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Grint, Emma Watson. (PG, 153 min.) Parks and strange experience at first – every word is sung, even Recreation Department.: Splash Party Movie Nights. the most banal of dialogue. The simple yet sophisti- It’s the final Splash of the season. Movie at dusk; pool cated French film tells the story of two star-crossed entrance fee required. (*) @Deep Eddy Pool, 8:30pm. lovers, a 16-year-old shopgirl and her gas-station special screenings attendant sweetheart, without any apology for the BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN unashamedly romantic heart. (Double bill: The Young KIDS Girls of Rochefort.) (*) @Paramount, 7pm. The symbol (*) indicates full-length reviews available online: austinchronicle.com/film. Curious George (2006) @Southwest Bistro at The Wraith (1986) D: Mike Marvin; with the Hyatt Regency, 6:30pm. (See Friday.) Charlie Sheen, Nick Cassavetes, Sherilyn Fenn, Randy Quaid, Clint Howard, Griffin O’Neal. (PG-13, 93 min.) Terror Tuesday. Hoodlums rule a desert THURSDAY 12 FRIDAY 13 SUNDAY 15 town until a shadowy phantom raises the stakes. @Alamo Ritz, 9:45pm. Brighton Rock (1947) D: John 2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift The Last Dragon (1985) D: Michael The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) See p.78. Boulting; with Richard Attenborough, Carol Everything Is Terrible. EverythingIsTerrible.com Schultz; with Taimak, Vanity, Julius Carrey, Marsh, Hermione Baddeley. (NR, 92 min.) Summer Film presents found videotape footage that runs the gamut Faith Prince. (PG-13, 109 min.) Zzang!!! With Joe Bob Classics: British Film Noir. Voted the greatest British of content. The people who run the site will be in atten- Briggs. Motown’s Berry Gordy produced this karate SPACES noir film of all time by The Guardian, this film features dance to present their brand new release. @Alamo picture starring two one-named wonders, Taimak and Vanity (the Prince protégée), and a selection of Alice in Wonderland (2010) D: Tim Burton; with Attenborough as a sociopath who fears damnation. Drafthouse Lake Creek, 7:30pm. Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Helena Bonham Carter. (Double bill: Odd Man Out.) @Paramount, 9:20pm. Motown B-sides. Able-handed veteran Schultz directs. Look for William H. Macy and Chazz Palmintieri in bit (PG, 108 min.) Austin Public Library: Family Movie Maryadha Ramanna (2010) D: SS Rajamouli; SPACES roles. (*) @Alamo Ritz, 10pm. Night. Free. (*) @Pleasant Hill Branch Library, 6:30pm. with Sunil, Saloni Aswani. (NR, 140 min.) Tollywood Metropolis (1927) D: Fritz Lang; with Brigitte Mad Men @Alamo Drafthouse South, 10pm. Zaklete Rewiry (Hotel Pacific) (1975) comedy-thriller from the director of Magadheera. D: Janusz Majewski; with Marek Kondrat, Roman Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Froelich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge. (See above.) @Tinseltown South, 1:30, 4:30, 8:30pm. Wilhelmi. (NR, 95 min.) Austin Public Library and (NR, 120 min.) One of the great silent classics, The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944) Austin Polish Society: Polish Cinema Series. The Odd Man Out (1947) D: Carol Reed; with James Metropolis is a futuristic fantasy about the mechani- See p.76. hierarchy and social order of a big, fancy European Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, F.J. McCormick. zation and repression of society. Costumes encour- restaurant is on display as a new worker is hazed (NR, 116 min.) Summer Film Classics: British Film aged; free popcorn. (*) @The Vortex, 7:30pm; free. Ran (1985) See p.78. Noir. Following a failed heist, a wounded Irish national- before becoming accepted as a waiter. @University ist leader is hunted by the cops in the back alleys of The Red Shoes (1948) @Paramount, 1:30, Hills Branch Library, 6:30pm; free. Belfast in this taut thriller by the director of The Third KIDS 7:40pm. (See Saturday.) Man. (Double bill: Brighton Beach.) @Paramount, 7pm. Curious George (2006) D: Matthew KIDS Once Sing-Along (2006) D: John Carney; with O’Callaghan; with the voices of Will Ferrell, Drew SPACES @Alamo Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová. (R, 85 min.) Action Barrymore, David Cross, Dick Van Dyke, Joan