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PICK OF THE WEEK

10 Citizen Kane

Paramount · Film · Sun, Aug 30 · 7:00 PM

A dying tycoon's snow globe shatters into a century of cinematic ambition.

Artistic Merit. , Citizen Kane is a technical shock from the opening frames, with the dying whisper, the snow globe, and the barbed wire silhouette of Xanadu setting a standard for visual storytelling that still looks unusually exacting.

Full review →  ·  Venue page →

9  Brevity Book Club - Winesburg, Ohio

FirstLight · Mon, Aug 24 · 7:00 PM · Books

Anderson's small-town grotesques reveal loneliness as the local weather.

9  Blow-Up + Blow Out

Paramount · Wed, Aug 26 · 7:00 PM · Film

Two thrillers where evidence becomes a trap, sound and vision betray.

8  The Matrix

Paramount · Mon, Aug 24 · 7:30 PM · Film

Keanu Reeves bends reality and dodges bullets at the Paramount.

8  BOUCHRA

AFS · Tue, Aug 25 · 4:30 PM · +1 more · Film

A Prada-wearing

8  MURIEL’S WEDDING

AFS · Tue, Aug 25 · 7:30 PM · +1 more · Film

Toni Collette’s desperate shoplifter finds resilience in P.J. Hogan’s satire of small-town cruelty.

8  The Shining

Paramount · Tue, Aug 25 · 7:30 PM · Film

Kubrick traps viewers in the Overlook’s labyrinth of madness and dread.

8  The New Yorker Weekly Short Story Club (Free Copies, First Hour for Reading) - This Week's Story

NewYorkerMeetup · Tue, Aug 25 · 7:00 PM · Books

Calling all literary fiction lovers of the greater Austin Area! Join our weekly

8  TRUE STORIES

Hyperreal · Thu, Aug 27 · 7:30 PM · Film

Jarmusch and Byrne craft a droll Texas portrait in everyday oddities.

8  But I'm a Cheerleader

Paramount · Thu, Aug 27 · 7:30 PM · Film

Candy-colored satire turns conversion therapy into a sharp, deadpan comic nightmare.