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    Le Funny Business at MFAH, Kristen Stewart on the road and Gangham Style in Bollywood

    Joe Leydon
    By Joe Leydon
    Mar 22, 2013 | 9:45 am

    They’re collectively billed as Five Funny French Films, raising expectations for a lot of “Ha! Ha! Ha!” along with the “Ooh La La!” (Sorry, couldn’t resist.) As they unspool this weekend at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, you can enjoy a wide variety of funny business with a lineup that includes:

    All That Glitters (5 p.m. Friday, 3 p.m. Sunday) – Two sisters, tired of their dull lives in a suburb 10 minutes by train from Paris, go to amusing extremes to enjoy the good life in the big city.

    Skylab (7 p.m. Friday, 9:15 p.m. Saturday) – Actress Julie Delpy once again tries her hand as a writer-director, this time for a semi-autobiographical comedy about a 1979 family gathering that may or may not be rudely interrupted by the threatened crash of a humongous space station.

    Big is Beautiful (9:15 p.m. Friday, 1 p.m. Sunday) – Three full-figured ladies forge friendships and gain self-awareness during a weight-loss program at a clinic in the Alps.

    My Worst Nightmare (7:15 p.m. Saturday) – French superstar Isabelle Huppert heads the cast of this farce about an icy art gallery owner who’s warmed just a smidge by her edgy yet erotically charged relationship with a uncouth carpenter doing remodeling work in her spacious apartment.

    What’s in a Name? (5 p.m. Sunday) – An expectant father (Patrick Bruel) upsets his family with the wholly inappropriate name he has chosen for his soon-to-arrive offspring.

    In addition to screening these five flicks, the MFAH Film Department is offering a bit of lagniappe: Le Grand Amour (5:30 p.m. Saturday), a 1969 comedy about a new husband with a wandering eye, starring Pierre Étaix, the French comic actor who’ll be the subject of a retrospective tribute at the museum in May.

    Sundancing with cinema

    Two new notable offerings are on tap this weekend at the Sundance Cinemas downtown.

    After impressing international audiences with his acclaimed Certified Copy, a romantic drama starring Juliette Bincohe and British opera singer William Shimell as attracted opposites in Tuscany, Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami once again ventures far from his homeland – to Japan, to be precise – for Like Someone in Love, a teasingly ambiguous story about a sociology student (Rin Takanashi) who moonlights as a prostitute, and the elderly professor (Tadashi Okuno) who starts out as her client, but evolves into her mentor.

    On the Road, the long-awaited filmization of Jack Kerouac’s classic novel, played in a handful of theaters late last year in the hope of copping critical hosannas and Academy Award nominations. But reviews were mixed and Oscar buzz was muted, so IFC Films opted to wait a little longer before giving the movie a wider release. Now it has arrived in H-Town, and you can decide for yourself if Brazilian director Walter Salles (Central Station, The Motorcycle Diaries) and lead players Garrett Hedlund, Sam Riley and Kristen Stewart have done justice to Kerouac’s story about free spirits in search of new experiences in late 1940s America.

    Bollywood Madness

    In Rangrezz(at AMC Studio 30), a Hindi-language film by the prolific Indian director known as Priyadarshan, three close friends literally risk life and limb (and long-term disability) to unite two star-crossed lovers. It may look like the usual Bollywood song and dance, but there’s at least one surprise in the soundtrack: According to published reports out of India, producer Vashu Bhagnani paid a hefty fee to use Psy’s monster hit “Gangham Style” in the movie, so his son Jackky Bhagnani, one of the film’s lead players, could dance to it on screen.

    But wait, there’s more: Psy refused to sell the rights to his signature tune until he was certain Jackky had sufficient terpsichorean talent to… well, to really do it “Gangham Style.” So he took a look at the young performer’s dance moves in the Hindi movie F.A.L.T.U. – and only then granted his blessing.

    Which only goes to show you: In Bollywood, there’s always a happy ending. As you can see here.

    Other screens, other cinema

    Rob Schneider, Michelle Rodriguez, Lindsay Lohan and Oscar-winner Adrien Brody star in… Wait a minute, that doesn’t look right. Let me double check… Yeah, Brody actually is in InAPPropriate Comedy (various locations), an indie flick that, based on its trailer, appears to be the sort of thing actors do only when they owe a favor to a friend, a payment on a mortgage, or a fee to their legal team.

    In New World(AMC Studio 30), South Korean filmmaker Park Hoon-jung (who wrote the script for Kim Ji-woon’s notorious I Saw the Devil ) wrings suspense from the conflicting loyalties of an undercover cop (Lee Jung-jae) who’s begun to take his role as right-hand man to a crime lord a bit too seriously.

    A Resurrection(at Edwards Marq*E) is a horror thriller about a high-schooler who returns from the dead to seek revenge on the bullies who killed him, but it’ll likely earn a footnote in film history books primarily because it’s one of the final films completed by the late Michael Clarke Duncan.

    A scene from My Worst Nightmare, part of the "Five Funny French Movies" special at the MFAH

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    Houston's interdimensional art exhibit books 4 local acts for summer concerts

    Jef Rouner
    May 12, 2025 | 5:37 pm
    The four members of Swimwear Department hugging
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    Swimwear Department is heading to Meow Wolf

    Things are heating up this summer at Meow Wolf as they host their first ever summer concert series. Four hometown bands will take the stage at the immersive art complex for a series of shows in June and July.

    “Houston’s music scene has always been bold, genre-defying, and deeply original, so it felt natural to bring that same energy into our Radio Tave world,” said Aaron Johnson, general manager of Meow Wolf Houston. “This concert series is about celebrating the artists who define Texas' sound and give guests a new reason to experience Meow Wolf in a whole new way.”

    Ever since Meow Wolf first opened during Halloween last year in Fifth Ward, the collection of artistic spaces has wowed, delighted, and sometimes confused audiences. Cowboix Hevvven, the venue's "dive bar" with possible links to extraterrestrials, was designed by fifth generation Texan Cole Wilson and features a jukebox of 30 original songs Wilson created in collaboration with other Texas artists. Radio Tave, Meow Wolf's name for the exhibit as a whole, has been a huge critical and popular hit for Meow Wolf, winning two Webby Awards last month.

    It's also the perfect place to show off some of the more esoteric bands that make up the Houston sound. The odd four-piece rock band Swimwear Department burst onto the scene in 2023, winning over audiences with their songs about pools and malls as well as a series of stellar music videos shot around the city. Their potent mix of quirk and early-alternative music has made them one of the best novelty acts in Houston.

    Meanwhile, The Mighty Orq and Mango Punch have been mainstays for more than a decade. Orq is swamp blues royalty, and always adds a sense of the strange to his concerts thanks to his near-mystical aura. Mango Punch is almost custom built for Meow Wolf thanks to a hectic swirl of Top 40, disco and cumbia.

    The schedule for the concerts is below with links to tickets.

    • Swimwear Department, June 6, 8 pm
    • Night Drive, June 20, 8 pm
    • The Mighty Orq, July 11, 8 p.m.
    • Mango Punch, July 25, 8 p.m.

    Though Houston has never hurt for places weird bands can play, wedding the popular immersive art space at Meow Wolf with concerts is an opportunity to reframe music as performance art rather than just something to listen to while having a drink (though you can still do that at Meow Wolf). Should the summer concert series prove a success, it could quickly become one of the prime venues in the city, at least for groups looking to be a little out there.

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