Leave the TV off and get out of the house, because there's tons of fun things happening around town tonight! [music/dance party] Rock out at Teleport Door's weekly electroclash dancy party, Surveillance, at Karma Lounge w/ guests The Chapters & Loxsly. Dj Jerel opening. [beer] Drink yourself into a stupor and check out some of our best bars while you're at it at Indepedence Brewing's Pub Crawl. [art/sound] Head over to Gallery Lombardi for the... more ›

If you're ever going to see Zacharias Kunuk's 2001 film "Atanarjuat", Thursday night is the time to do it. The Harry Ransom Center screens the movie, "Canada's first feature-length fiction film written, produced, directed and acted by Inuit," at 7 pm. Austinist is not particularly cultural, so we're not falling all over ourselves to see dialogue spoken in Inuktitut, but the key thing to keep in mind here is that the Inuit people live way, way up north. In the Arctic. When characters in the film want to get around, they hack of a piece of glacier for a makeshift raft. Snow fills the screen in every direction. A nice respite from the 90-degree days, although not as monstrous as Godzilla. more ›

MONDAY [music, swing dancing] Paris 49 weekly set at the Continental Club, 6:30-8:30, No Cover! [music] The Wind-Up Bird, Dirty Projectors, Vuk, at Nat Baldwin at Emo's [lecture] LBJ School's Future Forum series hosts "Genocide: Personal Perspectives from Burundi". LBJ Library, 7pm TUESDAY [film] Jean Luc Godard's Breathless at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, presented by the Austin Film Society [film] Fast Times at Ridgemont High and American Graffiti at Paramount State Theatre (through Wednesday) [music]... more ›

We imagine that tonight's screening
of

Napoleon Dynamite, the final of the Movies
in the Park series, has long been on your
calendar, still we must tell you of your other options for cinamatic experiences this evening.



Tonight

Top Hat, the 1930s Fred and Ginger flick,
kickoffs the

Paramount Summer Film Series 30th
anniversary season. In honor of their 30 years of summer movies, they are showing the film that started it all off and for the same price - 50¢! Bonus they will be showing
"Batman: Chapter One" from the original
"Batman" serial. All weekend they will host a
'double Bogie' feature of

Casablanca and the splendid

Treasure of the Sierra Madre.


Also getting underway this evening is the

HRC's Summer Voyages film Series. Tonight's
film is Terrence Malick's

The Thin Red Line (1998), based on James
Jones' autobiographical novel. These are free,
open to the public and will take place in the
Prothro Theater at the Harry Ransom Center.
Next up on June 9th will be: Zacharias Kunuk's

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001).



Now in case of inclement weather you still
have great choices for unique movie watching without CGI.

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