february specialty programming

“BODY DOUBLE” “PREDATOR”

GONE WITH THE WIND Valentine’s Day Feast (1939)

Victor Fleming’s technicolor adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s great American novel GONE WITH THE WIND is the original and still reigning ultimate blockbuster. Scarlett O’Hara, played by Vivien Leigh, is the ultimate survivor, exhibiting a single-minded fortitude and unabashed self-interest that were extremely rare in female characters of the time. Together, Leigh and Clark Gable as Rhett Butler created one of the most memorable and abiding romantic pairings of all time, set against the epic back-drop of the tumultuous American Civil War.

And so it is with great pride that we present this stunning digital restoration for Alamo audiences to feast their eyes upon while treating their taste buds to a themed feast of Southern food. As God is our witness, you’ll never be hungry again!*

*Well, at least not for the duration of the film.

GROUNDHOG DAY Dinner Party (1993)

At first, Harold Ramis’ GROUNDHOG DAY seems like a typical Bill Murray comedy, with the iconic leading man stand-ing one step away from the rest of humanity, always quick with an ironic insult. But the film cleverly turns Murray’s sarcastic outsider persona against him, and the film evolves into a sweet fable about humanity.

Murray plays Phil Connors, an egotistical Pittsburgh weather-man who hates nothing more than Groundhog Day. He detests covering the annual festival in nearby Punxsutawney, Pa., and he especially despises sharing his name with the town’s celebrated rodent. Phil hopes to get in and out of the small town as soon as possible, but a blizzard strands him overnight and Phil wakes up to find out there is no next day. It’s still Feb. 2.

Outside the people of Punxsutawney are celebrating Groundhog Day as if the previous 24 hours never happened and Phil is the only one caught in a feeling of deja vu gone wild! Now you can enjoy this instant comedy classic with a delicious menu that makes you relive the same ingredients over and over again in many different, mouth watering ways!

FOOD AND FILM

MOULIN ROUGE SING-ALONG (2001).

If you’re a true romantic, you already know the story: Christian (Ewan McGregor) moves to Paris to pursue a Bohemian lifestyle and then of course falls into a doomed love affair with Satine (Nicole Kidman), the most beautiful girl at the Moulin Rouge. But until you’ve seen the movie and sung the songs and learned that lesson in a movie theater with 200 other heart-swept people, you’ll never really know what it’s like to be in love. Your heart will swell! Your lungs will burst! Your brain will explode with rainbows!

SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD QUOTE-ALONG (2010)

We love SCOTT PILGRIM. We love you. So once again we’ve built a separate subtitle track for all of our favorite lines of dialogue, and we’ll project them on screen alongside the movie karaoke-style so you can say all of them perfectly in time with the characters on screen. We’ll also have lightning sticks for everyone to use whenever we’re rocking out with Sex Bob-omb or fighing off an evil ex, and every time an ex is destroyed we’ll shower the theater in gold coins. It’s the SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD Quote-Along, and it will punch the highlights right out of your hair.

AMIRA AND SAM (2014)

The only place they belong is together.

Rousing, smart, and sweet, Amira & Sam is a confident feature debut from writer-director Sean Mullin, and follows Sam (Martin Starr, “Freaks & Geeks”, “Silicon Valley”), an army veteran adapting back to civilian life after a lengthy tour overseas. Upon reuniting with his unit’s former Iraqi translator in New York City, he meets Amira (newcomer Dina Shihabi), his war buddy’s niece; suspicious of soldiers, she wants nothing to do with him. How-ever, when Amira runs into immigration trouble, Sam offers to keep her safe at his apartment. After a rocky start, their unlikely friendship starts to blossom into something more.

Meanwhile, Sam’s cousin Charlie (Paul Wesley, Before I Disap-pear, “The Vampire Diaries”) offers him a lucrative opportunity at his hedge fund, helping to secure wealthy veterans as new clients. However, all is not as it seems, and Amira and Sam soon find themselves faced with mounting obstacles in order to stay together.

