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FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
FESTIVE OCCASIONS
OPENING NIGHT GALA AT THE MFAH
DOWNTOWN EXPRESS WITH PHILIPPE QUINT AND DAVID GRUBIN
Wednesday, November 9, 7:00 PM featuring red carpet, live violin performance
by Philippe Quint and afterparty!
CINEMA ARTS CELEBRATION
Saturday, November 12, 10:00 PM – 2:00 AM
Houston Cinema Arts Society members, sponsors and guest artists gather for fun,
food and libations. Check www.cinemartsociety.org for location and more details.
Tickets for non-members are available for purchase.
CLOSING NIGHT AT THE MILLER OUTDOOR THEATRRE
ART CAR: THE MOVIE WORLD PREMIERE
Sunday, November 13, 7:00 PM Free! Art cars, live music and more!
CINEMA ON THE VERGE
Encounters with interactive sound sculptures and video installations in various
festival venues.
LYNN HERSHMAN’S RAW/WAR
November 9, 6:00 - 10:00 PM, November 10, 5:00 - 8:00 PM, Museum of Fine
Arts Houston, Farish Room.
See Lynn Hershman’s Artful Thursday presentation and !Women Art Revolution at
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Brown Auditorium on November 10, starting at 6:30 PM
LECH MAJEWSKI’S BRUEGEL SUITE
November 2-13, West Ave - Festival Headquarters and Filmmakers' Lounge
MIWA MATREYEK’S PANORAMA CITY
November 11-13, Talento Bilingue de Houston
BRADEN KING’S TRIANGULATION 1
November 11-13, Talento Bilingue de Houston
TRIMPIN’S MINI-KLOMPEN
November 8-12, Edwards Greenway Grand Palace Stadium 24
TRIMPIN’S LAPTOP SEXTET
November 7-12, One Allen Center
Downtown Express, Art Car: The Movie
LIVE PERFORMANCES
ECHOTONE
Thursday, November 10, 10:00 PM, River Oaks Landmark
MYTH AND INFRASTRUCTURE WITH MIWA MATREYEK
Friday, November 11, 7:30 PM, Talento Bilingue de Houston
HERE [THE STORY SLEEPS] WITH BRADEN KING AND
THE BOXHEAD ENSEMBLE
Saturday, November 12, 8:00 PM, Talento Bilingue de Houston Also, see Braden
King’s Here (the feature film) on Friday at Edwards Grand Palace.
JOHN FORD’S UPSTREAM (1927) WITH THE DONALD SOSIN ENSEMBLE
!Women Art Revolution, Trimpin: The Sound of Invention
PREVIEWS OF UPCOMING RELEASES
David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method, Ralph Fiennes’ Coriolanus, Wim
Wenders’ Pina (in 3D), Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist, and more!
Sunday, November 13, 1:00 PM, MFAH Brown Auditorium. Featuring Joanna
Seaton and students from the Shepherd School of Music.
A Dangerous Method, Coriolanus, Pina
Philippe Quint, The Donald Sosin Ensemble, Myth and Infrastructure
INTERNATIONAL GUEST ARTISTS
PATRICIO GUZMÁN’S UNIVERSE (CHILE)
FILMS BY AND ABOUT ARTISTS
Shakespeare High, The Mill and the Cross, Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow,
Wish Me Away, Free Radicals, and more!
November 10: The Southern Cross
November 11: Robinson Crusoe Island and My Jules Verne
November 12: Nostalgia for the Light
Also: A Village Fading Away and Madrid (Nov. 19) and Chile, Obstinate Memory
(Nov. 20)
All shows 7:00 PM at Rice Cinema
MAHMOUD KAABOUR (LEBANON)
Grandma, a Thousand Times
Friday, November 11, 4:00 PM, Edwards Greenway Grand Palace Stadium 24
ZHU WEN (CHINA)
Thomas Mao
Saturday, November 12, 1:00 PM, Edwards Greenway Grand Palace Stadium 24
The Mill and the Cross, Shakespeare High
HOW TO FEST
In this Pocket Guide and in the full Program Guide the following key is used to denote
placement of screening in descriptions, venues, and type of screening or event.
