Films Month of Monday, July 8, 2024-Wednesday, August 7, 2024
Jacolby Satterwhite: A Metta Prayer Through October 13, 2024
In the expansive multimedia installation A Metta Prayer, Jacolby Satterwhite fuses choreography, video, animation, lighting, and music to reimagine a kaleidoscopic, computer-generated world.
11 Jul Thu / 2024
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The Boy and the Heron (Kimitachi wa dô ikiru ka)
7 p.m.—9 p.m.Winner of the 2024 Oscar for Best Animated Film and over a dozen international awards, this latest film from Studio Ghibli follows young Mahito, who moves to his family’s countryside estate after losing his mother.
13 Jul Sat / 2024
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Classe tous risques
7 p.m.—9 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.
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.
21 Jul Sun / 2024
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Le samouraï
5 p.m.—7 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.
26 Jul Fri / 2024
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Chicken for Linda! (Linda veut du poulet!)
7 p.m.—8:15 p.m.This 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.
27 Jul Sat / 2024
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Chicken for Linda! (Linda veut du poulet!)
7 p.m.—8:15 p.m.This 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.
28 Jul Sun / 2024
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The Makioka Sisters (Sasame-yuki)
5 p.m.—7:30 p.m.Adapted 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.
