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Golden Eighties

Date & Time

Fri. Jan. 09, 2026 7 PM-8:45 PM
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Location Main Campus | Law Building

Parking at Beck Garage
Drop off at Beck Building

Film Information

Theater Brown Auditorium Theater, 4K digital restoration
Directed by Chantal Akerman
Year 1986
Length 99 minutes
Country France
Language French with English subtitles

Call for Questions 713-639-7531

Email Your Questions [email protected]

Golden Eighties

Date & Time

Fri. Jan. 09, 2026 7 PM-8:45 PM
This event has passed

Location Main Campus | Law Building

Parking at Beck Garage
Drop off at Beck Building

Film Information

Theater Brown Auditorium Theater, 4K digital restoration
Directed by Chantal Akerman
Year 1986
Length 99 minutes
Country France
Language French with English subtitles
Introduced by Sarah Rothenberg, artistic director of DACAMERA Houston, who speaks about the January 16–17 performances of D’Est en musique, inspired by Chantal Akerman
 
The musical Golden Eighties, from feminist filmmaker Chantal Akerman, is a unique portrait of love and survival. In a shopping mall, store employees cycle through breakups, makeups, and misunderstandings, punctuated by imaginative production numbers. Akerman deftly balances the shiny pop pleasures of the genre with variations on her signature themes, including a moving reflection on wartime trauma and Jewish resilience. At its retrospective “Chantal Akerman: The Long View,” MoMA described this film as “perhaps the last great original movie musical, wedding gravity to lightness, chaos to order.”
 
Tickets
  • $9 general admission; $7 MFAH members, students with ID, seniors (65+)
Plan Your Visit
Restored in 4K by the Royal Film Archive of Belgium—CINEMATEK in collaboration with Chantal Akerman Foundation at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, from the 35mm original negative and the original sound mix, restoration supervised by Luc Benhamou.

Call for Questions 713-639-7531

Email Your Questions [email protected]

Community partner: DACAMERA

Underwriting for the Film Department is provided by Tenaris and American Friends of Fundacion Proa Inc., The June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation, Nina and Michael Zilkha, Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Houston, Laurence P. Unger and Ben Hobratsch, and the Vaughn Foundation.
 
Generous funding is provided by the Foundation for Independent Media Arts; Lois Chiles; Franci Neely; Carrin Patman and Jim Derrick; and ILEX Foundation.