Essential Cinema Archives

GOIN’ FOR BAROQUE: 
KEN RUSSELL, PETER GREENAWAY, DEREK JARMAN

Oct 11 - Nov 15, 2011

Three bad boys blasted open the very, very proper forms of British cinema in the 1970s and 80s with color-drenched explosions of exuberance and excess. One was clearly a mad (or drugged) genius, another a rigorous intellectual, and the third gay during the early years of “the Plague.” Filling their cinematic canvases with drama, tension, grandeur, and abundant details, they went straight for the audience’s emotions and aesthetic pleasure, leaving the intellect to reflect upon the drama and meaning at a later time. --Chale Nafus, Director of Programming, Austin Film Society

	TOMMY Tues Oct 11, 7pm at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar A young pinball machine prodigy becomes a new Messiah in The Who’s classic rock opera. More Info & Tickets >>
	THE MUSIC LOVERS Tues Oct 18, 7pm at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s angst-ridden life as a closeted gay in czarist Russia is given the full Ken Russell treatment, with vertiginous scenes exploding like the brilliant man’s most emotional music. More Info & Tickets >>
	THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER Tues Oct 25, 7pm at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar The unhappy wife of a crude mobster finds solace in the arms of a bookseller in secret places within her husband’s questionable restaurant, but Greenaway’s film is more about fable and allegory, religion and politics during Thatcher’s reign. More Info & Tickets >>
	PROSPERO’S BOOKS Tues Nov 1, 7pm at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar In this multi-layered, stunningly textured reimagining of Shakespeare’s New World drama, The Tempest, Peter Greenaway takes cinema to the furthest reaches of comprehension, spectacle, taste, and power. More Info & Tickets >>
	CARAVAGGIO Tues Nov 8, 7pm at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar A faux bio-pic of the great Baroque painter Caravaggio. More Info & Tickets >>
	WITTGENSTEIN with Glitterbug Tues Nov 15, 7pm at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar A creative biography of one of the giants of 20th century philosophy, Ludwig Wittgenstein. More Info & Tickets >>