A Werner Herzog/David Lynch Joint

MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE
Opens Friday 1/29 at the Ritz
Advance tickets available here

“A surreal descent into a twilight zone created by the twisted sensibilities of two cinematic geniuses…an antidote to the Oscar-bait blockbusters clogging theaters.“
V.A. Musetto, New York Post

“Herzog has gone beyond Good and Evil to reinvent himself as a candidate for the wiggiest director of comedy in America today.”
J. Hoberman, The Village Voice

“A perfect storm of cinematic weirdness…the film’s very oddness achieves a “Twin Peaks” level of artful ingenuity.”
Jeannette Catsoulis, NPR

We are very proud to start Austin's exclusive run of Werner Herzog's (BAD LIEUTENANT, AGUIRRE: THE WRATH OF GOD, GRIZZLY MAN) new film. Produced by David Lynch, the genius behind "Twin Peaks," BLUE VELVET, ERASERHEAD, and many other great films, this new surreal journey into madness is sure to knock you out. It is artistically demanding, psychologically insightful, and, most of all, funny.

This is an interesting new work that should be sipped like a fine wine, but with the insanity and deadpan humor that BAD LIEUTENANT impressed us all with last fall. One week only! Be sure not to miss the film that everybody's talking about.

Get your tickets for this great movie now!

You're My Boy, Blue!

The Action Pack presents the
OLD SCHOOL QUOTE-ALONG and KEG PARTY!
Weds, Jan 27, 10:30pm at the Village
Advance tix available here!

OLD SCHOOL is one of those movies that's so freaking hilarious that every time anyone associated with the movie makes another movie, their credit as part of the team that brought you OLD SCHOOL is put on the poster and trailer for the later project. And there's good reason for that.

Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, and Luke Wilson's trio of aging suburbanites reclaiming the glory of their college days (with none of the hassle of skipping class) was an instant classic, and all these years later quotes from the film still fly around every frat party (and parties where people are hanging out and making fun of frat guys). It's fitting, then, that not only will we bring out our usual Quote-Along tricks of subtitling our favorite lines and inviting everyone in the theater to yell them out with us, but for this show we're also going to be throwing a full on Keg Party, and we'll be selling wristbands good for multiple drinks from a keg right in the theater.

Sure, you could also just order by the pitcher from your server, but you can't do a pitcher stand like you can with a keg stand, and what's the point of drinking if you can't do it upside down? (Henri Mazza)

MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE

MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE - Opens Friday 1/29 at the Ritz
Advance tickets available here

“A surreal descent into a twilight zone created by the twisted sensibilities of two cinematic geniuses…an antidote to the Oscar-bait blockbusters clogging theaters.“
V.A. Musetto, New York Post

“Herzog has gone beyond Good and Evil to reinvent himself as a candidate for the wiggiest director of comedy in America today.”
J. Hoberman, The Village Voice

“A perfect storm of cinematic weirdness…the film’s very oddness achieves a “Twin Peaks” level of artful ingenuity.”
Jeannette Catsoulis, NPR

We are very proud to start Austin's exclusive run of Werner Herzog's (BAD LIEUTENANT, AGUIRRE: THE WRATH OF GOD, GRIZZLY MAN) new film. Produced by David Lynch, the genius behind "Twin Peaks," BLUE VELVET, ERASERHEAD, and many other great films, this new surreal journey into madness is sure to knock you out. It is artistically demanding, psychologically insightful, and, most of all, funny.

This is an interesting new work that should be sipped like a fine wine, but with the insanity and deadpan humor that BAD LIEUTENANT impressed us all with last fall. One week only! Be sure not to miss the film that everybody's talking about.

Get your tickets for this great movie now!

GI Joe Stop-Motion Insanity: VIVA THE NAM!

VIVA THE NAM - Wed 7pm at Alamo Ritz
Get those tickets HERE!

The Alamo is proud (and shocked) to present the first feature-length no-rules stop-motion action comedy to star only action figures: Paul Hanley and Kieran Healy's VIVA THE 'NAM (world premiering at this screening). A "mega-semi-sequel" to their earlier fest winner WAR: AMERICAN STYLE, VIVA depicts the bizarre adventures of Pvt. Joe Holmes, a marine stationed in Vietnam's "I Corps" from 1968-1969. The last of a family line that has lost a man in every single American conflict, Holmes will have to overcome communist armies, Russian Roulette rounds, USO riots, bloodthirsty drill instructors, leeches, drunk drivers, an M16-wielding Charlton Heston, and poop-smoking Frenchmen to make it out of Vietnam alive!

