Come Artists And All To Cinema Arts Festival Houston

October 21, 2009 at 4:28 PM | by egw | 0 Comments

Austin gets all the credit for being the arty city in Texas, and Houston residents probably like it that way: When no one's depending on you to bolster your state's reputation, you get a lot more work done! But the city where "Reality Bites" and "Rushmore" were filmed is stepping into the limelight with next month's Cinema Arts Festival Houston.

Held November 11 to 15, the fest says it focuses on "films by and about artists," offering events like a conversation with screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga ("Babel") Nov. 13 and a screening of the new documentary "Yes Men Fix The World" with one of the Yes Men, who have been wreaking havoc in Washington D.C. this week with fake press conferences and silly costumes—that's on November 14 and 15.

Tilda Swinton is hosting a screening of the Powell/Pressburger classic "The Red Shoes" with a performance by the Houston Ballet, but she'll also be around for a sneak preview of a new movie, as yet unrevealed—we're betting it's the Italian romance "Io sono l'amore."

The festival will open with native son Richard Linklater's latest film, "Me and Orson Welles," which fits the bill of both being by and about an artist: The "Slacker" auteur nurtured his love of the movies in H-Town before moving to Austin, and his latest film depicts the famous director at work on a Broadway show and nurturing his young star (played by Zac Efron). Public screenings are $10 at night but just $6 at matinees. Can't make time for any of the performances? Check out the H Box, a free portable screening room that will be showing shorts from inside the Alabama Theatre (2922 South Shepherd).

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