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Eleven hours of film and music today at Little Rock Picture Show

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LRPS Mad MaxThe Little Rock Picture Show starts at 2:15 this afternoon and goes until past midnight.  It offers films and live music at three different venues in downtown.

This afternoon’s films are Apt 3D (2:15 – Studio Theatre), International Shorts Block 3 (3:15 – Public Theatre), Aura (3:30 – Vino’s) and International Shorts Block 1 (3:45 – Studio Theatre).

At 5:15, evening activities kick off with The Divine Tragedies at the Public Theatre. Arkansas Shorts Block 1 starts at 6pm at Vino’s.  At 6:30, Time Lapse starts at the Studio Theatre, while at 7:45 Capsule starts at the Studio Theatre.  A live performance of Mothwind, Feeble and Sol Inertia starts at 8pm at Vino’s.

At 8:45 Jackrabbit will be shown at the Studio Theatre.  Filmmakers Carleton Ranney, Destin Douglas and Rebecca Rose Perkins will be in attendance.  Madman Morgan takes the stage at 10:15 at the Public Theatre.  Around the corner, The Road Warrior will start at 11:15 at the Studio Theatre.

Tonight at Ron Robinson Theater – THE ROAD WARRIOR

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RRT road warriorTime magazine called this film “Apocolypse…POW.”  The Road Warrior (sometimes called: Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior) will screen tonight at 10pm at the Ron Robinson Theater.

Mel Gibson returns for this film (after having created the role in 1979’s Mad Max).  In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline rich, community escape a band of bandits.  George Miller directed it based on a screenplay he co-wrote with Terry Hayes.

It was released in Australia in late 1981 and hit US screens in time for Memorial Day 1982.  Budgeted for $2 million, it grossed over $23 million in the US alone in 1982.

Admission to tonight’s screening, which is part of the “Re:Wind Series,” is $5 with concessions available for purchase.