The Texas Theatre, the Majestic, and the 508 Park Amphitheater are teaming up to show Warner Bros. studio classics of the mid-20th century. Before each feature, audiences will get to see a 16 mm short animated film starring either Daffy Duck or Bugs Bunny. The Majestic starts things off Sept. 18 with the Humphrey Bogart noir The Maltese Falcon. The Texas Theatre gets the John Wayne Western The Searchers on Sept. 25. And on Oct. 2, the outdoor 508 Amphitheater in Encore Park will screen the swashbuckling 1935 action flick Captain Blood.
After the death last month of Gene Wilder, and with the 100th birthday of the late Roald Dahl on the calendar for this month, screenings of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory were an inevitability. A dollar from every ticket sold for the Sept. 13 screening at the Texas Theatre will go toward the Methodist Health System Alzheimer’s Education program. The actors who played Mike TeeVee and Veruca Salt will be in the flesh at the Sept. 16 screenings at the Alamo Drafthouse in Richardson. (The Texas Theatre also has Blazing Saddles on the calendar for October.)
The Magnolia Theatre’s Big Movies this month are — in order, every Tuesday night — Network, Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and A Place in the Sun. The full schedule is here.
Both of Alamo Drafthouse’s North Texas outposts are screening Tim Burton films all month, skipping the late-period Steampunk Johnny Depp films and Wonderland misfires for the good stuff: Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Mars Attacks!, Big Fish, and Corpse Bride. Showtimes and full schedule are right here.
The Texas Theatre pays tribute to homegrown genius Mike Judge with screenings of Office Space (Sept. 22), Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (Sept. 29), and Idiocracy (Oct. 7).
The Inwood’s midnight movies lineup for September includes the Miyazaki anime Howl’s Moving Castle and Pink Floyd’s The Wall.
The Alamos in Richardson and the Cedars are also screening Kevin Smith movies — Clerks, Chasing Amy, Mallrats, Dogma — throughout the month.
