Alamo Drafthouse celebrates the 40th anniversary of the best year in cinema throug
What was the best year in cinema history? With movies like STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN, ROCKY III, CONAN THE BARBARIAN and THE NEVERENDING STORY, it’s clearly 1982. Right? It may have been forty years ago (!!!), but we’re still living in the films of 1982.
That’s why Alamo Drafthouse East El Paso and Montecillo are celebrating the most spectacular year of cinema ever with a month-long deep-dive retrospective of the epic, genre-defining films of 1982 – including Brunch Screenings, Movie Parties and Kids Camp movies. See listings below for more all-timers and hidden gems from the greatest year of cinema.
Alamo Drafthouse also has plenty of new summer spectaculars on tap. In August, ATOMIC BLONDE and DEADPOOL 2 director David Leitch brings his latest action-comedy BULLET TRAIN, starring Brad Pitt, to the big screen. Seasoned assassin Ladybug (Pitt) is looking to leave the life but gets roped into a seemingly easy snatch and dash job on a Japanese bullet train. Things get a little more complicated as competing assassins crawl out of the woodwork and the notoriously unlucky Ladybug does everything he can to just get off the damn train. Check out an advance screening on Tuesday, August 2 at Alamo Drafthouse East El Paso.
Also coming in August are DRAGON BALL SUPER: SUPER HERO and director Halina Reijn’s new dark comedy-horror BODIES BODIES BODIES.
Frida Fest
Join us at Alamo Drafthouse East El Paso as we partner with the El Paso Opera to celebrate the life and art of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo on Saturday, August 13 beginning at 1:30 p.m. This colorful event features performances by El Paso Opera resident artists, a pop-up market with Frida-inspired art, a FRIDA screening with a Q&A and a look-alike contest. For more information go to https://fb.me/e/2fXZocvXs.
Repertory and Specialty screenings
Of course, there’s plenty more action happening at Alamo Drafthouse in August, including more Movie Parties, Brunch Screenings, film series and Kids Camp screenings. David Lynch fans will enjoy the 25th anniversary 4K restoration of LOST HIGHWAY on August 6 at Alamo Drafthouse Montecillo.
Alamo Drafthouse continues its celebration of director John Carpenter with a screening of his cult classic THEY LIVE on Wednesday, August 3. The Fist City series continues with screenings of ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA and the Jackie Chan classic DRUNKEN MASTER II.
August Kids Camp screenings include SUPERMAN, HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 4, POKÉMON DETECTIVE PIKACHU and much more.
Head to drafthouse.com/el-paso for all the details.
See below for a list of all of Alamo Drafthouse East El Paso and Montecillo regular and specialty showings:
ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA
Alamo Drafthouse East El Paso
Monday, August 1 at 7:30 p.m.
Alamo Drafthouse Montecillo
Wednesday, August 3 at 7:30 p.m.
Presented in Cantonese with English subtitles. Widely considered one of the best martial arts films made, ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA stars Jet Li as the lightning-fast folk hero and martial arts master Wong Fei-hung who defends a martial arts school from, among other things, government corruption, the slave trade, and Western incursion. A shining example of Hong Kong cinema, this film showcases the fight choreography of the legendary Yuen Woo-ping and treats the viewer to the amazing talents of a 28-year-old Jet Li.
Buy tickets: https://drafthouse.com/el-paso/event/fist-city-once-upon-a-time-in-china
Advance Screening: BULLET TRAIN
Alamo Drafthouse East El Paso
Tuesday, August 2 at 7:30 p.m.
Regular showings: Alamo Drafthouse East El Paso & Montecillo
Opens Thursday, August 4
Early boarding is available for this non-stop thrill ride. All aboard! This train is leaving the station and we’re giving you a chance to hop on early for an advance screening of David Leitch’s (DEADPOOL 2) high octane action comedy. See it before anyone else on our biggest screen with train-rattling sound – we call it The Big Show. Brad Pitt just can’t catch a break in this action comedy pressure cooker on wheels from the director of ATOMIC BLONDE and DEADPOOL 2. Seasoned assassin Ladybug (Brad Pitt) is looking to leave the life (as seasoned assassins often are) but gets roped into a seemingly easy snatch and dash job on a Japanese bullet train. Things get a little more complicated as competing assassins crawl out of the woodwork and the notoriously unlucky Ladybug does everything he can to just get off the damn train.
