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Orlando, My Political Biography

Museum of Fine Arts - Caroline Wiess Law Building 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX, United States

Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel Orlando: A Biography was prescient in its consideration of gender fluidity across physical and spiritual metamorphoses. This award-winning documentary is a personal essay, historical analysis, and social manifesto. Paul B. Preciado’s bold stylistic approach features a cross section of trans and nonbinary individuals who interpret scenes from the novel, weaving their […]

$7 – $9
Event Series Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros

Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros

Museum of Fine Arts - Nancy & Rich Kinder Building 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX, United States

Acclaimed filmmaker Frederick Wiseman (who turns 94 on January 1, 2024) explores the daily lives of the family running renowned French restaurant La Maison Troisgros—which has held three Michelin stars for the past five decades over four generations. The four-hour, mostly French-language film is set in central France and takes viewers through vegetable markets, cheese-making […]

$5 – $9

Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros

Museum of Fine Arts - Caroline Wiess Law Building 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX, United States

One of the “Best Movies of 2023” —New York Times Acclaimed filmmaker Frederick Wiseman (who turns 94 on January 1, 2024) explores the daily lives of the family running renowned French restaurant La Maison Troisgros—which has held three Michelin stars for the past five decades over four generations. The four-hour, mostly French-language film is set […]

$7.00 – $9.00

Orlando, My Political Biography

Museum of Fine Arts - Caroline Wiess Law Building 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX, United States

Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel Orlando: A Biography was prescient in its consideration of gender fluidity across physical and spiritual metamorphoses. This award-winning documentary is a personal essay, historical analysis, and social manifesto. Paul B. Preciado’s bold stylistic approach features a cross section of trans and nonbinary individuals who interpret scenes from the novel, weaving their […]

$7 – $9
Event Series Monster (Kaibutsu)

Monster (Kaibutsu)

Museum of Fine Arts - Caroline Wiess Law Building 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX, United States

After a mother (Ando Sakura) discovers that a teacher’s bullying is behind her young son’s sudden strange behavior, she storms into his school demanding an explanation. Continually left without satisfactory answers—and with an increasingly distressed child—she furiously escalates her concerns to the school board and the media. As the story unfolds through the multilayered perspectives […]

$7 – $9

Movies Houstonians Love: O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Museum of Fine Arts - Caroline Wiess Law Building 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX, United States

Introduced by Maureen Herzog and Dave Walker, Foundation for Independent Media Arts Three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure in 1930s Mississippi. Loosely based on Homer’s Odyssey, this “Movies Houstonians Love” presentation follows Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney) and his fugitive companions (Tim Blake Nelson, John Turturro) as they try to recover buried money from […]

$7 – $9
Event Series Monster (Kaibutsu)

Monster (Kaibutsu)

Museum of Fine Arts - Caroline Wiess Law Building 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX, United States

After a mother (Ando Sakura) discovers that a teacher’s bullying is behind her young son’s sudden strange behavior, she storms into his school demanding an explanation. Continually left without satisfactory answers—and with an increasingly distressed child—she furiously escalates her concerns to the school board and the media. As the story unfolds through the multilayered perspectives […]

$7 – $9
Event Series A Revolution on Canvas

A Revolution on Canvas

Museum of Fine Arts - Caroline Wiess Law Building 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX, United States

In their award-winning documentary Sara Nodjoumi and Till Schauder delve into the mystery surrounding the disappearance of more than 100 paintings by Sara’s father, seminal Iranian modern artist and activist Nicky Nodjoumi. In 1980, he fled Iran following the protest of his solo exhibition, Report on the Revolution, and its subsequent shutdown at the Tehran […]

$8 – $10

Resistance In Color

The DeLuxe Theater 3303 Lyons Avenue, Houston, TX, United States

Aurora Picture Show presents this special film program celebrating the centenary of one of the most colorful and revered figures in world cinema, Sergei Parajanov. Despite repeated censorship and persecution, Parajanov’s unique cinematic language, featured in masterpieces like The Color of Pomegranates (1969), has earned him worldwide recognition. This program will feature Parajanov’s rarely seen […]

$10

The Persian Version

Museum of Fine Arts - Caroline Wiess Law Building 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX, United States

When a large Iranian-American family gathers, a secret is uncovered that catapults the estranged mother and daughter into an exploration of the past, and to discover they are more alike than they know. Winner of the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. “ family is well worth the time the film spends on them, […]

$8 – $10

Roxana

Museum of Fine Arts - Caroline Wiess Law Building 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX, United States

A gambler (Yasna Mirtahmasb, who won best actor at the 2023 Tokyo International Film Festival) finds an unexpected romance with a talented female videographer. Determined to turn his life around, he strives to become a better, more useful person by taking responsibility for a crime he did not commit. The filmmaker, Parviz Shahbazi, says, “I […]

$8 – $10