In Intimidad, documentarians Ashley Sabin and David Redmon follow the lives of Cecy and Camilo, a young couple living in Reynosa, Mexico. Cecy and Camilo both work for minimum wage in maquiladoras, trying to save money to buy land, build themselves a house, and bring their daughter Loida back to live with them....

Still from The District! The DistrictNovember 16-222110 South Lamar (2110 S. Lamar)Various Showtimes, $8.25[info]We heard a lot of good things about Áron Gauder's one-of-a-kind animated gem The District! during Fantastic Fest last year, but we hadn't had a chance to see it until recently. It's a Hungarian Hip-Hop / time travel / gangster odyssey set in Budapest's notorious 8th district, where rival crime families feud like Montagues and Capulets. That is, until their kids fall......

Sugar Cane Alley, the third offering of the current Austin Film Society series Torn From the Motherland: Films from the African Diaspora, introduces us to a young boy named Jose who has grown up in the shanty towns of Martinique. Life in his village has been poor in material possessions, but rich with lessons. He has learned about race relations through his friendship with a child of mixed ethnicity, the bastard son of the Creole......

Tomorrow, as part of the new AFS Essential Cinema series "Blokes 'n Birds: British Realist Cinema, 1958-1965", Look Back in Anger will bring its critique of postwar British identity to Alamo South Lamar. Richard Burton stars as a disaffected, angry, undirected young man stuck in a flat and bullying his wife for an outlet--as clearly shown in the above still. (Too bad he didn't happen to live in America...the Beats had an excellent road-n-drugs cure......

Donkey Kong is a rite of passage for American youth. Who hasn't spent hours in a pizza joint, bent over a Donkey Kong cocktail table game, going for the new high score while your slice of pepperoni gets cold and the grease coagulates into a mess even more disgusting than the scent of a person who's played DK for 3 days straight without showering? Sometimes dodging virtual barrels and climbing to the top of......

What more can really be said about the Simpsons and the indelible yellow smudge they've left on pop culture? To celebrate the opening weekend of the Simpsons' ascent to the silver screen (beginning next Friday, July 27th), the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar and Village are planning characteristically over-the-top shenanigans. At the Alamo South Lamar premiere, a life-sized Homer and Bart will greet fans, and a Squishee machine in the lobby will provide tasty, relevant......

Monday, July 2film"Clash By Night" and "The Asphalt Jungle" at The Paramount Theatre filmLast day of "Labyrinth" at Dobie Theatre film/awesomeRobosaurus Live with "Transformers" at Alamo South Lamar foodCentral Market Cooking Class: Empanada Workshop at Central Market Cooking School, 4001 N Lamar ($65, 6:30-9:30pm)musicCanada, Our Solar System, Ryan Anderson at Emo’s musicBurning Brides, Strange Boys, Black Earth, Blackmarket at Emo’s musicBurning Brides at Waterloo Records (Free, 5pm)......

Forget all those overhyped inventions like "language", "the printing press" and "insulin"--humankind's greatest achievement, both technically and spiritually, is a car-crushing, fire-breathing, 40-foot-tall robot named Robosaurus. And next week, Austinites will get a chance to see the great metallic beast do its thing firsthand as the Alamo Drafthouse and AT&T present The Ultimate Transformers Experience. Basically, Robosaurus will roll menacingly into the parking lot at the Alamo South Lamar (possibly causing some mayhem along the......

Thursday, June 21 comedy Christian Finnegan at Cap City Comedy Club music Emo’s 15th Anniversary Week with De La Soul, Word Association, Just Born, DJ Notion at Emo’s music Buddy Guy, The Greyhounds at Stubb’s music US Air Guitar Championships at The Parish Room music The Score at Beerland music Discovery School Fundraiser w/Gary Clark Jr., Johnny Moeller, Mike Barfield, Ephraim Owens & more at Continental Club music Doc Watson, Jack Lawrence, Richard Watson......

Go ahead and order that failure bowl at KFC and dig in with your spork of sadness, it might be the only thing that will smother the despair that will come with missing Patton Oswalt present Ratatouille tonight at the Alamo. That’s right kids, it’s sold out. In fact, it was sold out last Thursday. You will just have to wait until June 29th for your yearly dose of Pixar magic and Brad Bird brilliance.......