Don't take our word for it...read the incredible coverage from Marc Savlov at the Chronicle!

Made over the course of eight years (!!), VIVA THE NAM is a sprawling epic the likes of which GI Joe stop-motion animation has never seen before. Don't miss this opportunity to witness cinematic history while busting a few guts. Tickets are HERE!

SOUL NITE returns to The Ritz!

Music Monday: SOUL NITE III w/ Guest Curator Peter Lucas!
9:45p tonight at the Alamo Ritz
Only $2! Tickets available here

Soul Nite! is back with an all-new selection of vintage footage! This time, guest curator and host Peter Lucas focuses on performances of the late-'60s and early-'70s, when music was merging and new forms of funky were born. Don't miss Sly & The Family Stone, Ike & Tina Turner, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder and many others up on the big screen and cranked up loud. You know the deal: it's the funkiest good time you'll have in a movie theater, and that is a stone cold guarantee!

Get your ticket here!

Judgment Day comes to the Ritz

Action Pack Theater presents
TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY
in glorious 35mm with live explosions and gunfire
Sundays, Jan 24 & 31
Advance tickets available here

Take the most badass action movies of all time, bring some new pyrotechnics into the theater that are capable of bringing the explosions onscreen out into the real world, and hand out a few cap guns so select audience members can help the gunfire in the movie come through in a new definition of surround sound, and what do you say? Fuck yeah!

Fuck yeah, you do. For this inaugural screening of Action Pack Theater we're breaking out the big guns with a full on 35mm film print of TERMINATOR 2 and a whole bevy of new pyro devices we haven't used at any of our other shows.

And while we're showing the 35mm print and can't put any subtitles up on the screen, we're still gonna bring in some of the Action Pack mainstays by inviting the audience to quote-along to the super key lines, shoot-along to the super key gun battles, and Fuck-Yeah-along to all of the awesomest moments. And no, we don't know exactly what that means yet, because the first show is this Sunday. But we're sure it's going to be incredible.

God damn, I'm excited. When I first saw TERMINATOR 2 in the theater, my brain melted like the T-1000. "Hasta la vista, baby" made its way into my regular vocabulary (hey, I was 14 that year, so lay off!), and the image of the wasteland after Judgment Day was seared into my memories forever. The latest attempt to salvage the Terminator franchise wasn't the coolest movie ever, but T2 IS the coolest movie ever, and we're excited to start off ACTION PACK THEATER with the loudest bang possible.
(Henri Mazza)

Get your advance tickets to T2 here, and keep up to date on Action Pack Theater and all of their other shows and parties by following them on Twitter: @theactionpack.

A TOWN CALLED PANIC

A TOWN CALLED PANIC
Thursday midnight at South Lamar (Tickets here)
Opens Friday at the Ritz
Advance tickets available here

“A TOWN CALLED PANIC proves you don’t need fancy CGI techniques, 3-D, or stunt voice casting to make a sparkly little gem.”
Leslie Felperin, Variety

“There’s really very little to say about this film beyond that it’s absolutely brilliant.”
Peter Brunette, The Hollywood Reporter

“The film’s humor, simultaneously giddy and satirical, is reminiscent of “South Park” and the “Wallace & Gromit” movies, but it’s less pointed, more poetic.”
Mike Hale, New York Times

“I enjoyed this film so much I’m sorry to report it was finally too much of a muchness. You can only eat so much cake. But I don’t think that’s a problem…It has an innocent hallucinatory charm.”
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

It's hard to believe that a stop motion animated Belgian film about a reckless Cowboy, his best friend the Indian, a super cool horse, and larcenous underwater gill-men could cause all the hard-boiled, seen-it-all programmers at the Alamo and Fantastic Fest to fall all over themselves, but that's exactly the case. We laughed so hard and long at this movie that when it was over, we knew we had to bring it to Austin. The problem was, they weren't planning on releasing it in Austin. So we have jumped through flaming hoops to bring it to you. Would we do that if this movie were anything less than an ATOMIC BOMB of righteousness?

Get your tickets to the Thursday midnight premiere at South Lamar

Get your tickets for the run at the Ritz