Special Screening

Rated Unknown; 90min; Director:Various
Alamo Website:  SICK & TWISTED show! Though it's filled with laughs and entertainment, NEW GENERATION ANIMATION contains less monocle-spinning gross-out gags than S&T, and rather focuses on the flat-out best and funniest animated shorts that the world has to offer. It's a brain-slapping assortment of award-winning (and worthy) animated accomplishments from the top talents around the globe, including Bill Plympton, PES, the TOWN CALLED PANIC crew and many, many more! Don't miss your chance to witness the most impressive and electrifying possibilities that creativity has to offer...join us for the debut of the most incredible animated shorts program ever seen. Zammmm!!!

Rated Unknown; 100min; Director:The Maysles Brothers (1975)
Alamo Website:  There are certain times in a person's life when a miraculous door of wonder and amazement opens to reveal a spectacle of unimaginable circumstance and historical significance. When the nature of the human being as we all know it reveals itself as a new creature of otherworldly styles with immaculate dialogues of song. Fellow Homos, Film Buffs, Lonely Hearts and Loony Heads...this is sure as hell one of them times. HEY HOMO! is proud, ready and willin' to offer y'all a documentary film that's gonna change ya' stankin lives forever, and make ya' so very honored to meet such amazing individuals on the big screen. Wrap a towel around ya' head and haul out the canned pate cuz we're giving you the masterpiece by David and Albert Maysles that is...GREY GARDENS. What's it about ya' say? Picture Big Edie, the 80-somethin'-year-old aunt of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, livin' in a shit-stanked rundown no-water raccoon-filled busted-windowed cat-infested piss-smellin' condemned-to-hell mansion in the Hamptons with her 50-somethin'-year-old daughter Little Edie. Picture two of the best documentarians in the world going into the mansion and living there while capturing these two women in their most vulnerable and beautiful phases of a life steeped in enough tongue lickin' history and drama to make any queen scream and run with glee! If you don't see this film, chickens....I don't know what's wrong with ya'. Join ya' booya-bangin' hostess REBECCA HAVEMEYER for a night that's gonna change ya' life...seriously kids. (Rebecca Havemeyer)

Rated NR; Director:Various
Alamo Website:  nimation Block Party, NYC's premiere animation festival, won't return to Brooklyn until July 2010, but the Alamo Drafthouse will offer your last chance to get a taste of ABP in 2009. This November, Animation Block Party will be showcasing some of its very best films in the history of the six year festival at the Drafthouse with a program that incorporates classics from the 2004-2009 archives alongside new films that premiered at the ABP festival this past summer. The exclusive Drafthouse program includes a never before seen stop-motion cartoon starting iconic stoner, Chef Barry in his culinary show Cooking 420 with Chef Barry. Other keynotes will include Backwards from Texas native, Aaron Hughes and producer, Lisa LaBracio, Craig T. Squirrel from Mike Hollingsworth, art-school opus MFA Show from Rob Bohn, lovesick tale Replacement Dog from Garrett Koeppicus, cute bunny gone bad blip In the Beginning by Choom, fresh shorts from cartoon duo nockFORCE and much more.

Rated NR; Director:Various
Alamo Website:  nimation Block Party, NYC's premiere animation festival, won't return to Brooklyn until July 2010, but the Alamo Drafthouse will offer your last chance to get a taste of ABP in 2009. This November, Animation Block Party will be showcasing some of its very best films in the history of the six year festival at the Drafthouse with a program that incorporates classics from the 2004-2009 archives alongside new films that premiered at the ABP festival this past summer. The exclusive Drafthouse program includes a never before seen stop-motion cartoon starting iconic stoner, Chef Barry in his culinary show Cooking 420 with Chef Barry. Other keynotes will include Backwards from Texas native, Aaron Hughes and producer, Lisa LaBracio, Craig T. Squirrel from Mike Hollingsworth, art-school opus MFA Show from Rob Bohn, lovesick tale Replacement Dog from Garrett Koeppicus, cute bunny gone bad blip In the Beginning by Choom, fresh shorts from cartoon duo nockFORCE and much more.

In addition to the Music Monday screening, there's an encore screening of this rare 35MM print.

Rated G; 90min; Director:D.A. Pennebaker (1973)
Alamo Website:  The stunning chronicle of David Bowie’s final electrifying performance as Ziggy Stardust in 1973 at London’s Hammersmith Odeon Theater. This feature length film captures the aura surrounding one of the most unusual stars of the contemporary music scene. Framed by a smattering of behind-the-scenes footage, the bulk of this stunning document concerns the actual concert, notable as the final time that Bowie would perform under his alternate persona...an announcement that, at the time, led many fans to mistakenly believe Bowie was retiring altogether.

