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| Jan. 13 7:00 PM
| THE WIZARD OF OZ | John Murfee Worsham Film Screening | Victor Fleming |
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| Description: | Follow the yellow brick road to Rice Cinema and join us as we present this classic tale of adventure and friendship. This film is free and open to the public thanks to the generously of the John Murfee Worsham endowment. |
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| Jan. 14 7:00 PM
| THE WIZARD OF OZ | John Murfee Worsham Film Screening | Victor Fleming |
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| Description: | Follow the yellow brick road to Rice Cinema and join us as we present this classic tale of adventure and friendship. This film is free and open to the public thanks to the generously of the John Murfee Worsham endowment. |
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| Jan. 18 7:00 PM
| DAISY BATES: FIRST LADY OF LITTLE ROCK | HOUSTON COMMUNITY CINEMA & HOUSTON PBS | Sharon La Cruise and Noland Walker |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates was a complex, unconventional, and largely forgotten heroine of the civil rights movement who led the charge to desegregate the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. This film is free and open to the public | | Additional Information: | http://www.itvs.org/films/daisy-bates |
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| Jan. 20 7:00 PM
| Festival of New Spanish Cinema: THE GREAT VAZQUEZ | FESTIVAL OF NEW SPANISH CINEMA | OPENING NIGHT – FILMMAKER OSCAR AÍBAR IN ATTENDANCE |
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| Description: | THE GREAT VASQUEZ (EL GRAN VÁZQUEZ) /
ÓSCAR AIBAR /
Spain / 2010 / 106 min. / Spanish with English subtitles /
This madcap and amorally funny biopic dramatizes the life of the influential Spanish cartoonist Manuel Vazquez Gallego. 1960s Barcelona: it’s springtime and Vázquez is having a ball by himself. His characters (the Gilda Sisters, Anacleto, the Cebolleta Family...) are a huge success in the comics published by Bruguera. Meanwhile, Spain’s top cartoonist gets what he wants when he wants and pays nothing for it .He artfully dodges anyone he owes money to, tricks and cheats his bosses, and marries gaily, collecting one family after another. But then a dull accountant at his publishing house decides it’s time for him to toe the line like everyone else. With a cigarette permanently dangling from his lip, Santiago Segura—better known for being the director and star of the successful Torrente saga—plays the artist with rascally energy as both a compulsive bigamist and a con man who steals from one wife to give to another, who repeatedly fakes his father’s death, and who refuses to pay for furniture out of principle. | | Additional Information: | IN PERSON writer/director Oscar Aíbar will present THE GREAT VASQUEZ and participate in a post-screening Q & A. / Following the Q & A the audience is invited to stay for the reception sponsored by Casa de España Houston and Rice Student group HACER featuring Martin Codax Albariño and Las Rocas Garnacha wine. / TICKET INFORMATION: Rice University students, faculty members and staff: Free
General admission: $6
Students (from other universities), Seniors, and members of "La Casa de España": $5 |
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| Jan. 21 7:00 PM
| Festival of New Spanish Cinema: 80 DAYS | Festival of New Spanish Cinema | Jose Mari Goenaga & Jon Garaño |
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| Description: | 80 Days (80 egunean)
Jose Mari Goenaga & Jon Garaño
Spain / 2010 / 105 min. / Basque & Spanish with English subtitles
From Basque directors Jon Garaño and José Mari Goenaga comes a story of illicit desire handled with warmth, delicacy and humor. This sensitive and unusual love story posesses one simple question: if you had to choose, would you follow your mind or your heart? Forbidden by society to develop their budding passion, childhood girlfriends Axun (Itziar Aizpuru) and Maite (Mariasun Pagoaga) were forced to embark on very different paths in life. When Axun returns to their hometown of San Sebastian 50 years later, the women are reunited and given another chance to explore this unfulfilled love they shared years ago. But as Axun and Maite rekindle their passion, they must confront not only society, but the lives they have created and the women they have become. With stirring performances by Aizpuru and Pagoaga, whose onscreen chemistry brings this love story to life, 80 Days forces us to re-evaluate both the passions that lay buried within, as well as those that we have cultivated without. | | Additional Information: | TICKET INFORMATION: Rice University students, faculty members and staff: Free. /
General admission: $6. /
Students (from other universities), Seniors, and members of "La Casa de España": $5 |
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| Jan. 21 9:00 PM
| Festival of New Spanish Cinema: KIDNAPPED | Festival of New Spanish Cinema | Miguel Ángel Vivas |
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| Description: | Kidnapped (Secuestrados) /
