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September
October
Lec ture
The Museum of Fine Arts Talks
Emily Neff, Curator of American
Painting and Sculpture, to present
“Behind the Scenes of The Modern
West: Place Matters in American Art”
REVIVAL
The Notorious Bettie Page
Directed by Mary Harron
(US, 2005, 91 min.)
Director Mary Harron and screenwriter Guinevere
Turner (American Psycho, I Shot Andy Warhol)
trace the life of Bettie Page, from abused child to
pinup princess to born again preacher. Gretchen
Mol makes a star turn as Bettie, supported by a
fifties demimonde played by Chris Bauer, Lily Taylor,
Jared Harris, and many others. “A work of gorgeous
surfaces” – Manohla Dargis, New York Times. “A
curiously moving biopic” – Roger Ebert, Chicago
Sun-Times.
While many think of Modernism as a specific style
that was inspired by European trends in art making,
machine-age technology and the urban experience,
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston curator Emily Ballew
Neff broadens that definition by asserting the
importance of the vast, rugged lands of the West,
which left its indelible mark on modern art in
America. The exhibition The Modern West: American
Landscapes, 1890-1950 is an exploration of the role
of America’s western landscape in the shaping of
Modernism. Free Admission.
Sept. 19 7:00 pm
Visual Art Auditorium in the Rice Media Center
Sept. 8 5:00 pm
Sept. 8 through Sunday Sept. 10 8:00 pm
Rice Media Center
HOUSTON PREMIERE
Salvador Allende
Directed by Patricio Guzman
H O U S T O N P R E M I ERE
(Chile, 2004, 100 min., in Spanish with English Subtitles)
Lunacy (Sílení)
Directed by Jan Svankmajer
(Czech Republic, 2005, 118 min., in Czech with English Subtitles)
“A philosophical horror film” is what legendary
Czech surrealist animator Svankmajer calls this film,
appearing on screen at the beginning. He adapts two
stories by Poe and mixes it with a little de Sade to
produce Lunacy. A strange, scandalous film combines
animated sequences with live action. “Lunacy is
billed as a horror film, ‘with all the degeneracy of the
genre,’ but refuses simple straight jacketing.” – Jay
Weissberg, Variety.
From legendary Chilean director Patricio Guzman
(maker of the epic The Battle of Chile) comes this
history of Allende, who served Chile as president
from 1970 until 1973 when a coup d’etat occurred.
The film traces Allende’s origins and rise to political
power, But is also addresses significant questions
about his impact on Chilean history. “Guzman makes
a compelling and moving case for an extraordinary
man” – Ray Bennett, The Hollywood Reporter.
Oct. 20 through Oct. 21 8:00
Rice Media Center
Sept. 29 through Oct. 1 8:00 pm
Oct. 6 5:00 pm
Oct. 6 through Oct. 8 8:00 pm
Rice Media Center
M U R F E E W O R S HAM
M E M O R IAL SC R E E N I N G
HOUSTON PREM I E R E
Animal House
Directed by John Landis
The Case of the Grinning Cat
(Chats perches)
Directed by Chris Marker
(US, 1978, 108 min.)
Salvador Allende
(France, 2004, 58 min., in French with English subtitles)
with
Remembrance of Things to Come
(Le Souvenir d’un avenir)
Directed by Yannick Bellon
and Chris Marker
(France, 2001, 42 min., in French with English Subtitles)
The world’s greatest eighty-something cine-essayist
Chris Marker (Sans Soleil, La Jetee) writes a letter
from Paris, on cats and owls, of course, and the world
after September 11. In a double feature with Marker’s
essay on surrealist photographer Denise Bellon. “The
most poetic and original of documentarists” – Derek
Malcolm, The Guardian.
This year’s Murfee Worsham screening takes us
back to the 70s to a film that takes us back to early
60s. You’d have to be on double secret probation
to not know about this one, starring Tom Hulce,
Tim Matheson, Peter Riegert, Karen Allen, and John
Belushi as future senator Bluto Blutarsky. “An end run
around Hollywood’s traditional notions of comedy”
– Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times.
Sept. 22 5:00 pm through Sept. 24 8:00 pm
Rice Media Center
Fall theatre production
Lunacy
No Exit by John-Paul Sartre
Lec ture
The Art Guys: The Greatest Lecture
Ever Told
Free Admission.
Two women and one man are ushered into a formally
appointed room with no windows, no mirrors, no way
to turn the light out, and a locked door then discover,
why they are there, and that for all eternity there is
NO EXIT. $5 Admission.
Oct. 20-21 8:00 pm
Hamman Hall
Sept. 15 through Sept. 17 8:00 pm
Rice Media Center
Lecture
Art x Inspiration = Fashion!
Where do Fashion Designers find
inspiration for their collections?
Animal House
Oct. 12 7:00 pm
Visual Art Auditorium in the Rice Media Center
The Case of The Grinning Cat
Lec ture
Scared to Death
Why do horror movies dominate the multiplexes?
