‘Last Night at the Alamo’ 35mm film screening

6100 Main street,Houston TX 77005

04 June, 2021

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‘Last Night at the Alamo’ 35mm film screening Presented Rice Cinema Last Night at the Alamo Directed by Eagle Pennell Screenplay by Kim Henkel Produced by Eagle Pennell, Kim Henkel Associate Producer & Unit Production Manager, Tina Brawner (Rice Alumna ’75) 35mm, USA, 81min Screening at Rice Cinema Friday, June 04 // 7:00 PM When overconfident slacker Cowboy (Sonny Carl Davis), workaday sad sack Claude (Louis Perryman) and a colorful slew of eccentric dreamers and down-and-outers learn that the Alamo, a beloved Houston dive, is about to be torn down, they all come together for one last night to tell alcohol-fueled tall tales at the run-down bar. As the drinks flow, Cowboy convinces his pals that they should band together and save the Alamo; unfortunately, he and his fellow patrons are more inclined to talk than act. A 1983 American black-and-white independent film directed and co-produced by Eagle Pennell, written and co-produced by Kim Henkel and starring Sonny Carl Davis and Lou Perryman. The film was shown at the New York Film Festival in October 1983 and received mostly good reviews. The movie then played the USA Film Festival in 1984. It won the Special Jury Prize: Dramatic at the January 1984 Sundance Film Festival. Rice Media Center was represented in the production by Brian Huberman as cinematographer and Phil Davis as location sound recordist. For more info visit: cinema.rice.edu