Films
Now Playing
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Chicken for Linda! (Linda veut du poulet!)
Directed by Sébastien Laudenbach and Chiara Malta
(France, 2023, 73 minutes, in French with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digitalThis very French animated feature is a unique visual marvel of hand-painted animation with bright, color-blocked characters and a story that is an intoxicating blend of slapstick comedy, musical, and family drama.
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The Makioka Sisters (Sasame-yuki)
Directed by Kon Ichikawa
(Japan, 1983, 140 minutes, in Japanese with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, 35mmAdapted from the 1948 literary classic by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, The Makioka Sisters follows the lives of four siblings who have taken on their family’s kimono manufacturing business in the years leading up to the Pacific War.
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Evil Does Not Exist (Aku wa sonzai shinai)
Directed by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
(Japan, 2023, 106 minutes, in Japanese with English subtitles)
Lynn Wyatt Theater, digitalRyûsuke Hamaguchi’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning Drive My Car is a foreboding fable on humanity’s mysterious, mystical relationship with nature.
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Pictures of Ghosts (Retratos fantasmas)
Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho
(Brazil, 2023, 93 minutes, in Portuguese with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digitalThe latest from celebrated director Kleber Mendonça Filho delves into the coastal city of Recife’s historical and human fabric, focusing on its iconic movie theaters that once served as hubs of social interaction during the 20th century.
- Friday, August 9, 2024
- 7 p.m.
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Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
(Japan, 1954, 207 minutes, in Japanese with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, 4K digital restorationOne of the most thrilling movie epics of all time, Seven Samurai tells the story of a 16th-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
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Man Ray: Return to Reason
Directed by Man Ray
(France, 1923, 70 minutes)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digitalIn celebration of the 100th anniversary of Le Retour à la raison, Sqürl, the Jim Jarmusch-Carter Logan combo, presents Man Ray: Return to Reason, with a newly recorded drone rock soundtrack for all four films. The band’s cosmic sounds complement Ray’s work by conjuring the beautiful, ineffable, haunting, and sublime.
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Aurora Picture Show Summer Filmmaking Camp World Premiere
Directed by various directors
(USA, 2024, 100 minutes)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digitalWalk the red carpet for Aurora’s annual Summer Filmmaking Camp World Premieres event, where young filmmakers’ visions come to life on the screen! This free screening showcases a wide range of creative short films made by Houston kids and teens (ages 7–15) through Aurora’s summer youth education program.
- Saturday, August 17, 2024
- 1 p.m.
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Green Border (Zielona granica)
Directed by Agnieszka Holland
(Poland/USA/France/Czech Republic/Belgium/Germany/Turkey, 2023, 147 minutes, in Polish, Arabic, English, and French with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digitalAlong the treacherous forests (“green border”) between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa are lured by government propaganda promising easy passage to the European Union. Instead, they become trapped in an escalating geopolitical standoff.
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Best of the 2023 Ottawa International Animation Festival
Directed by various directors
(Various countries, 2023, 71 minutes, in original languages with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digitalFor adult audiences
The annual Ottawa International Animation Festival curates a selection of short films, both award winners and audience favorites, for the touring Best of Ottawa Program. The lineup of 10 short films highlights cutting-edge achievements in the art of animation, representing the myriad styles, techniques, and perspectives that animation is uniquely capable of realizing.
Coming Soon
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Nostalghia
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
(Russia/Italy, 1983, 126 minutes, in Italian and Russian with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, 4K digital restorationNewly restored in 4K from the original camera negative, this cult favorite is a mystical and mysterious collision of East and West, shot with the tactile beauty that only Tarkovsky can provide. Film critic J. Hoberman observed that “Nostalghia is not so much a movie as a place to inhabit for two hours.”
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