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Paramount Summer Classic Film Series PresentsLone Star
In 35mm! 30th Anniversary!
The Paramount Theatre
Monday, June 1, 2026
Doors: 6:30pm
Show: 7:30pm
(1996, 135min/color, 35mm) Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Peña, Kris Kristofferson, Ron Canada, Joe Morton, Clifton James, Frances McDormand, and Matthew McConaughey. Directed by John Sayles.
A keen observer of America’s social fabric, writer-director John Sayles uncovers the haunted past buried beneath a small Texas border town in this sprawling neowestern mystery. When a skeleton is discovered in the desert, lawman Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper), son of a legendary local sheriff, begins an investigation that will have profound implications both for him personally and for all of Rio County, a place still reckoning with its history of racial violence. Sayles’s masterful film—novelistic in its intricacy and featuring a brilliant ensemble cast, including Joe Morton, Elizabeth Peña, and Kris Kristofferson—quietly subverts national mythmaking and lays bare the fault lines of life at the border.
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Paramount Theatre, 713 Congress Ave,Austin, Texas, United States
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