A panel discussion, with clips, featuring
Brian Huberman, Charles Dove, and guest speaker
Kim Henkel, creator of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Free Admission.
The models on the catwalks today are dressed in
styles that come directly from the documentation
that master artists have given us of the clothes
people wore throughout time. Literally every major
time period from Ancient Egypt to Post Modernism
is represented in the collections every year. For more
about what this year looks like compared to the
chronicles of time, join us. Free Admission.
Oct. 25 4:00-5:30 pm
Main Gallery, Visual & Dramatic Arts
Rice Media Center Building
Oct. 18 7:00 pm
Visual Art Auditorium in the Rice Media Center
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The Notorious Bettie Page
Excellent Cadavers
A Scanner Darkly
Animal House
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FALL T heatre P rod u ction
November
No Exit by John-Paul Sartre
Two women and one man are ushered into a formally
appointed room with no windows, no mirrors, no way
to turn the light out, and a locked door then discover,
why they are there, and that for all eternity there is
NO EXIT. $5 Admission.
Oct. 27-28 8:00 pm
Hamman Hall
REVIVAL
A Prairie Home Companion
Directed by Robert Altman
(US, 2006, 105 min.)
Garrison Keillor meets Robert Altman and two
Midwestern sensibilities merge in this charming
comedy. It’s the last night of the venerable radio
variety show and the usual mishaps and fortunate
accidents occur. Enter the Angel of Death and a
Corporate Raider. With Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, Kevin
Kline, and the crew from Keillor’s show as themselves.
“It’s not a perfect movie, and it does not aspire to be
a great one. It’s just wonderful” – A.O. Scott, New
York Times.
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HOUSTON PREMIERE
Excellent Cadavers
Directed by Marco Turco
(Italy, 2005, 92 min. in Italian with English Subtitles)
Based on Alexander Stille’s book and utilizing the
extraordinary pictures of Sicilian photojournalist
Letizia Battaglia, Turco’s film follows the war waged
by two judges – Giovanni Falcone and Paolo
Borsellino – against the entrenched power of the
Mafia, a war that eventually cost them their lives.
“The archival footage that Turco has amassed of the
magistrates is stunning, especially whenever Falcone
reveals the true face of heroism” – Stuart Klawans,
The Nation.
H O U S T O N P R E M I ERE
Workingman’s Death
Directed by Michael Glawogger
(Germany, 2005, 122 min.)
This extraordinary and ambitious documentary depicts
some of the most hazardous and brutalizing jobs
in the world – in the Ukraine, Indonesia, Nigeria,
Pakistan, China, and Germany. “Glawogger is an
extraordinarily elegant filmmaker with a photographer’s
eye for striking compositions and he excels at divining
moments of pure cinema and haunting beauty out of
the most perilous places and professions on Earth.”
– Nathan Rabin, Onion A.V. Club.
Nov. 10 through Nov. 12 8:00 pm
Rice Media Center
Nov. 3 through Nov. 5 8:00 pm
Rice Media Center
E x hib ition
At Work: Rice University Faculty
Exhibition 2006
Department of Visual & Dramatic Arts faculty
exhibition. Free Admission.
Oct. 27 5:00
Oct. 27 through Oct. 29 8:00 pm
Rice Media Center
Workingman’s Death
FACU LT Y S H O W
Ray Hill’s Prison Show
Directed by Brian Huberman
with
The Last Days of Charles/Kathryn
Directed by Brian Huberman
(US, 1993, 59 min.)
Nov. 9 6:00-8:00 pm
Main Gallery, Visual & Dramatic Arts
Rice Media Center Building
A Prairie Home Companion
Lec ture
Event
Rice University Students only. Admission Charge,
Visual Arts Majors Free
Oct. 31 7:00 pm
Main Gallery, Visual & Dramatic Arts
Rice Media Center Building
Faculty Talk for At Work: Rice
University Faculty Exhibition 2006
Free Admission
Nov. 14 5:30 pm
Main Gallery, Visual & Dramatic Arts
Rice Media Center Building
Lec ture
Going to Graduate School?
Talk and panel discussion with Glassell School of
Art Core Fellows and Rice Department of Visual
& Dramatic Arts faculty on graduate schools and
graduate opportunities. Rice Univesity Students Only.
Free Admission.
For the Rice Department of Visual Arts Faculty Show,
we present two films by Professor Brian Huberman.