KEY
Parking garage available for $3 (cash only).
MOT Miller Outdoor Theatre (1700 seats under roof)
MILLER OUTDOOR THEATRE
6000 Hermann Park Drive, 77030
www.milleroutdoortheatre.com
MFAH Museum of Fine Arts Houston (360 seats)
RC Rice Cinema (260 seats)
ROL River Oaks Landmark (500 seats)
TBH Talento Bilingue de Houston (240 seats)
EDWARDS GREENWAY GRAND PALACE STADIUM 24
3839 Weslayan, 77027 (near Richmond)
EDW Edwards Greenway Palace Stadium 24 (240 seats)
VENUES
Free parking is available in various lots inside and surrounding the park.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON
1001 Bissonnet, 77005
FREE Free Event or screening
LIVE Live Performance
Q&A Half-hour discussion between filmmakers and audience immediately
following screening
TICKETS
Online 24 hours per day at www.cinemartsociety.org
On day of screening, tickets will only be on sale as rush tickets at the venue on a first
come first serve basis.
In person:
Brown Auditorium Theater, Caroline Weiss Law Building
www.mfah.org
Free parking is available in lot across the street or $6 in the parking garage ($3 for
MFAH members). Free parking is available in two outdoor street-level lots north of
the Law Building along Main Street: one at Bissonnet, one at Oakdale.
ONE ALLEN CENTER
(LAPTOP SEXTET INSTALLATION)
500 Dallas Avenue, Lobby Level, 77002
Across from the Doubletree Hotel entrance in One Allen Center.
WORTHAM BOX OFFICE
501 Texas Ave Houston, TX 77002
(713) 222-5400
Hours: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Monday - Friday
Parking garage is available at 300 Clay for $4.50 per hour, Mon – Sun.
When purchasing tickets in person at the box office, motorists are encouraged to use
the ticket-buyer parking zone on Prairie Street, between Smith and Bagby. Parking is
free for 20 min. in the specified curbside location. On day of screening, tickets will only
be on sale at the venue as rush tickets on a first come first serve basis.
Houston Cinema Arts Society members with an All Access Pass will be admitted for
early-arrival priority seating 30 min. prior to screening. One-, three-, and five-day pass
holders and single-ticket holders will be admitted 20 min. prior to screening. All seats
not occupied 15 min. prior to screening will be sold as "rush" tickets on a first come
first serve basis until all seats are filled. Houston Cinema Arts Society cannot guarantee
seating for late arrivals. There will be no seating after screening has begun. Information
for what passes do and do not include is listed on the back of each pass.
RICE CINEMA
Rice University
6100 Main Street, 77005
Entrance 8 University at Stockton
www.ricecinema.rice.edu
Paid visitors parking is available in the Greenbriar lot located directly across from the
cinema. More information at www.film.rice.edu/Content.aspx?id=90.
RIVER OAKS LANDMARK
2009 West Gray, 77019
www.landmarktheatres.com
Parking is available around the theatre and across the street in the garage behind
the shopping center.
TICKET PRICES
GENERAL
STUDENTS AND
SENIORS (WITH ID)
Matinee Screenings
$10
$8
Evening Screenings
$11
$9
Live Film and Music Performances
$15
$13
1-day Screening Pass
$25
$20
3-day Screening Pass
$75
$70
5-day Screening Pass
$125
$120
Opening Night Screening and Party $25
$20
2800 Kirby Drive, Suite B-122, 77019
Cinema Arts Celebration
$12
$10
West Ave retail/residential complex located at the corner of Westheimer and
Kirby. Free parking is available in the garage or metered parking on the ground
level. B-122 is on the ground level. OPEN 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM daily November
2 – 13, 2011. Video installation and Houston Cinema Art Society memberships
at this location.
Prices include service charge. All sales are final -- no refunds or exchanges for
any reason. Prices do not include parking. Parking information is listed with "Venues."
HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS
TALENTO BILINGUE DE HOUSTON
333 S. Jensen Drive, 77003
www.talentobilingue.org
Free parking is located in front of the theatre.
WEST AVE
FESTIVAL HEADQUARTERS AND FILMMAKERS’ LOUNGE
Travel packages including Festival passes and accommodations are available at
www.visithoustontexas.com.
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WEDNESDAY
NOVEMBER 9
MFAH
7:00 PM
1 DOWNTOWN EXPRESS
LIVE PERFORMANCE AND Q&A
9:00 PM
OPENING PARTY AT
THE MFAH
THURSDAY
NOVEMBER 10
9:00 - 11:00 PM
RICE MEDIA
TBH
OTHER
Venue, date and time TBA for the following films.
Please visit www.cinemartsociety.org for an updated schedule.
4 A DANGEROUS METHOD
14 CORIOLANUS
19 THE ARTIST
27
30
PINA
THE WOMAN IN THE FIFTH
10:00 AM
A MEET THE MAKERS
Texas Filmmakers w/Jena Moreno,
Ford Gunter, Alex Luster
1:00 PM
2 SHAKESPEARE HIGH
Q&A
3:45 PM
4:45 PM
TBA
22 TEXAS FILMMAKERS
SHOWCASE
Q&A
6:30 PM
5 ARTFUL THURSDAY:
LYNN HERSHMAN
9:45 PM
10 WISH ME AWAY
8:00 PM
6 !WOMEN ART
REVOLUTION
7:00 PM
7 THE SOUTHERN
CROSS
Q&A
10:00 PM
Q&A
31 ECHOTONE
FRIDAY
NOVEMBER 11
LIVE PERFORMANCE AND Q&A
RIVER OAKS
1:00 PM
11 THE WELCOME
Q&A
4:10 PM
3:30 PM
TBA
12 GRANDMA, A
THOUSAND TIMES
Q&A
6:45 PM
TBA
9:45 PM
7:30 PM
TBA
7:00 PM
8 ROBINSON CRUSOE/
MY JULES VERNE
Q&A
15 HERE
SATURDAY
NOVEMBER 12
7:30 PM
13 MIWA MATREYEK
MYTH AND
INFRASTRUCTURE
LIVE PERFORMANCE AND Q&A
Q&A
10:00 AM
1:00 PM
TBA
1:00 PM
17 THOMAS MAO
B MEET THE MAKERS
Q&A
Installation Art w/Braden King
and Miwa Matreyek
3:00 PM
4:00 PM
25 WHERE I'M FROM
18 TRIMPIN: THE SOUND
OF INVENTION
Q&A
6:50 PM
TBA
7:00 PM
TBA
7:00 PM
9 NOSTALGIA FOR
THE LIGHT
Q&A
9:45 PM
SUNDAY
1:00 PM
TBA
4:00 PM
3 NATURAL SELECTION
Q&A
1:00 PM
21 UPSTREAM
LIVE PERFORMANCE AND Q&A
4:00 PM
24 OVER YOUR CITIES
GRASS WILL GROW
6:45 PM
7:05 PM
TBA
8:00 PM
16 HERE [THE STORY
SLEEPS]
LIVE PERFORMANCE
20 FLOWERS OF EVIL
NOVEMBER 13
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EDWARDS
28 THE MILL AND THE
CROSS
1:00 PM
23 FREE RADICALS
Q&A
3:15 PM
23A L'ABOMINABLE:
16MM FRENCH
EXPERIMENTAL FILM
3:00 PM
26 UNFINISHED
SPACES
Q&A
Q&A
7:00 PM
29 ART CAR:
THE MOVIE
LIVE PERFORMANCE AND Q&A
MILLER OUTDOOR
1 DOWNTOWN EXPRESS
WITH DIRECTOR DAVID GRUBIN AND
ACTOR/VIOLINIST PHILIPPE QUINT
MFAH|WED NOV 9|7:00 PM|LIVE|Q&A
Sasha, a young Russian violinist on a
scholarship to Juilliard, meets Ramona,
a bohemian singer/songwriter. He begins to lead a double life, careening
between two worlds. The film stars
Philippe Quint, a virtuoso classical
violinist; and Nellie McKay, a singer/
songwriter with a devoted following.
