The Society of Cinema
Houston Cinema Arts Festival Brings It All Together The art of film is a major focus this month as the Houston Cinema Arts Society presents its fourth annual Houston [...]
Read MoreReview: The Artist Is Present
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present, the new HBO documentary by Matthew Akers and Jeff Dupre, chronicles Serbian performance [...]
Read MoreBeyond Last Tango
MFAH’s Bertolucci Retrospective Best known for Last Tango in Paris, his 1972 psychosexual drama starring Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider, Bernardo Bertolucci [...]
Read MoreFilm Review: ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’
Beasts of the Southern Wild is no doubt in my top-10 list for best films of 2012. I know most of you haven’t heard of this film, but rest assured, once you see [...]
Read MoreFilm Review: ‘The 6 Month Rule’
When it comes to romantic comedies, I feel I see the same film over and over again, but with different actors. The story usually ends up the same in [...]
Read MoreReview: The Turin Horse
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Béla Tarr claims The Turin Horse will be his last film, and unlike American celebrities who use retirement as a PR scam, he’ll probably stick [...]
Read MoreLittle Big Shot
The Micro-Cinemania of Aurora Picture Show Rewind the past 14 years, and you’ll see Aurora Picture Show – the little micro-cinema-that-could – reelin’ out some of the best moving image art and public programming in the Texas region [...]
Read MoreReview: Moonrise Kingdom
Wes Anderson is back to the live action format with his new quirky coming-of-age film, Moonrise Kingdom. You can always tell a Wes Anderson film from any other movies. The camera angles, the oddball characters, the musical cues with the slow-motion action, and how every character puts their emotions on the frontline makes up the [...]
Read MoreReview: Gerhard Richter Painting
Paint and the moving image have a complicated relationship. Early cinema influenced how Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque saw the world, helping to usher in cubism, as shown in the 2008 film Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies. And a film or video camera’s zooms and pans can change how we look at paintings, [...]
Read MoreReview: “Happy Happy”
“Happy Happy” 14 Pews March 23, 2012 www.14pews.org “Happy Happy,” a cruel and satirical comedy on the nature of Norwegian relationships, is a strange and confusing film by Anne Sewitsky. Kaja, frantically played by Agnes Kittelsen, is a bubbly and nervous schoolteacher who lives with her husband Eirek (Joachim Rafaelsen), who has a Brokeback Mountain [...]
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