Outdoor movie screenings you might even travel to see
The Alamo Drafthouse doesn't get less cool, does it? The Austin movie house is a beautiful space, drops surprise guests into screenings, gets our team on stage with Carson Daly, and — the reason for this post — gives us the Rolling Roadshow, showing great movies outside in once-in-a-lifetime locations. How once-in-a-lifetime? Wikipedia reminds us:
Past events include: Fistful of Dollars at Cortijo el Sotillo, Spain, A Christmas Story in Cleveland, OH, The Lost Boys in Santa Cruz, CA, It Came From Outer Space 3D in Roswell, NM, The Goonies in Astoria, OR, Close Encounters of the Third Kind at Devil's Tower, WY, The Warriors in Coney Island, NY, Clerks in Red Bank, NJ, Jaws at Martha's Vineyard, MA, Field of Dreams at the Field of Dreams, IA, The Shining at the Stanley Hotel, CO, Poseidon Adventure on the Queen Mary, CA, Escape from Alcatraz on Alcatraz, CA just to name a few.
This year is just as good: Dirty Harry in San Francisco's Washington Square Park, Blues Brothers outside Joliet Prison, Robocop at Detroit's Russell Industrial Center (Alamo CEO to Entertainment Weekly: "had that bombed-out look"), Rocky I-III (yes, all three) at the Philadelphia Art Museum, On the Waterfront on a Hoboken pier, and — the one I'm thinking of traveling to see — Godfather II on a rooftop in Little Italy.
And there are others. See the trailer.
But if the screenings themselves and the trailer weren't cool enough, you should check the posters. Designer Olly Moss has done amazing work. Building on his film poster work that went modestly viral a year and a half ago (see his Dark Knight and Taxi Driver posters), Moss hits big with a cut-out style and dominant colors, in this case orange, black and white. My favorite two pieces are On the Waterfront and Robocop.
You can see all of them (and their super-cool enlarged versions) here.
Related: Clicking through his Flickr, I like Moss' Chicago Sleepover too.