THE LEGO MOVIE

This original computer animated story follows Emmet, an ordi-nary, rules-following, perfectly average LEGO minifigure who is mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person and the key to saving the world. He is drafted into a fellowship of strang-ers on an epic quest to stop an evil tyrant, a journey for which Emmet is hopelessly and hilariously underprepared.

ACTION PACK DRAFTHOUSE FILMS

KIDS CAMP

“GONE WITH THE WIND”

2 MON

GROUNDHOG DAY Dinner Party

9Drafthouse Films:AMIRA AND SAM

Fangoria Presents:THE BEYOND

16Kids Camp: THE LEGO MOVIE

Monday Night Thread Up:CHAINED HEAT

23Tough Guy Cinema:PREDATOR

3 TUES


Action Pack:SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD QUOTE-ALONG


Staff Pick:INGLORIOUS BASTERDS

24

4 WED BOOGIE NIGHTS


IFC at the Alamo:PORTLANDIA


Video Vortex:LUNATIC

25Cinema Cocktails:I MARRIED A WITCH

5 THURS Girlie Night:PRETTY WOMAN



Action Pack:MOULIN ROUGE SING-ALONG

26GOD TOLD ME TO

6 FRI

Drafthouse Films:AMIRA AND SAM

Action Pack:ULTIMATE 90sSING-ALONG

13

20

27BODY DOUBLE

30ARMY OF DARKNESS

7 SAT Drafthouse Films:AMIRA AND SAM

Vinegar Syndrome:DON’T GO INTO THE WOODS

14GONE WITH THE WIND Valentine’s Day Feast

21Big Screen Classics:ROMAN HOLIDAY

CASTLE FREAK

28SECRETARY

31THE BIG QUIZ THING

1 SUN


LOLITA

15THE BREAKFAST CLUB

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Big Screen Classics:ROMAN HOLIDAY

ASTROLOGER

Staff Picks: INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (2009)Brad Pitt takes no prisoners in Quentin Tarantino’s high-octane WWII revenge fantasy. As war rages in Europe, a Nazi-scalping squad of American soldiers, known to their enemy as “The Basterds,” is on a daring mission to take down the leaders of the Third Reich!

Video Vortex: LUNATIC (1999)VHS-only insanity projected from VHS for only one buck!

Join hosts Matt Desiderio (Horror Boobs) and Mike Hunch-back (Seminal Psychosis) for your monthly dose of VHS only insanity. Bring your VHS tapes - we’ll be set up to trade and sell some great stuff! This month’s pick is a twisted tale of love be-tween a serial killer and his copycat who join forces to maximize the murder.

IFC at the Alamo: PORTLANDIA (2014)Do you love watching IFC Original Programming but don’t feel like your TV is big enough to do it justice? Well now you’re in luck, as we’ve partnered with the Always On, Slightly Off cable network to bring you IFC at the Alamo, a new theatrical series where we’re bringing some of the best content from the small screen to our larger than life screens in cinemas across the country! Every month we’ll feature different episodes from new IFC original series, so you’ll be able to catch all of your favorites with other like-minded fans. This January, we’re celebrating PORTLANDIA with three great episodes for you to revisit on the big screen.

TOUGH GUY CINEMA: PREDATOR (1987)With display and giveaways from NECA Toys!

When a dreadlocked, massive beast of an alien armed with top notch hunting equipment makes camp in the jungle and starts picking off humans, who could possibly stop it? The best band of muscles ever to stomp through 80s sci-fi, that’s who. Arnold Schwarzenneger leads the charge with every weapon imaginable and an arsenal of one-liners.

Big Screen Classics: ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953)The story follows a rebellious Princess on an official tour of the capitals of Europe. While in Rome she sneaks out of her guarded room and ends up falling asleep on a bench. She is found by a straight-laced American newspaper reporter who takes her back to his room, but has no idea who she is. He’s there to cover the story of her tour and, when he finally realizes her identity, uses his luck to snag an exclusive interview. Of course, when love and Rome are involved, things don’t always go according to plan.

Star Audrey Hepburn’s legendary performance as secluded, sheltered Princess Ann secured her a place among the pantheon of silver screen icons. Her co-star Gregory Peck ain’t too shabby either as the newsman who wins her heart.

