In the meantime, let us know if you have any suggestions for places to show movies. Here’s a rough idea of what we’re seeking:

• indoors
• sustainable (free, or cheap to rent)
• central
• already has a projector and screen
• can seat 20-100 people

However, due to some logistical intricacies, the Movie Nights are temporarily on hold. Hopefully we’ll be able to fill in the picture soon. Until then, we’d like to point you to these other fine Austin movie screenings:

• Screen Door Film
• Short Indies at The ND
• Cinema41

Short Indies is every other month, so the next night is June. Entry is $4, but that includes an hour of open bar, and often food from local sponsors.

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Thought we’d share this tidbit: the City of Austin is seeking cinematic and multimedia work for a public screening in the City Council Chambers and City Hall. Both fictional and non-fictional pieces are being sought. There are no prizes, but this might be perfect for you if you (or someone you know) have work that needs an audience. The deadline is coming up fast – January 28.

And of course, feel free to share your work with us, too! Just visit austinmovies.wordpress.com and follow the roadsigns. We’ll start up movies again in the spring.

Hausu is a Japanese horror movie so eccentric it qualifies as its own genre. Often imitated, never matched, it lived for years on bootleg tapes and discs — and in the lurid memories of all who saw it on a big screen. Now it’s back in a great-looking reissue, and still bat-crap crazy. If you missed it at Fantastic Fest, like I did, now is your time to make Halloween amends.

Seven young women, who have chosen as nicknames the brand names of much-advertised consumer products, begin to disappear in a decidedly suspicious manner. Are they fashion victims? How else can one explain the eerie coordination between their pastel outfits and the pastels of the rooms in which they appear? It is up to the heroine — whose every screen appearance is heralded by special lighting, gentle breezes, and a soft camera focus — to find out what is going on. To reveal any more would spoil the unique effect of the delirious cinematic entity that is Hausu. (1977, 88 minutes.)

7.5 stars at IMDB. Possibly the oddest cinematic experience ever to come out of Japan.

Wow! Noribuki Obayashi’s “Hausu” aka. “House” of 1977 is easily one of the weirdest films I ever saw and I generally generally am a fan of the bizarre. – IMDB user

A brain-rattling delight. – Austin Chronicle Chronolog

Parental warning: Too weird for kids. Possibly too weird for adults.

And… don’t forget to vote in our NOMN polls… and early voting for the midterm elections has begun! Vote!

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The Nueva Onda Movie Nights is a FREE, fan- and mister-cooled monthly movie screening held rain-or-shine, 8 pm, on the covered patio at Nueva Onda restaurant, 2218 College, just northwest of Oltorf and S. Congress. Our volunteers show award-winning indie shorts, docs, and features from around the world. Find out more about us at nuevaaustin.com! Limited menu of nachos, cookies, popcorn, and drinks. Schedule subject to change.

As part of our UNRENTABLE series, the Movie Nights is pleased to show this unavailable arthouse classic.

Former circus performer Jaco Van Dormael made his feature-film directing bow with the Belgian/French/German coproduction Toto Le Héros (Toto the Hero). The title character is a fictional supersecret agent, idolized by a young boy named Thomas who aspires to become Toto when he grows up. Thanks to a kaleidoscope of flashbacks and flashforwards, we know that his real fate is far different. The film hopscotches between the Three Ages of Thomas: wide-eyed youngster, mediocrity-mired adult, bitter old man, forever jealous of his wealthy boyhood friend Alfred, fantasizing that he and his chum were switched at birth. A delightful art-house hit from 1991, now all but forgotten. (French with English subtitles)

A stunning tale that combines mystery, fantasy, drama, action, comedy, and a little bit of everything else, Toto The Hero (Toto le Hero) is one of those films that’s kept me coming back again and again, because I get a little more out of it with every viewing. – Austin Chronicle

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103105/

And if you enjoy the movie nights, please tell your friends…! And don’t forget our movie night poll. Vote and let us know what we could do better.

The Nueva Onda Movie Nights is a FREE, fan- and mister-cooled monthly movie screening held rain-or-shine, 8 pm, on the covered patio at Nueva Onda restaurant, 2218 College, just northwest of Oltorf and S. Congress. Our volunteers show award-winning indie shorts, docs, and features from around the world. Find out more about us at nuevaaustin.com! Limited menu of nachos, cookies, popcorn, and drinks. NOMN is BYOB. Schedule subject to change.

1. Now that it’s dried off a little bit, don’t forget our screening tonight (Thursday night) of the unrentable Shanghai Express with Marlene Dietrich. 8pm as usual.
2. We also want to encourage you to vote in our Nueva Onda Movie Night surveys. We’re trying to grow and improve the NOMN experience and we need your help.
3. If you’re on Facebook, befriend Nueva Onda so we don’t fall out of touch if you change emails. Plus you can find out about Trivia Night and other special stuff.
4. And lastly, remember filmmaker and UT alum Susan Youssef? We showed her film “Marjoun and the Flying Headscarf” in a past season. We’re pleased as punch to announce that Filmmaker magazine has tagged her as a “New Face in Independent Film”: http://filmmakermagazine.com/news/2010/07/25-new-faces-part-5/

– your pals at the movie nights.