Buy tickets (Advance Screening): https://drafthouse.com/el-paso/event/advance-screening-bullet-train
Buy tickets (Regular showings): https://drafthouse.com/el-paso/show/bullet-train
STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN (1982)
Alamo Drafthouse Montecillo
Tuesday, August 2 at 7:30 p.m.
Alamo Drafthouse East El Paso
Wednesday, August 3 at 7:30 p.m.
It is 1980. Disappointed with the performance of the decidedly un-STAR WARS-like performance of STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE, Paramount executives approach television producer Harve Bennett about taking over the next outing of the Starship Enterprise… but for a far lower budget than the prior film and its special effects extravaganza. An epic revenge tale that also manages to pack in meditations on aging, regret, and, well, how we deal with death… it’s the finest moment in the entire Original Series canon, and (arguably) one of the greatest science-fiction films ever made.
Buy tickets: https://drafthouse.com/el-paso/show/star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan
Kids Camp: HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 4: TRANSFORMANIA
Alamo Drafthouse East El Paso & Montecillo
Wednesday, August 3 at 4:35 p.m.
This show is part of our Kids Camp series – our summer program dedicated to providing affordable family movies for maximum family fun. All tickets are just $5 for everyone – little kids, big kids, and grownup kids. When Van Helsing’s (Jim Gaffigan) mysterious invention, the Monsterification Ray, goes haywire, Drac (Brian Hull) and his monster pals are all transformed into the scariest thing imaginable – humans! All except Johnny that is, who turns into a monster and LOVES it. Now the hilariously human Drac Pack must team up to race across the globe in search of a cure before it’s too late, and before they drive each other crazy.
Buy tickets: https://drafthouse.com/el-paso/event/kids-camp-hotel-transylvania-4-transformania
EASTER SUNDAY
Alamo Drafthouse Montecillo
Opens Thursday, August 4
Jo Koy’s comedic love letter to the Filipino-American community, EASTER SUNDAY, is set around a family gathering to celebrate Easter Sunday, the comedy is based on Jo Koy’s life experiences and stand-up comedy.
Buy tickets: https://drafthouse.com/el-paso/show/easter-sunday
Kids Camp: THE CROODS: A NEW AGE
Alamo Drafthouse Montecillo
Saturday, August 6 at 10 a.m.
Alamo Drafthouse East El Paso
Saturday, August 6 at 2:35 p.m.
This show is part of our Kids Camp series – our summer program dedicated to providing affordable family movies for maximum family fun. All tickets are just $5 for everyone – little kids, big kids, and grownup kids. The Croods are back and need a new place to live. When they discover an idyllic walled-in paradise that meets all their needs, they think their problems are solved…except for one tiny little detail. Another family already lives there – the Bettermans.
Buy tickets: https://drafthouse.com/el-paso/event/kids-camp-the-croods-a-new-age
Special Menu: THE DARK CRYSTAL (1982) Brunch
Alamo Drafthouse East El Paso
Saturday, August 6 at 11 a.m.
Alamo Drafthouse Montecillo
Sunday, August 7 at 11 a.m.
Order from our tasty brunch menu – Egg BLT, French Toast, or Breakfast Tacos – and pair with a brunch cocktail classic like Desert Spring Water or the Italian 75. Each are available to order along with our full menu at this special brunch screening.
Before computers took over the universe, long-time collaborators (and Muppet-makers) Henson and Oz rolled up their sleeves and created the most beautiful otherworldly film to ever zoom across the ’80s audience’s eyeballs. In an unnamed land, a pair of young, elf-like Gelflings must battle the evil Skeksis to bring their world back to the power it once held.
Buy tickets: https://drafthouse.com/el-paso/event/the-dark-crystal-brunch
LOST HIGHWAY
Alamo Drafthouse Montecillo
Saturday, August 6 at 9:30 p.m.
