Carmen (2010) D: Richard Eyre. (NR, 210 min.) William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD. Eyre debuts as a (1996) @Paramount, 4:30pm. (See Saturday.) director at the Met with this new production of the special screenings popular Georges Bizet opera. Elina Garanca and BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN Roberto Alagna perform the leads with Yannick MONDAY 18 Nézet-Séguin conducting. @Hill Country Galleria, The symbol (*) indicates full-length reviews available online: austinchronicle.com/film. Metropolitan, Southpark Meadows, Tinseltown North, Adurs (2010) @Tinseltown South, CM Cedar Park, noon. 11:55am, 3, 6:05, 9:15pm. (See Friday.) Forrest Gump (1994) @Alamo Ritz, 7, 10:10pm. James Brown: Live at the Boston Garden, (See Friday.) Moulin Rouge 1968 (2004) See p.66. Moulin Rouge (2001) D: Baz Luhrmann; with Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, SPACES Jim Broadbent, Richard Roxburgh. (PG-13, 135 min.) Winter Film Series: Double Bill. This musical sucks Good Hair (2009) D: Jeff Stilson. (PG-13, 95 min.) you in with its own brand of willful illogic and breath- Movie Monday: Hairy Month. Free. (*) @Cafe Mundi, taking visuals. Set in turn-of-the-century Paris, a 7:30pm. penniless poet falls madly in love with a nightclub’s star performer, a chanteuse-cum-courtesan who has a heart of gold and is an incipient consumptive. The TUESDAY 19 music is a combination of restructured modern pop tunes manhandled into clever new forms. (*) Heavenly Creatures (1994) @Paramount, 9:20pm. D: Peter Jackson; with Melanie Lynskey, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse, Diana Kent, Clive Merrison, D: Jim Sharman; with Richard O’Brien, Barry Bostwick, Simon O’Connor. (NR, 99 min.) Hey Homo! Presents. Susan Sarandon, Tim Curry. (R, 95 min.) Austin fans This early film by Jackson is a startling genre-bender have been dressing up and doing the “Time Warp” that combines drama, comedy, fantasy, romance, and thing live for more than 30 years straight. For more horror in a story about the friendship between two info, see www.austinrocky.org. @Alamo Drafthouse schoolgirls. (*) @Alamo Ritz, 7pm. Village, 12mid. I Come in Peace (1989) D: Craig R. Baxley; William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet with Dolph Lundgren, Brian Benben, Betsy Brantley, (1996) D: Baz Luhrmann; with Leonardo DiCaprio, Matthias Hues. (R, 91 min.) Terror Tuesday. A Houston Claire Danes, Brian Dennehy, John Leguizamo, Pete vice cop thinks he’s on the trail of drug dealers, but Postlethwaite, Paul Sorvino, Diane Venora, Harold the villains instead turn out to be aliens who siphon Perrineau, Jesse Bradford, Christina Pickles, Miriam out rare matter from victims’ brains. @Alamo Ritz, Margolyes, M. Emmet Walsh, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Paul Rudd. 10:20pm. (PG-13, 121 min.) Winter Film Series: Double Bill. This The Land (1969) See p.65. Shakespeare rendition is not so much a reconceptualiza- tion as a recontextualization of the 400-year-old play. The film is a rich visual feast, besotted with the fervor of its SPACES acrobatic camerawork and kinetic staging and its mind- Ghostbusters (1984) D: Ivan Reitman; with Bill bending aggregation of unrelated but resonant fragments Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Sigourney Weaver, of 20th century iconography. (*) @Paramount, 7pm. Rick Moranis, Annie Potts, Ernie Hudson. (PG, 107 min.) Free. (*) @Rounders Pizzeria, 7pm. SUNDAY 17 Up (2009) D: Pete Docter and Bob Peterson; with the voices of Peterson, Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer, THURSDAY 14 FRIDAY 15 Adurs (2010) @Tinseltown South, Jordan Nagai, Delroy Lindo, Jerome Ranft, Elie Docter. 11:55am, 3, 6:05, 9:15pm. (See Friday.) (PG, 96 min.) Austin Public Library: Family Movie Night. With rich emotional currents and taut action sequences, 1999 Sing-Along Action Pack. 1999 Sing-Along @Alamo Drafthouse Moulin Rouge (2001) (See Saturday.) Up became an instant animated classic. (*) @Pleasant @Alamo Ritz, 10:40pm. Village, 12mid. (See Thursday, 1/14.) Robot Jox (1990) D: Stuart Gordon; with Gary Hill Branch Library, 6:30pm; free. Ed Wood (1994) D: Tim Burton; with Johnny Adurs (2010) D: V.V. Vinayak; with NTR Jr., Graham, Anne-Marie Johnson, Paul Koslo, Michael Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Nayantara, Sheela, Brahmanandam. (NR, 160 min.) Alldredge. (PG, 85 min.) Hecklevision. Text in your Arquette, Jeffrey Jones, Bill Murray, Lisa Marie, George NTR Jr. plays dual roles in this Telgu-language film heckles and have them appear onscreen. The movie “The Animal” Steele, Juliet Landau. (R, 124 min.) about twins separated at birth. @Tinseltown South, is a Delta Burke Lifetime movie. Gordon’s fantasy is Winter Film Series: Mel Brooks and Tim Burton 3:10, 7, 10:10pm. set in a post-nuclear apocalypse in which the super- Double Features. This biographical film is charming, Bettie Page Tribute Night Entertainment powers battle territorial disputes with large robots melancholy, strange, and quirkily humorous. There’s by local burlesque troupe the Jigglewatts and other manned by solitary human beings, or robot jox. also a certain irony in giving the silver-screen treat- Texas acts accompanies footage from the classic @Alamo Ritz, 9:20pm. ment to the most infamous of bargain-basement Bettie Page feature Teaserama. @Alamo Drafthouse directors and his motley crew of hangers-on. (*) Lake Creek, 7:30pm. offscreen @Paramount, 7pm. Forrest Gump (1994) D: