Sing-Along at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown on a recent Saturday night. "Travis County's premier..."

July 7, 2006 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

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