Unlike the West Alabama Theater, the River Oaks Theater has managed to thwart the plans of greedy developers in recent years thanks in part to your support. Tonight the Houston landmark will celebrate it's 70th Anniversary with a special showing of Frank Capra's 1939 classic film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, starring Jimmy Stewart. The opening reception begins at 6:00 with cake and drink specials in the upstairs lounge.
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the first of the major summer blockbusters, opened this morning to sold out theaters filled with generations of nerds and a few of their friends.
Thursdays this summer the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston will show free screenings of the film Touched by Water, an exploration into bathing rituals from different cultures around the globe. Curated by Andrea Grover, founder of Aurora Picture Show, the Jacuzzi Movies series will provide jacuzzi seating for the first lucky few who call 713-284-8257 to make reservations. Looks like the CAMH is making good on the promise to create more interactive experiences, though there's no mention of whether the jacuzzi will be drained or if you'll need to bring a suit.
For the second night in a row, Domy Books plays host to an interesting night of film.
If you're anything like Houstonist, you can easily waste two hours of your life on the trailer show on HDNet, watching trailers from movies past and present and exclaiming to no one in particular, "Oh, The Departed. That was a really good movie!" You know the trailer show... Don't look at us like that.
We who bring you Fun For A Hamilton tell you to email us things we miss, and today, someone actually did. And we're glad, because in all our perusal of Houston's arts scene, we'd somehow missed this one. Thanks are due to fellow blogger Greg. The Orange Show is one of Houston's strangest and most endearing art institutions. A folk-art/achitecture environment created from 1956-1979 by the late Jefferson Davis McKissack, a Houston postal worker, the...
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