CULTURAL AGENDA _ March 2010
Hamlet – Ambroise Thomas
Edwards Houston Marq*e 23 & IMAX
7620 Katy Freeway, Houston, TX 77024
Opens March 27, 2010
Expected Running time: 3 hours, 43 minutes, 2 intermissions
The works of Shakespeare have inspired more operatic adaptations than any other writer’s. Simon Keenlyside and Natalie Dessay bring their extraordinary acting and singing skills to two of the Bard’s most unforgettable characters in this new production of Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet. For the role of Ophelia, the French composer created an extended mad scene that is among the greatest in opera.
Conductor: Louis Langrée; Production: Patrice Caurier/Moshe Leiser; Natalie Dessay, Jennifer Larmore, Toby Spence, Simon Keenlyside, James Morris
7620 Katy Freeway, Houston, TX 77024
Opens March 27, 2010
Expected Running time: 3 hours, 43 minutes, 2 intermissions
The works of Shakespeare have inspired more operatic adaptations than any other writer’s. Simon Keenlyside and Natalie Dessay bring their extraordinary acting and singing skills to two of the Bard’s most unforgettable characters in this new production of Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet. For the role of Ophelia, the French composer created an extended mad scene that is among the greatest in opera.
Conductor: Louis Langrée; Production: Patrice Caurier/Moshe Leiser; Natalie Dessay, Jennifer Larmore, Toby Spence, Simon Keenlyside, James Morris
From Paris with Love directed by Pierre Morel
Release Date: February 5, 2010
Nationwide
A personal aide to U.S. Ambassador in France, James Reece (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) has an enviable life in Paris and a beautiful French girlfriend, but his real passion is his side job as a low-level operative for the CIA. All James wants is to become a bona fide agent and see some real action. So when he's offered his first senior-level assignment, he can't believe his good luck until he meets his new partner, special agent Charlie Wax (John Travolta).
Visit the official website.
Watch the trailer
Nationwide
A personal aide to U.S. Ambassador in France, James Reece (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) has an enviable life in Paris and a beautiful French girlfriend, but his real passion is his side job as a low-level operative for the CIA. All James wants is to become a bona fide agent and see some real action. So when he's offered his first senior-level assignment, he can't believe his good luck until he meets his new partner, special agent Charlie Wax (John Travolta).
Visit the official website.
Watch the trailer
La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet, Frederick Wiseman
Angelika FilmCenter
5321 East Mockingbird Lane, Dallas, TX 75206
Angelika Film Center
510 Texas Street, Houston, TX 77002
La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet, Frederick Wiseman’s 38th film in about as many years, and his second about dance (after 1995’s Ballet), begins with a series of shots of Paris, immediately establishing the renowned company as subject to the city’s daily grind. Though La Danse features a number of administrative meetings and extended glimpses of finished performances, Wiseman’s primary interest is in the grueling rehearsals.
Read review here.
Buy tickets and time showing
5321 East Mockingbird Lane, Dallas, TX 75206
Angelika Film Center
510 Texas Street, Houston, TX 77002
La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet, Frederick Wiseman’s 38th film in about as many years, and his second about dance (after 1995’s Ballet), begins with a series of shots of Paris, immediately establishing the renowned company as subject to the city’s daily grind. Though La Danse features a number of administrative meetings and extended glimpses of finished performances, Wiseman’s primary interest is in the grueling rehearsals.
Read review here.
Buy tickets and time showing
Seraphine
Angelika Film Center & Cafe - Houston
Houston, TX, 77002
(713)225-5232
A humble servant (Yolande Moreau) in the small town of Senlis discovers her gift for expression in Martin Provost’s SERPAHINE, the recent winner of seven Cesar awards in Paris, including Best Film. This fictional account of the little known Seraphine de Senlis, employs a subtle visual style that enriches and supports Moreau’s talent.
The triumph and fascination of Yolande Moreau's performance as the French painter Séraphine de Senlis (1864-1942) is in the way she makes us believe — completely and without questioning — that Séraphine is some kind of divine vessel.
Houston, TX, 77002
(713)225-5232
A humble servant (Yolande Moreau) in the small town of Senlis discovers her gift for expression in Martin Provost’s SERPAHINE, the recent winner of seven Cesar awards in Paris, including Best Film. This fictional account of the little known Seraphine de Senlis, employs a subtle visual style that enriches and supports Moreau’s talent.
