[ { "name": "Point Blank", "description": "After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.", "release_year": "1967", "runtime_minutes": 92, "poster_url": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/xvZc8EvB7tNPHM9VdmNA19EiwqU.jpg", "trailer_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3gj5_6DHRY", "tmdb_id": 26039, "tmdb_rating": 7.1, "tmdb_url": "https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/26039", "url": "https://www.stuffsac.com/san-francisco/alamo/series/queer-film-theory-101/#tmdb-26039-point-blank", "showings": [ { "name": "Point Blank", "description": "\"You're a pathetic sight, Walker, from where I'm standing. Chasing shadows. You're played out.\"\n\nBREATHLESS. TOKYO DRIFTER. POINT BLANK. The 1960s saw a shift in crime films, where the grit and grime of American Noir began to blend with the artistic flourishes of New Wave filmmakers. Style became paramount, narratives shifted in psychedelic directions, and for American directors, the Hays Code's restrictions became somewhat more permeable.\n\nSometimes considered the first American neo-noir, POINT BLANK is a truly strange and thorny piece of cinema. Directed by John Boorman (DELIVERANCE, THE EXORCIST II, EXCALIBUR) and based on the Parker crime novels of Donald E. Westlake, POINT BLANK tells the sensitive story of professional criminal and all-around tough guy, Walker (Lee Marvin), who embarks on a revenge-fueled rampage after being double-crossed and left for dead by his “partner,” Mal (John Vernon). Walker is uniquely fixated on Mal, and not unlike previous Queer Film Theory 101 entry BRANDED TO KILL, the macho man, manly, so-masculine-it-can’t-possibly-be-gay antics that ensue are loaded to the gills with subtext. Bizarre, fractured, and gorgeously rendered, POINT BLANK is a mythic tale of American disillusionment and brutality. A crime film born in a dreamlike liminal reality, a beautiful, emptying world of distrust and loneliness. (Does it sound weird yet?) Deeply influential, POINT BLANK is a must-see film for anyone who loves movies. It’s that important. But enough about its influence; is Angie Dickinson in it being cunty as all hell? You bet she is! Wait, is Archie Bunker (Carroll O’Connor) from All In The Family in this movie? YES! Put on your tailored suit and bring your clandestine briefcase full of secret documents and/or money to our special Noirvember screening of this classic film.\n\nBritish director John Boorman brought a European sensibility to a Los Angeles neo-noir: POINT BLANK is Antonioni plus violence, Francesco Rosi without politics. The title reverberates like a pun-point: blank. Lee Marvin is Walker, left for dead in an Alcatraz heist and now out to find the $93,000 he has coming. No more, no less, unless you count revenge. The trail leads to the City of Angels and the syndicate that runs it out of car lots and Santa Monica penthouses, the kind of places you know exist only with a little larceny. Picking up on the modern surface of his locale, Boorman takes a champagne-blonde color scheme to a hallucinatory degree, blonde on blond, like Angie Dickinson's bouffant and Marvin's silvery pate (here, we have the bad, the brunette, and the bald). Los Angeles is inherently horizontal. The payoff, visually and narratively, occurs in that storm drain affectionately known as the L.A. River, viewed from a bridge over imagined waters. (BAMPFA)\n\nDCP courtesy of Warner Bros.", "auditorium": null, "formats": [], "quirks": [], "source_url": "https://drafthouse.com/sf/show/queer-film-theory-101-point-blank-1967", "region": { "sacid": "san-francisco", "name": "San Francisco", "url": "https://www.stuffsac.com/san-francisco/" }, "theater": { "sacid": "san-francisco/alamo", "name": "Alamo Drafthouse New Mission", "short_name": "Alamo", "color": "#4d7c0f", "source_url": "https://drafthouse.com/sf/theater/new-mission", "url": "https://www.stuffsac.com/san-francisco/alamo/" }, "series": { "sacid": "san-francisco/alamo:queer-film-theory-101", "name": "Queer Film Theory 101", "description": "Queer Film Theory 101 at Alamo Drafthouse takes an in-depth look at the queerest “straight” films ever produced. We’re outing all of your favorite films! Is TITANIC a genderqueer love story? Yeah! Does POINT BREAK explore latent homosexuality in extreme sports culture? Absolutely. Is JAWS about the violent fear of queer desire? Yes, yes, and we’ll tell you why. To this day, there are so few representations of LGBTQ+ people in film, so we improvise, we read between the lines, we make adjustments to our head cannon, and zero in on all the queer subtext available. Join us every month for a new entry in our screening and lecture series. All screenings curated by Micheal Foulk, with live introductions in San Francisco