Free Weird Wednesday Tonight: THE NIGHT THEY ROBBED BIG BERTHA'S

It's a tradition for us to end each Weird Wednesday bi-monthly calendar with a dumb sex comedy. This week we present a thinking man's (and woman's) dumb sex comedy. It's pretty unusual and often politically incorrect but that's never kept us from enjoying a movie before. See you there.

KVRX presents WEIRD WEDNESDAY Free!

THE NIGHT THEY ROBBED BIG BERTHA'S
JANUARY 31 MIDNIGHT, FREE, DIR. PETER KARES, 1975, 35MM, 87 MIN, R

Surprisingly funny and well-made heist comedy from the deep south. A master criminal puts together a ragtag crew to perpetrate the burglary of a whorehouse safe. Not surprisingly, everything goes wrong. The whole thing is done in an overblown manner that recalls "Dragnet" or Kubrick's THE KILLING, only with culturally insensitive humor and naked hookers. It oscillates wildly between offensive, sexy and funny. Written by Albert T. Viola, whose PREACHERMAN movies are landmarks in the hicksploitation canon.(Lars)

The Alamo Drafthouse is located at 4th and Colorado. Seating will begin at 11:30 or so.

Plus! Next Friday Feb. 9 we will be having a free Weird Wednesday Reel One Viewing Party to help us catalogue our newest film acquisitions. We've decided to open it to the public since we often have a lot of interest in the film collecting side of Weird Wednesday.

Click here to find out more about it.

Guillermo Del Toro on Fresh Air

We've been completely obsessed with PAN'S LABYRINTH, the new film by Guillermo Del Toro. You can check back to previous blog postings for further ramblings on our infatuation. In addition to the movie itself, which is perfect in every conceivable way, Guillermo Del Toro is a fascinating individual and an absolute charming character. If you want to spend a relaxing weekend morning like I just did, click over to the NPR Fresh interview, put your feet up and absorb a fascinating 45 minute conversation with the auteur of the year. PAN'S LABYRINTH just nailed 6 Oscar nominations, including art direction, cinematography, script and best foreign film. Pan's Labyrinth is currently playing at Alamo South Lamar.

TROLL 2 with CAST in person! FREE at the ALAMO DOWNTOWN! Feb 1st at MIDNIGHT!

"Oh my GAAAAAAAAWWWWD"!!!

TELL EVERYONE.

The February 1st Terror Thursday free midnight screening of TROLL 2 just got rocketed into mega-incredibleness with the most blood-boiling news you've ever heard:

LIVE IN PERSON - MICHAEL STEPHENSON (Joshua Waits), George Hardy (Mr. Waits) and Darren Ewing (Arnold)!!! More cast members may be added!!!

We'll be serving GREEN MILK!! GREEN COOKIES!! HANDING OUT GOBLIN MASKS TO SELECT ATTENDEES!! CAUSING ACTUAL INSANITY!!

If you've somehow avoided ever seeing it (shame on you), here's the scoop:

Absolutely the most bone-shattering cinematic abomination ON EARTH!!! Allegedly made without the knowledge or consent of the preceding film's creators, TROLL 2 is a truly mind-altering holocaust of ineptitude and relentless flailing seizures of accidental brilliance!! Join young Joshua and his family on a dark journey into the heart of Nilbog, a mysterious township of cannibalistic vegetarians (??) who may or may not be hiding a more vicious supernatural secret. Okay. Yes. They are. A spastic witch is leading the populace and a bevy of shrimpy goblins on a crusade of magical misanthropic eradication, using chunky green milk as a weapon against mankind. Only Joshua and his invisible dead grandpa are aware of the danger, which the boy attempts to curb in one scene by urinating on the dinner table. Local sheriff Gene Freak isn't any help, as he's too busy offering the most bizarre drunk-uncle performance you'll ever see on screen. And he's not alone...literally every actor involved is a bizarre inhuman oddity, lending an already fascinatingly crippled film a whole new level of self-destructive force. Genius-disguised-as-an-idiot director Fragasso shamedly credited himself as "Drago Floyd", unaware of the masterpiece he'd created or the legions of fans who'd make it a legend. In fact, TROLL 2's sub-possible crud factor is so powerful that it reigned for years as IMDB's lousiest movie of all time, beating out staid gutterbombs like PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE to take its rightful place as Supreme Emperor of Shit Mountain!!

This ain't hyperbole, pal...this movie will honestly change your life.

Tell everyone you know. Tell people you don't know. Go through the phone book and call every number. Get people to the Alamo Downtown on Thursday, Feb 1st at midnight.



This. Will. Be. LEGEND.

- Zack

Want to see a menu that will make your mouth water uncontrollably? It's our Red Carpet Feast Menu!

