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This Weekend: Morris Engel’s “The Little Fugitive” at MFAH

This Weekend: Morris Engel’s “The Little Fugitive” at MFAH

By Peter Lucas on May 22, 2013

This Friday through Monday, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston is presenting daily screenings of the rarely seen classic, The Little Fugitive, via a beautiful [...]

Posted in Blog, Peter Lucas | Tagged film, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The Little Fugitive | Leave a response

CineMarfa 2013 (Part 2: The Films)

CineMarfa 2013 (Part 2: The Films)

By Peter Lucas on May 19, 2013

Just as Marfa’s Stonehenge (artist Donald Judd’s untitled, half-mile-long series of concrete boxes) beautifully frames and fractures light, landscape, and viewers’ own meditations, so does [...]

Posted in Blog, Uncategorized | Tagged Cinemarfa, film, film festival, Marfa | Leave a response

CineMarfa 2013 (Part 1: The Festival)

CineMarfa 2013 (Part 1: The Festival)

By Peter Lucas on May 12, 2013

Last week, I hit the long road west from Houston to Marfa to see some films. I didn’t know much about the CineMarfa festival to [...]

Posted in Blog, Uncategorized | Tagged Cinemarfa, David Hollander, film, Harmony Korine, Jennifer Lane, Marfa | 4 Responses

Cocksucker Blues: Robert Frank’s Infamous Rolling Stones Doc Hits the Screen 40 Years Later

Cocksucker Blues: Robert Frank’s Infamous Rolling Stones Doc Hits the Screen 40 Years Later

By Peter Lucas on March 24, 2013

  I cannot overstate the rarity of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s upcoming screenings of Cocksucker Blues (1972), nor my excitement about it. This [...]

Posted in Blog, Feature | Tagged Cocksucker Blues, film, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, phtography, Robert Frank, Rolling Stones | 1 Response

A Saint and A Sinner

A Saint and A Sinner

By Peter Lucas on February 9, 2013

Austin film programmer Zack Carlson and the Alamo’s upcoming screening of rarely seen mindblower, “The World’s Greatest Sinner” Everyone knows that Austin’s original Alamo Drafthouse [...]

Posted in Peter Lucas, Uncategorized | Tagged alamo drafthouse cinema, cinema, film, frank zappa, movie, timothy carey, world's greatest sinner, zack carlson | Leave a response

New prints of classic films at the MFAH

New prints of classic films at the MFAH

By Peter Lucas on January 28, 2013

Movie-lovers and image-makers should be extremely excited about the upcoming opportunity to see some of the best movies ever in the best way possible. In [...]

Posted in Blog, Peter Lucas, Uncategorized | Tagged cinema, film, mfah, movies, Museum of Fine Arts Houston | Leave a response

QUAY films at the MFAH

QUAY films at the MFAH

By Peter Lucas on December 3, 2012

This Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston is showcasing the artistry of filmmakers Stephen and Timothy Quay with a special series [...]

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SLICING UP THE CINEMA ARTS FEST (Part 3:  Texas Connections)

SLICING UP THE CINEMA ARTS FEST (Part 3: Texas Connections)

By Peter Lucas on November 8, 2012

OK, well, the Houston Cinema Arts Festival has begun, so its a little late for me to still be slicing up the programming. But I’ve [...]

Posted in Blog, Peter Lucas, Uncategorized | Tagged film, houston cinema arts festival, texas film | Leave a response

SLICING UP THE CINEMA ARTS FEST (Part 2: Arts Docs)

SLICING UP THE CINEMA ARTS FEST (Part 2: Arts Docs)

By Peter Lucas on November 7, 2012

I mentioned in my last post that arts documentaries are arguably the heart of the Cinema Arts Festival (running this evening through Sunday). These films, [...]

Posted in Blog, Peter Lucas, Uncategorized | Tagged Documentary, film, houston cinema arts festival | Leave a response

SLICING UP THE CINEMA ARTS FEST (Part 1: The Verge)

SLICING UP THE CINEMA ARTS FEST (Part 1: The Verge)

By Peter Lucas on November 5, 2012

The Houston Cinema Arts Festival is back with an eclectic program celebrating film both as art and as art document. It opens this Wednesday and [...]

Posted in Blog, Peter Lucas, Uncategorized | Tagged audio-visual, eve sussman, film, houston cinema arts festival, light surgeons, shirley clarke, video | 1 Response

DAISIES

DAISIES

By Peter Lucas on October 27, 2012

“Everything is being spoiled in this world. …Know what? When everything is being spoiled, we’ll be spoiled too!” So proclaim two teenage girls–both named Marie–before [...]

