Ed Wood's lost film "The Cocktail Hostesses," unseen for 40 years, will screen this weekend at the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz in Austin, Texas as part of the theater's "Agfa Discoveries" program. Wood, best known for the cult classic "Plan 9 From Outer Space," was the subject of Tim Burton's 1994 biopic, "Ed Wood." He was played by Johnny Depp in the film. The Alamo Drafthouse screens a large number of American Genre Film Archive (Agfa) horror and exploitation discoveries year round. The theater occasionally holds "Reel One Parties," essentially public research sessions during which the programmers throw the first reel (around 20 minutes) of an unknown movie on screen to determine the exact title, year, credits, and condition of the print. From this research conducted last year, 2014 Alamo programmers Laird Jimenez and Joe Ziemba singled out five titles to feature in the January screening series. Below are the five...
- 1/9/2015
- by Nigel M Smith
- Indiewire
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