Quint will perform live following the
screening. 90 MIN.
5 ARTFUL THURSDAY:
A CONVERSATION WITH
LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON
MFAH | THUR NOV 10 | 6:30 PM | FREE
Lynn Hershman Leeson has been a prolific voice in the feminist art movement.
Before the regional premiere of her
!Women Art Revolution film at the
MFAH, Hershman Leeson will present an
episode from her film The Electronic Diary and discuss her career with UH art
professor Jenni Sorkin and Houston Cinema Art Society artistic director Richard
Herskowitz. 45 MIN.
6 !WOMEN ART REVOLUTION
WITH DIRECTOR LYNN HERSHMAN
LEESON
MFAH | THUR NOV 10 | 8:00 PM | Q&A
2 SHAKESPEARE HIGH
Through intimate interviews, art and rarely
seen archival film and video footage,
!Women Art Revolution reveals how the
feminist art movement fused free speech
and politics into an art form that radically
transformed the art and culture of our
times. Interviewees include Judy Chicago,
Yoko Ono, Miranda July and the Guerilla
Girls. 83 MIN.
9 NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT
WITH FILMMAKER PATRICIO GUZMÁN
RC | SAT NOV 12 | 7:00 PM | Q&A
In Patricio Guzmán’s poetic documentary
about Chile’s Atacama Desert, archeologists search the sands and astronomers
search the skies for clues to human origins,
while a group of women search for the
remains of dissenters who “disappeared”
under the reign of General Pinochet.
Guzmán connects these groups through
their shared need to learn about the past in
order to understand the present. 90 MIN.
10 WISH ME AWAY
EDW | THUR NOV 10 | 9:45 PM
Jury and audience award winner at the
Los Angeles and San Francisco film
festivals, Wish Me Away follows country
music star Chely Wright, the long road
to her coming out publicly as a lesbian
and the resulting repercussions in the
country music world. 120 MIN.
WITH PRODUCER BRAD KOEPENICK
MFAH | THUR | NOV 10 | 1:00 PM
A powerful reminder of the dramatic
impact arts programs can have on teens’
lives, this documentary follows a group
of high school students — many of whom
live with poverty, gangs and drugs — as
they prepare to compete in the 90th
Drama Teachers Association of Southern
California Shakespeare Festival. Featuring
interviews with DTASC alumni, including
Kevin Spacey, Richard Dreyfuss and Mare
Winningham. 81 MIN.
3 NATURAL SELECTION
WITH DIRECTOR ROBBIE PICKERING
EDW | SUN NOV 13 | 4:00 | Q&A
Jersey Village native Robbie Pickering
swept the jury and audience awards
at the 2011 SXSW festival with this
irreverent Texas-filmed comedy. Rachael
Harris plays Linda, a sexually frustrated
housewife in suburban Texas, who discovers her dying, devout husband has
an illegitimate son. She embarks on a
quest to find and retrieve the very unChristian Raymond. 90 MIN.
4 A DANGEROUS METHOD
VENUE, DATE AND TIME TBA. PLEASE VISIT
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UPDATED SCHEDULE.
Seduced by the challenge of an impossible
case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung (Michael
Fassbender) takes the unbalanced, beautiful Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley)
as his patient in David Cronenberg’s A
Dangerous Method. Jung’s weapon is
the method of his master, the renowned
Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen). Both
men fall under Sabina's spell. 99 MIN.
