Texas Doc Tour: LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF
Wed. 11/14 | 7:00PM @ Alamo Drafthouse Downtown (Downtown)
Austin Film Society Texas Doc Tour: LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF Rated NR; 169min; Director:Thom Andersen "Addressing the interplay of reality and representation in the city's …more»
KING CORN
Fri. 11/09 | 4:00PM - Thu. 11/15 @ Alamo Drafthouse Downtown (Downtown)
KING CORN Rated NR; 88min; Director:Aaron Wolf “An enormously entertaining moral oddyssey...” - The Boston Globe KING CORN is a feature documentary …more»
Weird Wednesday: MR. SCARFACE
Wed. 11/14 | 12:00PM @ Alamo Drafthouse Downtown (Downtown)
KVRX Presents Weird Wednesday: MR. SCARFACE Rated R; 85min; Director:Fernando Di Leo (1976) This show is a part of the Weird Wednesdays Signature Series, Click to See More Casual bru…more»
A great piece of film criticism, Thom Andersen’s dazzling cinema-essay Los Angeles Plays Itself looks at his native city’s history as a back drop for the movies, and how it jibes, or more often, doesn’t, with reality. Andersen is a professor at Cal Arts, and he deliveres a lecture in light, using a battery of film clips to back up some original and provocative insights, such as his backhanded praise of Dragnet for its dead-on depiction of how ordinary citizens are condescended to by the LAPD elite. Andersen accomplishes something rare: After seeing this documentary, it’s hard to look at moves the same way again.