Alamo Adds Terror Tuesday and Weird Wednesday to Virtual Cinema

Signature programs return online to keep community together

"...chain, it was a home to obscure gems of cinema in themed evenings like Terror Tuesday and Weird Wednesday...."

March 31, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Cinema of Possibilities

Low budget or big, the energy and imagination of the grind-house circuit is reborn in Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's tribute

"...know, is a celebration of a certain kind of cinematic fare and the theatres that showed it. Robert Rodriguez..."

April 6, 2007 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Exploitation's Glass Ceiling

Feminist filmmaker Stephanie Rothman on her short but brilliant run making B-movies

"...Stephanie Rothman directed a spate of exploitation films between 1967 and 1974 and then disappeared from..."

April 9, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Joe Bob Briggs Teaches the History of Redneck Cinema

The original Hellbilly Deluxe

"...Bob Briggs way back in 1982, the world of cinema was born anew. Rumor has it that the heretofore..."

Nov. 8, 2019 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: The Story of Cinema, Part Two

The Editor and Reality, movies about movies

"...that vein (see last week's column, The Story of Cinema: Part One, for more on that phenomenon). But from..."

Sept. 9, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SeX and Violence: Ti West Returns to Cinema with X

SeX and violence in his seventies porno-horror flashback

"...since then he’s taken on high-profile horror shows like Cinemax’s Outcast, Fox’s The Exorcist, and Amazon Prime’s Them...."

March 11, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Confrontational Cinema

Companion doc to The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence revisits Indonesian atrocities

"...credit for The Globalization Tapes, his 2003 documentary on exploitation in Indonesia's palm oil industry: Instead, he describes himself..."

Aug. 14, 2015 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Turistas

Turistas is a surprisingly effective horror film with good acting and some breathless action.

"...dives head-first into a veritable riptide of churning, vicious exploitation cinema, and the result is surprisingly effective. Taking many..."

Dec. 1, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Fest Gets Arty

First titles, plus Nicolas Winding Refn on exploitation

"...premieres, Turkish rip-offs, and a unique trip into the exploitation cinema obsessions of Nicolas Winding Refn...."

July 30, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Warped and Bloodied: Two New Books by Drafthouse Veterans

Giving the forgotten children of horror and exploitation the analysis they deserve

"...zero for film preservation. Not the grandiose greats of cinema that will always be the subject of academic discussion..."

Dec. 3, 2021 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Cinemapocalypse at the Alamo Ritz: Die, Nazi, Die!

Quentin Tarantino premieres Inglourious

"..."This is definitely a movie for cinema-lovers and Nazi-haters alike," said Eli Roth, by way of..."

Aug. 16, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Fest Fills the Card

Massive list includes closing night film

"...Woman, and an international smorgasbord of wild and crazy cinema...."

Sept. 5, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Drafthouse Films Gets Cannonized

Drafthouse Films acquires Cannon Films documentary

"...the wonder years of low budget, down and dirty, exploitation film awesomeness. We're not talking your horror franchises, either...."

Dec. 1, 2011 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Roadracers

"...Mariachi, Rodriguez has helmed the perfect AIP 1950s drive-in exploitation movie (as distinguished, say, from the 1970s New World..."

July 22, 1994 Movie Review by Louis Black

Shock and Awesomeness

Stephen Romano puts the movies in his mind down on paper in his fake-history coffeetable book, Shock Festival

"...splashes a never-ending wash of gloriously eclectic 42nd Street cinematic deviancy onto a shabby, stained screen. The chain-beating sequence..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

American Grindhouse

"...Elijah Drenner. Even though devotees of this kind of cinema ought to know most of this material anyway, there's..."

March 26, 2010 Movie Review

Never Coming to a Theatre Near You

Stephen Romano's continuing adventures in fake movies

"...They are the tease, the come-on, the promise of cinematic bliss/adventure/thrills to come. By definition, they are attractive, whereas..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Any Given Wednesday

One man, 10 years, some seriously sublime weirdness

"...for that. As a programmer at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, Nilsen brings in the good stuff, often reaching out..."

Feb. 18, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Frank and Penelope

Neo-exploitation flick crashes a bunch of Texas tropes together

"...it out alive. If there’s one element of Nineties cinema that you’ll really wish Frank and Penelope had kept..."

June 3, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Oh Lucy!

Japanese/U.S. identity comedy.

"...the physical and spiritual exposure of truly great transgressive cinema. With Oh Lucy! she retains the kind of emotional..."

April 20, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Let's Get Weird

Getting stranger with Kino Lorber, plus slime mold!

"...Bond spoof For Y'ur Height Only made an unlikely exploitation star of Weng Weng, the 2-feet 9-inch figure of..."

Feb. 14, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Spring Breakers

In turns appealing and horrifying, those contrasts are at the heart of Harmony Korine’s latest outing.

"...No less a cinema provocateur than he was when he debuted in the..."

March 22, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Black Harvest

"...and Robin Anderson. Winner of the Grand Prix at Cinema du Reel, Paris, this well-crafted Australian documentary presents the..."

June 11, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Indochine

"...Jean Yanne. In the last year or so, French cinema has taken a retrospective look at its country's colonial..."

March 26, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Farewell to the King of Grindhouse

Mike Vraney, founder of Something Weird Video, dead at 56

"...It's a truly sad week for cult cinema. Mike Vraney, founder of the era-defining Something Weird Video,..."

Jan. 3, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Swedish Sensationsfilms: A Clandestine History of Sex, Thrillers, and Kicker Cinema

An encyclopedic overview of the grimy-great underbelly of Swedish exploitation films

"...Sensationsfilms: A Clandestine History of Sex, Thrillers, and Kicker Cinemaby Daniel Ekeroth (translated by Magnus Henriksson) Bazillion Points, 320..."

April 29, 2011 Screens Review by Marc Savlov

The Need for Sleaze

Bill Landis will be at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown on Feb. 23 to introduce two films and talk about his new book, Sleazoid Express: A Mind-Twisting Tour Through the Grindhouse Cinema of Times Square.

"...edited by Bill Landis, was the leading publication for exploitation, trash, and low-budget films, covering a shockingly diverse range...."

Feb. 21, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

The Art of Shock and Horror

Nicolas Winding Refn on his new book of classic film exploitation posters

"...own a thousand of the sleaziest, scummiest, most wonderful exploitation promotions from the Fifties to the Seventies ever pasted..."

Sept. 25, 2015 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Hobo With a Shotgun

Though it's a great title, this Rutger Hauer movie is an unfocused throwback to Seventies exploitation films.

"...mitts. It's an ode, of sorts, to Seventies grindhouse cinema, curdled and gooey and tailor-made for midnight showings (preferably..."

May 6, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Score

A bisexual romp from 1972 from Radley Metzger, the film industry's softcore artiste of the late Sixties and early Seventies.

"...little tribute to the best of the new European cinema. Metzger started off as a straight filmmaker who learned..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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