After a five-year hiatus following the release of FIRE WALK WITH ME, Lynch returned with perhaps his most daring and disturbing work since ERASERHEAD. LOST HIGHWAY follows an LA jazz saxophonist’s (Bill Pullman) withering relationship with his wife (Patricia Arquette), who receive cryptic, menacing surveillance tapes of their Hollywood home.
Buy tickets: https://drafthouse.com/el-paso/show/lost-highway
The Film Salon: A FOREIGN AFFAIR
Alamo Drafthouse Montecillo
Saturday, August 6 at 6 p.m.
The Film Salon was established in 2002 as a monthly screening and discussion series dedicated to the appreciation of classic and important films. Screenings include an introduction and post-screening discussion. Attendees are encouraged to arrive early and stay afterward for comments and discussion.
Starring Jean Arthur and Marlene Dietrich, A FOREIGN AFFAIR is a cynical satire that mirrors the bewildering moral climate of the late 1940s.
Buy tickets: https://drafthouse.com/el-paso/event/the-film-salon-a-foreign-affair
ROCKY III (1982)
Alamo Drafthouse Montecillo
Tuesday, August 9 at 7:30 p.m.
Alamo Drafthouse East El Paso
Wednesday, August 10 at 7:30 p.m.
In the first film, Rocky Balboa blew it. In the second, he conquered. But in the third, he was permanently transformed into an immortal icon of the ring and the universal human experience as a whole. Join everyone’s favorite diminutive mush-mouthed pugilist for one of his top trademarked fall-n’-rise triumphs, as he goes toe to toe with the most unstoppable force in the boxing world: Clubber Lang (played with truly intimidating rage by Mr. T)! On hand for the buffet of physical and emotional brutality are all of Rocky’s diehard pals, including Carl “Apollo” Weathers, Talia “Adrian” Shire, Burgess “Mickey” Meredith and the great Burt Young as Paulie! If you miss this show, we’ll beat you like a frozen side of beef. (Zack Carlson)
Buy tickets: https://drafthouse.com/el-paso/show/rocky-iii
THE THING (1982)
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema East El Paso
Tuesday, August 9 at 7:30 p.m.
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Montecillo
Wednesday, August 10 at 7:30 p.m.
Hot off his success from ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, horror movie icon John Carpenter next drew inspiration from Howard Hawks’ classic sci-fi thriller THE THING, resulting in one of the most thrilling and beloved blockbusters of the ’80s. Kurt Russell leads a group of men working in Antarctica who are plagued by an alien being that can take the form of any living creature… including the men themselves. Leveraging special effects from ROBOCOP mastermind Rob Bottin that still shock to this day, Carpenter crafted a film that combines body horror, Hitchcockian suspense thriller, and rollicking action movie into one wildly entertaining package.
Buy tickets: https://drafthouse.com/el-paso/show/the-thing
BODIES BODIES BODIES
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema East El Paso & Montecillo
Opens Thursday, August 11
Director Halina Reijn’s darkly comedic horror whodunit has all the right pieces on the board for a classic slasher flick. An isolated location cut off from the outside world. 20-somethings partying their faces off with plenty of illicit substances. These tropes might be familiar, but they’re deployed in ways that feel fresh and unexpected. The set up is simple: a group of old friends and a couple newcomers meet at a mansion for a hurricane party. As old tensions and levels of intoxication rise, they decide to play a game – Bodies Bodies Bodies. It’s all fun and games (aside from how toxic they act towards each other) until an actual body is found, transforming the night into a deadly game of cat and mouse.
Buy tickets: https://drafthouse.com/el-paso/show/bodies-bodies-bodies
BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT (1982)
Alamo Drafthouse East El Paso
Saturday, August 13 at 10 p.m.
Alamo Drafthouse Montecillo
Monday, August 15 at 7:30 p.m.
Ridley Scott’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? might not be the most faithful, but BLADE RUNNER has become enshrined in the halls of science-fiction classics all the same. Bringing Dick’s tale of lifelike androids into a groundbreaking futuristic noir city, Scott’s film is one of the most influential in the history of the genre.
