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Your A-List: Best Local Film Series
To be a good film town, you need more than a strong university presence, some popular and successful local filmmakers and a great film festival (or six). You need a continual commitment to screening a wide variety of films outside of the major cineplexes. Austin’s got that in spades. The winner of the Your A-List poll for Best Local Film Series is the Paramount Summer Film Classics series, which, with 27 percent of the vote, just outpaced Movies in the Park.
Classic films such as ‘Casablanca,’ ‘Dr. Strangelove,’ All About Eve,’ deserved to be screened in a classic theater. The Paramount fits that bill, and on warm summer weeknight or weekend afternoon, as you head down the avenue and approach the venerable theater, you may get that sense of feeling transported back in time, to when movies cost 10 cents to get in and soda pops were a nickel. Sure, the seats may be uncomfortable and the legroom negligible, but there is no better venue to see the classics than at our city’s most classic theater.
Not only does the Paramount screen great movies during the summer, the programing also has a nice consistency to it, with most screenings pairing movies from the same genre (noir, westerns, slapstick comedies, etc.), making a double feature a tantalizing way to beat the summer heat. Tickets are $7 ($8 for the 70mm screenings), and big movie buffs can opt for a package of 10 tickets for $45, giving you a good summertime entertainment value. As an added bonus, $5 of that $45 goes to the Paramount’s Preservation Fund, so you can feel good knowing you’re helping preserve an Austin landmark. (Buy tickets here.)
Check out this summer’s roster of fabulous films here.
Others receiving votes:
- Movies in the Park, 21 percent
- Weird Wednesdays at Alamo, 13 percent
- Belmont’s Movies and Margaritas, 10 percent
- Music Mondays at Alamo, 7 percent
- Terror Thursdays at Alamo, 6 percent
- Austin Film Society’s Essential Cinema, 4 percent
- Rounders Pizza Movie Night, 4 percent
- AFS at the Dobie, 3 percent
- Texas Doc Tour, 2 percent
- Beat Film Series at Harry Ransom Center, 2 percent
- Summer Movie Clubhouse, 1 percent
- Austin Cinematheque, < 1 percent
Write-in: Austin Jewish Film Festival
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By EDDIE MAST
June 23, 2008 4:11 PM | Link to this
I HAVE FOUR TICKET VOUCHERS WHICH I WON IN AN AUCTION FOR THE MOORE-WEIS AUTISM SCHOOL. THEY ARE TICKETS TO ANY MOVIE THIS SUMMER. I WANT TO USE THE VOUCHERS TO OBTAIN TICKETS TO A FILM IN AUGUST, AND WANT TO DO SO A WEEK OR SO AHEAD OF TIME. MAY I DO THIS ONLINE? I DON’T WANT TO ARRIVE AT THE THEATER AND FIND THAT IT IS SOLD OUT ON THE SHOW DATE.
THANKS, EDDIE MAST