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10/05/2017 – Texas Theatre Newsletter: 10.5.17: Buñuel! Super Dark Times! Nightbreed! Lady from Shanghai!

CRAIG SHEFFER, DAVID CRONENBERG & CLIVE BARKER ON SET OF “NIGHTBREED.” October is officially here and we’ve got an awesome lineup to meet all your HALLOW-NEEDS! This month we kick things off with a Clive Barker omnibus, featuring the three key films he directed. This week’s first installment is his original director’s cut of NIGHTBREED! Darren Aronofsky’s latest film, Mother!, has been incredibly polarizing. Whether you can’t get enough or think it’s the worst film ever made,...

Texas Theatre Newsletter: 9.6.17: Creepshow! Inglourious Basterds! Good Time! Unforgiven!

GEORGE A. ROMERO AND STEPHEN KING ON SET OF “CREEPSHOW.” We pay tribute this week to the late, great George A. Romero with one our favorite horror anthologies – written by Stephen King – CREEPSHOW. Presented in terrorizing 35mm, this classic omnibus will certainly creep up on you! Lt. Aldo Raine is putting together a special team and we invite you to participate with a 35mm screening of INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS in Tarantino-vision! $1 of each ticket will be donated to the AUSA North Texas – Audie Murphy...

Texas Theatre Newsletter: 8.30.17: Black Moon! Lemon! Performance! Heathers! Goon 2!

WINONA RYDER, KIM WALKER, LISANNE FALK, AND SHANNON DOHERTY ARE THE “HEATHERS.” School’s officially back in session and it’s time to pick your clique! The Texas Theatre invites you to the event of the year as we unveil the membership of this year’s most elite social club. Join Heather, Heather, Heather and Veronica for an exclusive screening of one of the greatest high school movies ever produced, HEATHERS. Following the show, stay for a pep rally, behind-the-screen style, with Two Knights and Pollen....

Texas Theatre Newsletter: 8.24.17: Cat Fest! Lemon! Blow Up! Pee Wee’s Big Adventure!

TIM BURTON AND PAUL REUBENS ON SET OF “PEE WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE.” Next week it’s back to school but there’s still time for one more summer Big Adventure with everyone’s favorite lovable, grown-up man child, Pee-Wee Herman (that’s his name, don’t wear it out)!! In PEE-WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE, our titular hero refuses to sell his bike – even for all the money in the world. Not for a hundred million, trillion, billion dollars! While shopping for new bicycle accessories and to Pee...

Texas Theatre Newsletter: 8.17.17: Fantastic Planet! Priscilla Queen of the Desert! Do The Right Thing!

TWO DRAAGS INHABIT THE “FANTASTIC PLANET.” In René Laloux’s politically-motivated animated classic, FANTASTIC PLANET, enslaved humans (“Oms”) have been brought to the distant planet Ygam, to serve as playthings for the giant native inhabitants (“Draags”). The strange film is meticulously designed, and has served as inspiration and creative fuel for artworks in all forms of media and genre ever since. Nerd note: it’s illustrator,  Roland Topor, co-founded the “Panic Movement,” a...

Texas Theatre Newsletter: 8.10.17: Ed Wood! SLC Punk! Princess Bride! 68 Kill! A Ghost Story!

MARTIN LANDAU IMPECCABLY PLAYS BELA LUGOSI IN TIM BURTON’S “ED WOOD” “Pull the strings!” Martin Landau’s performance as the aging horror icon, Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton’s ED WOOD, is a true testament to the actor’s talents, and a sincere way to bid fond farewell to such a genuine spirit and hardworking artist. Celebrate the life of Martin Landau vicariously through life and work of the worst director ever to grace Hollywood, on screen in 35mm in bold black and white. We also continue...

Texas Theatre Newsletter: 8.3.17: East Bay Punk! Ghost Story! Wendell Berry! Road House! Spaceballs!

PATRICK SWAYZE CLEANS UP IN THE BAR BRAWL FAVE, “ROAD HOUSE.” It’s the heat of summer and the perfect time to duck inside and stay cool. Like Patrick Swayze; who was and will always be the epitome of cool. See him go over the top in the ultimate bouncer-for-hire bar brawlaction flick, ROAD HOUSE. And there’s no better way to see it then by way of its 35mm theatrical release print! Co-Presented by Lone Star Beer and DoubleWide Bar! Stick around for a round house kick post party set by DJ DeadWax! Spanning 30+...