Buy tickets: https://drafthouse.com/el-paso/show/blade-runner-the-final-cut
POKÉMON DETECTIVE PIKACHU Movie Party
Alamo Drafthouse Montecillo
Saturday, August 13 at 1 p.m.
Alamo Drafthouse East El Paso
Sunday, August 14 at 6 p.m.
Have you always wanted to head out into a wilderness filled with pocket monsters? Do you have an uncontrollable urge to “catch ‘em all”? Then we’ve got the movie party for you. We’re headed to Ryme City, where Pokémon and humans live in harmony, for a funny and action-packed mystery in POKÉMON DETECTIVE PIKACHU. Trainers who join us on this epic adventure will get fun themed props, including a magnifying glass, a pokémon figure, an Alamo-themed poké ball, and custom pocket monster cards to help you catch ‘em all. Grab your favorite little monster and party with us to discover the power that’s insiiiiiiiide, POKÉMON!
Buy tickets: https://drafthouse.com/el-paso/event/pokemon-detective-pikachu-movie-party
Kids Camp: POKÉMON DETECTIVE PIKACHU
Alamo Drafthouse East El Paso & Montecillo
Saturday, August 13 at 10 a.m.
This show is part of our Kids Camp series – our summer program dedicated to providing affordable family movies for maximum family fun. All tickets are just $5 for everyone – little kids, big kids, and grownup kids.
Everyone’s favorite electric mouse is back like you’ve never seen him before – in live action. Oh, and instead of following Ash around fighting Team Rocket, he’s a detective. If all of that sounds like gibberish to you, just trust us, it’s awesome.
Buy tickets: https://drafthouse.com/el-paso/event/special-event-pokemon-detective-pikachu-kids-camp
Special Menu: THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS (1982) Brunch
Alamo Drafthouse East El Paso
Saturday, August 13 at 11 a.m.
Alamo Drafthouse Montecillo
Sunday, August 14 at 11 a.m.
Order from our tasty brunch menu – Egg BLT, French Toast, or Breakfast Tacos – and pair with a brunch cocktail classic like Desert Spring Water or the Italian 75. Each are available to order along with our full menu at this special brunch screening.
Based on the musical by the same title, THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS stars Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds at the height of their fame trying to save the Chicken Ranch, a small brothel in Texas that’s become the heart of their small town. Featuring Charles Durning as the Governor of Texas and Dom DeLuise as a TV reporter hellbent on shutting down the ranch for good in a timeless tale of goodtime partiers going toe to toe with some notorious sticks in the mud. The musical numbers are plentiful and lively, the chemistry between Parton and Reynolds palpable, and the whole thing is good clean/dirty fun.
Buy tickets: https://drafthouse.com/el-paso/event/the-best-little-whorehouse-in-texas-brunch
ART OF A COWBOY
Alamo Drafthouse Montecillo
Sunday, August 14 at 6 p.m.
The true story of Steve Boaldin, a cowboy artist with a passion for telling the stories of ranchers and cowboys across the US through spectacular art. Raised on a farm & ranch in southwest Kansas, Steve grew up working cattle, rodeoing & breaking horses. As these were his favorite aspects of farm life, it is no wonder he chose to paint & draw them.
Buy tickets: https://drafthouse.com/el-paso/show/art-of-a-cowboy
Summer of Darkness: PRINCE OF DARKNESS
Alamo Drafthouse East El Paso
Tuesday, August 16 at 7:30 p.m.
Alamo Drafthouse Montecillo
Wednesday, August 17 at 7:30 p.m.
This is how to age gracefully. Like Jack Kirby’s FOURTH WORLD comic books, PRINCE OF DARKNESS is John Carpenter’s pet-project masterwork — a sprawling, Lovecraft-ian folk epic about demons, science, and unseen evil. A group of college students and professors camp out in a decrepit church to research the unexplainable charms of Satan. Once there, they’re flung into a netherworld that’s populated by zombies who hijack souls, Donald Pleasance with an axe, and Alice Cooper as a homicidal hobo.
Buy tickets: https://drafthouse.com/el-paso/show/prince-of-darkness
THE LAST UNICORN (1982)
Alamo Drafthouse Montecillo
Tuesday, August 16 at 7:30 p.m.
