Burt Reynolds-Hal Needham marathon at New Mission
Burt Reynolds-Hal Needham marathon: “The Bandit,” San Francisco filmmaker Jesse Moss’ rip-roaring documentary about the collaboration and friendship between one of the biggest movie stars in the world and his stuntman-turned-director, makes its television premiere this weekend on CMT, and to celebrate, the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission is hosting a free screening of the documentary, which closed the San Francisco International Film festival in May.
Afterward, the New Mission will screen a ticketed ($28) marathon triple feature of Reynolds-Needham classics in 35mm (also featured are trailers and discounted buckets of Coors beer).
Billed as a “mystery” marathon, the films will be a surprise.
Since Moss’ film has a strong focus on the behind-the-scenes making of “Smokey and the Bandit,” we’ll assume that’s one.
“All of Me” (“Llévate Mis Amores”): For the last two decades, Mexican women who live along an immigrant train route to the United States known as the Beast have been tossing food to the migrants as the train passes by.
Julie Andrews stars in husband Blake Edwards’ “Victor/Victoria” (4:30 and 9:15 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 4) — set in Paris, but with its roots in the 1933 German film “Viktor und Viktoria” — and then there’s “Cabaret” (2:15 and 7 p.m.), with Liza Minnelli (OK, not Andrews) in her Oscar-winning turn in Bob Fosse’s portrait of pre-World War II Berlin.