On June 16, we will kick-off our newest film series at the Kessler Theater, entitled, “Dallas, Outlaws, and the American Dream.” We’ll have more on the series early next week (which will include movies, music, and possibly some special guests), but here’s the lineup: Bonnie and Clyde (June 16), Bottle Rocket (July 28), and Paris, Texas (Aug 25 ) And you can already get your tickets right here.

Speaking of Bottle Rocket, Robert Wilonsky brings word that the motel that features in the film may soon shut down:

The Hillsboro motel where Wes Anderson, Luke and Owen Wilson and Bob Musgrave shot part of the film — known as the Windmill Inn back then, then a Ramada, now a Days Inn — is in danger of being shuttered. Which is why two locals, Andy Carl Valentin and Chris Durbin, are planning a “Save the Bottle Rocket Motel!” wingding at the motel off IH-35 on June 25.

And as a primer, it is definitely worth looking back at Matt Zoller Seitz’s making-of piece which ran in the Observer way back in September 1995.