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    MFAH Film: UCLA Festival of Preservation - Samuel Beckett's Film

    Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium

    June 3, 2012

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    MFAH Film: UCLA Festival of Preservation - Samuel Beckett's Film

    The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents the UCLA Festival of Preservation. The historical sweep and technical wizardry of the UCLA Film & Television Archive's preservation projects – from early silent films and Golden Age classics, to fascinating rarities and contemporary gems – are showcased in the biennial UCLA Festivals of Preservation. Audiences...

    The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents the UCLA Festival of Preservation. The historical sweep and technical wizardry of the UCLA Film & Television Archive's preservation projects – from early silent films and Golden Age classics, to fascinating rarities and contemporary gems – are showcased in the biennial UCLA Festivals of Preservation. Audiences celebrate an entire century’s worth of moving images with feature films, television and newsreel programs, and shorts. The event is not only an established part of the Los Angeles cultural landscape, but also a preeminent film event worldwide.

    All films from UCLA Film and Television Archive.  

    Sunday, June 3 at 5:00pm
    Samuel Beckett's Film

    Directed by Alan Schneider
    1965
    USA, B/W
    122 minutes total program running time

    Beckett’s Film is in essence a chase film – arguably the craziest committed to celluloid. It’s a chase between camera and pursued image that finds dread embedded in the very apparatus. The link to cinema’s essence is evident in the casting, as the chased object is none other than an aged Buster Keaton, who was befuddled at Beckett’s imperative that he keep his face hidden from the camera’s gaze.

    Preservation Funded by The Film Foundation and administered by the National Film Preservation Foundation.

    Followed by Play of the Week: Waiting for Godot (directed by Alan Schneider, USA, 1961, 102 min.) Premiering in 1959 on WNTA-TV in New York, the ambitious experiment Play of the Week presented an eclectic mix of plays that, according to series producer Lewis Freedman, “no one else would touch.”

    As an independently produced series, Play of the Week was not subject to the same McCarthy-inspired scrutiny as network television programs of the era. Thanks to progressive casting decisions by producers such as David Susskind, actor Zero Mostel, who suffered years of unemployment for refusing to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, enjoyed a comeback after being selected for Samuel Beckett’s absurdist masterpiece, Waiting for Godot. Mostel and Burgess Meredith are keen existential partners in this wry drama of deferred desire and stymied reward. No fan of the tube, Beckett once wrote, "My play wasn't written for this box. My play was written for small men locked in a big space.” Nevertheless, the (fifty-year) wait is over for this small production that’s big on meaning.


    Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium

    1001 Bissonnet Street
    Houston, TX 77006

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    Admission Info:

    $7 General Admission
    $6 Matinee Admission
    $1 discount MFAH members, senior adults (55+), and students with ID
    Free Children 5 and under
    Free Film Buffs members
    $60 Nonmember Discount Pass (10 admissions)
    $55 MFAH member Discount Pass (10 admissions)
    $3 Family Flicks Admission
    $2 Family Flicks Admission for MFAH members and students with ID

    Please note:
    The MFAH Films box office accepts payment by cash, check, and credit card.

    Tickets can be purchased in advance in three ways: online, in the museum lobbies, and at the box office.

    The box office opens at 5:30 p.m. for weekend evening screenings and at least 30 minutes before show time for most other films.


    General Day and Time Info:

    5:00pm
     


    Phone: 713-639-7300

    Parking:

    Free outdoor parking is available in the street-level lot directly across from the Law Building at 1001 Bissonnet Street.

    Parking is available in the MFAH Parking Garage for $6. The easy-to-find parking garage is located directly east of the Beck and Law buildings on Binz, and is marked by a large, yellow arrow.



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