Event: In conjunction with the exhibition On the Road with the Beats, the Harry Ransom Center presents the Beat Film Series, beginning Wednesday, April 2, and continuing every Wednesday throughout April. The Beat Film Series is co-sponsored by the Department of Radio-Television-Film. Tickets required for each screening.
When: Wednesdays, April 2, 9, 16, 23 @ 7 P.M. (details for each date is below)
Where: Alamo Drafthouse at the Ritz, 320 E. 6th Street
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 7 P.M.
This series features selected works from filmmakers involved in the Beat movement, including: Frank Paine’s “Motion Picture” (1956), Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie’s “Pull My Daisy” (1959), Ed Bland’s “Cry of Jazz” (1958), Shirley Clarke’s “Bridges-Go-Round” (1958), and Stan Brakhage’s “Anticipation of the Night” (1958). *Tickets required.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 7 P.M.
John Cassavetes’s “Shadows” (1959), Stan Brakhage’s “Desistfilm” (1954), and Shirley Clarke’s “Skyscraper” (1959). *Tickets required.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 7 P.M.
Alfred Leslie’s “The Last Clean Shirt” (1964), Peter Whitehead’s “Wholly Communion” (1965), Anthony Balch and William S. Burroughs’s “Towers Open Fire” (1962), and Christopher MacLaine’s “The End” (1953) and “Beat” (1958). *Tickets required.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 7 P.M.
Kenneth Anger’s “Scorpio Rising” (1964) and “Kustom Kar Kommandos” (1965), and Roger Corman’s “A Bucket of Blood” (1959). *Tickets required.
More about the Beat Film Series, including ticket information:
Harry Ransom Center’s Beat Film Series