Beyond 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 [...]
Film 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 [...]
Film 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 [...]
Review: 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 [...]
Little 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 [...]
Review: 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 [...]
Review: 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, [...]
Review: “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 [...]
The Life of Documentary Filmmakers In Houston
“We made a little money off of T-shirt and sticker sales and a screening last year,” says Alex Luster, whose three-year-in-the-making documentary about Houston street poster artists “Stick em Up!” will be screened again at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in early May. “But it all went to entrance fees for film festivals. “Now [...]
Review: “A Separation”
“A Separation,” Asghar Farhadi’s latest moral drama, is a painful, compassionate, and powerful film. Farhadi dissolves the traditional notions of good and evil, and dives into the complicated and messy subjectivity of truth and morality [...]
Review: “Goodbye” Iranian Film Festival
In 2010, Mohammad Rasoulof, along with the fellow Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi, was arrested on charges of collusion against the Iranian government. He is currently under house arrest. [...]
Review: “Pretty Dark” Shorts Showcase
When I think about “dark,” in a general context of genre, my expectation is more often than not, weight or heavy handedness. Filmmakers exploring violence can fall into the trap of excess, and those interested in mystery lean on abstraction or purposeful incoherence, a la Lynch derivatives [...]
