Austin Film Society presents Only Angels Have Wings

aGLIFF presents Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

Sleepless in Seattle, her very best film, remains as fresh and funny today as itdid when it first hit theaters nearly 20 years ago in large part because itkinda-sorta tweaks the conventions of romantic comedies – the quintessentialchick flick genre – even as it fervently embraces them.
“All the women I know love An Affair to Remember,” Ephron said. “But nine ofevery 10 men throw up during that movie.”
A typical guy movie, she said, would be The Dirty Dozen, the sort of slam-bang,buddy-bonding melodrama where macho men are too busy dodging bullets and killingNazis to talk about their inner feelings.