Robert Zemeckis; 501 Studios: Soundstage + HD Theatre 501 Studios’ soundstage in Downtown Austin now doubles Edward Scissorhands (1990) D: Tim Burton; with Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti with Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Conchata Ferrell, as one of Texas’ largest public theatres – with a Sony Qualia HD projector, a 28-foot screen, 180 (removable) Williamson, Sally Field. (PG-13, 142 min.) Master seats, a vintage popcorn machine, and affordable rates. Need a venue for premieres, wrap parties, or con- Kathy Baker, Anthony Michael Hall, Alan Arkin, Pancake. Run, Forrest, run … far away from these Vincent Price, Dianne Wiest. (PG-13, 100 min.) Winter certs/plays/performances featuring projection? This could be the place. Also still available as a soundstage/ merry jokesters who are certain to put your life story green screen. 485-3000. www.501studios.com. Film Series: Mel Brooks and Tim Burton Double through the wringer. (*) @Alamo Ritz, 7, 10:10pm. Features. Burton’s combination of fantastic and real Austin FilmWorks: Feature Lab is now accepting registrations for its new class sequence, in which imagery add to this story’s dreamy but satiric edge. filmmaker Steve Mims requires students to produce two short films and play a key role in a class-produced Depp, as the fragile but irresistibly fabulous title SPACES feature-length film. See website for details. www.austinfilmworks.com. character, is “shear” delight. @Paramount, 9:25pm. B-Girl (2009) D: Emily Dell. (PG-13, 90 min.) Austin School of Film Classes An excellent slate of classes is available for your cinematic advance- Igor and the Lunatics (1985) D: Billy Parolini; Starring the world’s most decorated female breakdanc- ment at the Austin School of Film at the start of this new decade, with professional instruction in Final Cut with Joseph Eero, Mary Ann Schacht, Joe Niola. (R, er, Jules “Lady Jules” Urich, this documentary tells her Pro, DV and HD cameras, Screenwriting Essentials, Introduction to Dreamweaver and Fetch, animation and 82 min.) Cult Thursday. A cult leader takes revenge story. In attendance will be director and screenwriter lighting techniques, and more. See website for details. www.austinfilmschool.org/classes. after he gets out of prison. @Alamo Drafthouse Lake Emily Dell, producer Elizabeth Dell, and local cast Creek, 10pm; free. ChannelAustin Classes Austin’s digital media center offers filmmakers professional, hands-on instruc- member Josh “Milky” Ayers. The afterparty is hosted tion in HD field equipment and studio production, plus affordable access to the latest high-end gear and soft- Pulp Fiction Quote-Along (1994) D: Quentin by Romeo Navarro. @The Independent, 7pm. ware by Sony and Apple. Learn more on Mondays from 6 to 7pm. See website for details. 1143 Northwestern. Tarantino; with John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Save Me! Lollipop (2006) (PG) Austin Public www.channelaustin.org. Thurman, Bruce Willis. (R, 154 min.) Action Pack. Library: Anime Club. In this manga series, an adoes- @Alamo Ritz, 7pm. Cine las Americas 13: Call for Entries Cine las Americas invites filmmakers, producers, and dis- cent girl mistakenly swallows the precious Crystal tributors to participate in the showcase of contemporary films from North, Central, and South America; the Pearl used for a sorcery exam and becomes hunted Caribbean; and the Iberian Peninsula, as well as works made by or about Latinos and/or indigenous groups of by some junior wizards and protected by a couple the Americas. See website for details. Deadline: Jan. 15. www.cinelasamericas.org. SUBMISSION INFORMATION: others. @Southeast Austin Library, 4pm; free. Screen It Like You Mean It Austin Studios has a state-of-the-art screening room, which is available to The Austin Chronicle is published every Thursday. Info the public on a rental basis. Community and indie rates are available for the room, which sports an 18-foot- is due the Monday of the week prior to the issue date. The SATURDAY 16 by-7-foot screen, 28 fixed theatre seats, and a surround-sound system and supports Super-35, 35mm, 16mm, deadline for the Jan. 29 issue is Monday, Jan. 18. Include VHS, and DVD formats. Handicap accessible, restrooms – the works. It also has a break room suitable for pre- name of event, date, time, location, price, phone number(s), a sentations, meetings, and general cinematic tomfoolery. 322-0145. www.austinstudios.org. description, and any available photos or artwork. Adurs (2010) @Tinseltown South, 11:55am, 3:10, 7, 10:10pm. (See Friday.) SXSW Seeking Volunteers Jobs range from festival production to conference activities including reg- Send submissions to the Chronicle, PO Box 49066, Austin, istration, information, trade show, technical support, and more. Day and night positions available. Volunteers TX 78765; fax, 458-6910; or e-mail. must be able to work a minimum of 30 hours or 3 shifts during the event, depending on their crew type. Contact Marjorie Baumgarten (Special Screenings): Applications are available online, and crew selections will be made at the volunteer call. If you’re unable to [email protected]; attend the call or just need more details, e-mail or call ASAP. Jan. 24-25. Sun., 2-5pm; Mon., 6-9pm. Hilton Hotel, Wayne Alan Brenner (Offscreen): [email protected]. 500 E. Fourth. 467-7979. [email protected]. 68 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E JANUARY 15, 2010 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m