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13 MYTH AND
INFRASTRUCTURE
WITH ANIMATION AND PERFORMANCE BY
MIWA MATREYEK
TBH | FRI NOV 11 | 7:30 PM | LIVE | Q&A
Matreyek performs in a multimedia production using projected animation she has
created. Her shadow becomes an integral
part of a fantastical world as she traverses
oceanscapes and cityscapes, conjuring
magical domestic scenes with light and
shadow. Matreyek will perform Myth
and Infrastructure and Dreaming of Lucid
Living and will present several of her animated films. APPROX. 60 MIN.
14 CORIOLANUS
VENUE, DATE AND TIME TBA. PLEASE VISIT
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UPDATED SCHEDULE.
Updating William Shakespeare’s late-period tragedy of ancient Rome to the 21st
century of guerrilla insurgencies, instant
polling and 24-hour news networks, Ralph
Fiennes, in his directorial debut, delivers a
film the Guardian describes as “one of
the few films likely to appeal to action
fans and Shakespeare lovers in equal
measure.” Fiennes’ costars include
Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave and
Jessica Chastain. 122 MIN.
15 HERE
WITH DIRECTOR BRADEN KING
EDW | FRI NOV 11 | 9:45 PM | Q&A
11 THE WELCOME
WITH PRODUCER BILL MCMILLAN
EDW | FRI NOV 11 | 1:00 PM | Q&A
7 SOUTHERN CROSS
WITH FILMMAKER PATRICIO GUZMÁN
RC | THUR NOV 10 | 7:00 PM | Q&A
Guzmán’s film explores “popular religiosity” in Latin America, from the expressions
of native art to the dynamics of liberation
theology, and how religiosity as a practice
forms a refuge where ancient traditions
endure. The film features reenactments
of the Spaniards’ first encounters with
pre-Columbian religions, tracing the intersections between pagan and church
traditions in present-day Latin America.
75 MIN.
8 ROBINSON CRUSOE
ISLAND and MY JULES
VERNE
WITH FILMMAKER PATRICIO GUZMÁN
RC | FRI NOV 11 | 7:00 PM | Q&A
In Robinson Crusoe Island, a personal
travelogue and rumination on childhood
and discovery, Guzmán explores the island
off the coast of Chile that inspired Defoe,
meditating on the contrasts between the
actual island and the legend of Crusoe.
My Jules Verne is a portrait of the fantastic novelist, an extraordinary voyage
adorned by encounters with adventurers
who share the writer’s spirit. 55 AND 45
MIN., RESPECTIVELY
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A powerful film about a group of war
veterans who, in a five-day retreat, deal
with post-traumatic stress through poetry
and performance. The film will screen on
Veterans Day. The Welcome offers a
fiercely intimate view of life after war —
the fear, anger and isolation that affect
vets and family members alike. 94 MIN.
Here is a dramatic, landscape-obsessed
road movie that follows Gadarine (Lubna
Azabel) and Will (Ben Foster) — an
Armenian art photographer and an
American satellite-mapping engineer —
from the moment they notice each other
over breakfast. According to the LA
Weekly, it “packs an unexpectedly powerful emotional punch. It’s the road trip
romance reinvented, remapped.” 120 MIN.
12 GRANDMA, A
THOUSAND TIMES
WITH FILMMAKER MAHMOUD KAABOUR
EDW | FRI NOV 11 | 4:10 PM | Q&A
This magical realist documentary depicts
an amazing old woman, the widow of a
Lebanese violinist. The filmmaker, her
grandson, evokes for her the presence of
her late husband. Winner of audience
awards at the Tribeca and Rotterdam
film festivals. 48 MIN.
16 HERE [THE STORY
SLEEPS]
WITH LIVE MUSIC BY THE BOXHEAD
ENSEMBLE
TBH | SAT NOV 12 | 8:00 PM | LIVE
This multiscreen musical presentation
and deconstruction of outtakes from the
feature film Here (screening Friday at
Edwards) emphasizes the landscapes
of Armenia. The Boxhead Ensemble,
director Braden King’s long-term musical
collaborators, accompany the screening.
Cosponsored with the Aurora Picture
Show. APPROX. 70 MIN.