Prisons are an American industry. The United States
currently has more of its citizens locked up than any
other country in the world. KPFT’s The Prison Show has
served the families of Texas convicts for 26 years. The
show’s founder, former convict Ray Hill straddles the
line between hell-raiser and prophet as he deals with
issues like prison rape, the death penalty and proxy
weddings. The most famous Texas transsexual, Charles/
Kathryn McGuirre goes under the knife. “Huberman
documented McGuirre’s sex-change operation in
London. He filmed Charles snoring in pre-surgery,
then Kathryn sacked out on a hospital bed, wearing
a delicate peignoir but no wig to cover her balding
head. She soon recovered her sass, insisting that sex is
superior as a woman. ‘With Kathryn, it’s always bigger
and better,’ says Huberman. And that’s how he shows
her: as a yee-haw opportunist, striding fearlessly into
new territory, a Texan who fashioned her own destiny”
-- Edith Sorenson, Houston Press.
Nov. 17 through Nov. 19 8:00 pm
Rice Media Center
Nov. 21 4:15 pm
Visual & Dramatic Arts Auditorium
in the Media Center
Ray Hill Prison Show
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Theatre
December
REVIVAL
A Scanner Darkly
Directed by Richard Linklater
(US, 2006) 100 min.)
Philip K. Dick’s paranoia drenched novel of the war on
drugs is rotoscoped to life in Richard Linklater’s film.
Seven years from now, Bob Arctor (Keanu Reeves) is
waging that war from both sides – he may or may
not be two people, cop and criminal. Also starring
Robert Downey, Jr., Woody Harrelson, and Winona
Ryder (draw your own conclusions from the casting).
“By cutting to the story’s political core, Linklater has
given A Scanner Darkly the coherence the book never
had, and he has done so without diminishing Dick’s
scattershot brilliance--which is to say, his life. . . . a
funny, unnerving, astonishing, urgent. It’s my kind of
summertime special-effects extravaganza” – Stuart
Klawans, The Nation.
Dec. 1 5:00 pm
Dec. 1 through Dec. 3 8:00 pm
Dec. 8 5:00 pm
Dec. 8 through Dec. 10 8:00 pm
Rice Media Center
Stu dent Art Sal e
(US, 2006, 60 min.)
Cirque du Arte Ball: Celebrating
Oddity, Exuberance, and Taffeta.
Studio Arts
Where Santa Shops
Arts art sale featuring paintings, drawings, prints, and
sculpture. Support student artists, buy their artwork.
Dec. 5 9:00 am to 7:00 pm
Main Gallery, Visual & Dramatic Arts
Rice Media Center Building
The atre P ro duction
End of semester theatre production
and design exhibition.
Interactive Live
Interactive Live – Acting I classes present
questionable scenes and want to know what the
audience thinks! Who are they, how are they related,
and what exactly is going on – well that is for them
to know and you to figure out! Free Admission.
Dec. 7 8:00 pm
Hamman Hall
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The Department of Visual & Dramatic Arts is grateful for the
ongoing financial support from the Houston community. If you
would like to expand your support to enrich the arts at Rice
University, please contact the us at 713-348-4882 to find out
how you can become an arts underwriter.
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and exhibitions is available in Greenbriar visitor parking lot, west of the football stadium.
Enter the lot from Greenbriar Drive at campus entrance 10. There is a Rice shuttle bus stop
in the Greenbriar Lot, and the buses run approximately every ten to fifteen minutes Monday
through Friday before 9:00 p.m.
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Stadium off University Boulevard. Parking fees accrue at the rate of $1.00 per 40 minutes,
with a $9.00 daily maximum. Parking must be paid using a credit card.
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Rice Cinema Projection & Box Office Staff:
Michael Adair-Kriz, Justin Chen, Natalie De La Garza,
Manuel Gardberg, Leslie Guevera, Eric Hester,
Joshua Krezinski, Katricia Lang, Ruta Perzynska
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GENERAL INFORMATION
SHEPHERD
Rachel Boyle, Administrative Coordinator,
Department of Visual & Dramatic Arts
Gaylon Denney, Administrator,
Department of Visual & Dramatic Arts
Lina Dib, Rice Cinema
Program Assistant & Web Site Coordinator
Charles Dove, Lecturer & Director,
Rice Cinema Program
Amanda Phillips,
Rice Cinema Lead Projectionist
Trish Rigdon,
Lecturer & Director,
Theatre Program
Jennifer Samuelson, Staff Assistant,
Theatre Program
Matthew Schlief, Lecturer and Production Manager,
Theatre Program
The Department of Visual & Dramatic Arts wishes to thank
President David Leebron and his office as well as Dean of
Humanities Gary Wihl and his office for their continued
support and vision of the arts at Rice University. In addition, we
would like to thank Mary Lampe, Southwest Alternate Media
Project, Marian Luntz and Tracy Stephenson, Museum of Fine
Arts, Houston, and the Worsham family for their generosity
and continued support of Rice Cinema. Lastly, and most
importantly, we thank Mr. Russ Pitman and the Pitman family
for their many generous gifts and support of the visual arts
at Rice University.
GR EENBRI AR
Karin Broker, Professor & Chair,
Department of Visual & Dramatic Arts
Brian Huberman, Associate Professor & Assistant Chair,
Department of Visual & Dramatic Arts