All films shown at Violet Crown Uptown Dallas, 3699 McKinney Ave. Other events will take place at the locations and addresses specified below.
Additional Notes:
Specific details about parties will be distributed to Sponsors and Festival Pass holders in advance of the festival.
Board Members, Filmmakers will introduce film screenings and be available for select Q&As after screenings. Stay tuned for more details.
All film descriptions courtesy of IMDb.
Al Biernat’s
4217 Oak Lawn Ave
Opening Night Cocktails
For Sponsors and Festival Pass Holders Only
Panel Discussion:
Guests TBD
7:30 p.m. Screening
Violet Crown
3699 McKinney Ave
1978 – INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (RT 115 min)
DIR: PHILIP KAUFMAN
The first remake of the paranoid infiltration classic moves the setting for the invasion from a small town to the city of San Francisco and starts as Matthew Bennell notices that several of his friends are complaining that their close relatives are in some way different. When questioned later they themselves seem changed as they deny everything or make lame excuses. As the invaders increase in number they become more open and Bennell, who has by now witnessed an attempted "replacement" realises that he and his friends must escape or suffer the same fate. But who can he trust to help him and who has already been snatched?
Introduction by Harry Hunsicker
TBD
Opening Night Meet-Up
For Sponsors and Festival Pass Holders Only
Violet Crown
3699 McKinney Ave
1981 – ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (RT 99 min)
DIR: JOHN CARPENTER
In the future, crime is out of control and New York City's Manhattan is a maximum security prison. Grabbing a bargaining chip right out of the air, convicts bring down the President's plane in bad old Gotham. Gruff Snake Plissken, a one-eyed lone warrior new to prison life, is coerced into bringing the President, and his cargo, out of this land of undesirables.
Violet Crown
3699 McKinney Ave
1979 – Close Encounters of the Third Kind (RT 138 min)
DIR: STEVEN SPIELBERG
Planes reported missing in 1945 suddenly appear in the Mojave desert. A commercial flight is buzzed by a 'bright' object that the pilot 'wouldn't know how to describe'. Roy Neary, while working one night, has a Close Encounter... The US Government determine where the visitors plan to land and create an elaborate cover-up to keep people away. However, a group of people, including Neary, share a vision which draws them to the place and a meeting with new, and old, friends.
Violet Crown
3699 McKinney Ave, Dallas, TX 75204
Post-Screening Party
For Sponsors and Festival Pass Holders Only
Violet Crown
3699 McKinney Ave
1982 – THE THING (RT 109 min)
DIR: JOHN CARPENTER
A US research station, Antarctica, early-winter 1982. The base is suddenly buzzed by a helicopter from the nearby Norwegian research station. They are trying to kill a dog that has escaped from their base. After the destruction of the Norwegian chopper the members of the US team fly to the Norwegian base, only to discover them all dead or missing. They do find the remains of a strange creature the Norwegians burned. The Americans take it to their base and deduce that it is an alien life form. After a while it is apparent that the alien can take over and assimilate into other life forms, including humans, and can spread like a virus. This means that anyone at the base could be inhabited by The Thing, and tensions escalate.
Violet Crown
3699 McKinney Ave
1984 – THE TERMINATOR (RT 107 min)
DIR: JAMES CAMERON
Sent back from a dystopian 2029--where the cold machines have conquered the entire world--to 1984 Los Angeles, the indestructible cyborg-assassin known as the "Terminator" commences his deadly mission to kill humankind's most important woman: the unsuspecting Sarah Connor. However, from the same war-torn post-apocalyptic future comes a battle-scarred defender--Kyle Reese, a brave soldier of the human Resistance Army--bent on stopping the cybernetic killer from eliminating the world's last hope. But, the Terminator has no feelings, he doesn't sleep, and above all, he won't stop until he carries out his grim task. Does our future lie in our past?
Violet Crown
3699 McKinney Ave
1987 – BACK TO THE FUTURE (RT 116 min)
DIR: ROBERT ZEMECKIS
Marty McFly, a typical American teenager of the Eighties, is accidentally sent back to 1955 in a plutonium-powered DeLorean "time machine" invented by a slightly mad scientist. During his often hysterical, always amazing trip back in time, Marty must make sure his teenage parents-to-be meet and fall in love to get back to the future.
Violet Crown
3699 McKinney Ave
1982 – BLADE RUNNER (RT 117 min)
DIR: RIDLEY SCOTT
In the early twenty-first century, the Tyrell Corporation, during what was called the Nexus phase, developed robots, called "replicants", that were supposed to aid society, the replicants which looked and acted like humans. When the superhuman generation Nexus 6 replicants, used for dangerous off-Earth endeavors, began a mutiny on an off-Earth colony, replicants became illegal on Earth. Police units, called "blade runners", have the job of destroying - or in their parlance "retiring" - any replicant that makes its way back to or created on Earth, with anyone convicted of aiding or assisting a replicant being sentenced to death. It's now November, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. Rick Deckard, a former blade runner, is called out of retirement when four known replicants, most combat models, have made their way back to Earth, with their leader being Roy Batty. One, Leon Kowalski, tried to infiltrate his way into the Tyrell Corporation as an employee, but has since been able to escape. Beyond following Leon's trail in hopes of finding and retiring them all, Deckard believes part of what will help him is figuring out what the replicants wanted with the Tyrell Corporation in trying to infiltrate it. The issue is that Dr. Elden Tyrell is experimenting with her, to provide her with fake memories so as to be able to better control her. With those memories, Rachael has no idea that she is not human. The problem is not only Rachael's assistance to Deckard, but that he is beginning to develop feelings for her.
Hosted by Anne & Steve Stodghill
Closing Night Party
For Sponsors and Festival Pass Holders Only