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  • Oscars 2025
    2025 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentary
    Directed by Various
    (175 minutes)
    Brown Auditorium Theater and Lynn Wyatt Theater

    View the nominated short films in the category of Documentary from this year’s Academy Awards, and see if your favorite wins when the Oscars are presented on March 2!

    Thursday, February 13, 2025
    6 p.m.
    Thursday, February 20, 2025
    6 p.m.
    Saturday, February 22, 2025
    2 p.m.
    Thursday, February 27, 2025
    6 p.m.
  • Love & Basketball Film Poster
    Love & Basketball
    Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood
    (USA, 2000, 124 minutes, in English)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

    All is fair in Love & Basketball. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, this romance and sports genre film serves as a landmark for Black women filmmaking for its authentic representation of female athletes, Black love, and female independence.

    Friday, February 14, 2025
    7 p.m.
    Sunday, February 16, 2025
    2 p.m.
  • Dahomey Film Poster
    Dahomey
    Directed by Mati Diop
    (France/Senegal/Benin , 2024, 68 minutes, in English, French, and Fon with English subtitles)
    Lynn Wyatt Theater, digital

    Mati Diop’s hypnotic documentary explores the journey of 26 historical artifacts being returned from French museums to present-day Benin (formerly the West African Kingdom of Dahomey), from where they were plundered during colonial times.

    Saturday, February 15, 2025
    7 p.m.
  • Daughters of the Dust Film Poster
    Daughters of the Dust
    Directed by Julie Dash
    (USA, 1991, 113 minutes, in English)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, 35mm

    Julie Dash’s rapturous vision of Black womanhood and vanishing ways of life in the turn-of-the-century South was the first film directed by an African American woman to receive a wide release. Set in 1902, it follows a multigenerational family in the Gullah community on the Sea Islands near South Carolina as they struggle to maintain their heritage. 

    Sunday, February 16, 2025
    5 p.m.
  • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Film Poster
    Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
    Directed by Howard Hawks
    (USA, 1953, 91 minutes, in English)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, 35mm

    Howard Hawks’s Technicolor musical comedy is anchored by the performances of Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe as Jazz Age lounge singers on a Transatlantic ocean liner to Paris. 

    Friday, February 21, 2025
    7 p.m.
  • Oscars 2025
    2025 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Live Action
    Directed by Various
    (104 minutes)
    Brown Auditorium Theater

    View the nominated short films in the category of Live Action from this year’s Academy Awards, and see if your favorite wins when the Oscars are presented on March 2!

    Saturday, February 22, 2025
    7 p.m.
    Sunday, February 23, 2025
    2 p.m.
    Friday, February 28, 2025
    7:30 p.m.
    Saturday, March 1, 2025
    Noon
  • Oscars 2025
    2025 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animation
    Directed by Various
    (90 minutes)
    Brown Auditorium Theater

    View the nominated short films in the category of Animation from this year’s Academy Awards, and see if your favorite wins when the Oscars are presented on March 2!

    Sunday, February 23, 2025
    5 p.m.
    Thursday, February 27, 2025
    2 p.m.
    Friday, February 28, 2025
    5 p.m.
    Saturday, March 1, 2025
    7 p.m.
    Sunday, March 2, 2025
    2 p.m.
  • La La Land Film Poster
    La La Land
    Directed by Damien Chazelle
    (USA, 2016, 128 minutes, in English)
    The Amphitheater of The Brown Foundation, Inc. Plaza

    The MFAH presents an outdoor movie viewing experience. Winner of six Academy Awards, La La Land is more than the most acclaimed move of the year–it’s a cinematic treasure for the ages! Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling star as Mia and Sebastian, an actress and a jazz musician pursuing their Hollywood dreams.

    Friday, March 7, 2025
    8 p.m.
  • Every Little Thing Film Poster
    Every Little Thing
    Directed by Sally Aitken
    (Australia, 2024, 93 minutes, in English)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

    Author and wildlife rehabilitator Terry Masear’s goal is to save every injured hummingbird in Los Angeles. This Sundance hit introduces Masear’s diminutive patients through breathtaking slow-motion photography and emotional storytelling.

    Saturday, March 8, 2025
    7 p.m.
    Sunday, March 9, 2025
    5 p.m.

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  • The Princess Bride Film Poster
    The Princess Bride
    Directed by Rob Reiner
    (USA, 1987, 98 minutes, in English)
    The Amphitheater of The Brown Foundation, Inc. Plaza

    The MFAH presents an outdoor movie viewing experience. The beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness. The charmingly funny fractured fairy tale pits true love against inconceivable odds, as you wish.

    Friday, March 14, 2025
    8 p.m.
  • The True Story of Tamara de Lempicka & the Art of Survival Film Poster
    The True Story of Tamara de Lempicka & the Art of Survival
    Directed by Julie Rubio
    (USA, 2024, 96 minutes, in English)
    Brown Auditorium Theater

    This documentary traces the life of the renowned bisexual Jewish artist Tamara de Lempicka—from her rise to international stardom in 1920s Paris to her fleeing the rise of fascism, and landing in the U.S. in 1940.