Alamo Drafthouse East El Paso
Wednesday, August 17 at 7:30 p.m.
Weary of being alone in the vast forest, unicorn Amalthea (voiced by Mia Farrow) begins to wonder if she’s the last of her kind. Following a rumor, she joins forces with feeble wizard Schmendrick (Alan Arkin) to look for the mystical Red Bull, a creature known to hunt and imprison unicorns. In order to walk unnoticed among men, Schmendrick magically transforms Amalthea into a beautiful woman. Together they embark on an adventure into the dark land of King Haggard, the man rumored to control the Red Bull.
Buy tickets: https://drafthouse.com/el-paso/show/the-last-unicorn
Kids Camp: CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS
Alamo Drafthouse East El Paso & Montecillo
Wednesday, August 17 at 4:35 p.m.
This show is part of our Kids Camp series – our summer program dedicated to providing affordable family movies for maximum family fun. All tickets are just $5 for everyone – little kids, big kids, and grownup kids.
We don’t know about you, but ice cream falling from the sky sounds pretty awesome to us. That’s exactly how down-on-his-luck Flint Lockwood feels as he creates a mysterious machine that makes clouds rain food to feed the hungry citizens of Chewandswallow. Hailed as a hero at first, Flint must scramble to avert disaster as food of gargantuan proportions rains down. Can he put an end to the wild weather before the town’s goose is cooked?
Buy tickets: https://drafthouse.com/el-paso/event/kids-camp-cloudy-with-a-chance-of-meatballs
DRAGON BALL SUPER: SUPER HERO (Dubbed) (Subtitled)
Alamo Drafthouse East El Paso & Montecillo
Dubbed and Subtitled showings open Thursday, August 18
The Red Ribbon Army was once destroyed by Son Goku. Individuals, who carry on its spirit, have created the ultimate Androids, Gamma 1 and Gamma 2. These two Androids call themselves “Super Heroes”. They start attacking Piccolo and Gohan… What is the New Red Ribbon Army’s objective? In the face of approaching danger, it is time to awaken, Super Hero!
Buy tickets (Dubbed): https://drafthouse.com/el-paso/show/dragon-ball-super-super-hero-dubbed
Buy tickets (Subtiled): https://drafthouse.com/el-paso/show/dragon-ball-super-super-hero-subtitled
Summer of Darkness: HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH (1982)
Alamo Drafthouse Montecillo
Friday, August 19 at 10 p.m.
Alamo Drafthouse East El Paso
Saturday, August 20 at 10 p.m.
John Carpenter and Debra Hill never intended for their film HALLOWEEN to become a franchise. When the slasher to end all slashers became a runaway hit, though, the two were tasked with figuring out a way to keep the sequels chugging along. Michael Myers would, of course, return for HALLOWEEN II but it was the third film – HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH – that gave the filmmakers a chance to do what they deeply wanted to do with the franchise: turn it into an anthology series of unconnected scary movies themed around the spooky holiday.
Buy tickets: https://drafthouse.com/el-paso/event/graveyard-shift-halloween-iii-season-of-the-witch
Kids Camp: ANNIE (1982)
Alamo Drafthouse Montecillo
Saturday, August 20 at 10 a.m.
Alamo Drafthouse East El Paso
Saturday, August 20 at 11 a.m.
This show is part of our Kids Camp series – our summer program dedicated to providing affordable family movies for maximum family fun. All tickets are just $5 for everyone – little kids, big kids, and grownup kids.
Director John Hustion’s adaptation of the wildly popular Broadway play is the kind of film other musicals aspire to be. Fun, endearing, and filled with plenty of toe-tapping numbers, ANNIE is well-deserving of its iconic status.
Buy tickets: https://drafthouse.com/el-paso/event/kids-camp-annie-1982
GREASE 2 (1982) Movie Party
Alamo Drafthouse Montecillo
Sunday, August 21 at 6 p.m.
Alamo Drafthouse East El Paso
Wednesday, August 24 at 7:30 p.m.
