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Events

The Piano

Date & Time

Fri. Sep. 18, 2026 7 PM-9 PM
Sat. Sep. 19, 2026 5 PM-7 PM

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 Jane Campion
Year 1993
Length 121 minutes
Country New Zealand/Australia/France
Language English and Māori with English subtitles

Call for Questions 713-639-7531

Email Your Questions [email protected]

Events

The Piano

Date & Time

Fri. Sep. 18, 2026 7 PM-9 PM
Sat. Sep. 19, 2026 5 PM-7 PM

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 Jane Campion
Year 1993
Length 121 minutes
Country New Zealand/Australia/France
Language English and Māori with English subtitles
Ada (Oscar winner Holly Hunter)—mute since birth—arrives with her piano and her 9-year-old-daughter (Oscar winner Anna Paquin) to an arranged marriage in the remote wilderness of 19th-century New Zealand. When Ada’s husband (Sam Neill, 1947–2026) refuses to transport the piano and leaves it behind on the beach, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman (Harvey Keitel) to whom she develops a forbidden attraction. Filmmaker Jane Campion won the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or and Best Original Screenplay Oscar for The Piano, one of the defining international art-house films of the 1990s.
Tickets
  • $9 general admission; $7 MFAH members, students with ID, seniors (65+)
Plan Your Visit
The new 4K UHD restoration was supervised and approved by Jane Campion and her director of photography, Stuart Dryburgh. This new 4K restoration was made in the United States in Dolby Vision HDR 16-bit 4K from the original 35mm image negative scanned on Arriscan at the Fixafilm lab in Australia. Color grading was supervised and approved by Jane Campion and Stuart Dryburgh, with a 35mm print from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences used as a reference. The original 5.1 audio mix was remastered from the original 24-track digital. 

Call for Questions 713-639-7531

Email Your Questions [email protected]

Underwriting for the Film Department is provided by Tenaris and American Friends of Fundacion Proa Inc., The 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; Joanie Patrick and Stephen Bettencourt; Ellen A. Yarrell; and ILEX Foundation.