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17 THOMAS MAO
20 FLOWERS OF EVIL
EDW | SAT NOV 12 | 1:00 PM | Q&A
Technology, in the forms of Twitter
and YouTube, connects and divides
two lovers. Anahita is forced to leave
Iran during the Green Revolution, but is
fixated on Web images of the protests
back home. Now in Paris, she meets a
young French-Algerian bellhop, Gecko,
whose irrepressible “parkour” dancing
exemplifies his free spirit. 99 MIN.
WITH DIRECTOR ZHU WEN
Thomas is a European artist, played by art
curator Thomas Rohdewald from Luxembourg. Mao is a Chinese farmer, played
by renowned artist Mao Yan. Thomas
becomes lost and Mao takes him in.
Neither speaks the other’s language,
and comic miscommunication rules,
whereupon space aliens descend on
Mao’s cabin. And only after this does the
film begin to get seriously weird. 80 MIN.
EDW | SAT NOV 12 | 9:45 PM
21 UPSTREAM
24 OVER YOUR CITIES
GRASS WILL GROW
28 THE MILL AND
THE CROSS
Sophie Fiennes’ exquisite documentary
bears witness to German artist Anselm
Kiefer’s alchemical creative processes
and reveals the personal universe he
has built at his hill studio estate, La Ribaute.
Traversing this landscape, the film immerses the audience in the world and creative
process of one of today’s most significant
and inventive artists. 105 MIN.
The Mill and the Cross makes use of
traditional and contemporary film technologies allowing the audience to live
inside “The Procession to Calvary,”
an epic 1564 painting by Flemish
master Pieter Bruegel. Rutger Hauer
plays Bruegel, Michael York portrays his
friend Jonghelinck and Charlotte Rampling plays Mary. 97 MIN.
MFAH | SUN NOV 13 | 4:00 PM
29 ART CAR: THE MOVIE
WITH LIVE ACCOMPANIMENT BY THE
DONALD SOSIN ENSEMBLE
WITH CO-DIRECTORS CARLTON AHRENS
AND FORD GUNTER
MFAH | SUN NOV 13 | 1:00 PM | LIVE
Upstream is a backstage comedy drama
by the great John Ford focusing on an
egotistical Shakespearian actor and a
young couple who partner in a vaudeville
knife-throwing act. The film was considered lost, but in 2009 was discovered in
the New Zealand Film Archive. 60 MIN.
PRINT COURTESY OF THE ACADEMY FILM ARCHIVE
18 TRIMPIN: THE SOUND
OF INVENTION
WITH TRIMPIN AND DIRECTOR PETER ESMONDE
EDW | SAT NOV 12 | 4:00 PM | Q&A
Trimpin is renowned in both contemporary
music and artistic circles for his freewheeling sound sculptures and kinetic
experiments. This film shows the artist
collaborating closely with the Kronos
Quartet on electronic and toy instruments; building a 60-foot tower of automatic electric guitars, working in a
foundry on a perpetual motion sculpture
and mounting a museum retrospective
of his work. 76 MIN.
19 THE ARTIST
VENUE, DATE AND TIME TBA. PLEASE VISIT
WWW.CINEMARTSOCIETY.ORG FOR AN
UPDATED SCHEDULE.
It’s Hollywood 1927. George Valentin is a
silent movie superstar whose career is
in decline with the rise of talkies, while
stardom awaits for young extra Peppy
Miller. Charles Ealy, of the Austin Movie
Blog, proclaims, “The Artist has to be
one of the warmest, uplifting, brilliantly
conceived movies to play [Cannes] in the
past decade.” 100 MIN.
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22 TEXAS FILMMAKERS
SHOWCASE
MFAH | THUR NOV 10 | 3:45 PM | Q&A
This year’s program of short films made
in Texas that the Houston Film Commission deemed the best include 8 by Julie
Gould and Daniel Laabs, Fatakra by
Soham Mehta, The Man Who Never
Cried by Bradley Jackson, Sasquatch
Birth Journal by David and Nathan Zellner,
and more. 90 MIN.