Every year we have a party to celebrate a certain yearly movie awards show with a copyrighted name. It's the one with the little bald statuette whose name is also copyrighted. We show tons of embarrassing clips of the nominees in less prestigious times, plus we have champagne toasts and singalongs.Starting last year we added a feast at our South Lamar Theater with dishes based on the Best Picture nominees. It was a big hit with everyone. This year chef John Bullington has devised a menu that will make your stomach growl like an Alaskan Black Bear. The envelope please:

First Course
Inspired by Babel

Petite Bastila-Traditional Moroccan Pigeon Pie
Japanese BBQ Pork with Kamikaze Ice
Goat cheese stuffed jalapeno with mole

Second Course
Letters from Iwo Jima

Alphabet-Miso-Lobster soup

Third Course
The Queen

Thyme Seared Venison Loin atop chicory with apples and cucumbers in port vinaigrette

Fourth Course
Little Miss Sunshine

Southern Fried Quail with Black Pepper Ice cream, mashed Yukon golds and garlic green beans

Fifth Course
The Departed

Irish Car Bomb Layers of Irish Cream Mousse, Guinness Ganache and Irish Whiskey Cake

That doesn't sound all that terrible does it?

If you'd like to join us for the feast, be quick about it because this thing is a sure sell-out.

You can buy tickets and find out more here.

David Lynch's INLAND EMPIRE! Exclusive engagement at ALAMO VILLAGE begins Thursday at 10pm!!

Hi, all.

The Alamo Drafthouse is proud to present the exclusive theatrical engagement of the new David Lynch epic INLAND EMPIRE, which will be playing at the Alamo Village location. It kicks off tonight with a special 10pm screening.

Visit here for showtimes and more information!

SYNOPSIS:

Nikki Grace (Laura Dern) and Devon Berk (Justin Theroux) are cast in a new motion picture project called "On High in Blue Tomorrows". Her life is complicated when she falls deeply into her role, and soon she begins to confuse her current life with the role she's playing. The twists continue when the projects two lead stars are murdered. But the focuses and storylines are ever-shifting, and in the grand Lynchian tradition, nothing is ever as it seems...

ONLINE REVIEW:

"Rating: FIVE STARS

A Wicked Dream that Seizes the Heart...

How do you review someone else’s bad dream? One Sunday morning at the New York Film Festival, insomniacs and hardcore cinephiles assembled to see David Lynch’s first movie in five years. His latest plumbing of the unconscious is three hours long and his first to be shot on digital video, but not the first featuring Laura Dern (Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart), shifting identities, and creepy characters doing truly creepy things. There's a spooky Russian neighbor who mumbles veiled threats into the fish eye lens, and then William H. Macy announces: “Hollywood, California, where stars make dreams and dreams make stars!”

The movies that made Lynch a star featured healthy helpings of weirdness, but they were usually couched in a solid, discernible narrative. INLAND EMPIRE (Lynch insists on an the all-caps spelling) barely gestures in the direction of an obvious story--Justin Theroux and Jeremy Irons deliver some hesitant exposition about a movie with a history of murder, but before you can quite get your head around the premise, things get much weirder than even the delirious third act of Mulholland Drive: a suburban BBQ party is overrun by Eastern European carnies, a Kafkaesque interrogator listens to Laura Dern’s curse-word peppered confessions, a gaggle of hookers dances the locomotion, and blood is vomited up on the Walk of Fame.

INLAND EMPIRE is so Lynchian that it often appears to veer into self-parody, but somehow this works for the movie; like the unmotivated laugh track of the recurring sitcom where everybody wears a rabbit mask, the audience can never be quite sure what's meant as a joke and what's dead serious. INLAND EMPIRE is in turn maddeningly absurd, haunting, and bizzarely funny (such as Harry Dean Stanton's monologue about his "damn landlord.")

Some of the shivers are all too real, and I'll admit that the film contained moments of subconscious recognition that frightened me to the core. At the end of INLAND EMPIRE, prostitutes lip-synch Nina Simone’s “Sinner Man” while a pet monkey frolicks and a man in a red wool cap saws a log. I have no idea what it means, but I'm glad that as unique a visionary as Lynch can still get funding (in Europe) to make exactly the movie he wants. A fertile and overwhelming work of art."

- Jorgen Fauth, WorldFilm

A word of warning about THE BRIDGE, opening Jan 26 at the Alamo South Lamar

We want to be right out front with this: THE BRIDGE is not for everyone. If you are unfamiliar with the controversy surrounding this critically acclaimed new doc, you can read all about it here.

It's a documentary about the Golden Gate Bridge and its appeal for suicide jumpers. Director Eric Steel trained his cameras on the bridge full time. During the course of the film, several people are shown taking their lives. What the film doesn't show is the film crew preventing many more suicides. It's tough stuff but it's unlike any other movie you will ever see.

It's not a popcorn movie. It's the kind of movie that engages both your mind and your heart. It may make you angry and/or sad, but it will make you think.

The Austin Chronicle likes it a lot too. Read their review here.

You can read more about the film and buy tickets by clicking this link.

