When I write Movies This Week entries, I don’t include movies that are being shown on non-theater screens (on TVs in bars or video stores, for example) unless the movies are unusual or hard to find. But week after week, I read in the Austin Chronicle film listings about interesting double features being shown at Spider House, the funky-cool cafe off Guadalupe at 29th Street.
This week, for example, the Spider House lineup includes double features of American Pop and Wizards, Conan the Barbarian and Pumping Iron, and Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision (about the artist who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial) and The Times of Harvey Milk.
I am curious about where at Spider House they show these movies. Do they have a big-screen TV or do they project them onto a wall? I’ve been to Spider House a few times over the years, usually sitting outside. The cafe itself is a converted house with a number of little-bitty rooms. I can’t imagine a room in the cafe that would hold more than a half-dozen or so people. So I am intrigued.
Unfortunately, the very pretty Spider House Web site contains no information about this at all. The only place I’ve found the schedule of films is on the Austin Chronicle’s site. So is there anyone out there who has been to the Spider House movie nights and can provide some first-hand information? I’d also like to know if a more complete schedule is available. Please post a comment or email me.
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They show them on the back patio in the very back yard (not the main side patio) by the alley they share with Ruby’s BBQ.
I’ve never been so I don’t know how successful it is, but you can see the screen and the bleacher seats if you walk back there.
I saw this in the Chronicle last week and was wondering the exact same thing.
Dog and Duck pub shows some films occasionally too, though I wouldn’t call it a theater, because they just use a projector in the outside patio area and if you’ve ever been there you’ll know that there isn’t much room out there.