Cannes Film Festival

Re: Le Rock et le Roll

Fatale Detraction

Beyond cheap turn-ons, there's nothing to recommend Brian De Palma's latest

Awe That's Eel

A troubled woman and an ex-convict create a compelling Asian film

River Oaks Midnight Movie: Amélie

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Reel Talk: Exploring the Films of kA'RAMUU KUSH

Go one-on-one with Hollywood writer/director kA'RAMUU KUSH

Stirred and Shaken

T.K. Bitterman's Perfect Manhattan

Shots in the Dark

Reflecting its moment, Cannes 2008 takes a decidedly serious tone

Cannes Class of 2008

A jury divided unites around Laurent Cantet's schoolhouse drama

A Polish auteur -- and Mike Tyson! -- stage comebacks at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.

A jury divided unites around Laurent Cantet's schoolhouse drama

Presenting the only Cannes awards that really matter: Ours.

A jury divided unites around Laurent Cantet's schoolhouse drama

Shots in the Dark

Reflecting its moment, Cannes 2008 takes a decidedly serious tone

Olmos Famous

Latin American films of all colors come to Houston

The Red Balloon and White Mane

Albert Lamorisse’s Academy Award-winning short film

Kwaidan

Japanese ghost story weaves drama, myth and dreams

The Joy in the Bubble

Cannes 2007 was a success, but how many of its movies will you actually get to see?

We Aren't the World

How the Americans fared at Cannes.

Cannes d'Awards

Foreign films dominate this year at Cannes.

Is There a Doctor in the House?

Health, in life and film, dominates Cannes

Palme d'Hoberman

Our one-man jury bestows honors on the best of Cannes 2007.

Savage Love

Tom Kalin's Cannes comeback

Belgian Waffling

A street hustler sells his child, then fights to undo his mistake

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

A street hustler sells his child, then fights to undo his mistake

Gang Signs

Booker-Lowe Gallery showcases "Hot" young aboriginal art

God Forsaken

The brutal, brilliant City of God takes us inside Rio de Janeiro's urban decay

Clowns to the Left, Jokers to the Right

No Man's Land cracks wise hoping the world will wise up

Come See the Paradise

This gentle Iranian import proves that children speak louder than fundamental ideologies

Handheld Torture

The documentary-style Rosetta travels into a heart of darkness -- and stays there

Grounded

Up soars in entirely unexpected ways.

Mr. Blood Red, Vol. 2

Two decades after the severed ear of Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino serves up Hitler's head on a plate.

The Great Guillermo Arriaga, On Writing, Directing And What He Wants Houstonians To Do

​Babel, Amores Perros, 21 Grams, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada -- all these movies have one thing in common: Mexican author, screenwriter, director and producer Guillermo Arriaga. He's in Houston this week and you'll have two chances to meet him and check out his films at the Houston Ci ... More >>

Last Call For Art: Mack The Knife, French Film And Invisible Billboards

​Get ready for the closing curtain of Rice University's production of Threepenny Opera. The grand story by Bertold Brecht and Kurt Weill is being touted as "a musical of murder, mayhem, and matrimony!" Meant to satirize traditional opera while creating an new kind of musical theater, Threepenny is ... More >>

Year in Film: Three Critics, One List, Ten Best

J. Hoberman, Robert Wilonsky and Scott Foundas put their minds together and come up with their favorite films of the year. Let's hear it for teamwork!

MFAH Screens Film About Iranian Rock Underground Tonight

It's a hot weekend for musical movie lovers. Tomorrow evening is the Aurora Picture Show's Soul Nite, featuring live performance reels from a bouquet of 1960s soul musicians, and tonight the Museum of Fine Arts is screening an award-winning film about the struggle of two Iranian teens trying to for ... More >>

History Repeats

There's certainty at the end of The White Ribbon's unsolved mystery — and a sure hand behind it.

A Preview Of The 2010 WorldFest, And A Chance To Win Big And See Stuff For Free

The 43rd annual WorldFest kicks off this Friday. The "fiercely independent" film festival is one of the oldest international fests in the country, and the oldest independent festival in the world. Many directors you may have heard of received their first awards here, including Steven Spielberg, Joh ... More >>

Bad News For The Jim Carrey Movie Based On Houston Press Articles

​Bad news for former Houston Press reporter Steve McVicker, whose articles for us were turned into a book which turned into a Jim Carrey/Ewan MacGregor movie: The Los Angeles Times is reporting that release of I Love You, Phillip Morris has been delayed indefinitely. Consolidated Pictures Group, t ... More >>

Forbidden Iran

Now you know: Tehran's underground music scene in No One Knows About Persian Cats.

Pop Rocks: With Friends Like These

​Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski remains under house arrest in Switzerland, awaiting possible extradition to the United States for fleeing sentencing after pleading guilty to "unlawful sex" with a 13-year old in 1977. His attorneys are, naturally, fighting this possibility, while a numbe ... More >>

2nd Annual Indian Film Festival of Houston

Twenty-eight states, 23 dialects, endless choices

The Olsen Twins: Now Chopped And Screwed!

​Now that screwing and chopping can be done without even using turntables, the technique has become all the rage on the Internet. And it's made a great leap forward into video. Now not only are the jams slowed and throwed, but so are the pictures. Nowhere has this been pulled off more hilari ... More >>

Dogtooth

​Now that screwing and chopping can be done without even using turntables, the technique has become all the rage on the Internet. And it's made a great leap forward into video. Now not only are the jams slowed and throwed, but so are the pictures. Nowhere has this been pulled off more hilari ... More >>

Karina Longworth's Top Ten Movies of 2010

​Now that screwing and chopping can be done without even using turntables, the technique has become all the rage on the Internet. And it's made a great leap forward into video. Now not only are the jams slowed and throwed, but so are the pictures. Nowhere has this been pulled off more hilari ... More >>

Kickass Movies of the Year

Our Ten Favorites from 2010 – including Jackass 3D.

The Ten Worst Movies of 2011...In Advance

Oh, don't act surprised.​2011 is barely out of the oven and I'm already filled with dread. Could it be the fact I've spent the entire year so far coughing up chunks of green lung tissue? That I've finally despaired of ever finding a writing gig that doesn't involve "Lady Gaga sex tape" Google ... More >>

Poetry

Oh, don't act surprised.​2011 is barely out of the oven and I'm already filled with dread. Could it be the fact I've spent the entire year so far coughing up chunks of green lung tissue? That I've finally despaired of ever finding a writing gig that doesn't involve "Lady Gaga sex tape" Google ... More >>

Your 2011 Fall/Movie Preview (Part 1)

​Note: Pop Rocks will return next week. Labor Day has come and gone, which means the official start of the fall movie season is just around the corner. In fact, two of the more anticipated releases of latter 2011 -- Warrior and Contagion -- come out tomorrow. After what has been widely rega ... More >>

Drive: No Talk, All Action

Ryan Gosling at the wheel in this glossy, retro, heist-gone-bad.

The Film Issue: 10 for 2012

Ryan Gosling at the wheel in this glossy, retro, heist-gone-bad.

The Film Issue: People of the Year

Ryan Gosling at the wheel in this glossy, retro, heist-gone-bad.

The Film Issue

Looking back on the year in movies, and what's coming in 2012.