[DAILY RUNDOWN] TODAY’S COOL SCREENINGS!

THE DAILY RUNDOWN is a quick look at just a few of the cool screenings and film events happening around the U.S. every day. It is not intended to be an exhaustive, comprehensive list, but a sampling of the terrific genre cinema available to check out at your local art house, megaplex, film society, and repertory theaters.

 

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 2017 (All show times are local)

 

The Alamo Drafthouse in Denver is showing the odd, semi-haunted house film BURNT OFFERINGS at 7:30 pm. It’s not a classic, but a cast that includes Oliver Reed, Bette Davis, and Karen Black cannot be ignored. This is a 35mm screening. Tickets and info can be found here.

 

 

EAST OF EDEN and THE OUTSIDERS are both screening from 35mm prints at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco. EAST OF EDEN is at 7:00 pm and THE OUTSIDERS is at 9:15 pm. Tickets and info can be found here.

 

 

 

The New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles is doing a double feature of the best gangster films of the ’80s. At 7:30 pm, Bob Hoskins stars in THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY and at 9:55 pm is THE UNTOUCHABLES, Brian De Palma’s mythologizing of the federal government’s feud with Al Capone. Both films are being screened from 35mm prints. Tickets and info can be found here.

 

 

 

ABBY, Wiliam Girdler’s infamous ripoff of THE EXORCIST, is playing at FilmScene in Iowa City, IA at 10:00 pm. Tickets and info can be found here.

 

 

The Alamo Drafthouse in Austin is screening a 35mm print of Ernest Dickerson’s underrated satirical action flick SURVIVING THE GAME at 10:00 pm. Tickets and info can be found here.

 

 

Alfred Hitchcock’s stone classic VERTIGO is playing at the Kentucky Theater in Lexington, KY at 1:30 pm and 7:15 pm. Tickets and info can be found here.

 

 

Humphrey Bogart stars as Sam Spade in THE MALTESE FALCON. It is playing at the Laurelhurst Theater and Pub in Portland, OR at 7:00 pm. Tickets and info can be found here.

 

 

If you know of an under-the-radar theater or film society regularly putting together repertory screenings or special events, feel free to let me know on Twitter!

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