The triumph and fascination of Yolande Moreau's performance as the French painter Séraphine de Senlis (1864-1942) is in the way she makes us believe — completely and without questioning — that Séraphine is some kind of divine vessel.
District 13: Ultimatum
Monday, February 1 at 7:30 p.m.
Edwards Grand Palace,
3839 Weslayan, Houston, TX 77027
Written by Luc Besson, directed by Patrick Alessandrin.
Two years have passed since elite police officer Damien Tomasso (Cyril Raffaelli) teamed up with reformed vigilante Leito (David Belle) to save the notorious District 13, a racially charged ghetto populated by violent drug-dealing gangs and vicious killers.
Edwards Grand Palace,
3839 Weslayan, Houston, TX 77027
Written by Luc Besson, directed by Patrick Alessandrin.
Two years have passed since elite police officer Damien Tomasso (Cyril Raffaelli) teamed up with reformed vigilante Leito (David Belle) to save the notorious District 13, a racially charged ghetto populated by violent drug-dealing gangs and vicious killers.
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
Monday, February 22 2010
MFAH
1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX 77005-1896
(713) 639-7300
Directed by Ted Kotcheff
USA/Italy/France/West Germany, 1978
This movie is part of Movies Houstonians Love (Meals on Reels) it will be introduce by Robert Del Grande executive chef of Houston's nationally acclaimed Cafe Annie.
An international all-star cast populates this comic mystery in which the best chefs of Europe are being murdered one by one.
Based on a best-selling novel, this darkly comic whodunit finds wealthy gourmet Max (Robert Morley) suspected of murder when the world's top chefs begin to drop dead in ways related to the preparation of their signature dishes. Could it be that Max has taken his doctor's orders to lose more than 100 pounds too seriously, or is someone just trying to make it look that way? Jacqueline Bisset, George Segal and Philippe Noiret also star.
See the trailer here
MFAH
1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX 77005-1896
(713) 639-7300
Directed by Ted Kotcheff
USA/Italy/France/West Germany, 1978
This movie is part of Movies Houstonians Love (Meals on Reels) it will be introduce by Robert Del Grande executive chef of Houston's nationally acclaimed Cafe Annie.
An international all-star cast populates this comic mystery in which the best chefs of Europe are being murdered one by one.
Based on a best-selling novel, this darkly comic whodunit finds wealthy gourmet Max (Robert Morley) suspected of murder when the world's top chefs begin to drop dead in ways related to the preparation of their signature dishes. Could it be that Max has taken his doctor's orders to lose more than 100 pounds too seriously, or is someone just trying to make it look that way? Jacqueline Bisset, George Segal and Philippe Noiret also star.
See the trailer here
35 Shots of Rum directed by Claire Denisof
Angelika FilmCenter
5321 East Mockingbird Lane, Dallas, TX 75206
Lionel (Alex Descas) is a quiet widower, realizing the impending departure of his beloved daughter Josephine (Mati Diop), as she grows into independence.
Read review here.
Buy tickets and time showing
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5321 East Mockingbird Lane, Dallas, TX 75206
Lionel (Alex Descas) is a quiet widower, realizing the impending departure of his beloved daughter Josephine (Mati Diop), as she grows into independence.
Read review here.
Buy tickets and time showing
More information
Antichrist by Lars von Trier with Charlotte Gainsbourg
Now playing in Landmark Theatres Dobie Theatre - Austin
2025 Guadalupe Street in the Dobie Mall, Austin, TX 78705
(512) 472-FILM
A grieving couple retreat to 'Eden,' their isolated cabin in the woods, where they hope to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse… Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg (winner of the Best Actress Award at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival) give brave, outstanding performances in the new provocation from writer/director Lars von Trier (Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, Dogville).
Official website
2025 Guadalupe Street in the Dobie Mall, Austin, TX 78705
(512) 472-FILM
A grieving couple retreat to 'Eden,' their isolated cabin in the woods, where they hope to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse… Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg (winner of the Best Actress Award at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival) give brave, outstanding performances in the new provocation from writer/director Lars von Trier (Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, Dogville).
Official website