MOONRISE KINGDOM Beats AVATAR To Become Highest Grossing Movie At Alamo S. Lamar!
AVATAR has finally been vanquished at the Alamo box office.
Lars Nilsen
Join Date: Mar 26, 2011 • Last Entry Date: Apr 05, 2015 • Articles: 246
Lars Nilsen has been a programmer for the Alamo Drafthouse since 2001. He created or co-created the Alamo's Weird Wednesday, Terror Tuesday, Asian Invasion, and Cinema Club series and the Alamo pre-show concept, which he oversaw from 2004-2010. He loves Kung Fu movies, Spaghetti Westerns, loud music and stew.
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Still Alive: Richard Matheson
Every month we stop and appreciate a great badass still among the living. This month: Richard Matheson, possibly the most influential genre writer of the 20th century.
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Song Of The Scythe: The Death Column March 2012
A bunch of cool people died in March. I can’t possibly cover them all but here are some opinionated remembrances of a few of them.
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SXSW Movie Review: THE SOURCE
Lars reviews the SXSW documentary about the notorious L.A. hippie cult.
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Why It Matters: Jazz
Thelonious, Coltrane, Dex: Lars urges you to give them a chance.
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Still Alive: Mickey Rooney
He was Andy Hardy and Judy Garland's best cinematic pal. He was a fresh faced short guy who was the biggest movie star in the world when being a movie star really meant something. And he's Still Alive.
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The Death Column, February 2012
Lots of badass people die every month. In this feature, Lars gives them a proper goodbye.