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OSCAR Films https://www.mfah.org/films Now Playing Oscars 2025 2025 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animation Directed by Various (90 minutes) Brown Auditorium Theater View the nominated short films in the category of Animation from this year’s Academy Awards, and see if your favorite wins when the Oscars are presented on March 2! Thursday, February 27, 2025 Friday, February 28, 2025 Saturday, March 1, 2025 Sunday, March 2, 2025 Oscars 2025 2025 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentary Directed by Various (175 minutes) Brown Auditorium Theater and Lynn Wyatt Theater SOLD OUT | View the nominated short films in the category of Documentary from this year’s Academy Awards, and see if your favorite wins when the Oscars are presented on March 2! Thursday, February 27, 2025 Oscars 2025 2025 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Live Action Directed by Various (104 minutes) Brown Auditorium Theater View the nominated short films in the category of Live Action from this year’s Academy Awards, and see if your favorite wins when the Oscars are presented on March 2! Friday, February 28, 2025 Saturday, March 1, 2025 La La Land Film Poster La La Land Directed by Damien Chazelle (USA, 2016, 128 minutes, in English) The Amphitheater of The Brown Foundation, Inc. Plaza The series “Moonlight Movies” brings you an outdoor viewing experience. In La La Land—a cinematic treasure for the ages—Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling star as an actress and a jazz musician pursuing their Hollywood dreams. Friday, March 7, 2025 Every Little Thing Film Poster Every Little Thing Directed by Sally Aitken (Australia, 2024, 93 minutes, in English) Brown Auditorium Theater, digital The goal of author and wildlife rehabilitator Terry Masear is to save every injured hummingbird in Los Angeles. Get to know Masear’s diminutive patients through breathtaking slow-motion photography and emotional storytelling. Saturday, March 8, 2025 Sunday, March 9, 2025 The Princess Bride Film Poster The Princess Bride Directed by Rob Reiner (USA, 1987, 98 minutes, in English) The Amphitheater of The Brown Foundation, Inc. Plaza The series “Moonlight Movies” brings you an outdoor viewing experience. The beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering obstacles to find happiness in this charmingly funny fractured fairy tale that pits true love against inconceivable odds—as you wish. Friday, March 14, 2025 The True Story of Tamara de Lempicka & the Art of Survival Film Poster The True Story of Tamara de Lempicka & the Art of Survival Directed by Julie Rubio (USA, 2024, 96 minutes, in English) Brown Auditorium Theater, digital Art Deco artist Tamara de Lempicka took Paris, Milan, Berlin, and New York by storm in the 1920s. A century later, this fascinating film tells the story of her life, tracing Lempicka’s flight from persecution, her affairs with men and women, and her hidden Jewish heritage. Saturday, March 15, 2025 Saturday, April 5, 2025 Shaking It Up: The Life and Times of Liz Carpenter Film Poster Shaking It Up: The Life and Times of Liz Carpenter Directed by Christy Carpenter and Abby Ginzberg (USA, 2024, 77 minutes, in English) Brown Auditorium Theater, digital Liz Carpenter was a feisty Texas woman who became a trailblazing journalist, White House official, author, humorist, political activist, and feminist leader. Often front and center of where history was unfolding, in the 1960s she served as executive assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson and press secretary to Lady Bird Johnson. Sunday, March 16, 2025 Rich Crazy Asians Film Poster Crazy Rich Asians Directed by Jon M. Chu (USA, 2018, 120 minutes, in English) The Amphitheater of The Brown Foundation, Inc. Plaza The series “Moonlight Movies” brings you an outdoor viewing experience. Crazy Rich Asians follows Rachel as she accompanies her longtime boyfriend Nick to his best friend’s wedding in Singapore. It soon becomes clear to Rachel that the only thing crazier than love is family. Friday, March 21, 2025 The Wages Of Fear Film Poster The Wages of Fear (Le salaire de la peur) Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot (France, 1953, 153 minutes, in French with English subtitles) Brown Auditorium Theater, 4k restoration Yves Montand and three other men are hired to transport a nitroglycerine shipment over a treacherous South American mountain route. As they carry their explosive cargo, each bump tests their courage, their friendship, and their nerves. The result is one of the greatest thrillers ever made. Saturday, March 22, 2025 The Blond Boy from the Casbah Film Poster The Blond Boy from the Casbah (Le petit blond de la casbah) Directed by Alexandre Arcady (France, 2023, 126 minutes, in French with English subtitles) Lynn Wyatt Theater, digital Growing up in war-torn 1960s Algiers, Antoine Lisner discovers a profound fascination with cinema. Revisiting