Caroline Wiess Law Building Films Month of Friday, August 3, 2018-Sunday, September 2, 2018
Eye on Houston: High School Documentary Photography Through Autumn 2024
The annual Eye on Houston exhibition documents and celebrates Houston’s diverse neighborhoods through a collaboration between the MFAH and Houston Independent School District.
01 Jun Sat / 2024
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Taking Venice
7 p.m.—8:45 p.m.Texas Premiere / During the Cold War, the U.S. government was determined to fight Communism with culture. This new documentary uncovers the story behind rumors that highly placed insiders rigged the 1964 Venice Biennale so Texas artist Robert Rauschenberg could win the Grand Prize.
07 Jun Fri / 2024
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Let’s Get Lost
7 p.m.—9 p.m.In the 1950s, Chet Baker’s jazz trumpeting, intimate crooning, and pretty-boy good looks epitomized West Coast cool. When photographer Bruce Weber caught up with him three decades later, time and drug addiction had ravaged Baker’s life and angelic beauty.
08 Jun Sat / 2024
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Elis and Tom (Elis & Tom, só tinha de ser com você)
7 p.m.—8:45 p.m.In 1974, one of the prime architects of bossa nova, Antonio Carlos Jobim (Tom), and popular Brazilian singer Elis Regina came together to record what would become one of the most iconic albums in the history of Brazilian music.
14 Jun Fri / 2024
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Space Is the Place
7 p.m.—8:30 p.m.Calling planet Earth! “Jazz on Film” presents a special 50th-anniversary screening of the Afrofuturist classic Space Is the Place. This unique iteration of Ra’s musical concepts and social commentary is a blend of science fiction B-movie, blaxploitation flick, and concert documentary.
15 Jun Sat / 2024
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International Sweethearts of Rhythm | Maxine Sullivan: Love to Be in Love
7 p.m.—8:30 p.m.This screening presents two short documentaries by filmmakers Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss that spotlight often unsung women of jazz.
21 Jun Fri / 2024
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Jazz Films by John and Faith Hubley
7 p.m.—8:30 p.m.Between the 1950s and 1970s, animators John and Faith Hubley made their own independent films with intelligence, passion, humor, and great music. Their poetic sensibility and whimsical, impressionistic visual style fit perfectly with jazz music.
22 Jun Sat / 2024
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Let’s Get Lost
7 p.m.—9 p.m.In the 1950s, Chet Baker’s jazz trumpeting, intimate crooning, and pretty-boy good looks epitomized West Coast cool. When photographer Bruce Weber caught up with him three decades later, time and drug addiction had ravaged Baker’s life and angelic beauty.
23 Jun Sun / 2024
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Disco Boy
5 p.m.—6:30 p.m.In this stylish feature, a Belarusian immigrant (the charismatic Franz Rogowski) is haunted by his actions as a mercenary in the French Foreign Legion.