Ahead of its time in 2003, Save the Green Planet! is now a cult favorite due the popularity of the Korean New Wave. Byeong-gu (Shin Ha-kyun) believes the world is on the verge of an alien invasion, and sets out to save planet Earth. Convinced that the head of a chemical production company (Baek Yun-shik) […]
Houston Premiere! Prolific filmmaker Hong Sangsoo has made more than 30 films in 25 years, creating semi-autobiographical, character-driven stories about individuals working in creative professions. His go-to actress Kim Minhee won a top prize at the Locarno Film Festival for her role in By the Stream as Jeonim, an artist teaching at a Seoul university, […]
The debut film from Nam Dong-hyup is a remake of Canada’s black comedy/horror film Tucker and Dale vs. Evil from 2010. Misunderstood friends Jae-pil (Lee Sung-min) and Sang-gu (Lee Hee-joon) appear to be tough guys, but are more often clueless. When they achieve their dream of buying a fixer-upper and living in the country, they […]
Post-film Q&A with actor Yang Dong-geun moderated by Jaewook Kim, University of Houston Yang Dong-geun stars as real-life Korean-born Choi Yeong-eui as he arrives in 1938 Japan, hoping to become a fighter pilot, but ending up on a different path. He changed his name to Masutatsu Oyama and went across the country, defeating martial artists […]
Directed by Hismt Ministry Post-film Q&A with actor Yang Dong-geun moderated by Dr. Jaewook Kim, University of Houston Actors and real-life friends Yang Dong Geun, Jung Joon, and Kim Yoo Mi join members of Heritage, a musical ensemble whose members co-founded the Heritage Mass Choir (thought to be the only South Korean gospel choir in […]
A renowned shaman (Kim Go-eun) and her protégé (Lee Do-hyun) are hired by a wealthy family to investigate the disturbing supernatural illness affecting only the firstborn of each generation. With the help of a mortician (Yoo Hae-jin) and a geomancer (Choi Min-sik), they soon trace the affliction’s origin to a longhidden family grave located on […]
Robert Altman claims the idea for 3 Women came to him in a dream. Variety calls it “a one-of-a-kind redneck fusion of Tennessee Williams and Persona.” Shelley Duvall won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival for arguably her best role as Millie, the vain chatterbox roommate to teenaged coworker Sissy Spacek’s naive Pinky, with […]
Brewster (Bud Cort) is an intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome. With the aid of a mysterious guardian angel, he develops a pair of wings to help him realize his dream of flying inside the stadium. In her first feature film, Shelley Duvall “ unlike anyone seen onscreen before. […]
This suspenseful character study, an influence on Kathryn Bigelow’s 2008 Oscar winner The Hurt Locker, tells of a neurotic and alcoholic munitions expert (David Farrar) during World War II. The climax of the story, a long tense scene of bomb disposal, is a virtuoso suspense sequence that is one of the most memorable in the […]
This suspenseful character study, an influence on Kathryn Bigelow’s 2008 Oscar winner The Hurt Locker, tells of a neurotic and alcoholic munitions expert (David Farrar) during World War II. The climax of the story, a long tense scene of bomb disposal, is a virtuoso suspense sequence that is one of the most memorable in the […]
Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (UK, 1948, 135 min., digital) Friday, October 11, 7:00 p.m. BROWN Sunday, October 13, 5:00 p.m. BROWN This iconic Powell and Pressburger melodrama, inspired by Hans Christian Andersen, focuses on Victoria Page (dancer Moira Shearer in her first film role), a young ballerina cast by obsessive Russian impresario […]
Presented by Chris Shepherd, James Beard Award–winning chef and restaurateur In one of Paris’s finest restaurants, Remy (Patton Oswalt), a determined young rat, dreams of becoming a renowned French chef. Torn between his family's wishes and his true calling, Remy and his pal Linguini (Lou Romano) set in motion a hilarious chain of events that […]
