![]() The Paramount Summer Classic Film Series presented by Capital Metro runs May 25 to Sept. So schedule a trip to the archives in June and July to see original material from Taxi Driver and A Streetcar Named Desire at the center's upcoming Stories to Tell exhibition before their screenings. Coincidentally, the Civil War mainstay is just one of the titles whose props and production documents are stored at the Harry Ransom Center. The season winds down with the Taming of the West (including seminal Texas cowboy tale Red River and the state's defining epic Giant), before wrapping up on September 2 with Gone With the Wind. Austin Film Festival will be bringing in screenwriter Dale Launer for a special 25th anniversary screening of raucous legal comedy My Cousin Vinny, while Sam Beam (better known in musical circles and Iron and Wine) will present a 45th anniversary screening of John Huston's hard-hitting boxing drama Fat City. Known for the wicked senses of humor, both would appreciate other program highlights like Woody Allen's Bananas and Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator, thumbing their noses at oppression under the banner of Taking Down Dictation.Īlongside Summer Film Series constants like the ongoing family festival and the celebration of foreign cinema, there are as always a few one-off special events. Two giants of cinema get special nods, starting with Peter Sellers, Scene Stealer, followed by Hitchcock Week's celebration of one of the masters of crime cinema. ![]() ![]() Throw in Terrence Malick's Badlands, and that quartet makes up Star Crossed Lovers, just one of a broad selection of special programming that makes up the schedule at the Paramount and neighboring Stateside. ![]()
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