Inside the MFAH
“Inside the MFAH” provides perspectives, conversations, and opinions from insiders at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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Virtual Cinema | “My Wonderful Wanda” Is a Humanistic Masterpiece April 16, 2021
A woman leaves her children in Poland to take a job as caregiver for the patriarch of a wealthy Swiss family in a gorgeous lakeside villa.
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Virtual Cinema | New Restoration of Stellar Sci-Fi Drama “Ikarie XB 1” Comes to Houston April 2, 2021
Existential fear and dread of space-time travel are at the core of Ikarie XB 1, a sci-fi drama that came rushing in from behind the Iron Curtain in 1963.
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Virtual Cinema | New Documentary “Capturing Lee Miller” Reveals the Story of a Remarkable Photographer December 27, 2020
The engrossing Capturing Lee Miller profiles one of the world’s most intriguing female photographers.
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Virtual Cinema | An Inventive Documentary on Autism: “The Reason I Jump” December 11, 2020
Creative filmmaking and first-person accounts tell the stories of remarkable young people with autism.
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Virtual Cinema | Immersive Documentary “City Hall” Reveals Human Stories in an American Metropolis November 4, 2020
The MFAH continues one of its film programming traditions: premiering the latest documentary by veteran filmmaker Frederick Wiseman.
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Virtual Cinema | Saluting Federico Fellini and His Masterpiece: “La Strada” November 2, 2020
To celebrate the centennial anniversary of Federico Fellini’s birth, the MFAH presents a new 4K digital restoration of La Strada.
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Virtual Cinema | Celebrate Halloween with a Surrealistic “Faust” October 27, 2020
This interpretation of the legend about a man who sells his soul to the devil is an eerie combination of dreamy subconscious fantasies and surrealistic images.
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Virtual Cinema | Long-Lost Documentary “Nationtime” October 18, 2020
In 1972, politicians, activists, and artists from every state gathered at the National Black Political Convention to forge a national unity platform in advance of the presidential conventions.
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Virtual Cinema | The Compelling Drama “Beau Travail” October 17, 2020
An intense character study set amid the French Foreign Legion, Beau Travail features magnificent cinematography, a sweeping musical score, and one of the most unexpected endings of any film.
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Virtual Cinema Goes Dystopian with “The Hole” October 6, 2020
“Quarantine Cinema,” anyone? One of the most original films of the 1990s, The Hole is set in Taiwan at the dawn of the new millennium.