the place as an adult, now a filmmaker, he remembers emotional moments of his youth, spent between school, friends, and his Jewish family. Sunday, March 23, 2025 Vishniac Film Poster Vishniac Directed by Laura Bialis (USA, 2023, 95 minutes, in English) Lynn Wyatt Theater, digital Vishniac follows photographer Roman Vishniac from his early years in czarist Russia to his emergence as a Modernist photographer in Weimar Berlin, as well as his journeys across Eastern Europe before WWII and his family’s dramatic escape to America in 1940. Thursday, March 27, 2025 On Man Band Film Poster The One Man Band (L’homme orchestre) Directed by Serge Korber (France, 1970, 85 minutes, in French with English subtitles) Brown Auditorium Theater, digital A woman joins a ballet group whose manager forbids his dancers any distractions outside of dance. Little does he know she has a son in Italy, and the troupe goes to great lengths to create an explanation for the boy’s existence. Friday, March 28, 2025 Hibernatus Film Poster Hibernatus Directed by Édouard Molinaro (France, 1969, 82 minutes, in French with English subtitles) Brown Auditorium Theater, digital After he is awakened from a 65-year cryogenic freeze, a man’s relatives plan an elaborate ruse on their long-lost relative so as not to shock him with contemporary reality. Friday, March 28, 2025 Coming Soon Le Chèvre Film Poster La chèvre Directed by Francis Veber (France, 1981, 91 minutes, in French with English subtitles) Brown Auditorium Theater, digital A French tycoon’s accident-prone daughter is kidnapped in Acapulco. Her father hires a private detective to go to Mexico, but realizes he also needs the assistance of an accountant (Pierre Richard), whose entire life has been an endless series of mishaps, to find the girl. Saturday, March 29, 2025 Les Compères Film Poster Les compères Directed by Francis Veber (France, 1983, 92 minutes, in French with English subtitles) Brown Auditorium Theater, digital When a mother is dissatisfied with the police not searching for her runaway son, she contacts two former lovers, convincing them to help find her boy by claiming that one of the men is her son’s father. Saturday, March 29, 2025 The Dinner Game Film Poster The Dinner Game (Le dîner de cons) Directed by Francis Veber (France, 1998, 80 minutes, in French with English subtitles) Brown Auditorium Theater, digital In Francis Veber’s delightful comedy, a buffoon’s good intentions and bad judgment hilariously wreak havoc upon a dinner group’s contest to find the biggest loser. Sunday, March 30, 2025 Goldstone Film Poster Goldstone Directed by Ivan Sen (Australia, 2016, 110 minutes, in English) Brown Auditorium Theater, digital Indigenous detective Jay Swan arrives in Goldstone, Australia, on a missing-persons inquiry that reveals a corrupt investigation. Jay must bury his personal differences with his young partner so that together they can bring justice to Goldstone. Friday, April 4, 2025 Breaking the Waves Film Poster Breaking the Waves Directed by Lars von Trier (Denmark, 1996, 158 minutes, in English) Brown Auditorium Theater, 35mm A pious newlywed (Emily Watson) in a Scottish village gives herself up to a shocking form of martyrdom after her husband (Stellan Skarsgård) is paralyzed in an oil-rig accident. Sunday, April 6, 2025 Impossible Town Film Poster Impossible Town Directed by Meg Griffiths and Scott Faris (USA, 2023, 93 minutes, in English) Lynn Wyatt Theater In this timely environmental documentary, Dr. Ayne Amjad takes up her late father’s cause: aiding a West Virginia town beset by cancer-causing chemicals. Friday, April 11, 2025 The Annihilation of Fish Film Poster The Annihilation of Fish Directed by Charles Burnett (USA, 1999, 108 minutes, in English) Brown Auditorium Theater, 35mm Poinsettia moves into a Los Angeles boarding house where she meets Fish, a Jamaican widower just released from an institution. In the face of personal challenges and differences, they learn new things about themselves through the nuances of romance and happiness. Saturday, April 12, 2025 Sunday, April 13, 2025 When Fall is Coming Film Poster When Fall Is Coming (Quand vient l’automne) Directed by François Ozon (France, 2024, 102 minutes, in French with English subtitles) Brown Auditorium Theater, digital Loving grandmother Michelle enjoys a peaceful retirement in a small Burgundy village near her longtime friend Marie-Claude. But when daughter Valérie drops off Michelle’s grandson Lucas for his autumn vacation, nothing goes as planned. Friday, April 18, 2025 Saturday, April 19, 2025 Sunday, April 20, 2025 Now Playing Tickets & Admission Robert Frank Collection Film Buffs Movies Houstonians Love Latin Wave Film Festival Street Address 1001 Bissonnet Street Houston, TX 77005 Mailing Address MFAH Films P.O. Box 6826 Houston, TX 77265-6826 MFAH Films Information E-mail Addressfilm@mfah.org Phone+17136397515 Accessibility Questions or Requests? 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