Weird Wednesday: GET MEAN Tonight! Huns vs. Guns and it's FREE!

GET MEAN
JANUARY 24 MIDNIGHT, FREE, DIR. FERDINANDO BALDI, 1976, 35MM, 84 MIN, NR

As the spaghetti western cycle reached its inevitable end in the 70s, the genre started getting weirder. Producers sought to prolong the formula by juicing it up with outside elements so audiences ended up with kung-fu westerns, sex westerns, many (bad) comedy westerns and this movie, about an American gunslinger who ends up fighting Vikings and Moors while trying to transport a Spanish Princess back to her rightful throne. The anachronisms are never explained or even alluded to. It's just a Spaghetti Western where the cigarillo-chomping man with no name wanders around medieval Europe fighting fur-clad barbarians with broadswords. Producer and star Tony Anthony was the last real Spaghetti Western star of the era. His other gimmick westerns included BLINDMAN, with Ringo Starr and COMIN' AT YA! in 3D. (Lars)

The Alamo Drafthouse Downtown is located at 4th and Colorado. Weird Wednesday Movies are FREE!

Bauer Pauer Hauer-Spoilers from Last Week

Jack really has a thing this season for killing people via the throat. Terrorist number one went out with a Dracula bite to the throat and then Curtis, (Fracking Curtis!) gets taken out with a Bauer Kill Shot to the throat just to keep him from killing Dr. Julian Bashir. JB is really going to kick himself when we later find out that Bashir, once he gets his immunity, is still in league with the terrorists.
How many more people will Jack kill via the neck? Come find out Monday nights at The Village where, at 9:45, we will host a commercial free "24 Viewing Party". (On the 22nd we start at 7:30) Each week we play the previous week's episode followed by this week's airing from earlier that evening. We Tivo through commercials condensing both episodes into a lean 85 minutes! It is a free show but you can reserve your ticket online by purchasing a 5$ food/beverage voucher good for anything on the menu.

Click here to purchase!

At Last Night's Ladies of the 80s Show...

Were you too scared by the ice to make it to last night's Ladies of the 80s show? Well, thanks to Henri's new camera and his obsession with documenting every single second of his life, now you can see some of what you missed!


For the first time in this show's run, Owen put on a skimpy red dress to lead the audience in a livelier rendition of the end of Tina Turner's What's LoveGot to Do With It. After I showed him these images, Owen admitted that in his head he'd thought he looked EXACTLY like Tina. Instead, his wig made him look like he had dog ears.


But his socks were sexy!

Then we got to the Pointer Sisters and had no choice but to run to the front of the theater and try to jump every time they asked us to Jump For Their Love.


Apparently we weren't all following the same rhythm...

And then the onstage dance party started - try to guess who stole the most attention...

The girl in front, who appears to be getting ready for some serious Tai Chi action? The red tank top who's the only one getting funky?


Hmm.. the kicker, or the girl on her hands and knees?


Ooh, girl on the floor is moving into the lead...


Wha? That's attention-grabbing... but will she win?


She's feeling victorious, but the dancing rages on behind her, until...


She has stopped dancing and is now just posing for pictures! Winner!


And the crowd goes wild!

I noticed that I wasn't the only one making flashes go off in the theater last night - if you've got some good pics, you should go to our MySpace Sing-Along page and give us some photos in the comments section. Please? Pretty please?

GINGER is back and she's mad!

For everyone whose ever been in love... for everyone who's ever abducted cheerleaders and beauty queens and put them through an intensive program of training to become robotic sex machines and sold them to wealthy degenerates at $100,000 apiece... for everone whose ever been handcuffed to a shower rod... for everyone whose ever danced wildly with maracas in an inappropriate locale... this is your movie. It's THE ABDUCTORS. It's Free. It's Tonight! And it's a Nad Stomping Good Time!
If you didn't get the memo, this whole "ice storm" was a shared delusion. Everyone else has snapped out of it. Won't you join us tonight at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown located at 4th and Colorado?

THE ABDUCTORS
JANUARY 17 MIDNIGHT, FREE, DIR. DON SCHAIN, 1972, 35MM, 90 MIN, R

Ginger, the female James Bond from New Jersey, is back! That's right, this is the follow-up to the grotesquely memorable GINGER. This time around, the film-makers had a little more cash to work with, and the pace is snappier but the fundamentals are all there: a chronically tan bleach blonde undercover agent named Ginger infiltrates a white slavery ring in central New Jersey. The distinctive odor of the Garden State is all over this one, from the mobbed-up accents to the amazingly loud and tacky visual aesthetic, personified by Ginger herself, Cheri Caffaro. She's like an Asbury Park bricklayer's wet dream. But whatever her appeal may have been in the 70's, it has long ago expired. At the GINGER screening there were moans of displeasure whenever she took her clothes off. It was like torture. But fascinating torture. Don't miss it. (Lars)

Alamo Film Programmers' TOP TEN of 2006 !!!!

