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Carlos Reygadas's POST TENEBRAS LUX mind-bogglingly finds eccentricities and tenderness within the same frame.
It's been a while since I posted here. That's because I've been writing for a few other websites. Last week, In Review Online posted my review of Carlos Reygadas's Post Tenebras Lux, possibly the s...
Two Chinese films by two young female directors at HKIFF pleasantly surprised me.
Going into HKIFF, I expected to see great films by trusted auteurs and the likes of Hong Sang-soo (In Another Country, Nobody’s Daughter Haewon) and Olivier Assayas (Après Mai) did not disappoint m...
From DRIVE director Nicolas Winding Refn.
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That's Co******er Blues, y'all. Go experience the raw power of Robert Frank's elusive Rolling Stones documentary.
BOTH SCREENINGS ARE SOLD OUT Special ticket prices apply! General admission tickets are $20; MFAH Members, students with ID, and senior adults receive a $5 discount.
Festival livin'.
The 37th Hong Kong International Film Festival opened on Sunday evening with yet another biopic of martial arts master Ip Man—played by the talismanic Anthony Wong this time in Ip Man: The Final Fi...
Now, usually, I don't do this but uh.... Go head' on and break 'em off wit a lil' preview of the new issue.
Focusing on the music in the first part of my essay on MOONRISE KINGDOM.
This is part one of our essay on Moonrise Kingdom, in which we focus on the music in Wes Anderson’s film(s). “Sometimes the music comes first,” Wes Anderson confessed in the liner notes of th...
Best of 2011 and more.
*from our February issue. Honorable mentions: Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Poetry, Last Train Home, 13 Assassins, The Mill and the Cross, Le quattro volte, A Separation, Le Havre. ** List do...
Take a look inside Sundance Cinemas Houston before it opens this week.
The brand-spanking new Sundance Cinemas will be hosting a benefit event for the Museum of Fine Arts Houston tonight before officially opening on Wednesday, November 23rd. A few weeks ago, the the...
Before you watch DRIVE next week, come watch director Nicolas Winding Refn's debut PUSHER with us tonight at Domy Books - Houston. 8:30pm
The PUSHER Trilogy In select theatres 8/18 Writer and director Nicolas Winding Refn turned down a place at the prestigious National Danish Film School in ord...
Page One: Inside The New Times is showing The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston this weekend. The title says it all.
“Just because you put on a fu***ng safari helmet and look at some p**p doesn’t give you a right to insult what we do,” David Carr interjects calmly during his interview with Vice magazine co-...
DVD/Blu-Ray of the week. Another great one by The Criterion Collection.
Died at the age of 29, Jean Vigo left the world with only 1 full-length feature (L'Atalante) and three short films, yet his influence on French (and World) Cinema is tremendous. So when Criterion C...
Circo-- a documentary about the a family circus in Mexico, is playing at the MFAH this weekend.
Written, directed, photographed and produced by Aaron Schock, Circo exudes the kind of tenderness and authenticity that can only be a labor of love. Perhaps such attitude is required for a document...
Our review of BLANK CITY, doc on NYC's No Wave scene. By Carolina Astrain.
(by Carolina Astrain) Céline Danhier’s first documentary film, Blank City, is a love letter to the filmmakers of New York’s No Wave movement in late Seventies/early Eighties. Much in the sp...
Tonight! Fritz Lang's Hollywood noir The Big Heat at Domy Books - Houston. Kicking off a month of "police and thieves."
Fritz Lang directs this gritty, violent drama that follows Dave Bannion (Glenn Ford), a detective who investigates a police sergeant's su***de and winds up on a personal quest for vengeance. When Bannion suspects foul play and is promptly taken off the case he defies his superiors and continues to p...
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Frowns & Normal's 50% off on The Criterion Collection titles ends this weekend. Here are our 3 picks.
Barnes and Nobles have been marking 50% off from the regular price of its Criterion titles (as they do once a year). Many have taken advantaged of this unbeatable deal already, and you have a coupl...
Tonight at 8:30pm, Domy Books - Houston /Brasil patio: Part V of The Decalogue. (Thou shalt not commit adultery?)
Using one of the Ten Commandments as a thematic springboard for each film in this collection, writer-director Krzysztof Kieslowski explores the lives of ordinary people flailing through inner torments, hard decisions and shattering revelations. Constructed of 10 one-hour films that originally aired
Werner Herzog visionary midget apocalypse. 8:30pm, tonight at the patio. Nothing's stopping us this time.
Excerpt from "Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe" about "Even Dwarfs Started Small"
Trying to figure this "page" thing so we can abandon the "friend" thing.
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Pick one up every month at Rivers Oaks Theater (2nd floor), The Museum of Fine Arts Houston (box office), Sound Exchange, Catcus music, Freed Montrose Public Library, Domy Books, Antidote, Agora, Cactus Music, Tacos A-Go-Go, Natachee's, Amy's Ice-cream, Diedrich Coffee and Cafe Brasil. It's free.
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