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New Essential Cinema: Comedies of Remarriage
November 22-December 20, 2011
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Screwball comedies were built on the idea of men and women at war with each other: seduction by way of verbal sparring and improbably sophisticated pratfalls. It was boy meets girl, boy and girl bump heads till the last reel détente. Some of the very best screwball comedies tweaked that premise by beginning at the end–with a divorced pair (or soon to be divorced pair) pushed back into each other's paths to parry and thrust once more. The philosopher Stanley Cavell coined a term for the subgenre–the comedy of remarriage, he called it–and while its heyday was the late Thirties, the idea of ex-lovers who drive each other crazy, and crazy in love, is eternal.–Kimberley Jones, The Austin Chronicle, Guest Curator
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THE AWFUL TRUTH
Tues November 22, 7pm at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar
Before their final divorce decree, Jerry and Lucy each try to ensure the impossibility of new marriages for their about-to-be-former spouses.
THE PALM BEACH STORY
Tues November 29, 7pm at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar
Seeing her husband frustrated by a lack of cash necessary to turn his invention into reality, a loving wife divorces him in order to raise the money by marrying a millionaire.
PHFFFT!
Tues December 06, 7pm at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar
Eight years of marriage end in divorce, but even in New York City, the former couple keep running into each other.
TWO FOR THE ROAD
Tues December 13, 7pm at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar
Ten years of marriage punctuated by mutual infidelities seem to be on the verge of ending in divorce.
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND
Tues December 20, 7pm at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar
In the future, the pains of divorce may not be necessary – just have your memories erased, or can it really be that easy?
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Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar
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November 22-December 20, 2011Times:
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