Hello, everyone. After allowing ourselves a couple weeks to settle and look back at last year's films with an objective, critical eye, we've decided on our favorite movies and moments of 2006.

It's like this:

TIM LEAGUE, Alamo founder:
1 Pan's Labyrinth
2 Adam's Apples
3 Borat
4 Naisu No Mori
5 The Prestige
6 Hard Candy
7 Monster House
8 Children of Men
9 Apocalypto
10 Jackass 2

KIER-LA JANISSE, film programmer and Music Mondays:
1. Brothers of the head
2. Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
3. The Living and the Dead
4. Blood Tea and Red String
5. Danielson: a Family Movie
6. Edmond
7. Calvaire
8. Brick
9. Beowulf & Grendel
10. Meltdown Memoirs or Rocky Balboa. Can't decide.

LARS NILSEN: film programmer and Weird Wednesdays:
Lars' 10 Favorite Alamo Moments of 2006
(No particular order and I reserve the right to slap my forehead and go, "Oh
I forgot about that!")
- Fantastic Fest Screening of FUNKY FOREST. It kept getting weirder and
weirder until I felt like my skin was sliding off.
- Quentin Tarantino hosted screening of Rollerderby exploitation movie UNHOLY
ROLLERS with the Lonestar Rollergirls.
- My favorite director Richard Rush in person for PSYCH OUT and THE STUNT MAN.
- Watching Peter Whitehead and Nikki St.-Phalle's bent psychodrama DADDY at
Downtown.
- Meeting Chuck Norris and hearing his war stories about making the MISSING IN
ACTION movies.
- The Weird Wednesday screening of the hitherto unknown Greek sexploitation
masterpiece WILD PUSSYCAT, which blew everyone out of the water and almost
made me start smoking.
- Seeing THE DION BROTHERS at QT Fest and afterwards quoting it for weeks with
everyone else who was there.
- Watching Boat Safety Films with a crew of weird people aboard a giant yacht
thanks to Skip Elsheimer.
- Watching RAW FORCE at Terror Thursday with a crowd that looked like it had
just snorted a line of coke off Richard Simmons' face.
- Everything else is tied for 10th place. I can't narrow it all down.
...Needless to say if you're living in Austin and you're not attending the
Alamo regularly you are wasting your life and you should get on the good
foot.

HENRI MAZZA, events programmer and singalongs:
What? We're talking about our favorite movies of 2006? 2006 is over. I can't remember that far back. I watched bunches of movies, and TV shows, too. But I'm not about the past; I'm all about tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. So screw it, here're my top picks for 2007, in no particular order:
- Pan's Labyrinth - it doesn't count as a 2006 movie because even though we had the premiere at Fantastic Fest, we didn't actually open the movie until this year. But it is really good, so it belongs on all lists.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - some people are worried that this movie could be bad because it has CGI turtles. Those people are wrong, because this movie has CGI ninja turtles. And they're teenagers, too!
- Transformers - another movie that some of the more foolish are concerned about. Those people say that Michael Bay shouldn't touch their beloved characters. Enough with the Bay-bashing, people! Bad Boys 2: Greatest movie ever.
- The Golden Compass - all the escapism of Narnia, except instead of being based on a book written by a Christian, it's based on a book written by an Atheist. What the far right thought Harry Potter was trying to do, this book really does.
- Hot Fuzz - the cop movie from the guys who made Shaun of the Dead? Easy pick. Don't miss the premiere event at the Alamo Downtown, or your fuzz will never be hot again.
- Smiley Face - a lady accidentally eats a pot brownie then she has to go through her day. Stoner comedies can be hit or miss, but I heard that some uncle or cousin or something in my family dropped acid in his wife's glass of wine without telling her about it one night just because he wanted to see what would happen. That sounds like the meanest thing you could ever do to someone, but at the same time, the story did make me curious about how people would act if they didn't realize they were taking a drug. Now I can find out!
- Reno 911!: Miami - Lt. Dangle's shorts are needlessly long on the TV version. Now that they can be rated R? I just can't wait for an uncensored DVD...
- Spider-Man 3 - yeah, an obvious choice. But he's in the black costume in this one, and we all know what that means - Secret Wars, the Movie!
- Black Snake Moan - I just want another excuse to spend a couple of days listening to It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp. The new movie from Craig Brewer means that we'll get to put that scene from Hustle & Flow into the preshow and I can watch it over and over.
- TV Parties - Okay, it's not a movie, but I'm crazy excited for the TV of 2007. The 24 premiere with the nuclear explosion in LA was awesome, and Prison Break starts next week, Veronica Mars is back, and The Sopranos completely ends. And since we watch TV at the Village now, I figure that I can count those shows as movies. Hooray!

ZACK CARLSON, office goon and Terror Thursdays:
10) Wilderness
9) Monster House in 3D
8) V for Vendetta (begrudgingly, but true)
7) Jackass 2
6) Pan's Labyrinth
5) The Host (Korea)
4) Jonestown: the Life and Death of People's Temple
3) The Proposition
2) Calvaire
...and the gold medal, top drawer, A#1 of the year (no joke)...
1) ROCKY BALBOA!!!