Calling all Cool Riders! Join us for a Rock-a-Hula-Luau, or as we like to call it, a GREASE 2 Movie Party. Not only will we be showing 1982’s groovy musical tribute to silk jackets, slicked back hair, and totally rad motorcycles, we’ll be giving out a gaggle of goodies to take you all the way back to Rydell High. Whether you’re a T-Bird or a Pink Lady, everyone will get Candy Cigs, A Bowling Ball Keychain, a Lei, and a pair of Sunglasses to complete the look. So break out that hair crimper, grab your best gal, and get ready for some grade A prowlin.
Buy tickets: https://drafthouse.com/el-paso/event/grease-2-movie-party
CONAN THE BARBARIAN (1982)
Alamo Drafthouse East El Paso
Tuesday, August 23 at 7:30 p.m.
Alamo Drafthouse Montecillo
Wednesday, August 24 at 7:30 p.m.
Arnold Schwarzenneger exploded into stardom in a hail of broken bones, dark wizardry, and superhuman combat. Aided by a fearless huntress and one of his ol’ Mongol buddies, Conan will face off against the nefarious Thulsa Doom (James Earl Jones) and battle against the enslavement of mankind. One of the most sweat-powered films you’ll ever see, complete with the flat-out craziest giant snake in movie history.
Buy tickets: https://drafthouse.com/el-paso/show/conan-the-barbarian
Kids Camp: CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2\
Alamo Drafthouse East El Paso & Montecillo
Wednesday, August 24 at 4:40 p.m.
This show is part of our Kids Camp series – our summer program dedicated to providing affordable family movies for maximum family fun. All tickets are just $5 for everyone – little kids, big kids, and grownup kids.
Flint and the gang are back for a deadly dangerous mission with a good chance of death to stop some seriously wild food. Inventor Flint Lockwood’s genius is finally being recognized as he’s invited by his idol Chester V to join The Live Corp Company, where the best and brightest inventors in the world create technologies for the betterment of mankind. Everything is great until he discovers that his most infamous machine (which turns water into food) is still operating and is now creating food-animal hybrids – foodimals! Now it’s up to him and his friends to save the world from deliciously deadly tacodiles, shrimpanzees, apple pie-thons, and double bacon cheespiders.
Buy tickets: https://drafthouse.com/el-paso/event/kids-camp-cloudy-with-a-chance-of-meatballs-2
SPIRITED AWAY (Dubbed) Brunch
Alamo Drafthouse Montecillo
Saturday, August 27 at 11 a.m.
Alamo Drafthouse East El Paso
Sunday, August 27 at 11 a.m.
Order from our tasty brunch menu – Egg BLT, French Toast, or Breakfast Tacos – and pair with a brunch cocktail classic like Desert Spring Water or the Italian 75. Each are available to order along with our full menu at this special brunch screening.
The winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, SPIRITED AWAY follows Chihiro, a young girl whose family is moving to a new house. When they stop on the way to explore an abandoned village, her parents undergo a mysterious transformation and Chihiro is whisked into a world of fantastic spirits ruled over by the sorceress Yubaba.
Buy tickets: https://drafthouse.com/el-paso/event/brunch-screenings-spirited-away-dubbed-brunch
Kids Camp: THE NEVERENDING STORY (1982)
Alamo Drafthouse East El Paso
Saturday, August 27 at 10 a.m.
Alamo Drafthouse Montecillo
Saturday, August 28 at 11 a.m.
This show is part of our Kids Camp series – our summer program dedicated to providing affordable family movies for maximum family fun. All tickets are just $5 for everyone – little kids, big kids, and grownup kids.
Many of us have aged quite a bit since we first saw THE NEVERENDING STORY, the classic tale of a young boy who gets swept up in an enchanted fantasy novel. So take the journey back into Fantasia and re-live the story of Atreyu and his quest to save the realm from an evil force called The Nothing, all told through the eyes of Bastian, a bullied young boy reading along with the story who may be more integral to it than he realizes.
Buy tickets: https://drafthouse.com/el-paso/event/kids-camp-the-neverending-story
THE ROAD WARRIOR (1982)
Alamo Drafthouse Montecillo
Saturday, August 27 at 10 p.m.
Alamo Drafthouse East El Paso
Sunday, August 28 at 6 p.m.
