Enjoy a Desperate Month with William Wyler and AFS
The fall season is upon us in Austin, and one way you can tell is that it's time for Austin Film Society to bring us an Essential Film Series based on American (often even Hollywood) movies, usually focusing on a director or actor/actress. This year, AFS has picked a director whose films range from the silent era to 1970: William Wyler. The series "William Wyler's Desperate Hours: A Director's Drama" starts next Tuesday and will run through mid-November.
If Wyler's name doesn't sound familiar to you, some of his movies surely will: Jezebel, Wuthering Heights, Roman Holiday, Ben-Hur, Funny Girl. The AFS series, guest curated by Raoul Hernandez (Austin Chronicle), includes some of Wyler's finest dramas spanning more than two decades of his long career.
I really want to see Counsellor at Law, the 1933 film starring John Barrymore, and am annoyed that I have a meeting that night I can't miss. But I plan to be there for several of the other movies, which are all playing at Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar, at 7 pm on Tuesdays. Admission is free for AFS members -- although you can and should get your no-cost ticket in advance on the AFS website -- and a modest $6 for everyone else.
A list of the movies in the series and the dates when they're screening is after the jump.
- Tuesday, Oct. 19 -- Counsellor at Law (1933)
- Tuesday, Oct. 26 -- Jezebel (1938)
- Tuesday, Nov. 2 -- Mrs. Miniver (1942)
- Tuesday, Nov. 9 -- The Heiress (1949)
- Tuesday, Nov. 16 -- The Desperate Hours (1955)