As part of our UNRENTABLE series, the Movie Nights is pleased to show this unavailable classic with Dietrich in perfect form.

“It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily,” purrs Marlene Dietrich in Shanghai Express. She certainly has her well-manicured hands full with more men than she can count in this exotic far-Eastern adventure. Among her fellow passengers on the Shanghai Express are her disillusioned former fiance, stalwart British medical corps officer Clive Brook; overfervent missionary Lawrence Grant; dope smuggler Gustav von Seyffertitz; and mysterious Eurasian businessman Warner Oland. As the train chugs through the more treacherous passages of war-torn China, Oland reveals himself as the leader of a rebel group, who plans to hold the passengers hostage to secure the release of his imprisoned followers….

Directed by Josef von Sternberg at his most orgiastic (love those long, lingering dissolves!), Shanghai Express is 80% style and 20% substance, as proven by two less stylish remakes, Night Plane to Chungking and Peking Express.  - AllMovie.com

Also, we’ve created a few poll questions to help improve the Movie Nights. Please check them out and let us know! Thanks!

WAKE UP: Josh has a strategy when it comes to nightmares, but his urban-legend-quoting office-mate disagrees — whether the impact from a fall in your dreams will force you awake or kill you while you sleep. In this low-budget-yet-effects-heavy short, Josh has many nightmares to choose from, but which is worse: a violent end, or losing his girlfriend?

Writer-director and ex-NOMN screening committee member Zane Rutledge will discuss the special effects he used in making this eye-popping film at the end of the night. Don’t miss it!

UNDER THE HOOD: A progressive coffee house in Killeen allows Ft. Hood soldiers to express their feelings about war and their assignments. (2010 TEN UNDER TEN Selection)

WHAT’S IN A NAME: A compelling examination of the lives and outlooks of four transgender Austinites. (2010 TEN UNDER TEN Selection)

MAKE A WISH: Billy Myers is an all-star baseball player. Braden Anderson is a sick child. Together they make each other’s dreams come true. From Austinite David Ward, whose comedy sketches have been featured on Yahoo and Funny or Die. (2010 SXSW AFS Showcase Selection)

Total program time approximately 45 minutes. Some adult language and violence.

Limited menu of nachos, cookies, popcorn, and drinks. Schedule subject to change.

Thursday, July 8th, the Nueva Onda Movie Nights is screening the never-released-in-the-US feature film DAVID HOLZMAN’S DIARY (100/100 at Rotten Tomatoes) and the comedy short I LOVE YOU, WILL SMITH at 8pm! Grab bag door prizes as always!

The Nueva Onda Movie Nights, one of Austin’s most micro microcinema venues, is pleased to announce a rare screening of a groundbreaking movie by legendary French director Louis Malle, who also directed The Lovers, Atlantic City, and My Dinner With Andre.

Never available on DVD in this country, Zazie dans le Metro (Zazie In The Metro, 1960) kicks off a regular feature at NOMN called Unrentable. It will spotlight movies that have fallen through the digital cracks in the U.S. Though available on DVD in other countries, most of these films cannot be played on standard American DVD players due to region restrictions and frame-rate incompatibility. Possible future titles in this series include David Holzman’s Diary, The Green Man, and Signore & Signori.

Zazie dans le Metro is a comedy that uses Paris to showcase a foul-mouthed country girl and her eccentric uncle who gambol about Paris on a series of ever more lunatic adventures. Malle rewrote the rules of movie style with rapid editing and a pop-art pallette of bright colors. The movie gleefully ignores rules of time and space, and it is saturated in blithe disrepect for good manners, common sense, and conventionality.

Historians generally acknowledge that many of the techniques that were surprising to Anglophone audiences in movies such as A Hard Day’s Night have their origin in Zazie. It is based on a novel by Raymond Queneau, a leading light of experimental French writing in the Fifties and Sixties.

Zazie dans le Metro stars reknowned French movie star Philippe Noiret, who went on to star in Life And Nothing But and Cinema Paradiso among many other memorable films, in one of his first roles — he was only two days shy of 30 when the movie was released in France. Appearing in the title role is Catherine Demongeot, who made an indelible imprint on cinema history with this one role and, aside from a few small parts, did not pursue movie acting. (Trivia: Demongeot briefly reprised the role of Zazie in a cameo in Jean-Luc Godard’s Une Femme Est Une Femme.)

Zazie dans le Metro is 89 minutes long with English subtitles. It will be preceded by a short, also rarely screened in the U.S. — Claude Lelouch’s C’était un rendez-vous, which lasts for nine pulse-pounding minutes. (Subtitled.)

The Nueva Onda Movie Nights is a FREE, fan-cooled monthly movie screening held rain-or-shine, 8 pm, on the covered patio at Nueva Onda restaurant, 2218 College, just northwest of Oltorf and S. Congress. Our volunteers show award-winning indie shorts, docs, and features from around the world… but of course we love to host Austin filmmakers. Find out more about us, sponsor NOMN, volunteer to guest-curate, or submit films by contacting us! Kitchen opens at 6:30p. Schedule subject to change.