    Saturday, March 15, 2025
    5 p.m.
    Saturday, April 5, 2025
    7:30 p.m.
  • Shaking It Up: The Life and Times of Liz Carpenter Film Poster
    Shaking It Up: The Life and Times of Liz Carpenter
    Directed by Christy Carpenter and Abby Ginzberg
    (USA, 2024, 77 minutes, in English)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

    Liz Carpenter was a feisty Texas woman who became a trailblazing journalist, White House official, author, humorist, political activist, and feminist leader. Often front and center of where history was unfolding, in the 1960s she served as executive assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson and press secretary to Lady Bird Johnson.

    Sunday, March 16, 2025
    2 p.m.
  • Rich Crazy Asians Film Poster
    Crazy Rich Asians
    Directed by Jon M. Chu
    (USA, 2018, 120 minutes, in English)
    The Amphitheater of The Brown Foundation, Inc. Plaza

    The MFAH presents an outdoor movie viewing experience. Rich Crazy Asians follows Rachel as she accompanies her longtime boyfriend Nick to his best friend’s wedding in Singapore. Tt soon becomes clear to Rachel that the only thing crazier than love is family. 

    Friday, March 21, 2025
    8 p.m.
  • The Wages Of Fear Film Poster
    The Wages of Fear (Le salaire de la peur)
    Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot
    (France, 1953, 153 minutes, in French with English subtitles)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, 4k restoration

    Yves Montand and three other men are hired to transport a nitroglycerine shipment over a treacherous South American mountain route. As they carry their explosive cargo, each bump tests their courage, their friendship, and their nerves. The result is one of the greatest thrillers ever made.

    Saturday, March 22, 2025
    7 p.m.
  • The Blond Boy from the Casbah Film Poster
    The Blond Boy from the Casbah (Le petit blond de la casbah)
    Directed by Alexandre Arcady
    (France, 2023, 126 minutes, in French with English subtitles)
    Wyatt Lynn Theater, digital

    Filmmaker Antoine was a child in 1960s war-torn Algiers. When he revisits the place as an adult, Antoine remembers emotional moments of his youth, spent between school, friends, and his Jewish family. Growing up in during Algeria’s pre-independence period, the young Antoine discovers his profound fascination with cinema.

    Sunday, March 23, 2025
    3 p.m.
  • Vishniac Film Poster
    Vishniac
    Directed by Laura Bialis
    (USA, 2023, 95 minutes, in English)
    Wyatt Lynn Theater, digital

    Vishniac follows the artist from his early years in tsarist Russia to his emergence as a modernist photographer in Weimar Berlin, his journeys across Eastern Europe before the war and his family’s dramatic escape to America in 1940.

    Thursday, March 27, 2025
    7 p.m.
  • On Man Band Film Poster
    The One Man Band (L’homme orchestre)
    Directed by Serge Korber
    (France, 1970, 85 minutes, in French with English subtitles)
    Brown Auditorium Theater

    A woman joins a ballet group whose manager forbids his dancers any distractions outside of dance. Little does he know she has a son in Italy, and the troupe goes to great lengths to create an explanation for the boy’s existence.

    Friday, March 28, 2025
    7 p.m.
  • Hibernatus Film Poster
    Hibernatus
    Directed by Édouard Molinaro
    (France, 1969, 82 minutes, in French with English subtitles)
    Brown Auditorium Theater

    After being awakened from a 65-year-old cryogenic freeze where he fell during an exploration in 1905, his relatives plan an elaborate ruse on their long-lost relative so as not to shock him into his contemporary reality.

    Friday, March 28, 2025
    9 p.m.
  • Le Chèvre Film Poster
    La chèvre
    Directed by Francis Veber
    (France, 1981, 91 minutes, in French with English subtitles)
    Brown Auditorium Theater

    A French tycoon’s accident-prone daughter is kidnapped in Acapulco. Her father hires a private detective to go to Mexico, but realizes he needs also assistance of an accountant, whose entire life has been an endless series of mishaps, to find the girl.

    Saturday, March 29, 2025
    7 p.m.
  • Les Compères Film Poster
    Les compères
    Directed by Francis Veber
    (France, 1983, 92 minutes, in French with English subtitles)
    Brown Auditorium Theater

    When a mother is dissatisfied with the police not searching for her runaway son, she contacts two former lovers, convincing them to help find her boy by claiming that one of the men is her son’s father.

    Saturday, March 29, 2025
    9 p.m.
  • The Dinner Game Film Poster
    The Dinner Game (Le dîner de cons)
    Directed by Francis Veber
    (France, 1998, 80 minutes, in French with English subtitles)
    Brown Auditorium Theater

    In Francis Veber’s delightful comedy, a buffoon is a sad sack of a man whose good intentions and bad judgments hilariously wreak havoc upon Thierry Lhermitte and his dinner group’s contest to find the biggest loser. 

    Sunday, March 30, 2025
    5 p.m.
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