Part of MFAH's "Jazz on Film" series In the 1950s, Chet Baker’s jazz trumpeting, intimate crooning, and pretty-boy good looks epitomized West Coast cool. When photographer Bruce Weber caught up with him three decades later, time and drug addiction had ravaged Baker’s life and angelic beauty. Shown here in a new 4K digital restoration, the […]
The charismatic Franz Rogowski (Passages; Transit) stars as a Belarusian immigrant haunted by his actions while serving in the French Foreign Legion. Giacomo Abbruzzese’s stylish debut feature won the Berlin Film Festival’s Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution. The Guardian calls Disco Boy “a visually thrilling, ambitious, and distinctly freaky adventure into the heart of […]
Directed by Claude Sautet (France, 1960, 109 min., in French with English subtitles, digital restoration) Saturday, July 13, 7:00 p.m. Sunday, July 14, 5:00 p.m. Brown Auditorium Theater 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 […]
Directed by Claude Sautet (France, 1960, 109 min., in French with English subtitles, digital restoration) Saturday, July 13, 7:00 p.m. Sunday, July 14, 5:00 p.m. Brown Auditorium Theater 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 […]
Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville (France, 1967, 105 min., in French with English subtitles, digital restoration) Saturday, July 20, 7:00 p.m. Sunday, July 21, 5:00 p.m. Brown Auditorium Theater In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays a contract killer with samurai instincts. After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, he finds himself caught between a persistent […]
Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville (France, 1967, 105 min., in French with English subtitles, digital restoration) Saturday, July 20, 7:00 p.m. Sunday, July 21, 5:00 p.m. Brown Auditorium Theater In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays a contract killer with samurai instincts. After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, he finds himself caught between a persistent […]
Directed by Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach (France, 2023, 73 min., in French with English subtitles, digital) Friday-Saturday, July 26-27, 7:00 p.m. Brown Auditorium Theater Paulette feels guilty after unjustly punishing her daughter Linda and would do anything to make it up to her. Linda immediately asks for a meal of chicken with peppers, which […]
Directed by Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach (France, 2023, 73 min., in French with English subtitles, digital) Friday-Saturday, July 26-27, 7:00 p.m. Brown Auditorium Theater Paulette feels guilty after unjustly punishing her daughter Linda and would do anything to make it up to her. Linda immediately asks for a meal of chicken with peppers, which […]