Tim League

Founder and CEO of Alamo Drafthouse and Drafthouse Films.

Favorite films

  • City Lights
  • The General
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • The Act of Killing

All
  • Wild Rose

  • The Biggest Little Farm

  • Her Smell

  • 22 July

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La La Land

2016

★★★★★ Liked Watched

Amazing. Modern classic.

Jack Reacher

2012

★★★½ Liked Watched

Odd that I missed this the first go-round. Getting ready for part 2.

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Swiss Army Man

2016

★★★★★ Liked Watched

One of my favorite films of the year! Soooo good, so funny, so original, so dark. So much more than just a fart joke.

Fangs

1974

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

This was a pretty emotional night for me. We said goodbye officially to Lars Nilsen, the showman and mad genius behind Weird Wednesdays. Lars built a temple for us to worship every Wednesday night, and there was no other movie we could possibly share to end the Nilsen era: SNAKES, AKA FANGS, AKA HOLY WEDNESDAY.

I will to the grave the very first screening of SNAKES. Nobody in the audience had ever seen or really even heard of the…