Plowright, Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) Crimson, White & Indigo (2010) @Long Drafthouse Lake Creek, 11am. (See Monday.) Pack. @Alamo Ritz, 7pm. Eugene Levy. (G, 86 min.) Family Summer Cinema Center for the Performing Arts, 3pm; $12 advance, The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West (Dinner & a Movie). Free. (*) @Southwest Bistro at $15 door. (See Saturday.) the Hyatt Regency, 6:30pm. Virginia (2009) D: Julien Nitzberg. (NR, 86 min.) Mad Men @Takoba, 9pm. WEDNESDAY 18 Jesco White, the “Dancing Outlaw,” appeared as the True Blood @Jo’s (Downtown), 7pm. star of his own documentary, but here a different film- SATURDAY Choose Your Own Weird maker revisits the entire White clan – a group that 14 Wednesday Weird Wednesday. It’s inter- almost reveals Jesco to be the quiet member of the active night as the audience is given three different Ran (1985) See p.78. MONDAY family. Brawling, drugs, and gas huffing are some of 16 titles to select from as the evening’s viewing choice. the constants depicted in the Whites’ way of life. The Red Shoes (1948) D: Michael Powell, (*) @Alamo Ritz, 12mid; free. For more on the film, see “Gold in Them Thar Hills,” Emeric Pressburger; with Anton Walbrook, Marius From Dusty With Love D: Various.

July 9. @Alamo Drafthouse Village, 9:45pm. Goring, Moira Shearer. (NR, 133 min.) Summer Film (NR, 72 min.) Music Monday. This show “Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers” and

Classics: Restored Masterpiece. To follow the brings you an assortment of music clips featuring “Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe” (1980) Dusty Springfield at her best. @Alamo Ritz, 10pm. Ultimate Garlic Experience. See p.76. SPACES demands of her art or her heart: That’s the dilemma faced by the ballerina in this movie, which tells a 2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) One-Eighty D: Various. Nueva Onda Movie Night. story that has piqued young girls’ interest in ballet @Alamo Ritz, 7pm. (See Friday.) @Paramount, 9:30pm. (See Tuesday.) This is a collection of short films about big changes. for the last 60 years. The film also contains some The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) It includes “Wake Up” by Zane Rutledge, “Under fabulous footwork. @Paramount, 5:20pm. the Hood” by Sarah Garrahan and Lauren Sanders, KIDS See p.78. “What’s in a Name?” by Ben Kullerd and Caitlin The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) D: Rob Letterman, Lundin, and “Make a Wish” by David Ward. There will D: Jim Sharman; with Richard O’Brien, Barry Bostwick, Conrad Vernon; with the voices of Reese Witherspoon, SPACES be Q&As with select filmmakers. @Nueva Onda, 8pm. Susan Sarandon, Tim Curry. (R, 95 min.) Austin fans have been dressing up and doing the “Time Warp” Hugh Laurie, Seth Rogen, Will Arnett, Paul Rudd, Rainn The Dark Knight (2008) See p.76. thing live for more than 30 years straight. For more Wilson, Kiefer Sutherland. (PG, 94 min.) Summer Kids KIDS info, see www.austinrocky.org. @Alamo Drafthouse Camp. Free. (*) @Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, Village, 12mid. 11am. KIDS Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009) D: Betty Thomas; with Zachary Levi, David The Thin Man (1934) D: W.S. Van Dyke; with Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) @Alamo Cross, Jason Lee, Wendie Malick; with the voices of Justin William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan, Cesar TUESDAY Drafthouse Lake Creek, 11am. (See Monday.) Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney, Anna Faris, Romero. (NR, 93 min.) Cinema Cocktails. The charac- 17 Christina Applegate, Amy Poehler. (PG, 88 min.) Summer ters are the invention of Dashiell Hammett, although Movie Clubhouse. $1. (*) @Tinseltown South, 10am. the urbane chemistry between Loy and Powell as Nick Casshern Sins Anime at the Alamo. THURSDAY 19 and Nora Charles is the ultimate in dipsomaniacal Japanese animated television series. Babe (1995) D: Chris Noonan; with James romantic comedy. (*) @Alamo Ritz, 1:30pm. @Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, 10pm; free. Cromwell, Magda Szubanski; with the voices of Breathless (1960) D: Jean-Luc Christine Cavanaugh, Miriam Margolyes, Danny Mann, Eat Pray Love Feast (2010) D: Ryan