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WorldFest Houston 2003
The 36th Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival will be celebrated from Friday, April 4th through Sunday, April 13th, 2003. "Ten Great Days in April" The Festival will present 55 new USA independent and foreign films, and 104 shorts.
All films are shown at the Nova Meyerland Plaza Theaters located at Loop 610 West South and Beechnut.
For more information (synopsis, others movies scheduled ) check the WorldFest WebsiteSeveral French films will be played :
La Repetition (The Reunion), directed by Catherine Corsini, 4/5 , 9:30 pm
Une Femme d'exterieur (A woman on the outside), directed by Christophe Blanc, 4/6, 9:30 pm
Sauve moi (Save me), directed by Christian Vincent, 4/7, 9:30 pm
Reines d'un jour (Queens for a day), directed by Marion Vernoux, 4/8, 9:30 pm
Saint Cyr (The king's daughters) directed by Patricia Mauzy, 4/9, 9:30 pm
Le Roi et l'Oiseau (The king & the mockingbird), Paul Grimault Animation Film, 4/5, 4/7, 4/10, 5pm
Les Ticqueurs (The Ticcers), directed by Philippe Locquet, 4/11, 9:30 pm
Les Filles de l'Ombre (Shadow Girl), directed by Isabelle Lukacie and Steven marc Couchouron, 4/12, 9:30 pm
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1-The Landmark River Oaks Theatre
Directed by Roman Polanski, 2002 ,148 min
The film is adapted from the autobiography of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew who detailed his survival during World War II.
A composer and a pianist, he played the last live music heard over Polish radio airwaves before Nazi artillery hit. During the brutal occupation, he eluded deportation and remained in the devastated Warsaw ghetto. There, he struggled to stay alive even when cast away from those he loved. He would eventually reclaim his artistic gifts and confront his fears, with aid from the unlikeliest of sources.
The film is adapted from the autobiography of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew who detailed his survival during World War II.
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- information or Angelika Website
- The Pianist
Directed by Roman Polanski, 2002 ,148 min
Fri 3/28 - Sun 3/30: 12:15pm, 3:15pm, 6:15pm, 9:10pm
Mon 3/31 - Thurs 4/3: 6:15pm, 9:10pm
Fri 4/4 - Sun 4/6: 12:15pm, 3:15pm, 6:15pm, 9:10pm
Mon 4/7 - Thurs 4/10: 6:15pm, 9:10pm
- He loves me, he loves me not
Directed by Laetitia Colombani, 2003, 92 min,
Audrey Tautou stars in HE LOVES ME, HE LOVES ME NOT, a duplicitous look at the love affair between Angelique and Loic. Split into two halves, the film shows us the lovers' vastly different views of their relationship. Angelique is a girlish student, cheerfully enraptured in her innocent ideal of love; Loic, a 35 year-old married cardiologist, has his own thoughts about Angelique and their affair. Touching on the issues of subjective storytelling and trust, HE LOVES ME, HE LOVES ME NOT is at once a comedy and a thriller, a love story and a tragedy, a delightful and disturbing exploration of the way reality can change from person to person.
Fri 3/28 - Sun 3/30: 2:20pm, 7:25pm
Mon 3/31 - Thurs 4/3: 7:25pm
- God is Great, I'm Not ( Dieu est grand, je suis toute petite)
Directed by Pascale Bailly, 2002, 95 min
A young model (Audrey Tautou) searching for
meaning hooks up with a cagey, self-hating Jewish veterinarian (Edouard
Baer) and becomes obsessed with his religion, much to his comic displeasure.
Lighthearted, Woody Allen–esque romance works reasonably well as a
study of two troubled souls learning to tolerate each other, not so
well as an exercise in empty stylization.
Fri 3/28 - Sun 3/30: 11:35am, 4:30pm, 9:40pm
Mon 3/31 - Thurs 4/3: 4:30pm, 9:40pm
- information: Rice
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- Derrida
Directed by Kirby Dick & Amy Ziering Kofman (USA, 2002, 84 mins)
3/28/03-30/03/03; 8:00 pm daily
A film about Jacques Derrida, " Philospher, charlatan, bon vivant, smooth character" and "the inventor of deconstruction".
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard (1964;
France; 97 mins; B&W, French w/English subtitles)
4/3/03 & 4/4/03 8:00 pm
- In Praise of Love
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard (2001; France/ Switzerland; 97 min; B&W and Color; French w/ English subtitles)
4/5/03 & 4/6/03 8:00 pm
- Quai Des Orfèvres
Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot (1947; France; 102 min.; B&W; French w/English subtitles)
4/11/03 - 4/13/03 8:00 pm
"A film noir from the linguistic home of film noir..."
information : mfah website
no french movies scheduled