Miguel Angel Vivas /
Spain / 2010 / 85 min. / Spanish with English subtitles /
The producers of Cell 211 present Kidnapped, a terrifyingly realistic thriller about a family held hostage in their own home by a group of unknown criminals. Best Horror Feature winner at Austin’s Fantastic Fest 2010, Miguel Ángel Vivas’ film about a family’s first night in their new home gone terribly wrong just may leave audiences in a total state of shock. A true sensation at the 2010 Sitges Fantastic Film Festival, this taut, high-octane, grittily realistic thriller is shot in fewer than a dozen intricately choreographed sequence shots that create an accurate, hyper-real rendering of the home invasion experience. Vivas’s camera roams with a restless energy, capturing the action as it actually takes place. By refusing to edit, Vivas leaves his audience trapped in the room with the family to share their mounting terror. Though the storyline has been done several times, Vivas’ directing style, the rich characters and the unrelenting gruesome detail make Kidnapped a superb horror movie. | | Additional Information: | TICKET INFORMATION: Rice University students, faculty members and staff: Free. / General admission: $6. / Students (from other universities), Seniors, and members of "La Casa de España": $5 |
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| Jan. 22 5:00 PM
| Festival of New Spanish Cinema: EVERY SONG IS ABOUT ME | Festival of New Spanish Cinema | Jonás Trueba |
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| Description: | Every Song is About Me (Todas las canciones hablan de mí) /
Jonás Trueba /
Spain / 2010 / 104 min. / Spanish with English subtitles /
A woody-allenesque romantic comedy inspired by the aesthetics of the French New Wave, Every Song Is About Me is the most acclaimed debut film of the year. It follows the story of Ramiro, an immature thirty-something wannabe poet who fulfills his passion for literature in his uncle’s small bookshop. One day, he comes home to find a letter left by his fiancée, Andrea, putting an end to their relationship. In his attempt to forget her, he spends his spare time hanging out with his friend Lucas and decides to give a new try to romance. But he can’t help it: it’s Andrea he truly wants. Based on the somewhat clichéd premise that there are moments in life when every song seems to be talking about us, this film paints a captivating portrait of a young man and the girl he adores in search of a happiness they know is impossible to attain. Up and coming Jonás Trueba captures the confusion of a generation haunted by music and books, by the need to find a path amidst the certainty of uncertainty and by the compulsion to find love when love has become but the topic of yet another indie-pop song. | | Additional Information: | TICKET INFORMATION: Rice University students, faculty members and staff: Free. / General admission: $6. / Students (from other universities), Seniors, and members of "La Casa de España": $5 |
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| Jan. 22 7:00 PM
| Festival of New Spanish Cinema: LOPE | Festival of New Spanish Cinema | Andrucha Waddington |
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| Description: | Lope (Lope) /
Andrucha Waddington /
Spain/Brazil / 2010 / 106 min. / Spanish with English subtitles /
Almodóvar’s favorite, Leonor Watling (Talk to Her, The Oxford Murders), and a whole cast of renowned Spanish actors (Luis Tosar: Cell 211, Take My Eyes; Antonio de la Torre: Volver; Pilar López de Ayala, In the City of Sylvia) star in this spectacular romantic epic with echoes of Oscar®-winner Shakespeare in Love. Lope tells the story of the life and loves of immortal dramatist and incorrigible adventurer Lope de Vega y Carpio, a contemporary of “Don Quixote” author Miguel de Cervantes, and a bright star in the literary field of Baroque Spain. In this entertaining and romantic look at his struggles to establish himself, we encounter a man ruled by his passions, and more condemned than commended for his eviscerating wit. In acclaimed director Andrucha Waddington’s (The House of Sand) Madrid, Hollywood’s sanitized imagining of medieval times is done away with. However, grimy fingernails and greasy hair are no deterrent to the swashbuckling appeal of Alberto Ammann (a Goya award winner for Cell 211) and his excellent portrayal of the young, passionate Lope, with a wonderful turn by Golden Globe nominee Sonia Braga as Paquita. | | Additional Information: | TICKET INFORMATION: Rice University students, faculty members and staff: Free. / General admission: $6. / Students (from other universities), Seniors, and members of "La Casa de España": $5 |
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| Jan. 25 6:30 PM
| Rice Cinema presents: OUR SEEDS: SEEDS BLONG YUMI | GREEN FILM SERIES | |
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| Description: | OUR SEEDS: SEEDS BLONG YUMI is a fifty-seven minute film shot in eleven countries that celebrates traditional foods and the plants they grow from. The film introduces the varied people who save seeds and stand at the source of humanity's diverse food heritage.