If you can't make this showing, check out the additional screening on Dec 9

Alamo Website:  DUE TO SCHEDULING CONFLICTS, THIS SHOW HAS BEEN MOVED TO THE ALAMO SOUTH LAMAR. CLICK HERE FOR THE NEW SHOW PAGE AND TO BUY YOUR ADVANCE TICKETS! JJ Abrams' STAR TREK reboot blasted its way to box office gold this summer. NOW see the show that was inspired by the original show that inspired the movie! Start Trekkin - Austin brings their completely improvised parody of the classic TV show to the Alamo Drafthouse.

Based on audience suggestion, the show's comedic cast will boldly create a never-before-seen space epic set in the original STAR TREK universe. You'll be stunned by:

Authentic music and sound effects!
Fake rocks and cheap-looking sets!
Thinly veiled social allegory!

The final frontier will never be the same.

While the film will have a full run at the Alamo Drafthouse, these four screenings, actor/director John Krasinski (THE OFFICE) will be in attendance for a Q&A. 

Alamo Website:  Adapted and directed by John Krasinski (THE OFFICE, AWAY WE GO), BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN is a darkly funny and disturbing exploration of men and their complex relationships with women. Based on the book by David Foster Wallace, the film features an all-star cast that includes Timothy Hutton, Ben Shenkman, Christopher Meloni, Ben Gibbard, Will Arnett, Chris Messina, Bobby Cannavale, Will Forte, Dennis O'Hare, Lou Taylor Pucci, Max Minghella, and Julianne Nicholson.

A graduate student (Nicholson) endeavors to explore the male psyche for her thesis by interviewing a cross-section of men. The men's twisted and revealing stories are juxtaposed against the backdrop of her own experience. As she begins to listen closely to the men around her, she must ultimately reconcile herself to the darkness that lies below the surface of human interactions.

Krasinski and his fine cast successfully bring the first-ever David Foster Wallace work to the big screen with a film that audiences will be talking about for a long time.

While the film will have a full run at the Alamo Drafthouse, these four screenings, actor/director John Krasinski (THE OFFICE) will be in attendance for a Q&A. 

Alamo Website:  Adapted and directed by John Krasinski (THE OFFICE, AWAY WE GO), BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN is a darkly funny and disturbing exploration of men and their complex relationships with women. Based on the book by David Foster Wallace, the film features an all-star cast that includes Timothy Hutton, Ben Shenkman, Christopher Meloni, Ben Gibbard, Will Arnett, Chris Messina, Bobby Cannavale, Will Forte, Dennis O'Hare, Lou Taylor Pucci, Max Minghella, and Julianne Nicholson.

A graduate student (Nicholson) endeavors to explore the male psyche for her thesis by interviewing a cross-section of men. The men's twisted and revealing stories are juxtaposed against the backdrop of her own experience. As she begins to listen closely to the men around her, she must ultimately reconcile herself to the darkness that lies below the surface of human interactions.

Krasinski and his fine cast successfully bring the first-ever David Foster Wallace work to the big screen with a film that audiences will be talking about for a long time.

While the film will have a full run at the Alamo Drafthouse, these four screenings, actor/director John Krasinski (THE OFFICE) will be in attendance for a Q&A. 

Alamo Website:  Adapted and directed by John Krasinski (THE OFFICE, AWAY WE GO), BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN is a darkly funny and disturbing exploration of men and their complex relationships with women. Based on the book by David Foster Wallace, the film features an all-star cast that includes Timothy Hutton, Ben Shenkman, Christopher Meloni, Ben Gibbard, Will Arnett, Chris Messina, Bobby Cannavale, Will Forte, Dennis O'Hare, Lou Taylor Pucci, Max Minghella, and Julianne Nicholson.

A graduate student (Nicholson) endeavors to explore the male psyche for her thesis by interviewing a cross-section of men. The men's twisted and revealing stories are juxtaposed against the backdrop of her own experience. As she begins to listen closely to the men around her, she must ultimately reconcile herself to the darkness that lies below the surface of human interactions.

Krasinski and his fine cast successfully bring the first-ever David Foster Wallace work to the big screen with a film that audiences will be talking about for a long time.

While the film will have a full run at the Alamo Drafthouse, these four screenings, actor/director John Krasinski (THE OFFICE) will be in attendance for a Q&A. 

Alamo Website:  Adapted and directed by John Krasinski (THE OFFICE, AWAY WE GO), BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN is a darkly funny and disturbing exploration of men and their complex relationships with women. Based on the book by David Foster Wallace, the film features an all-star cast that includes Timothy Hutton, Ben Shenkman, Christopher Meloni, Ben Gibbard, Will Arnett, Chris Messina, Bobby Cannavale, Will Forte, Dennis O'Hare, Lou Taylor Pucci, Max Minghella, and Julianne Nicholson.

A graduate student (Nicholson) endeavors to explore the male psyche for her thesis by interviewing a cross-section of men. The men's twisted and revealing stories are juxtaposed against the backdrop of her own experience. As she begins to listen closely to the men around her, she must ultimately reconcile herself to the darkness that lies below the surface of human interactions.

Krasinski and his fine cast successfully bring the first-ever David Foster Wallace work to the big screen with a film that audiences will be talking about for a long time.