Golden Globe winners announced! Dreamgirls???!!!

I am starting to think there is some sort of widespread conspiracy going on. I managed to sit through about 50 minutes of the dreck that is DREAMGIRLS, precisely until the "what about me" musical number before I had to run screaming from the theater. This retread of a movie looks good and has some strong performances, but at it's heart, it's a tired story told many times before and many times better. Yuck. Anyway, it beat out Borat and Little Miss Sunshine to take Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical. Every year, I get excited about awards time, and every year, the various shows reach back and bitch-slap me across the face. Anyway, I've still got Oscar fever and am starting to formulate my picks. For me, it's always more about the gambling fun inspired by the Oscars than who actually deserves to get the awards.

IMDB has a good quick-scan graphical interface for the winners of the 2007 Golden Globes or you can check out the Golden Globes Official Site.

The nominees for the Oscars are announced on the 23rd. We'll be posting them here, and in the next keystroke, at 12:00 noon sharp, activating tickets for sale to our 9th Annual Red Carpet Bash. We host parties at all locations, Village, Downtown and Lamar. Plus, at the Lamar theater, we are offering a multi-course feast - each course inspired by one of the 5 best picture nominees. Here's the menu from last year to give you an idea. I particularly like the Brokeback Mountain inspired chile rubbed hanger steak in a whisky cream sauce....

We'll have tons of games and prizes, a champagne toast for the best picture, and during the commercial breaks, we'll feature embarrassing moments from dark recesses of the nominated stars past roles. It's a seriously fun night out, and hands down the best place to check out the Oscars. I hope to see you there!

Alamo Poster on Veronica Mars

If you live in Austin, you really need to be watching Veronica Mars. It's a great show for anyone to watch, but if you live here, it's like a walk down nostalgia lane. I just got caught up on season 3, and in the past 2 hours, I saw a gay man go to a club called "Oilcan Harry's," Austin's legendary Diamond Smugglers perform at a frat party, and an Alamo Drafthouse poster on the wall of the Hearst College radio station. Rob Thomas, the show's creator, grew up in Austin, played in a band here for nine years (Hey Zeus), and taught at Reagan High. His father was also vice-principal at Westlake High School for a number of years, all of which were the loose creative inspiration for the show. Veronica Mars is set in southern California, but for those in-the-know, it's a nostalgic homage to all things Austin. It's one of my favorite shows, and is well worth the hour a week investment in your time.

Here's another little game to play with Veronica Mars: as far as I can tell, every episode also has a sometimes-tiny-sometimes-huge reference to The Big Lebowski. I guess Rob really likes "the dude." Coupled with the spot-the-Austin-reference game, you could craft a pretty potent drinking game out of Veronica Mars.

Here's a couple of links for you:
Screen grab of the Alamo Drafthouse Poster at the Hearst College Radio Station. This poster was designed for the Alamo by Aesthetic Aparatus for the 6th "Annual" QT Fest, put on by the Austin Film Society. The screen grab is from Season 3, Episode 6

Poster details at the Mondo Tees site. This poster is sold out, but we are always printing up new designs. You can check out our current inventory there.

Official website

Veronica Mars Wikipedia

Great Austin Chronicle article about Rob Thomas. Rob Thomas, Kristen bell, Jason Dohring and Michael Muhney all came down last year for a very special Veronica Mars party at the Alamo. We hope to do it again soon!

Next new episode is January 23. You know where I will be...

Pan's Labyrinth Rocks the Cover of the Chronicle

Ever since it's first U.S. screening at the Alamo Drafthouse during Fantastic Fest in September, word has been spreading like wildfire about just how damn good the latest film from Guillermo Del Toro is. It capped my personal top ten list for 2006; I didn't have to think twice about it. There is something legitimizing about a sentiment, however, when a first-run movie release shows up on the cover of the Austin Chronicle and receives ostensibly the highest rating that the paper gives, 4.5 stars (granted, they can award 5 stars to films, but the only films in their archive at that rating are Fritz Lang's M-1931 and Akira Kurosawa's RAN-1985). Take some time to check out the Austin Chronicle cover story and the Chronicle movie review. Pan's Labyrinth also supports a staggering 99% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It'd be 100% were in not for the dull haze of opinions by reviewer Gabriel Shanks. Feel free to email him to tell him to pay more attention when in the sanctity of the theater.

Don't spend too much time on that email though, it is a cinematic moral imperative to go and see this film. They don't get much better.

Open Screen Night - Drunker Than Ever!

OPEN SCREEN NIGHT
with Actual Free Beer!
Weds, 1/10, 7pm, Alamo Downtown
Advance Tickets Available Here


A couple of years ago a filmmaking collective brought a show called "Free Beer" to Open Screen Night. The idea was that free beer was a good thing, so people would associate good things with their show, I guess. The thing was, they didn't provide any beer for the OSN attendees, so we just got mad!

