Alamo Downtown's last-month schedule is live
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown is closing its Colorado location on June 27, and the theater has just posted its schedule for June. Hopefully the break until the new Alamo/Ritz theater opens won't be too long, although it's definitely going to have a negative effect on my summer moviegoing. (You can view photos of the Ritz renovation on Alamo's blog -- they've been updating weekly with progress reports.)
I am already making a list of events I want to attend at Alamo Downtown next month:
- Joe Bob Briggs on June 16. First, he and Texas historian Don Graham will be presenting clips on Texas history as viewed through film. Then Briggs is going to show and discuss the one film he couldn't procure the last time I saw him at Alamo, when he was presenting clips from movies highlighted in his Profoundly Disturbing book: the 1945 film Mom and Dad. I need tickets for both of these, right now. Or at least by Monday.
- The Princess Bride is playing several times in June. There are no gimmicks attached -- Alamo just likes to show The Princess Bride, and draws exactly the right crowd to appreciate the film. We own the DVD but I might like to go anyway.
- Last Night at the Alamo on June 27. I know people who are planning to get in line early on Sunday, May 27 at Alamo Downtown to buy tickets when the box office opens at noon that day. The first available tickets will be for the triple-feature of film events: Big Night with accompanying feast at 7, Earthquake with Tim League trying to blow out the Alamo sound system at 9:45, and Night Warning with Susan Tyrrell in person at midnight. You also get a wrench, which you can use to take a block of Alamo Downtown seats home with you. I'll be honest: I'd prefer to see just one or two of these, but I suspect the triple-feature tickets will sell out before single-feature tickets can be offered. It's going to be a very special night, so I'll just have to enjoy all three movies. I'm not sure how my husband would react if I came home with theater seats in the back of my car, though.
Those are just my must-see Alamo events for June. I haven't yet mentioned that Tab Hunter will be around for a screening of Polyester, the Father's Day screening/feast for Rocky (which I've been wanting to see again), the amazing kids' adaptation of Raiders of the Lost Ark with the cast attending, a triple-event blow-out for Joss Whedon's birthday, and a ton of goofy sing-alongs and Master Pancake comedy nights. Plus, May still has a lot of cool events, like Herschell Gordon Lewis appearing at a double-feature of 2000 Maniacs and Blood Feast.
At the Tarantino-hosted grindhouse nights last week (more about those soon), Tim League mentioned that AICN founder Harry Knowles had just decided to program a "Half-Ass-a-Thon" -- sort of an abbreviated Butt-Numb-a-Thon -- before the theater on Colorado closes down. I notice June 24 is reserved for a "private party," so I assume that's why. The "private event" designation means it'll be handled through AICN, and not an event where the public can buy tickets through Alamo, so you should keep an eye on AICN if that's interesting to you.