FILM

The Alamo Drafthouse West Oaks presents Big Screen Classics:  GONE WITH THE WIND. 

Like a rich Bordeaux from a good vintage, some films age well, delicately maturing and growing more sophisticated with each passing year. There is a wealth of cinematic gems out there, gathering dust in the annals of time. Enter Big Screen Classics - a place where we celebrate all of the accomplishments in movies over the past 100+ years. Here you'll see the crème de la crème of old movie magic.  You'll always be amazed at the riches of cinema history at Big Screen Classics.

This series also encompasses our Digital Classics Series. The newest advancement in digital movie technology involves the painstaking restoration and preservation of classic films using computer technology. The films are then printed onto 4K or 2K digital drives, providing the clearest and brightest image possible using our state-of-the-art digital projectors. Whenever an archive or a studio announces a new digital restoration, we rush to bring it to the Alamo.

The highest grossing film of all time? E.T.? Nope. STAR WARS? Guess again. AVATAR? Uh-huh. No, Victor Fleming’s technicolor adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s great American novel GONE WITH THE WIND is the original and still reigning ultimate blockbuster.

The legendary story of the trials and tribulations of the beautiful and tempestuous Scarlett O’Hara during one of the most turbulent periods in American history is the very epitome of a Big Screen Classic: unforgettable characters in a captivating story, surrounded by magnificent scenery meant to be experienced larger-than-life on the glorious big screen.

Scarlett O'Hara, played by Vivien Leigh, is the ultimate survivor, exhibiting a single-minded fortitude and unabashed self-interest that were extremely rare in female characters of the time. Together, Leigh and Clark Gable as Rhett Butler created one of the most memorable and abiding romantic pairings of all time, set against the epic backdrop of the tumultuous American Civil War.

And so it is with great pride that we present this stunning new digital restoration for Alamo audiences to feast their eyes upon. Lovers of cinema, as God as our witness, you’ll never have to go hungry for this classic again!