Rudy Ray Moore Tribute: THE HUMAN TORNADO!

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Dec 2, 2008 10:20 pm (Tuesday)

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Alamo Drafthouse at The Ritz (map)

320 East Sixth Street
Austin, TX 78701
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Rated R; Director:Cliff Roquemore Location: Alamo DowntownWe'll have forties of Schlitz Malt Liquor available for this very special screening. No bull!The great Rudy Ray Mo...

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Event details: Rudy Ray Moore Tribute: THE HUMAN TORNADO!

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Rated R; Director:Cliff Roquemore

Location: Alamo Downtown

We'll have forties of Schlitz Malt Liquor available for this very special screening. No bull!

The great Rudy Ray Moore, nightclub comedian extraordinaire, Godfather Of Rap and a friend of the Alamo, has died. We were sad for a while and now we're ready to celebrate his life and work.

Rudy Ray Moore's films are cheap, quickly made and technically disastrous. But they have something that Hollywood can't buy - they are really, really funny.

HUMAN TORNADO: As the poster says: “Nerve-shattering ...Brain-battering ...Mind-splattering ...A ONE MAN DISASTER!” If you want an argument from me you'll have to change the subject. Rudy Ray Moore is without a doubt one of the most idiosyncratic talents ever to light up the silver screen. He first achieved fame as a nightclub entertainer reciting “toasts” (basically proto-raps) about a mythical black pimp/avenger named Dolemite that had been handed down in various forms through years of African American oral tradition. With the advent of blaxploitation action movies in the ‘70s Moore took the next logical step, starring as Dolemite in his own films. This is the second and possibly funniest. This time the bad guys are rednecks and mobsters. We also get to see the pudgy Rudy Ray Moore naked on more occasions than we might wish. Throughout, Moore displays his half-speed martial arts chops and amazing one liners. THE HUMAN TORNADO also foreshadows the giant step into surrealism Moore's films would take, culminating in PETEY WHEATSTRAW and AVENGING DISCO GODFATHER. Devastating!

Also, see the original DOLEMITE on Wednesday December 3 at the Ritz!


Kid Policy: 18 and up; Children 6 and up will be allowed only with a parent or guardian. No children under the age of 6 will be allowed.

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  • Tuesday, December 02, 2008



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