But now there will be actual free beer for people at the next Open Screen Night, so it's all good. Here's the deal: you bring in a movie - any movie at all - and I'll buy you a beer. That's a one beer offer no matter how many movies you bring in, but still, share whatever crap you want and you get beer.

If you aren't bringing anything, don't worry; we'll still have the gong so if people bring horrible crap we won't have to watch the whole thing. Hopefully, though, people will let their guard down and bring in actual awesome things that they otherwise wouldn't have thought to share with a theater full of strangers.

The winner still gets $100, so you should still bring something entertaining. Get cracking on that, and I'll see you tonight.

Who Is Andy Milligan and why is he a Weird Wednesday legend?

Find out all you could ever wish to about one of the most fascinating figures in exploitation film history, director Andy Milligan when we run his THE BODY BENEATH at our downtown free weekly Weird Wednesday series this week. The show starts at midnight and it's free free free!

KVRX presents WEIRD WEDNESDAY Free!

THE BODY BENEATH
JANUARY 10 MIDNIGHT, FREE, DIR. ANDY MILLIGAN, 1970, 35MM, 82 MIN, R

Weird Wednesday habitues may recall Andy Milligan's repellent BLOODTHIRSTY BUTCHERS, the story of Sweeney Todd, mad barber of Fleet Street, as performed by Milligan's stock company of hustlers, drug addicts and experimental theater vets. Milligan was a vicious, bitter, sadistic, miserable bastard, and that's according to people who liked him. His movies, which he wrote, produced, directed and even sewed the costumes for, are unlike any others. A typical Milligan scenario calls for wall-to-wall bickering, back-stabbing and complaining. His characters like to vent. A lot. As Milligan films go, THE BODY BENEATH is an anomaly. It's a vampire movie about a suave bloodsucker posing as a minister but Milligan's trademark misanthropy seems largely absent. Instead, the innocent parties here seem almost like parodies of happy heterosexuals - the kind of people Milligan loathed the most. Maybe that's why he shows so much relish in having his vampires kill and devour them at the end. (Lars)

Ritz Menu

APPETIZERS

THE ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE USES TRANS FAT FREE OIL ON ALL FRIED ITEMS

RED PEPPER HUMMUS $4.99
MADE FRESH IN HOUSE WITH PITA WEDGES AND ASSORTED SLICED VEGETABLES.

POPCORN SM. $3.59, LG. $4.99
BY REQUEST, TOPPED WITH REAL MELTED BUTTER.
ADD A SIDE OF HERBED PARMESAN AND ROMANO FOR $1

CHIPS AND SALSA $2.99

CHIPS AND QUESO $4.50
Add fresh Guacamole and Pico De Gallo for $1.25

CHIPS & QUESO CON CARNE $4.99

20 BEER CHILI (BOWL) $4.99
RIBEYE CHILI, TOPPED W/ CHEESE & ONIONS.

FALAFEL $6.99
HOT AND CRISP SPICED GARBANZO BEANS WITH TZATZIKI SAUCE. SERVED WITH WARM PITA WEDGES & HUMMUS.

HOT WINGS $7.49
(HOT OR “APOCALYPSE NOW-XXX”) 10 SPICY WINGS WITH CELERY, AND RANCH DRESSING. SERIOUSLY, WATCH OUT FOR THE XXX

POTATO SKINS $5.99
TOPPED WITH BACON, CHEDDAR, AND SCALLIONS, SERVED WITH A SIDE OF SALSA AND SOUR CREAM

JALAPEÑO POPPERS $5.99
STUFFED WITH CREAM CHEESE, FRIED AND SERVED WITH RANCH.

MOZZARELLA STICKS $5.99
BATTERED, FRIED AND SERVED WITH MARINARA SAUCE.

CHICKEN STRIP BASKET $6.99
THREE JUICY, SEASONED, BATTER FRIED CHICKEN STRIPS WITH FRIES, KETCHUP, RANCH AND CREAM GRAVY.

FRIED PICKLES $5.99
SERVED WITH A SIDE OF RANCH

NACHO LIBRE $8.99
LAYERS OF TORTILLA CHIPS, REFRIED BLACK BEANS, GREEN CHILES, CHEDDAR, AND COTIJA WITH CHIPOTLE BRAISED CHICKEN, GUACAMOLE, PICO DE GALLO AND SOUR CREAM

BASKET OF FRIES $3.99
TOP WITH QUESO FOR $1, TOP WITH CHILI FOR $1

SALADS

ADD GRILLED CHICKEN OR TOFU TO ANY SALAD FOR $2.50

DRESSINGS: BLEU CHEESE, CAESAR, ROASTED GARLIC RANCH, BALSAMIC VINAIGRETTE, HONEY MUSTARD AND LEMON VINAIGRETTE.

ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO $8.99
CHOOSE GRILLED FLAT IRON BEEF STEAK OR MARINATED GRILLED CHICKEN BREAST, JICAMA, AVOCADO, RED ONION, COTIJA CHEESE AND BLUE CORN TORTILLA CRISPS ON MIXED GREENS WITH A ROASTED JALAPEÑO LIME VINAIGRETTE.

GOAT CHEESE SALAD $9.99
MIXED GREENS TOPPED WITH 3 PEPPER PANKO-CRUSTED GOAT CHEESE ROUNDS, DRIED CHERRIES, TOASTED PINE NUTS, JULIENNED CARROTS AND BALSAMIC VINAIGRETTE.

HOUSE SALAD $6.59
MIXED GREENS WITH PARMESAN, TOMATOES, CROUTONS AND CHOICE OF DRESSING.

SPINACH SALAD $6.99
FRESH SPINACH TOSSED WITH DRIED CHERRIES, CANDIED WALNUTS, MUSHROOMS, RED ONIONS, AND TOMATO SLICES.

ASIAN CHICKEN SALAD $8.99
MIXED GREENS, CARROTS, SUNFLOWER SPROUTS, CILANTRO, CUCUMBERS, WONTON STRIPS, RED ONIONS, SCALLIONS, TOSSED WITH A SPICY PEANUT DRESSING.

CAESAR SALAD $6.59
ROMAINE WITH CAESAR DRESSING, PARMESAN, TOMATOES AND CROUTONS

GREEK SALAD $7.59
ROMAINE TOPPED WITH TOMATOES, CUCUMBERS, RED ONIONS, CALAMATA OLIVES, FETA CHEESE, PEPPERONCINI PEPPERS, SERVED WITH HERBED LEMON OIL AND VINEGAR.

SMALL SIDE SALAD $2.50
ADD THIS TO ANY MENU ITEM! MIXED GREENS WITH PARMESAN, TOMATOES, CROUTONS AND CHOICE OF DRESSING.

SANDWICHES

WITH FRENCH FRIES OR CHIPS AND SALSA. SUBSTITUTE A SIDE SALAD FOR $1 EXTRA.

ADD A SIDE SALAD WITH ANY SANDWICH FOR JUST $2.50 CHANGE ANY BURGER TO A BLACK BEAN PATTY FOR FREE!

Add beer chili or roasted green chiles to your burger for $1.50, or Guacamole for $2.00.

STEAK SANDWICH $8.99
CIABATTA STUFFED WITH THINLY SLICED GRILLED MARINATED FLAT IRON STEAK, ROASTED TOMATOES, CARAMELIZED SHALLOTS, BABY SPINACH, MELTED HAVARTI AND HERBED AIOLI.

“ROYALE WITH CHEESE” BURGER $7.99
ANGUS PATTY WITH LETTUCE, TOMATO, ONIONS, CHEDDAR CHEESE, BACON AND CHIPOTLE MAYO ON A TOASTED SWEET BUN.

THE BIG (ORGANIC) ONE $9.99
1/3LB OF ALL NATURAL GRASS-FED, HORMONE-FREE, ORGANIC TEXAS BEEF ON A TOASTED SWEET BUN WITH ORGANIC ROSEMARY AIOLI, TOMATOES, SPRING ONION, ROAST RED PEPPERS, SPINACH AND A SALAD WITH BALSAMIC VINAIGRETTE.

SPICY BLEU BURGER $7.99
ANGUS PATTY WITH BLEU CHEESE AND BUFFALO HOT SAUCE SERVED WITH ONIONS AND CHIPOTLE MAYO ON A TOASTED SWEET BUN. VEGGIE BURGER SUBSTITUTE UPON REQUEST

GRILLED 3 CHEESE SANDWICH $6.99
HAVARTI, SWISS AND DOUBLE GLOUCESTER CHIVE CHEESE WITH ROASTED TOMATOES ON SOURDOUGH,
FLAT GRILLED TO PERFECTION!

BLACK BEAN BURGER $7.99
BLACK BEAN PATTY WITH LETTUCE, TOMATO, ONIONS, CHEDDAR CHEESE AND CHIPOTLE MAYO.

“OVER THE TOP” DOG $5.99
1/4 POUND ALL BEEF DOG ON A TOASTED HOAGIE WITH MUSTARD, KETCHUP AND RELISH ON THE SIDE.

MAXIMUM OVERDOG $7.49
1/4 POUND BEEF DOG WITH ENGLISH CHEDDAR CHEESE WITH A PEPPERCORN WHOLE GRAIN MUSTARD, ON A TOASTED HOAGIE TOPPED WITH RIBEYE CHILI AND GRILLED SWEET ONIONS.

“SMOKEY AND THE BACON” BLT $7.99
LETTUCE, TOMATO AND HEAPS OF PEPPERED, SMOKED BACON, SERVED ON SOURDOUGH WITH CHIPOTLE MAYO.
MAKE IT A “BREAKFAST CLUB” BY ADDING A FRIED EGG FOR $1 MORE.