Posted in Blog, Peter Lucas, Uncategorized | Tagged 60s, czech, daisies, film, mfah, Museum of Fine Arts Houston | 1 Response

THE MENIL CONNECTION

THE MENIL CONNECTION

By Peter Lucas on October 7, 2012

Celebrating the legendary de Menil years of the Rice Museum and Rice Media Center. The Menil Collection’s 25th anniversary this year has had me thinking [...]

Posted in Blog, Peter Lucas | Tagged andy warhol, art, film, menil, rice media center, rice university | 2 Responses

CONNECT THE DOTS. Media Archeology 2012

CONNECT THE DOTS. Media Archeology 2012

By Peter Lucas on September 15, 2012

The Aurora Picture Show’s 9th annual Media Archeology Festival (Thursday through Saturday, Sept. 21-23) premieres a host of unique films and live audiovisual performances that [...]

Posted in Blog, Peter Lucas | Tagged aurora picture show, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, film, heart chamber orchestra, lee ranaldo, media archeology festival, music, nameless sound, video | Leave a response

2012 Fall Preview

2012 Fall Preview

By GT contributors on September 6, 2012

Glasstire contributors offer up their picks for Fall 2012! AUSTIN Emily Roysdon: Pause Pose Discompose Visual Arts Center September 21 – December 8, 2012 Super [...]

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Still from the film Frank Film, Frank and Caroline Mouris, 16mm, 1973

’bout sound and vision

By Peter Lucas on August 11, 2012

Experimental Eye and The Sounds of Silence. The next 6 weeks bring Houstonians rare opportunities to see some of the most dynamic experimental films in [...]

Posted in Blog, Peter Lucas | Tagged animation, art, aurora picture show, experimental eye, film, menil collection, rice media center, sounds of silence, video | Leave a response

Robert Frank , Parade, Hoboken, New Jersey, from the series The Americans, 1955–1956.

COMING TO AMERICA

By Peter Lucas on June 30, 2012

Robert Frank’s 1950s at the MFAH The new exhibition, American Made: 250 Years of American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston opens next [...]

Posted in Blog, Peter Lucas, Uncategorized | Tagged Beat poets, film, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, photography, Robert Frank | Leave a response

They Shoot Artists, Don’t They? a summer program

They Shoot Artists, Don’t They? a summer program

By Sebastien Boncy on June 22, 2012

It’s almost July, and perhaps you have no interest in losing yourself in the waves of insect din and the swampy stickiness, even though it [...]

Posted in Monocular | Tagged Alec Guinness, Amarcord, Anthony Higgins, Barton Fink, Batman, Brazil, Broadway Danny Rose, Christian Bale, Christopher Nolan, cinema, Cowards Bend The Knee, Edith Scob, Ethan Coen, F for Fake, Federico Fellini, film, Guy Maddin, home festival, Hugh Jackman, Janet Suzman, Joel Coen, John Turturro, Jonathan Pryce, Mia Farrow, Olivier Assayas, Orson Welles, Peter Greenaway, Ronald Neame, Summer Hours, the artist in cinema, The Draughtsman's Contract, The Horse's Mouth, The Prestige, Wolverine, Woody Allen | Leave a response

The Big Impact of a Small Film Fest: HCFF in Fredericksburg

The Big Impact of a Small Film Fest: HCFF in Fredericksburg

By John Aasp on May 8, 2012

Attending the third annual Hill Country Film Festival in the enchanting town of Fredericksburg April 26-29 was a treat. I arrived opening night for the [...]

Posted in Blog, John Aäsp, The Open Blog | Tagged film, film festival, Fredericksburg, hill country, Stagecoach Theater | Leave a response

Spring Soundtrack

Spring Soundtrack

By Peter Lucas on April 6, 2012

I’ve been meaning to write something here about film scores for a while. You know, some kind of analysis of the role of music in [...]

Posted in Blog, Peter Lucas | Tagged 60s, film, fun, mix, movie, music, soundtrack, spring | 2 Responses

WHAT’S THE WORD FROM JOHANNESBURG?

WHAT’S THE WORD FROM JOHANNESBURG?

By Peter Lucas on February 20, 2012

Vital film document, Come Back, Africa screens at the MFAH. “This film was made secretly in order to portray the true conditions of life in [...]

Posted in Blog, Peter Lucas | Tagged Come Back Africa, film, Miriam Makeba, movie, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, South Africa | 3 Responses

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