The movie focuses on Pacific islanders, who face great challenges to their way of life, their culture and their traditional cultivation methodologies. They have fallen into the trap of replacing resilient locally-adapted food crop varieties with modern hybrids that require pesticides and chemical fertilizers. They replace innumerable varieties of root staples with imported low quality starch such as white rice, biscuits and noodles.
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Schedule:
6:30 Meet and Greet. /
7:00 Film presentation. /
8:00 Expert Panel Discussion. /
Following the featured film, there will be a discussion moderated by Brittany Goldsmith of Seed Swap Houston. /
Panelists:
Lola Daniel, a local farmer whose family has been saving seeds for over a hundred years;
Asim Nweze, the founder of the Marcus Garvey Liberation Garden;
Nell Wheeler, market gardener and seed saver in Houston
Diane Normann. /
This event is brought to you by the Rice University Environmental Club, Houston Tomorrow, Emerging Professionals of the Houston USGBC, Houston Green Scene, and Transition Houston. | | Additional Information: | Light dinner kindly donated by Dr. Pat Speck and Dry Bones Cafe.
A $5 donation is suggested and greatly appreciated.
Please RSVP on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/?ref=tn_tnmn#!/events/175074425927410/
This program is brought to you by the grassroots collaboration of the USGBC Emerging Professionals Houston, Transition Houston, Houston Tomorrow and the Rice University Environmental Club. / To view a trailer for the movie visit http://www.seedsavers.net/resources-films-and-books. |
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| Jan. 27 7:00 PM
| Festival of New Spanish Cinema: BICYCLE SPOON APPLE | Festival of New Spanish Cinema | Carles Bosch |
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| Description: | Bicycle, Spoon, Apple (Bicicleta, cullera, poma) /
Carles Bosch /
Spain / 2010 / 105 min. / Catalan & Spanish with English subtitles
As both the former mayor of Barcelona and former president of Catalonia, Pasqual Maragall has been a popular leader for the people of Spain. In 2007, this charismatic public figure was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Bicycle, Spoon, Apple is an up-close and personal account of his decision to go public with this revelation, of his steadfast determination to beat the disease, and of the strength and support of his family (including his optimistic wife Diana Garrigosa) during his struggle to fight it. Following Maragall for two years, director Carles Bosch (who helmed the Oscar®-nominated documentary filmBalseros) creates an intimate portrait of the man and his family, expanding his focus to doctors and scientists for a more complete picture of Alzheimer’s, its myths, and the current state of research. The title comes from three words used to test patients’ memories, and is used in one of the more affecting scenes in which we see the stoic Maragall crumble ever so slightly when he can’t recall them. By bringing us so deep into the life of an Alzheimer’s sufferer, Bosch demystifies the disease—resulting in a documentary that’s sure to leave viewers forever changed. | | Additional Information: | Post screening panel discussion with Dr. Gustave Roman (Alzheimer's Researcher) and Ms. Connie Assiff (caregiver). Presented by the Alzheimer's Association Houston & Southeast Texas Chapter. TICKET INFORMATION: Rice University students, faculty members and staff: Free. / General admission: $6. / Students (from other universities), Seniors, and members of "La Casa de España": $5 |
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| Jan. 28 7:00 PM
| Festival of New Spanish Cinema: WITH OR WITHOUT LOVE | Festival of New Spanish Cinema | David Serrano |
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| Description: | With or Without Love (Una hora más en Canarias) /
David Serrano /
Spain / 2010 / 97 min. / Spanish with English subtitles /
This technically polished, fast-moving, screwball musical comedy is the third feature by director (Soccer Days) and screenwriter (The Other Side of the Bed) David Serrano. Beautiful married superbitch Claudia has been dumped by her lover, Pablo. He takes off with his new girfriend to the Canary Islands to escape Claudia’s relentless attempts to win him back, but she soon follows, aided (for a time) by her sister Monica. Set against the gorgeous backdrop of Tenerife and scored with catchy pop songs and colorfully choreographed musical numbers, the quirky, stellar cast has great fun inhabiting a breezy tropical fantasy about people who dream, sing, dance and fall in love. | | Additional Information: | TICKET INFORMATION: Rice University students, faculty members and staff: Free. / General admission: $6. / Students (from other universities), Seniors, and members of "La Casa de España": $5 |
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| Jan. 28 9:00 PM
| Festival of New Spanish Cinema: WHO CAN KILL A CHILD | Festival of New Spanish Cinema | Narciso Ibañez Serrador |
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| Description: | Who Can Kill a Child (¿Quién puede matar a un niño?) /