GRILLED CHICKEN CLUB $7.99
GRILLED CHICKEN, BACON, SWISS, LETTUCE, ONIONS, TOMATO, AND CHIPOTLE MAYO ON A SWEET BUN.

THE CONSTANT GARDENER $7.99
GRILLED PORTOBELLO AND ZUCCHINI TOPPED WITH BABY SPINACH, JULIENNE CARROTS AND SUNFLOWER SPROUTS WITH ROASTED RED PEPPER HUMMAS ON CIABATTA.

ROASTED TURKEY SANDWICH $7.99
OUR FRESH IN-HOUSE ANCHO-ROASTED TURKEY WITH HAVARTI, ROSEMARY AIOLI, FIELD GREENS, RED ONIONS AND TOMATOES SERVED ON FRESH CIABATTA BREAD WITH FRIES.

TACOS

WITH VEGETARIAN REFRIED BLACK BEANS, CHIPS, AND SALSA.

STEAK $9.99
GRILLED RIBEYE WITH MANCHEGO AND COTIJA, PICO DE GALLO, GUACAMOLE AND LETTUCE ON THE SIDE.

CHIPOTLE CHICKEN $8.99
CHIPOTLE-BRAISED CHICKEN WITH MANCHEGO AND COTIJA, WITH PICO DE GALLO, GUACAMOLE AND LETTUCE ON THE SIDE.

“BIG FISH” TACOS $7.99
CHILE CORNMEAL CRUSTED TILAPIA WITH PICO DE GALLO, GUACAMOLE AND LETTUCE ON THE SIDE.

PIZZAS

TRY A SIDE SALAD WITH ANY PIZZA FOR $2.50

“MOONSTRUCK” $7.49
MARINARA TOPPED WITH FRESH BASIL, TOMATO SLICES & OUR FOUR CHEESE BLEND.

“UP IN SMOKE’D” BACON PIZZA $8.49
MARINARA TOPPED WITH SPINACH, FRESH GARLIC, RED ONION, TOMATOES, BLACK PEPPER BACON,
WITH PROVOLONE, MOZZARELLA AND CHEDDAR CHEESES.

“THE GODFATHER” $8.49
MARINARA WITH PEPPERONI, GREEN BELLS, MUSHROOMS, ONION, BASIL, TOMATO, BLACK OLIVES,
AND OUR FOUR CHEESE BLEND.

“PORKY’S” PEPPERONI $7.49
AN AMPLE PORTION OF PEPPERONI TOPS OUR FOUR CHEESE BLEND AND HOUSE MARINARA SAUCE.

“MY BIG FAT GREEK” VEGETARIAN PIZZA $8.49
ROASTED RED BELLS, PORTOBELLOS, SPINACH, FETA, PROVOLONE, MOZZARELLA, RED ONION AND
KALAMATA OLIVES ON MARINARA SAUCE.

“LOVE AT FIRST BITE” $9.99
FRESH AND ROASTED GARLIC LAYERED WITH SEARED RIBEYE STAKE, SUNDRIED TOMATOES, ARTICHOKE HEARTS, RED ONIONS, AND OUR FOUR CHEESE BLEND.

“WILD AT ARTICHOKE HEARTS” $8.49
OLIVE OIL BASE WITH SPINACH, FOUR CHEESES, SUNDRIED TOMATOES, ARTICHOKE HEARTS, ROAST GARLIC & GOAT CHEESE.

“RAGING BULL” $8.49
MARINARA SAUCE TOPPED WITH OUR FOUR CHEESE BLEND, PEPPERONI, CANADIAN BACON AND ITALIAN SAUSAGE.

“BLAZING SADDLES” BBQ $8.49
RED ONIONS, BBQ SAUCE, CHEDDAR, PROVOLONE AND GRILLED CHICKEN.

POULTRYGEIST $8.99
A BASIL PESTO BASED PIZZA WITH GRILLED CHICKEN, BLACK OLIVES, TOMATOES AND OUR FOUR CHEESE BLEND.

PASTA AND ENTREES

PUERCO GUISADA $5.99
A SPICY STEW OF PORK AND GREEN CHILES TOPPED WITH CRISPY TORTILLA STRIPS, MONTEREY JACK AND COTIJA CHEESES AND FRESH AVOCADO SLICES. SERVED WITH TORTILLAS.

STEAK PLATE $11.99
GRILLED RIBEYE STEAK TOPPED WITH BLEU CHEESE BUTTER SERVED WITH ROASTED NEW POTATOES AND ASPARAGUS.

GREEN CHILE MAC ‘N CHEESE $7.99
AMERICAN, MONTEREY JACK, AND MANCHEGO WITH GREEN CHILES AND A CRISPY COTIJA BREADCRUMB TOPPING.

DRAFT BEER

Prices listed by the pint and by the pit