This summer, the Alamo Drafthouse takes its creatively unorthodox approach to motion picture exhibition on a 12-date tour of classic movie shooting locations throughout the Western U.S.
The 2005 Rolling Roadshow Tour kicks off Friday, August 19 with a showing of The Last Picture Show in Archer City, Texas. Director Peter Bogdanovich is scheduled to attend. Not only will you have the rare opportunity to see The Last Picture Show in what’s left of the Royal Theater (which burned in 1965), you can visit author/screenwriter Larry McMurtry’s Booked Up stores, four world-renowned rare book emporiums which are scheduled to close at year’s end.
The rest of the tour itinerary is no less impressive:
August 21
It Came From Outer Space 3D
Roswell, New Mexico
August 23
Once Upon a Time in the West
Monument Valley, Arizona
August 24
Planet of the Apes
Lake Powell, Utah
August 26
Repo Man
Los Angeles, California
August 27
Sideways
Los Olvios, California
August 28
North By Northwest
Bakersfield, California*
*Bakersfield stood in for the Midwest in the infamous Cary Grant crop-dusting scene
August 30
Bullitt
San Francisco, California
September 1
The Goonies
Astoria, Oregon
September 3
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Devil’s Tower, Wyoming (!)
September 5
Cat Ballou
Buckskin Joe’s, Colorado
September 7
Hud
Claude, Texas
If it wasn’t so far away, I’d really love to see Close Encounters at Devil’s Tower. They’re even having a mashed potato sculpture contest before the film!
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