Just one man can make a difference. That man is ex-Main Force Patrol officer Max Rockatansky, a man who drinks gasoline and eats bullets. “Mad” Max roams the post-apocalyptic wasteland with his trusty cattle dog and a sawed-off shotgun, desperately searching for fuel in his supercharged V-8 Pursuit Special. Max runs afoul of the psychotic Lord Humungus and his rabid gang of marauders, bikers, and berserkers, leading to a breathtaking and frenetic finale that helped popularize the post-apocalyptic genre in film.
Buy tickets: https://drafthouse.com/el-paso/show/the-road-warrior
DRUNKEN MASTER II
Alamo Drafthouse East El Paso
Monday, August 29 at 7:30 p.m.
Alamo Drafthouse Montecillo
Tuesday, August 30 at 7:30 p.m.
Presented in Cantonese with English subtitles. Returning home with his father after a shopping expedition, Wong Fei-Hong is unwittingly caught up in the battle between foreigners who wish to export ancient Chinese artifacts and loyalists who don’t want the pieces to leave the country. Fei-Hong must fight against the foreigners using his Drunken Boxing style, and overcome his father’s antagonism as well.
Buy tickets: https://drafthouse.com/el-paso/event/fist-city-drunken-master-ii
Kids Camp: GOOSEBUMPS
Alamo Drafthouse East El Paso & Montecillo
Wednesday, August 31 at 4:30 p.m.
This show is part of our Kids Camp series – our summer program dedicated to providing affordable family movies for maximum family fun. All tickets are just $5 for everyone – little kids, big kids, and grownup kids.
The beloved series of spooky children’s books comes to life in a hilarious and meta big screen debut. Teenager Zach Cooper (Dylan Minnette), upset about moving from a big city to a small town, finds a silver lining when he meets the beautiful girl, Hannah (Odeya Rush), living right next door. But every silver lining has a cloud, and Zach’s comes when he learns that Hannah’s mysterious dad is in fact R.L. Stine (Jack Black), the author of the bestselling Goosebumps series. It was bad enough having a grumpy and seemingly crazy neighbor, but things go from bad to worse when Stine’s monsters start jumping off the page and terrorizing the town.
Buy tickets: https://drafthouse.com/el-paso/event/kids-camp-goosebumps
THEY LIVE
Alamo Drafthouse East El Paso & Montecillo
Wednesday, August 31 at 7:30 p.m.
“I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass… and I’m all out of bubblegum,” warns L.A. drifter John Nada (wrestling superstar Rowdy Roddy Piper) after discovering a plot to enslave the American masses. Special glasses show him subliminal messages (“Submit!”) that reptilian aliens (disguised as Gordon Gekko-esque yuppies) are transmitting through TV, magazines, billboards and movies. It’s up to Nada and friend Frank (Keith David) to expose the conspiracy—but not before one of cinema’s longest, greatest fight scenes—in Carpenter’s still-prescient sci-fi satire.
Buy tickets: https://drafthouse.com/el-paso/show/they-live
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Tim and Karrie League founded Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in 1997 as a single-screen mom and pop repertory theater in Austin, TX. Twenty-one years later, the now 29-location chain has been named “the best theater in America” by Entertainment Weekly and “the best theater in the world” by Wired. The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema has built a reputation as a movie lover’s oasis not only by combining food and drink service with the movie-going experience, but also introducing unique programming and high-profile, star-studded special events. Alamo Drafthouse created Fantastic Fest, a world-renowned film festival dubbed “The Geek Telluride” by Variety. Fantastic Fest showcases eight days of genre cinema from independents, international filmmakers, and major Hollywood studios. The Alamo Drafthouse’s collectible art gallery, Mondo, offers breathtaking, original products featuring designs from world-famous artists based on licenses for popular TV and Movie properties, including “Star Wars,” “Star Trek” and Universal Monsters. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is expanding its brand in new and exciting ways, including partnering with the film distribution company NEON; Birth.Movies.Death., an entertainment content platform for movie lovers; and the American Genre Film Archive, a non-profit film archive dedicated to preserving, restoring and sharing exploitation-era film.
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