Narciso Ibañez Serrador /
Spain / 1976 / 107 min. / Spanish with english Subtitles /
Once available only on poor VHS copies circulated among aficionados, this legendary, taboo-breaking horror classic’s disturbing imagery helped keep it out of easy public viewing. A Hitchcockian thriller with salutes to Night of the Living Dead and Lord of the Flies. While vacationing on the remote island of Almanzora, Tom and his pregnant wife, Evelyn, notice only giggling children. They wonder where all the adults are, until Tom discovers that the demonic youths have killed them all. Unflinchingly horrific and unapologetically downbeat, Who Can Kill a Child was heavily censored for its American release in 1976 as Island of the Damned, in reference to the classic Village of the Damned. Like another horror masterpiece,Rosemary’s Baby, Ibáñez Serrador’s film builds up slowly, without giving a hint of the horror that’s to come and climaxing with a battle for survival as terrifying and nihilistic as anything in Night of the Living Dead. One of the best horror films of the past 30 years, it’s been imitated many times (Children of the Corn, a Stephen King short story with a similar plot, which was followed by a popular film series, released a year after) but has never been beaten. | | Additional Information: | TICKET INFORMATION: Rice University students, faculty members and staff: Free. / General admission: $6. / Students (from other universities), Seniors, and members of "La Casa de España": $5 |
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| Jan. 29 4:00 PM
| Festival of New Spanish Cinema: LOVESTORMING | Festival of New Spanish Cinema | Borja Cobeaga |
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| Description: | Lovestorming (No Controles) /
Borja Cobeaga /
Spain / 2010 / 96 min. / Spanish with English subtitles /
Oscar-nominated Borja Cobeaga (One Too Many, The Friend Zone) directs this Spanish box-office hit, a fast-paced, side-splitting comedy starring sexy star Unax Ugalde in the Spanish take on The Hangover. Having broken up with his g.f., Bea (Alexandra Jimenez), heartbroken Sergio (Unax Ugalde) is due to fly back on New Year's Eve to his journalist's job in rural Spain, while Bea is off to start a new life in Germany, but all flights are grounded. On the plane, Sergio runs into former schoolmate Juancarlitros (Julian Lopez), a motor-mouthed wannabe comedian who irritates all around him with a continual stream of bad jokes.They are sent to a hotel where Bea is also staying, and Juancarlitros takes it on himself to try and save Sergio's relationship before the night is over. He refers to their plight as, "like 'Die Hard', but in love." Aided by manic, recently divorced Juanan (Secun de la Rosa), quiet Ecuadorian hotel worker Jimmy (Alfredo Silva), and game flight attendant Laura (Mariam Hernandez), Juancarlitros organizes a New Year's Eve party and invites Bea, aiming to reconcile her with Sergio. Plans are complicated by the arrival of Bea's new boyfriend, smoothie Ernesto (Miguel Angel Munoz). | | Additional Information: | TICKET INFORMATION: Rice University students, faculty members and staff: Free. / General admission: $6. / Students (from other universities), Seniors, and members of "La Casa de España": $5 |
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| Jan. 29 7:00 PM
| Festival of New Spanish Cinema: HALF OF OSCAR | Festival of New Spanish Cinema | Manuel Martín Cuenca |
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| Description: | An exploration of family taboos, this quiet and austere third feature from Martín Cuenca (The Weakness of the Bolshevik, Hard Times) delves into the deepest regions of the human soul. The windswept beaches and mountains of Almeria are located on the Mediterranean in the southern province of Andalucia, Spain. It’s an area that is rarely portrayed in Spanish cinema, but one that Manuel Martín Cuenca uses as a central character in Half of Oscar, providing the ideal space to contemplate the complicated relationship between Oscar and his sister Maria. Oscar works as a security guard at a semi-abandoned salt mine. His lonely days consist of riding his bike to work, putting on his uniform and his gun, and contemplating the mountains of salt. Oscar’s routine is interrupted when his aging grandfather is moved from a home to the hospital and Oscar discovers that his sister, Maria, whom he hasn’t heard from in two years, will be coming to Almeria. To his bewilderment, she arrives pregnant and with a boyfriend in tow. The silent tension between brother and sister is palpable. Martín Cuenca’s use of the unique environment of Almeria is one of the most accomplished elements in the film; unadorned with music, the soundscape is comprised of the natural ambience of the landscape, which becomes as integral to the film as the visuals. Silence and subtext speak volumes in this poignant film about impossible loves. | | Additional Information: | Rice University students, faculty members and staff: Free. /
General admission: $6. /
Students (from other universities), Seniors, and members of "La Casa de España": $5 |
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| Feb. 3 7:00 PM
