At Market Street Cinema.
That’s right, next weekend is the Little Rock Big Lebowski Fest at Market Street, which is like, far out man.
There will be showings of The Big Lebowski” at 6 and 9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 12-13 and at 11:15 on Sunday and 6 on Monday. Tickets to all shows are $5.
It’s a chance to see the greatest cult movie of the past 15 years (at least) on the big screens with other fans of his Dudeness.
Oh, and mark it 8. That is, mark down 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday night, because there will be trivia and costume contests (with prizes) to test your knowledge of El Duderino and pay homage to your favorite character.
Jesus.
The Market Street Cinema
Market & Merrill Center
1521 Merrill Drive
Little Rock, AR. 72211
501-312-8900
www.marketstreetcinema.net
Sponsored by : Market Street Cinema, Little Rock Film Festival, Millennium Bowl
The movie runs 117 minutes and is rated R, if for no other reason than because “the f word” gets used 260 times throughout, or more than twice a minute on average.
Do you have to use so many cuss words?
Maybe that wouldn’t have been the case if Shakespeare had written the movie.
Home-grown documentary just a taste of Arkansas’ film potential
Monday, May 4th, 2009Hot Springs filmmaker Josh Baxter's documentary Injury Slight ... Please Advise will screen next week at the Little Rock Film Festival.
Let me pitch you an idea for a movie.
A World War II pilot gets shot down over the jungles of New Guinea, survives the crash landing, hacks his way through the dense jungle for the next month, during which time he’s taken in by natives who ultimately intend to kill him (and maybe eat him), so he shoots his way out of the village in a desperate escape attempt and disappears into the jungle, eventually wandering into an Australian military outpost. He’s then flown back to his base, except that plane crashes, too. He survives that crash landing in the jungle as well and hikes back to the outpost, where eventually he’s flown back to his base for real.
Taken as a simple pitch, it either sounds far-fetched or brilliant.
The coolest part is, it’s a true story. And it’s already been made into a documentary feature that will screen at the Little Rock Film Festival. The film, Injury Slight … Please Advise, is a several-year culmination of work by director Josh Baxter, an Arkansan who lives in Hot Springs.
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