Free: Made-in-New Mexico Film Retrospective
Normally, we don’t run “free with paid admission” items because…well, they’re not exactly “free” if you have to pay for admission, right?
But this one’s a little different.
The State Fair is offering a fabulous event for film buffs. In conjunction with the New Mexico Film Museum (wait, we have a state film museum?), the State Fair will present daily screenings of films made in New Mexico over the past 100 years. How cool is that?!
The schedule includes some of the most famous movies filmed here, like Independence Day and No Country for Old Men, but we’re more excited about the oldies: Ace in the Hole, The Left-Handed Gun, and, of course, the classic Salt of the Earth.
In all, 33 films will be screened during the fair, with three screenings per day at 10:30am, 2:00pm, and 7:00pm. All showings will be held in the 300-seat auditorium in the African American Performing Arts Center. The news release from the State Fair does not specify how seating will be handled. Presumably, it’s first-come, first-served, so get there early to nab the best seats.
If you take advantage of the Family 5-Pack ticket offer, you can attend three screenings in one day for a mere $4 admission fee. Not to mention experiencing everything else the fair has to offer.
The 2009 New Mexico State Fair begins September 11. The fairgrounds is located in the northeast heights, bounded by San Pedro, Central Ave, Louisiana, and Lomas Blvd.
–Elizabeth Hanes
Seniors Day at the Movies Every Monday (and More)
July 6, 2009 by Elizabeth
Filed under Half Off Deals, Movies
Age has its privileges. And one of them is cheap movie tickets!
Every Monday at local Cinemark theaters, folks age 62 and up can enjoy discounted movie tickets for every show, all day long! Discounts vary by location:
- Century Rio 24: Senior tickets cost $5.50 each (that’s nearly half off the regular price of $10) every Monday. These are first-run movies, and the price is valid for any showing during the day.
- Movies 8: Senior movie tickets cost just $1 all day long! Enjoy movies that have entered their second run. In other words, they premiered a couple of months ago.
- Movies West: Also offers $1 movie tickets to seniors all day. Currently running the same films as Movies 8, but often the offerings are different at each theater.
But, wait! It gets better!
At Movies 8, seniors can also get $1 movie tickets every Tuesday. And at Movies West, the $1 admission is also good every Wednesday. That’s three days a week a senior citizen can score discount movie tickets in Albuquerque!
Century Rio 24 is located north of the Big-I, just south of Jefferson. Movies 8 is located in the northeast heights. And Movies West is located on the west side (natch!).
–Elizabeth Hanes
FREE SHORT FILM SCREENING AND TALK
Enjoy a free screening of the short film Chimayo (Guero), followed by a discussion with screenwriter Art Corriveau, at 516 ARTS on Saturday, February 21, at 8:00pm.
This is not a documentary, but rather the narrative story of high school senior Justin, who loses his mother, winds up living in Chimayo with his estranged grandmother and ultimately has to choose between “the healing power of community and faith, and the annihilating abyss of drug addiction.” The film was produced through the New Mexico Filmmakers Intensive and is being screened in conjunction with 516 ARTS’ current exhibition Chicana Badgirls: Las Hociconas.
516 ARTS is located, naturally enough, at 516 Central Ave SW in downtown Albuquerque. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday, 12:00pm – 5:00pm.
–Elizabeth Hanes
Free films: Oh, the horror!
Here’s something fun. The National Hispanic Cultural Center is hosting a mini-retrospective of Spanish horror films. The first offering is titled El cebo, starring Ladislao Vajda and produced in 1959. The NHCC describes it thusly: “A seemingly common and timid man hides a second pathological personality guilty of kidnapping and murdering little girls.”
The series is called “Vampiros, demonios y siniestros (Vampires, Demons and the Goth)” and includes Spanish horror films produced between 1929 and 2005. All films are presented in Spanish with English subtitles. The series showcases one film each Thursday throughout February. What a goulish antidote to all the syrupy Valentine’s Day stuff!
All films are free. Just pick up a ticket at the NHCC box office on the evening of the event. Each show starts at 7:00pm.
WHAT: Free Spanish horror films
WHEN: Thursdays, February 5, 12, 19, 26, at 7:00pm
WHERE: Bank of America Theatre, National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 4th St SW, at the intersection of Avenida Cesar Chavez and 4th St