| Rice Cinema presents: CIRCUMSTANCE | 19th Annual Iranian Film Festival | Maryam Keshavarz |
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| Description: | In “Circumstance,” Ms. Kazemy, 22, plays Shireen, whose friendship with her privileged classmate Atafeh, (Nikohl Boosheri), turns erotic as they navigate a circuit of illicit parties offering drink, drugs, dancing, loud Western music and banned films. The situation becomes even more complicated when Atafeh’s troubled older brother, Mehran (Reza Sixo Safai), also falls in love with Shireen. Tickets at Rice Cinema are: $5 general admission and free to students of any age. | | Additional Information: | In partnership with the MFAH Film program. The Iranian Film Festival will be at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston January 20-22. For information visit http://www.mfah.org/films/ |
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| Feb. 4 7:00 PM
| Rice Cinema presents: CIRCUMSTANCE | 19th Annual Iranian Film Festival | Maryam Keshavarz |
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| Description: | In “Circumstance,” Ms. Kazemy, 22, plays Shireen, whose friendship with her privileged classmate Atafeh, (Nikohl Boosheri), turns erotic as they navigate a circuit of illicit parties offering drink, drugs, dancing, loud Western music and banned films. The situation becomes even more complicated when Atafeh’s troubled older brother, Mehran (Reza Sixo Safai), also falls in love with Shireen. Ticket prices at the Rice Cinema are $5 general admission and free to students of any age. | | Additional Information: | In partnership with the MFAH Film program. The Iranian Film Festival will be at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston January 20-22. For information visit http://www.mfah.org/films/ |
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| Feb. 15 7:00 PM
| Houston Hillel presents IMAGINARY WITNESS: HOLLYWOOD AND THE HOLOCAUST | | Daniel Anker |
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| Description: | Houston Hillel brings you Daniel Anker’s survey of Hollywood’s eye on the Holocaust. “Each of the artists, survivors, and academics in Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust embraces the peculiar mixture of reticence, outrage, and fascination that continues to make any dramatic depiction of Nazi genocide a moral dilemma. The film offers both a cable-ready, generalist survey of Hollywood's fun-house mirror reflection of history and a subtle diagnosis of America's not entirely healthy appetite for entertainment posing as fact.
-- Bruce Bennett, New York Sun | | Additional Information: | (US, 2004, 92 min)
This film is free and open to the public |
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| Feb. 22 7:00 PM
| MORE THAN A MONTH | HOUSTON COMMUNITY CINEMA & HOUSTON PBS | Shukree Hassan Tilghman |
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| Description: | Filmmaker Shukree Hassan Tilghman sets off on a cross-country campaign to end Black History Month. His tongue-in-cheek journey explores the complexity and contradictions of relegating an entire group’s history to one month in a so-called “post-racial” America. This film is Free and Open to the public. | | Additional Information: | http://www.itvs.org/films/more-than-a-month |
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| Mar. 21 7:00 PM
| REVENGE OF THE ELECTRIC CAR | HOUSTON COMMUNITY CINEMA & HOUSTON PBS | Chris Paine |
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| Description: | Filmmaker Chris Paine takes his film crew behind the closed doors of Nissan, GM, and the Silicon Valley start-up Tesla Motors to chronicle the story of the global resurgence of electric cars. Without using a single drop of foreign oil, this new generation of car is America’s future: fast, furious, and cleaner than ever. This film is Free and Open to the public. | | Additional Information: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkRIu5a6Sb0 |
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| Apr. 18 7:00 PM
| HELL AND BACK AGAIN | HOUSTON COMMUNITY CINEMA & HOUSTON PBS | Danfung Dennis |
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| Description: | U.S. Marine Sergeant Nathan Harris, 25, leads his unit to fight a ghostlike enemy in Afghanistan. Wounded in battle, Harris returns to North Carolina and his devoted wife to fight pain, addiction, and the terrifying normalcy of life at home. This film is Free and Open to the public. | | Additional Information: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hzz4iTwSsI |
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| May 16 7:00 PM
| STRONG | HOUSTON COMMUNITY CINEMA & HOUSTON PBS | Julie Wyman |
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| Description: | Cheryl Haworth is a young woman with a big dream: to be the strongest woman in the world. As the 300-pound U.S. Olympic weightlifter prepares for Beijing 2008, she struggles with injury, confidence, and her place in a world where larger women are not readily accepted. This film is Free and Open to the public. | | Additional Information: | http://www.itvs.org/films/strong |
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