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Spring Soundtrack
I’ve been meaning to write something here about film scores for a while. You know, some kind of analysis of the role of music in movies, with interesting, specific examples and nods to Bernard Hermann. Well, this ain’t that. This is just me letting you in on the guilty pleasure of a cinephile. Around this [...]
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WHAT’S THE WORD FROM JOHANNESBURG?
Vital film document, Come Back, Africa screens at the MFAH. “This film was made secretly in order to portray the true conditions of life in South Africa today. There are no professional actors in this drama of the fate of a man and his country.” So begins Lionel Rogosin’s fascinating 1959 film, Come Back, Africa. [...]
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OCCUPY POTTERSVILLE
It’s easy to remember only the sweet, cheery and teary moments of Director Frank Capra’s 1946 film, It’s A Wonderful Life, and forget that it takes us through the depths of despair to get us there. Since the early 1970s (when the film’s copyright lapsed and television stations could air it repeatedly around Christmastime without [...]
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The Man Who Fell to Earth at MFAH
The best movie to see alone and/or stoned this Thanksgiving weekend is Nicolas Roeg’s 1976 existential Sci-Fi oddity, The Man Who Fell To Earth. A new film print of the original cut is screening Friday-Sunday at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. The movie is based on a 1963 novel by Walter Tevis, who called [...]
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A NEW HOME FOR CINEMA Houston’s Sundance Cinemas Open This Week
The new Sundance Cinemas open this Wednesday, in time for the long holiday weekend. Located Downtown at Bayou Place, Sundance promises to more than fill the gap left by the closing of the Angelica a little more than a year ago. They’ll be showing independent and foreign films alongside Hollywood blockbusters. They’ll also host special [...]