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Join us for our Third Sunday series at the fabulous Radio Coffee & Beer (4204 Manchaca Rd.) on Sunday, July 21st from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. for a summertime Flea!

The world of wine has been in full effervescence, shaken by a counter culture as strong as the rock scene was in its time. All around the world, joyous rebels have invaded the vineyards to create the wine they love: a natural wine free of codes and norms.

A chamber piece involving the patrons of a small café in Seoul where artists and writers come to dream. The inimitable Korean director Hong Sang Soo, crafts a film about overheard conversations, chance meetings, and the circular paths that artists travel.

How well do you know 70's trivia? Let's find out!We will have 7 rounds of trivia ranging from 70's fads and fashions to TV shows.Build a team of 2, 4 or 6 people.  No fee to play!

Quentin Tarantino’s ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD visits 1969 Los Angeles, where everything is changing, as TV star Rick Dalton and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth make their way around an industry they hardly recognize anymore.

Japan’s Studio Ghibli is perhaps best known in the west as the home base of its cofounder Hayao Miyazaki, but Miyazaki was not the only master at work there.

4th Friday Flea is coming at you! We're excited to kick off a new Happy Hour Series on the 4th Friday of each month with our friends at Skull Mechanix!

Starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Werner Herzog.

Best remembered for a poster that adorned many a dorm wall, this arthouse sensation from the director of DIVA and starring Béatrice Dalle brings new meaning to “amour fou.”

Thirteen year-old Antoine Doinel is mischievous and adventurous, but mostly just misunderstood. We follow along as he ditches school to ride the “Wheel of Death” at a carnival and engage in petty theft until his rebellion catches up with him.

Les Blank’s CHULAS FRONTERAS is a complex, insightful look at the Chicano experience as mirrored in the lives and music of the most acclaimed Norteño musicians of the time, including Flaco Jímenez and Lydia Mendoza.

We’ll have you know that, while this is not Truffaut, it is a film with a truly special vision, made with a variety of jerry-rigged camera mounts and with an average shot-length of about .7 seconds.

Take a look into your future: we're reading your Tarot Cards in the Q-Hut

Thirteen year-old Antoine Doinel is mischievous and adventurous, but mostly just misunderstood. We follow along as he ditches school to ride the “Wheel of Death” at a carnival and engage in petty theft until his rebellion catches up with him.

In this screwball comedy, Herbert Marshall plays a weary industrialist who, on a walk in the park, is mistaken by an unemployed young woman (Jean Arthur) as a fellow job-seeker.

Johnny Depp stars as the titular cult filmmaker deemed ‘the worst director of all time’ in this fictionalized portrait by Tim Burton.

Join us for a Free Child I.D. Safety Event

What a band. What a concert movie. John Doe of X joins us to present a 35mm screening of one of the best music films of the punk era.

In what is probably the best reggae movie ever made, drummer Leroy “Horsemouth” Wallace stars as himself, a hustling musician who buys a motorbike in order to hustle wholesale records in between gigs.

Jennifer Jason Leigh stars in this deeply personal film, written by her mother, Barbara Turner.

This 1928 silent film is one of the treasures of world cinema.

A little-known catalyst of the Austin Chronicle’s founding: director Joan Micklin Silver’s 1975 drama about the young writers at a Boston alternative weekly, facing the prospects of a corporate takeover.

About as good as Hollywood movies have ever gotten. Frank Capra’s story of a perfectly content young man who inherits a fortune he doesn’t especially want, and the baggage that goes with it.

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Harmony Korine gets his hands dirty with this shot on VHS-wonder about a gang of geriatrics who, as the title says, hump trash. Take our advice: “Make it. Don’t fake it.”

In the 1970s, model, actress and singer Jane Birkin was a high-flying sex symbol, but her friend and confidante Agnès Varda saw more than the iconic face and figure captured in the lens of the era’s fashion magazines.

QueerGirl Austin Pride Party @ Cedar Street Courtyard on Saturday, August 10th! 9pm-2am.Tickets:We are excited to announce the QueerGirl

Etsuko Shihomi’s acrobatic karate avenger is back for more kinetic, colorful, and somewhat surprisingly gory action.

Abel Ferrara pays homage to another visionary, the poet and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini.

After the film we will be joined via Skype by Longmont Potion Castle himself for some live prank calls.

In THE DECAMERON, part of a trilogy of classic epics by Pasolini, the visionary filmmaker imagines a pre-modern world where personal freedom, sensuality, and eroticism are central to human experience, and church and religion are constructs for comedy.

Leos Carax takes the audience on a dizzying ride through the many lives of Monsieur Oscar – acrobat, vagrant, assassin, tramp-for-hire.

A surprisingly intimate documentary/narrative hybrid portrait of the British artist David Hockney as his relationship with his partner and muse Peter Schlesinger disintegrates.

Leos Carax takes the audience on a dizzying ride through the many lives of Monsieur Oscar – acrobat, vagrant, assassin, tramp-for-hire.

The third and final installment of the series finds Etsuko Shihomi and Yasuaki Kurata back in action as the yakuza once again goes too far and Shihomi finds herself in combat with even more colorful kung fu villains.

The third and final installment of the series finds Etsuko Shihomi and Yasuaki Kurata back in action as the yakuza once again goes too far and Shihomi finds herself in combat with even more colorful kung fu villains.

Though her name is little known now, Barbara Rubin is one of the most influential underground filmmakers of the late 20th century.

This macho Howard Hawks drama is something entirely different than the other films in the series.

At the time of its making, Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam-set APOCALYPSE NOW was seen as the height of self-indulgence. In the 40 years that have followed, it has joined the pantheon of Great Films.

In the original midnight movie, David Lynch lays down the blueprint for weird with the surreal horrors of shock-quiffed Henry Spencer, his girlfriend, and their mutant baby. Lynchian indeed.

We celebrate dance every day. But one day each year we make dance FREE just for you! Make plans to attend Ballet Austin's Annual Come Dance! Celebration—our gift of dance to the city of Austin! It's absolutely FREE! Come Dance!

Jacques Rivette’s 1968 film inspired controversy in France even before it’s release: a film about a nun sadistically tortured in a religious convent, based on an 18th-century Diderot novella.

Two decades before PARIS IS BURNING, this groundbreaking doc introduced audiences to competitive drag, taking them behind the scenes of the 1967 Miss All-America Camp Beauty Pageant.

Director George Stevens brings his usual intelligent touch to this comedy set during the WWII housing shortage in Washington.

From the mind behind FANTASTIC PLANET comes a wild mix of live action, puppetry, and claymation which sees a dog-faced Marquis de Sade imprisoned in the Bastille with only his talking penis for company.

Ready, Set, GO! Lace up your sneakers, and join us in the fight to end childhood cancer for the Greater Austin St. Jude Walk/Run on Saturday, September 21 at Dell Diamond.

Featuring 300 artisan vendors, 30 food concessions, 50 bands on (3) stages, family friendly rides section and street performers, the Pecan Street Festival is the largest FREE arts / crafts Festival in Central Texas.

The largest five-mile run in Texas and one of the largest Turkey Trots in the nation with nearly 20,000 participants, the ThunderCloud Subs Turkey Trot is Austin’s beloved Thanksgiving Day tradition benefiting Caritas of Austin.