THE ASTROLOGER (1975)This is the kind of film where the main character makes a movie that is basically THE ASTROLOGER within the movie and then we get to spend a few minutes watching The Astrologer watch THE ASTROLOGER inside the movie THE AS-TROLOGER! It’s the kind of movie that has an entire dynamic dinner scene shot entirely in slow-motion. It’s the kind of movie where someone shouts, “You’re not an astrologer... YOU’RE AN ASSHOLE!” And it’s all done without an ounce of irony. It’s all genuine, it’s all passion, it’s all GOOD.

THE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985)Join us in celebrating this classic John Hughes film exactly 30 years after its release on February 15th, 1985.

We would seriously go back to high school and rack up a thousand tardies just to spend an hour with THE BREAKFAST CLUB, but thanks to Alamo, you don’t have to break any rules to see your favorite teenagers. We’ll make fun of Assistant Principal Vernon, sing along to Simple Minds and, at the end, raise our fists together in celebration. Whether you’re a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess or a criminal, you’re guaranteed to have the best day of detention ever. And yes, we will be serv-ing breakfast.

CASTLE FREAK (1995, 35mm)Actor Jonathan Fuller joins us in person for a special screening hosted by Stuart Wellington of The Flop House!

Horror legends Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton star as a troubled couple, trying to pick up the pieces of their life after a car accident killed their son and blinded their daughter. When they inherit an old Italian castle, it seems like a great time to re-connect and take stock of their windfall. But locked in the dark-ness of their castle is a physical manifestation of their conflict, Giorgio the Castle Freak. And what a monster! Giorgio is the twisted heart of the movie, lurking in the shadows or erupting like a violent, naked and mutilated man-beast. But what makes Giorgio so memorable is not just the carnage, but the traces of humanity that occasionally peak out from underneath his blood-splattered rags. He wants to understand the world almost as much as he hates it.

GOD TOLD ME TO (1976)New restoration from Blue Underground!

A rooftop sniper guns down 14 pedestrians on the streets of New York City. A mild-mannered dad takes a shotgun and blows away his wife and children. A cop goes on a sudden shooting spree at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. And each of these unlikely killers makes the same dying confession: “God told me to.” Now a repressed Catholic NYPD detective must uncover a netherworld of deranged faith, alien insemination and his own unholy connection to a homicidal messiah with a perverse plan for the soul of mankind. This is the critically acclaimed cult classic written, produced and directed by Larry Cohen (BONE, Q-THE WINGED SERPENT) that remains one of the most disturbing and thought-provoking horror films of our time.

BODY DOUBLE (1984)Jake Scully is a wannabe actor who can’t even keep a cheap hor-ror movie gig due to his paralyzing claustrophobia. Sleeping on a friend’s floor after catching his girlfriend aglow in climax with another, he finds a lucky turn when fellow struggling actor Sam offers him a place. Even better, it comes with a view - a peep through a telescope lands eyes on a neighbor who does a nightly dance in the nude. Jake can’t help but look, and then he realizes he’s not the only one looking

BOOGIE NIGHTS (1997)What germinated from a mockumentary-style short film by Anderson back in the late ‘80s became the compelling mixture of sweeping epic and intense character study of the sun-kissed 1970s porn industry. Starring an incredible ensemble cast with the likes of Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Don Cheadle, John C. Reilly, Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy, Heather Graham, Luis Guzman, Philip Baker Hall, and Alfred Molina, BOOGIE NIGHTS is more than a pleasurable experience: it’s a big bright shining star of sex in cinema.

LOLITA (1962)Humbert Humbert, a divorced British professor of French literature, travels to small-town America for a teaching position. He allows himself to be swept into a relationship with Charlotte Haze (Shelly Winters), his widowed landlady, in order to pur-sue her 14-year-old daughter, Lolita, with whom he has fallen hopelessly in love. Made from a double-entendre-filled script by Nabokov himself, Kubrick’s road movie/comedy of manners/Old World-meets-New World satire/tale of erotic obsession features Peter Sellers in one of his greatest, most unhinged roles and is shot in beautiful black and white.