Still not sure what to do for Mom for Mother's Day? No worries—there are plenty of filmtastic options. First, the Alamo Drafthouse is coming to your rescue with a Sabrina Mother’s Day Feast! The classic film starring Hepburn and Bogart (not the remake with Harrison Ford) is sure to be one of your mom’s faves, and even if it’s not, it will be soon—thanks to romantic tale and the delicious food set to accompany......

TUESDAY [8] music • Bruce Springsteen Tribute with Southpaw Jones, Matt the Electrician, Scrappy Jud Newcomb, Nathan Hamilton, Abia Tapia, Graham Weber, JJ Barron, Nakia at Cactus Café (FREE, 8pm) music • Elf Power, AM Syndicate at Emo's music • Ryan Shaw at Stubb's music • Jimmy LaFave at Waterloo Records (5pm, Free) music • Cathar, Fire vs Extinguisher, Connie Ball at Beerland music • The Mohawk Residency with White Denim, Brazos at The Mohawk......

TUESDAY [1] music • The Mohawk Residency series with Peel and Joy Division Cover Band at The Mohawk music • Toots and the Maytals at La Zona Rosa music • Asleep at the Wheel at Waterloo Records (Free, 5pm) music • That Damned Band, Trouble Puppet Theatre, Lowrent the Clown, Luna Tart at Beerland music • Drive By Truckers at Antone's music • The Hudsons at Cactus Café books • Rick Riordan presents Book......

Note: Several weekend events will be added in the afternoon. THURSDAY [5] fashion/music/party • Car Stereo (Wars), Visuals by Super!Alright!, and 30-40% Everything at Strut (6-10pm) film • "Military Intelligence and You" at Alamo Drafthouse Lakecreek (7:30pm) art •Opening Reception for Aki Nagasaka's "Yellow Labyrinth" at Women and Their Work (6-8pm) books •Pam Oslie presents Love Colors at BookPeople (7:00pm) books •Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht presents "In 1926: Why and How?" at The Harry Ransom......

For those of you who weren't able to attend the ridiculously fun sold-out premiere of Grindhouse at the Paramount last Wednesday, this weekend offers a couple fun treats. Thanks to the intercession of Quentin Tarantino himself, the Alamo South Lamar has been given permission to hold a late-night screening of the film this Thursday April 5th at 11pm. Tickets are going to go fast, so if you're planning on getting 'em, you should probably do......

TUESDAY [3] awards •Texas Medal of Arts Awards Ceremony at The Paramount Theatre books •Martha Egan presents Clearing Customs at BookWoman (7:00pm) books •The Utter Reading Series with Darin Ciccotelli and Dominic Smith at BookPeople (7:00pm) comedy •Paul Varghese at Cap City Comedy Club debates/booze •Dionysium at Alamo South Lamar film •AFS Essential Series screens "The Seventh Continent" at Alamo Downtown film •2007 Austin Air Guitar Championships at Alamo Downtown food •Central Market Cooking Class:......

We're just about to head to the grocery store to stock up on champagne and salty snacks for this weekend's award show marathon, but for those of you who like to venture beyond the comfort of your living rooms for these kinds of events, here are some party options: Tomorrow, you can join the Austin Film Society at Ringer's Sports Lounge where they'll be hosting a viewing party for the Independent's Spirit Awards. Two Austinites......

Three and a half minutes in, a middle-aged, slightly overweight man leans casually against the pedestrian barrier of the Golden Gate Bridge and, without hesitation, climbs over the boundary. And then he leaps. Only after the zoom lens has captured his face-first plummet and recorded the powerful splash as body collides against water do the opening credits roll, and only after that does the viewer fully appreciate that what they've just witnessed on screen wasn't......

TUESDAY [16] Call ahead as any of these events may be canceled later today. books • Jason Dorsey presents My Reality Check Bounced at BookPeople (7:00pm) Postponed film • Abduction: the Megumi Yokota Story at Alamo Downtown film • The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai at Alamo Downtown film • AFS Essential's Buffalo Boy at Alamo South Lamar music • Doug Stanhope at Antone's music • Third Annual George Harrison Tribute at Cactus Café......

First things first. Alamo Drafthouse EAT DRINK WATCH MOVIES events pretty much always kick ass, but the bar just may have been raised with the upcoming showing of Stephen Chow’s God of Cookery, loosely based on Japanese wundershow Iron Chef. Alamo South Lamar Exec Chef John Bullington and Alamo Village Exec Chef Trish Eichelberger face off Wednesday, August 30 at 7pm at The Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar. The stakes? The title of Alamo Iron......

