Films Month of Friday, August 24, 2018-Sunday, September 23, 2018
Raqib Shaw: Ballads of East and West Through September 2, 2024
Raqib Shaw blends Eastern and Western influences to create mesmerizing works of art that merge fable, history, and autobiography.
14 Jul Sun / 2024
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Shōgun: A Director's Perspective | Episode 8 “The Abyss of Life”
2 p.m.—4 p.m.The MFAH presents Episode 8 “The Abyss of Life” from the acclaimed 2024 TV series Shōgun. The director, Houston filmmaker Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour, introduces the screening and participates in a Q&A afterward.
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Classe tous risques
6 p.m.—8 p.m.Claude Sautet’s first major feature stars Lino Ventura as Abel Davos, a wanted man in Italy, who stages a robbery in order to get money to relocate his family. As the losses mount and the noose tightens, Davos must decide when to call it quits.
19 Jul Fri / 2024
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Divine Intervention (Yadon ilaheyya)
7 p.m.—8:30 p.m.Writer/director Elia Suleiman stars in this collection of cinematic vignettes capturing the absurdity of everyday life under occupation. The dark comedy pokes fun at tragic situations in ironic, imaginative scenes about garbage, neighbors, and dating.
20 Jul Sat / 2024
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Le samouraï
7 p.m.—9 p.m.An elegantly stylized masterpiece of cool by maverick director Jean‑Pierre Melville, Le samouraï is a razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture—with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology.