23 FREE RADICALS:
A HISTORY OF
EXPERIMENTAL FILM
WITH DIRECTOR PIP CHODOROV
RC | SUN NOV 13 | 1:00 PM | Q&A
This affectionate overview of some of
the leading figures of 20th-century
experimental film combines clips with
conversations with such luminaries as
Hans Richter, Robert Breer, Michael
Snow and Stan Brakhage in his final
recorded interview. 82 MIN.
23A L’ABOMINABLE:
16MM FRENCH
EXPERIMENTAL FILM
PRESENTED BY PIP CHODOROV
RC | SUN NOV 13 | 3:15 PM | Q&A | FREE
L’Abominable is an artist-run film lab,
one of a network that has sprung up
around Europe and the world as a response to the closing of commercial
film labs. Pip Chodorov will present a
selection of exceptional 16mm films by
French experimental filmmakers (including, among others, Frédérique
Devaux, Nicolas Rey, Martine Rousset
and Chodorov) donated by the artists
to support L’Abominable after its recent,
sudden eviction. 79 MIN.
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MFAH | SUN NOV 13 | 6:45 PM
MOT|SUN NOV 13|7:00 PM|FREE|LIVE
25 WHERE I’M FROM
RC | SAT NOV 12 | 3:00 PM | FREE
In Texas, cities and towns are more than
just locations on a map. These places are
part of who we are and how we define
ourselves. The 2011 Where I’m From
Short Film Contest, cosponsored by Texas
Monthly and the Austin Film Festival,
gave Texas filmmakers a chance to depict
the places they’re from, in ten min. or
less. This program will screen the 11 best
submissions. 70 MIN.
26 UNFINISHED SPACES
WITH DIRECTOR BENJAMIN MURRAY
TBH | SUN NOV 13 | 3:00 PM | Q&A
Following their emotional exile from
Cuba in 1965, Fidel Castro invites three
architects 40 years later to finish what
was considered the world’s most spectacular and futuristic art school, which
the country’s revolution had inspired and
then abandoned. 84 MIN.
This film, in its world premiere, follows
a handful of local artists as they prepare their entries into the 2010 Art
Car Parade. More broadly, the film
chronicles the automobile’s place in
American culture and the rise of the
art car movement in Houston during
the 1980s. 102 MIN.
30 THE WOMAN IN THE
FIFTH
VENUE, DATE AND TIME TBA. PLEASE VISIT
WWW.CINEMARTSOCIETY.ORG FOR AN
UPDATED SCHEDULE.
American novelist Tom Ricks (Ethan
Hawke) moves to Paris to renew his relationship with his estranged wife and
daughter. At a literary gathering, Tom
meets Margit (Kristin Scott Thomas),
a worldly and enigmatic translator.
Their passionate affair coincides with a
series of inexplicable events, and Tom’s
sense of reality becomes increasingly
deranged. 83 MIN.
27 PINA
VENUE, DATE AND TIME TBA. PLEASE VISIT
WWW.CINEMARTSOCIETY.ORG FOR AN
UPDATED SCHEDULE.
Pina is Wim Wenders’ sensual, visually
stunning 3D dance film with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal
Pina Bausch, featuring the unique and
inspiring art of the great German choreographer, who died in the summer of
2009. 103 MIN.
31 ECHOTONE
ROL | THUR NOV 10 | 10:00 PM | LIVE | Q&A
Echotone is a cultural portrait of the
modern American city examined
through the lyrics and lens of the
creative class. A modern parable on
integrity, this critically acclaimed music
documentary explores the lives of Black
Joe Lewis, Ghostland Observatory, the
Black Angels and other musicians
grappling to make a living through
their work without selling out. 88 MIN.
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Houston Cinema Arts Society is funded in part by a grant from the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.
FOUNDATIONS
Crane Foundation
The Brown Foundation Inc.
Kinder Foundation
Neil and Carol Kelley Foundation
Nightingale Code Foundation
Wawro-Gray Family Foundation
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