The whole Snakes On A Plane phenomena is getting wildly out of hand. It’s become its own animal. Its own machine, transcending its existence as a movie and entering that weird internerd world of cultish worship alongside Goetse, Tubgirl (look those up at your own peril) All Your Base Are Belong To Us, YTMND, Evil Bert and a shitload of other fleeting online fascinations spurred by bored cubicle workers and fueled by bored teenagers.......

TUESDAY [27] [film] Superman Returns at Alamo South Lamar (10pm) (link) [books] Jude Theriot presents The 100 Greatest Cajun Recipes at Borders at 10225 Research Ave. (7.30pm) (link) [books] Paul Schneider presents Brutal Journey: The Epic Story of the First Crossing of North America at BookPeople (7pm) (link) [books] Alexandra Leclere presents Seeing the Dead, Talking With Spirits: Shamanic Healing Through Contact With the Spirit World at BookWoman (7pm) (link) [music] Human Television at Stubb's......

Dionysium will be holding court at The Alamo South Lamar, Tuesday night. Know what that is? DO YOU? Well, if you know, then you need read no further. Because the rest of this will be little more than a half-assed and decidedly broken description of what the celebration is, and how it all goes down at The Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, the first Tuesday of every month. Alright. Not that it should be trivialized......

Austinist is running around town (just like you) catching as much South By action as is possible this week. The following are our thoughts on the first three films we caught on Friday and Saturday: The Last Western (Documentary) - This short feature (65 minutes) tells stories from Pioneertown, CA, a small outpost built in the 1940's to film western movies. An oddball mix of drifters, eccentrics, and Roy Rogers fans have made the......

So, SXSW Film begins tomorrow. Yes, tomorrow. Austinist realizes that we just freaked you out by saying so. Don't worry, though: we watched about 50 previews for the film festival so that you wouldn't have to. Having emerged a little bleary-eyed, we suggest the following less-heralded films as picks worthy of your time and attention: A/K/A Tommy Chong: Who's in it? Tommy Chong, Cheech Marin, Bill Maher, Jay Leno What's it about? Tommy Chong......

MONDAY [27] [film] Soul Cinema Monday: "The Spook Who Sat By the Door" at Alamo Downtown ($1, 7pm) (link) [film] "Candy: Terry Southern Psychedelic Mindwarp" at Alamo Downtown ($1, 9:45pm) (link) [film] Spike & Mike? Twisted Animation Fest at Alamo South Lamar and Alamo Village (Through Thursday, 10:15 SL, 9:45 Vill) (link) [film] "Tank Girl" at Cafe Mundi (8pm) (link) [TV] Twin Peaks & Carnivale at Beerland (Free, 7pm) (link) [books] Karenna Gore Schiff, the......

Tonight is the last night to catch The Outdoorsment: Blood, Sweat, & Beers, a documentary about extraordinary feats of drinking coupled with agony-inducing physical contests, at the Alamo South Lamar, at 10:15 p.m. From the Draft House's website:Once a year, an exclusive group of men travels to a top-secret location somewhere in the wooded mountains of Washington State to compete in an all-day event they call The Outdoorsmen. ... Braving freezing waters, treacherous riverbeds,......

M O N D A Y [20] [art] Sex Workers' Art Show comes to UT-Austin at Texas Union Showroom (RM. 2.208) at UT-Austin (Free, 7pm) (link) [music] Tammany Hall Machine, Impossible Shapes, and Red Hunter at Stubb's (link) [film] "The Outdoorsmen: Blood, Sweat and Beers" at Alamo South (Monday-Thursday, 10:05pm) (link) [film] "Penitentiary" at Alamo Downtown (7pm) (link) [film] "930 F" (a documentary about DC's 9:30 Club) at Alamo Downtown ($1, 9:45pm) (link) [film] "The......

T H U R S D A Y [ 2 6 ] · [music] Hard-Fi with Driver F and DJ Mel at Stubb's! · [music] Aaron Reynolds presents found objects, materials, and textures at The Space (Free, 8-10pm) (link) · [music] Happy Hour at Carousel Lounge, with Peter and the Wolf, Sparrowhouse (Jared from Voxtrot), and Clapperclaw. Performance by Erica. · Fire dancing at Cafe Mundi (1704 E 5th St, between Chicon & Comal). The......