Girlie Night: PRETTY WOMAN (1990)Is there anything PRETTY WOMAN can’t do? It’s the movie we turn to when we need a reminder that not all guys are jerkfaces, that even when we’re down on our luck, there is still hope that one day, we’ll get to take a huge bubble bath and then jump on the bed in a hotel penthouse. In other words, PRETTY WOMAN is therapy, and when you combine it with cocktails and a theater full of people singing along to Prince’s “Kiss,” it’s potentially life-changing.

SECRETARY (2002)While most of America will be panting over FIFTY SHADES OF GREY, those of us in the know have already witnessed the alluring charm of another sadomasochistic employer: E. Edward Grey (James Spader) in the film SECRETARY. Grey reluctantly seduces Lee Holloway (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a shy young woman, who was recently released from a mental institu-tion to the care of her overprotective mother and hard-drinking father, and has found a fondness for pain and domination. SECRETARY is a love story like no other. On the surface it sounds like a paperback romantic novel, but it’s in the film’s testament to a true connection between two people that makes this one of my all-time favorite movies. I promise SECRETARY will be more steamy, sultry, and heartwarming than any other film you see this February.

Fangoria Presents: THE BEYOND (1981, 35mm)Set in Louisiana, THE BEYOND begins with the brutal murder of a suspected warlock – an act that paves the way for a gate to hell to open under the Seven Doors Hotel. Decades pass and a woman from New York inherits the hotel – planning to reopen it. The activity around the hotel triggers the dormant hellgate – inviting visitations from the damned and a whole heaping of bloody murder and tarantula attacks. Lucio Fulci is at his finest with this traumatizing, gore-filled shockfest. From melting bodies to ever-stoic zombie to canine mauling, THE BEYOND is full of a thousand ways for you to lose your lunch.

Monday Night Thread Up: CHAINED HEAT (1983, 35mm)Leonard Maltin’s resoundingly negative review of this one states: “Innocent Blair finds herself in a prison where the warden has a hot tub in his office. Strictly for the grind-house crowd on 42nd Street”. Sounds like a good time to me! That ‘Blair’ is Linda, as in the young girl from THE EXORCIST. Only she isn’t young anymore and she isn’t afraid to show it. Blair is joined by John Vernon as the hot-tub owning warden with a penchant for fraternizing with the inmates under his ‘care’, Henry Silva and Stella Stevens as a couple running an escort service of prisoners, Sybil Danning as the leader of the white inmates and Tamara Dobson as the leader of the black inmates. It’s a veritable who’s who of all things ‘sploitation.

Vinegar Syndrome: DON’T GO IN THE WOODS (1981)Approximately three-hundred-thousand slashers were released in the 1980s. All of them are worth your time. But there is only one DON’T GO IN THE WOODS. Peerless, ferocious, and shockingly hilarious, this is the unrelenting assault on the hu-man race that put outlaw exploitation filmmaker James Bryan (LADY STREET FIGHTER, EXECUTIONER PART II) on the map. When a large, hairy psychopath with beads on his face slaughters a group of campers, the local Fat Sheriff arrives to in-vestigate. What follows is a maniacal amalgamation of gross-out gore, surreal sight gags, and an overpowering sense of sinister doom. Banned in the UK as part of the Video Nasties list and never given its true due on home video, Vinegar Syndrome presents a new restoration of this trash-slash benchmark from the original camera negative!

Cinema Cocktails: I MARRIED A WITCH (1942)The sultry Veronica Lake stars as a Salem witch burned at the stake who returns to haunt the descendants of the Puritans who let her smolder, namely aspiring politician Frederic March. Lake concocts a love potion for her victim that will get him to fall in love with her, rather than his fiancée (Susan Hayward in one of her early roles). Things get complicated when said potion works its spell on Lake instead and she falls for March. Blissfully hilarious and romantic I MARRIED A WITCH features great chemistry between March and Lake, dryly funny one-liners, and a scene-stealing performance by Cecil Kellaway as Lake’s peren-nially drunk warlock dad. One of the best, most unusual and imaginative comedies of the 1940s with visual style to spare.

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