and pre-recorded introductions at all other locations.", "source_url": null, "url": "https://www.stuffsac.com/san-francisco/alamo/series/queer-film-theory-101/", "film_description": null }, "showtimes": [ { "start_on": "2026-11-23", "start_at": "2026-11-23T18:45:00", "formats": [], "quirks": [], "first_seen_at": "2026-10-30T18:28:53" } ], "first_seen_at": "2026-10-30T18:28:53", "last_seen_at": "2026-10-31T02:18:31" } ] }, { "name": "Eyes Wide Shut", "description": "After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.", "release_year": "1999", "runtime_minutes": 159, "poster_url": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/knEIz1eNGl5MQDbrEAVWA7iRqF9.jpg", "trailer_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxqrzWe0Ggc", "tmdb_id": 345, "tmdb_rating": 7.5, "tmdb_url": "https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/345", "url": "https://www.stuffsac.com/san-francisco/alamo/series/queer-film-theory-101/#tmdb-345-eyes-wide-shut", "showings": [ { "name": "Eyes Wide Shut", "description": "\"This pot is making you aggressive.\"\n\nY’all ready for this? Winter is upon us; it’s theoretically supposed to be getting colder, and cuffing season is well underway. It’s the perfect time to watch EYES WIDE SHUT, Stanley Kubrick’s erotic holiday mystery film about how heterosexual marriage is one big spooky lie! That’s right, “cineaphiles,” we’re closing out our 2026 syllabus applying the Queer Film Theory 101 lens to one of the GOATs. The straights are gonna be mad at us!\n\nDr. Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) and his wife, Alice (Nicole Kidman), seem to have it all: a thriving medical practice, a healthy young daughter, and a fancy-ass New York apartment, but something uncomfortable simmers beneath the surface of their idyllic heterosexual bliss. When Alice reveals a sexy little secret desire, Bill is sent into a tailspin, leading to an odyssey of sexual tourism through the seedy underbelly of New York’s upper crust. For whatever reason, Tom Cruise is exceptionally gifted at portraying a man crumbling under the weight of a masculinity in crisis, and Nicole Kidman shines as a woman who's had it with the trophy wife lifestyle. Featuring an incredible supporting cast including Sydney Pollack, Todd Field, and a cheeky cameo from bisexual icon Alan Cumming, EYES WIDE SHUT is a perfect movie to watch if you want to get in a confusing and convoluted argument with your partner just before the holidays. It will leave you apologizing profusely, but you won't be exactly sure what you’re apologizing for. “Don't you think one of the charms of marriage is that it makes deception a necessity for both parties?”\n\nIn IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE, Jimmy Stewart’s George Bailey, at the height of his suicidal despair and panic, imagines a world in which he doesn’t exist. Stanley Kubrick goes one step further in sending Tom Cruise down an odyssey of sexual confusion and paranoia to learn the true meaning of Christmas.\n\nAdapted from the Austrian short story Traumnovelle, Kubrick’s final film peeks us into the privileged world of Dr. Bill Hartford and his wife Alice (Cruise and Nicole Kidman), two well-to-do attractive socialites who, by all accounts, have it made. In a marijuana-fueled argument, Alice reveals thoughts of infidelity that send Bill into an existential panic, leading to an absurdist walkabout through New York that involves – you guessed it – a mysterious sex cult run by a shrouded aristocracy.\n\nDid Kubrick make this to break up Cruise and Kidman’s marriage? How much did he know about mysterious sex trafficking rings? Did Sydney Pollack originate the shirtless-in-suspenders look? Clearly, the film poses more questions than it answers. For certain, EYES WIDE SHUT is a brutally funny sexscapade that puts an ellipses at the end of Kubrick’s storied career – and, most importantly – stands as a crucial text for our modern world. Fidelio!", "auditorium": null, "formats": [], "quirks": [], "source_url": "https://drafthouse.com/sf/show/queer-film-theory-101-eyes-wide-shut", "region": { "sacid": "san-francisco", "name": "San Francisco", "url": "https://www.stuffsac.com/san-francisco/" }, "theater": { "sacid": "san-francisco/alamo", "name": "Alamo Drafthouse New Mission", "short_name": "Alamo", "color": "#4d7c0f", "source_url": "https://drafthouse.com/sf/theater/new-mission", "url": "https://www.stuffsac.com/san-francisco/alamo/" }, "series": { "sacid": "san-francisco/alamo:queer-film-theory-101", "name": "Queer Film Theory 101", "description": "Queer Film Theory 101 at Alamo Drafthouse takes an in-depth look at the queerest “straight” films ever produced. We’re outing all of your favorite films! 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