Quentin Tarantino's "Jackie Brown" kicks off the series with an August 6 screening at the Del Amo Fashion Mall, where Pam Grier's character shops during the film.
Clint Eastwood's Harry Callahan had a beat that included San Francisco's Washington Square Park, where "Dirty Harry" screens on August 7.
Paul Thomas Anderson's monumental "There Will Be Blood" is set in California's oil fields; the Kern Country Museum plays host to a August 8 screening.
"Convoy," the '70s road movie from Sam Peckinpah, is half of an August 8 double-feature at the Fort Union Drive-In in Las Vegas, New Mexico. John Milius' "Red Dawn" screens as well.
John Belushi's and Dan Ackroyd's "mission from God" began at Chicago's Joliet Prison, where the 1980 John Landis film screens on August 13.
The title character in Paul Verhoeven's 1987 hit "Robocop" is a former member of the Detroit Police Department; the August 14 screening will take place at that city's Russell Industrial Center.
There's only one place to screen the first three "Rocky" movies in an August 19 "Rockython": the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum. (Cue Bill Conti's fanfare.)
Marlon Brando coulda been a contender if he'd left the Jersey docks. Now he's back at Hoboken's Pier A Park for an August 20 screening of Elia Kazan's "On the Waterfront."
Francis Coppola's 1974 Oscar winner. A rooftop overlooking Little Italy in Lower Manhattan. The August 27 screening of "The Godfather, Part II" sounds like an offer you can't refuse.
The Alamo Drafthouse, the legendary theater in Austin, Texas, hits the road this summer with its “Rolling Roadshow” series, nine free screenings of films in places indelibly tied to those films: “On the Waterfront” on a Hoboken pier, “Dirty Harry” in San Francisco …
To go with the series, the Drafthouse has commissioned poster designer Olly Moss to come up with a series of remarkable posters; some echo design icon Saul Bass, others move in new directions, and all provide striking images in orange and black.
More information is available at the Alamo Drafthouse's Rolling Roadshow page.
