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Austin Film Society continues their "Art Horror" series this month at the Marchesa with a 35mm print of Masaki Kobayashi's 1964 ghost story anthology, Kwaidan. Tonight's screening is actually a Free Member Friday event, so if you're an Afs member you won't have to pay a dime for this horror classic. It will also screen again on Sunday at noon. Also on Sunday, you can check out the 2013 documentary The Sarnos: A Life In Dirty Movies, which examines the life and career of sexploitation director Joe Sarno and his wife Peggy. It will be paired with Joe's 1966 feature Moonlighting Wives on Sunday evening. 

There is a lot of rep activity at Alamo Drafthouse theaters this week and we'll start off by looking at what is going down at the Ritz. You can catch Guys And Dolls in 35mm for "Broadway Brunch" on Saturday and Sunday, and Kubrick's big-screen classic 2001:...

Joseph W. Sarno, the director of cult erotic movies such as Sin in the Suburbs (1963), Moonlighting Wives (1966), and Confessions of a Young American Housewife (1974), died on April 26 in Manhattan. Sarno was 89. Sarno’s specialty became known as "sexploitation," as his films were focused on sexual matters and featured scenes of (softcore) sex. Sarno later claimed that he "was more interested in psychology and character development than most of the other filmmakers [within that genre] at that time." (If true — I’ve never watched any of Sarno’s movies, I don’t think — the "exploitation" label would be unjust.) According to the New York Times obit, Sarno wrote the screenplays for all of his seventy-five 35mm films. Among [...]...