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  1. Surprise Cinema!

    After the Oct/Nov/Dec issue of the MFAH Films calendar went to press, Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (Gainsbourg: Vie héroïque) became available for this one-weekend engagement. Quelle surprise! 2016 Thursday, December 15, 8 p.m.Friday, December 16, 6 p.m.Saturday, December 17, 7 p.m.Sunday, December 18, 5 p.m. The surprise is revealed!

  2. EXPIRED-Spotlight on World Cinema: Korea

    Jeon achieved instant star status with her 1997 debut in The Contact, and has since performed in a variety of roles that have earned her a reputation as a movie star at home and a celebrated actress on the world cinema stage. A further testament to this is the global itinerary of festivals devoted exclusively to Korean movies. Not quite a festival, this brief series presents four acclaimed recent releases. Destiny, a frothy musical comedy that was a box-office sensation in Korea, is the Saturday night centerpiece. The weekend opens and concludes with two dramatic films featuring the actress Jeon Do-yeon. Ms.

  3. Shades of Love: Romance in Contemporary African Cinema

    This film series is organized in collaboration with the Menil Collection and its exhibition The Progress of Love, on view December 2, 2012–March 17, 2013. The films in this program cover passion, jealously, revenge, yearning, scheming, intimacy, courtship, gallantry, sexual encounters—with a definite African flavor.” Generous support provided by Ms. Melanie Gray and Mr. Guest film curator for the series is Mahen Bonetti, founder and director of the New York African Film Festival. “When thinking of Africa," she says, "the definition of love is vague or absent.

  4. Satyajit Ray’s The Apu Trilogy

    Considered a landmark in 20th-century cinema, the films follow the life of Apu from childhood to maturity. Ray’s close observations of one Bengali family are presented with an authenticity and attention to the details of daily life that has a universal appeal. Community partner: Voices Breaking Boundaries

  5. Sara Driver: Filmmaker

    A creative force in New York’s independent film industry for decades, Driver is a New Jersey native who received her MFA in film from New York University. Precisely like the city of New York, which constitutes the canvas for her films and is a ‘fabricated’ world, built on the lives of vivid people, strange stories, and urban myths, her films are defined by a crooked line of emotions —Anthology Film Archives, New York “Sara Driver’s films exist in the boundaries of myth, between realism and fantasy, between a solid narrative and the freedom of a poem.

  6. Ruth K. Shartle Lecture

    George R. Brown), a major benefactor who served 26 terms as a trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, this lecture series was established in memory of Ruth K. Shartle, a longtime Museum benefactor. William C. Winter/Spring 2019–2020 Sunday, December 15, 3 p.m. “Art for a Civil Society: Norman Rockwell in the 1960s” Thursday, December 19, 6:30 p.m. “The Four Freedoms: Franklin D. Agee, director of the MFAH from 1974 to 1982, described the lecture series as a commemoration of Ruth K.

  7. Rohmer X 2

    Eric Rohmer (1920–2010), a co-founder of the French New Wave, directed over 50 films, in addition to garnering acclaim as a critic and novelist. Among the tributes that poured in upon his death early last year was one from French president, Nicolas Sarkozy: “Classic and romantic, wise and iconoclastic, light and serious, sentimental and moralistic, he created the ‘Rohmer Take the opportunity to appreciate his talent with these two films released consecutively in the 1980s, both starring one of his favorite actresses, Marie Rivière.

  8. Rivette X 2

    A belated tribute to French filmmaker Jacques Rivette, who turned 85 earlier this year, includes the discovery of a film never released in the U.S. and a new print of his enigmatic epic.

  9. Rienzi Reels

    Pack a picnic and enjoy an outdoor film screening in Rienzi’s beautiful Camellia Garden! Movie selections enhance the European decorative arts and paintings on view in the MFAH house museum.  Please note that outside alcohol, glass containers, tables, and chairs are not permitted. 

  10. Rienzi Fall Lecture Weekend

    Due to recent weather events, the first talk has been relocated to Bayou Bend’s Kilroy Visitor and Education Center at a new time, 2 p.m.; the second lecture takes place as scheduled at the MFAH in Brown Auditorium Theater, located Enjoy discussions—inspired by Rienzi—on September 16 & 17, 2017.