Murphy; Godard; with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Hugo Weaving. (G, 92 min.) Summer Kids Camp. Free. SPACES with Julia Roberts. (PG-13, 140 min.) See www.drafthouse. Seberg, Jean-Pierre Melville. (NR, 87 min.) Summer (*) @Alamo Drafthouse South, 11am. com for menu. @Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, 7:30pm. Film Classics: Great Godard. Godard’s breakthrough Crimson, White & Indigo (2010) D: Len film ushered in the French New Wave, and the print Some Kind of Wonderful (1987) See p.78. Kung Fu Panda (2008) D: Mark Osborne, Dell’Amico. The Grateful Dead are recorded here that is now circulating is a 50th anniversary restora- John Stevenson; with the voices of Jack Black, Dustin in concert on July 7, 1989, at JFK Stadium in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) tion overseen by the film’s cinematographer, Raoul Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Ian McShane, Jackie Chan, Philadelphia. @Long Center for the Performing Arts, D: Jacques Demy; with Catherine Deneuve, Nino Coutard. Godard’s use of jump cuts and the film’s Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu, David Cross. (PG, 91 min.) 7:30pm; $12 advance, $15 door. Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, Marc Michel, Ellen Farner. general insouciance lends this genre piece a stylistic Summer Kids Camp. Free. (*) @Alamo Drafthouse (NR, 91 min.) Summer Film Classics: Musical energy that remains vital all these years later. Village, 11am. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Française. This cinematic pop opera is a disorienting, (2009) D: David Yates; with Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert @Paramount, 7, 8:50pm. Spy Kids (2001) D: Robert Rodriguez; with Once Sing-Along (2006) @Alamo Ritz, 7pm. Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Alexa Vega, Daryl (See Thursday, 8/12.) Sabara, Alan Cumming, Teri Hatcher, Cheech Marin, Danny Trejo, Robert Patrick, Tony Shalhoub. (PG, Pop Princess Sing-Along Action Pack. 90 min.) Summer Kids Camp. Free. (*) @Alamo imax @Alamo Ritz, 9:30pm. Drafthouse Lake Creek, 11am. Arabia 3D (2010) D: Greg MacGillivray. (NR, 40 min.) A combination of historical re-creations and contem- SPACES porary scenes of everyday life, this film follows the story of Hamzah Jamjoom, a 22-year-old Arabian filmmaking SUBMISSION INFORMATION: student, as he returns home from Chicago to make a film about his native culture. Thu. (8/12)-Sat., noon; Autism: The Musical (2007) D: Tricia Regan. Mon.-Thu. (8/19), noon. (NR, 94 min.) Education Collaborative. This Emmy The Austin Chronicle is published every Thursday. Info Award-winning documentary tracks a months-long is due the Monday of the week prior to the issue date. The Hubble 3D (2010) D: Toni Myers; narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio. (NR, 45 min.) This breathtaking docu- quest to create a musical with a cast of children deadline for the Aug. 27 issue is Monday, Aug. 16. Include mentary follows NASA’s May 2009 mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. (*) Thu. (8/12)-Sat., 11am, with autism and, along the way, spotlights the lives name of event, date, time, location, price, phone number(s), a 1pm; Sun., 1pm; Mon.-Thu. (8/19), 11am, 1pm. of some of the children and their families. @Cafe description, and any available photos or artwork. Inception (2010) D: Christopher Nolan; with Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Caffeine, 6pm; free. Send submissions to the Chronicle, PO Box 49066, Austin, Hardy, Ken Watanabe, Dileep Rao, Cillian Murphy, Marion Cotillard. (PG-13, 149 min.) See review. (*) Thu. (8/12)- Thu. (8/19), 2, 5, 8, 11pm. TX 78765; fax, 458-6910; or e-mail. KIDS Contact Marjorie Baumgarten (Special Screenings): Texas: The Big Picture (2003) D: Scott Swofford; narrated by Colby Donaldson. (NR, 39 min.) Panoramic [email protected]; shots of Texas grace the screen as the state is shown to be a land capable of growing everything from grape- Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) @Alamo Wayne Alan Brenner (Offscreen): [email protected]. fruit to microchips. Thu. (8/12)-Sat., 10am; Mon.-Thu. (8/19), 10am. Drafthouse Lake Creek, 11am. (See Monday.) 80 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 13, 2010 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m