Howl
Howl is composed from court records, interviews, and Allen Ginsberg‘s epic poem Howl. James Franco, as Ginsberg, reads the poem from a coffee house stage, explains it to an unseen interviewer…
A Conversation With Reggie “Bird” Oliver of the SUC
In 2004, award-winning film maker Reggie “Bird” Oliver visited DJ Screw‘s grave with Screw’s mother a week before her death and promised her he’d do whatever he could to tell the world about her son’s accomplishments…
Written on December 15, 2010 | Posted in Features,Interviews
Dogtooth
Premiering at the MFAH December 16-19, director Yorgos Lanthimos‘ Dogtooth is the family unit as Madagascar. An isolated, claustrophobic, continental island where familiar situations play out counter-clockwise…
Boxing Gym
In 2007, director Frederick Wiseman applied his renowned cinema verité to Austin, Texas’ Lord’s Gym. Without interviews or narrators, Wiseman employs the patience of a Buddha, waiting for events to unfold around him…
Soul Kitchen
Tonight at the MFAH, Soul Kitchen premieres, as part of the museum’s Premieres: Contemporary World Cinema series…
TONIGHT: Brent Green’s Live Cinema Arts Fest performance at Frenetic Theater (with Fugazi’s Brendan Canty!)
I spent last night at DiverseWorks, previewing director/artist Brent Green‘s sculpture installation and talking about Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then…
Scene Reportage: A Mixed Bag of Stuff, Some Old(-ish), Some New
Sadly, while I get a fair amount of H-town music news-like stuff sent my way, lately I’ve been having a hard time keeping up. There was a time when I tried to post every damn bit of Houston-related news I could find up here, but these days, there’s just too much, and I’ve got too […]
Written on March 12, 2010 | Posted in Posts
BUFFET DVD Review -Release Party at Domy Books Sunday, February 21-
Buffet Volume 1 is a short film festival on a DVD. The packaging is a striking full color tri-fold with the title and concept centered “BUFFET all you can eat video” and excellent stills from the movies surrounding it. Inside, a letter from The Buffet Chefs explains their metaphor where artists bring their short videos […]
Written on February 19, 2010 | Posted in Posts
DiverseWorks brings So Percussion to Houston This Weekend!
So Percussion Imaginary City at Diverseworks February 12 & 13, 2010, 8pm Ensemble chamber musicians So Percussion collaborated with filmmaker Jenise Treuting to capture sounds and images of several cities – from Tokyo to Montana and from Vermont’s landscapes to what is continually referred to as “the urban jungles of Houston”. The highly conceptual multimedia […]
Written on February 11, 2010 | Posted in Posts
The Planets – An HD Odyssey
It’s award season and I’ll soon be posting reviews of mainstream studio fare, so I want to post a quick note about an original film commissioned by the Houston Symphony, and made in Houston. The Planets – An HD Odyssey recently debuted to 4 sold out performances in its 3 day run at Jones Hall, […]
Written on January 29, 2010 | Posted in Posts
Cinema Arts Fest Kicks Off, Tonight
Non-musical, really, but still damn cool — I’ve always wondered why the great-but-kinda-amateurish Houston International Film Festival was H-town’s one and only real film fest. I mean, I’ve loved going to the “old” IFF over the years and have gotten to see some very cool stuff I’d never have caught otherwise (as well as an […]
Written on November 11, 2009 | Posted in Posts
Astro Boy
Sunday, at Edwards Marquee’s screening of Astro Boy, geek dads brought their children to have their hair styled in the inexplicable dual spikes of the 60 year-old anime icon. Hairdressers were contracted by the studio reps to perform this hilarious task. Once inside, adults fell into two categories and children into one. Some adults were […]
Written on October 22, 2009 | Posted in Posts
Alternative Cinema Houston Blog! "Chalk" screens at MFAH Sunday 10/10 with a Q&A session with Director Mike Akel
Chalk (2007) Reviewed by Creg Lovett Chalk is a high school mockumentary shot with single camera setups in the faux cinema verite style of The Office. The comedy is never acknowledged by the characters, and every scene is punctuated by “confessionals” where the actors further both story and comedy by recounting moments of in-classroom tension, […]
Written on October 10, 2009 | Posted in Posts
“Capitalism: A Love Story” review and Alternative Cinema Houston weekend preview
Capitalism: A Love Story Reviewed by Creg Lovett At the preview screening for Michael Moore’s new movie Capitalism: A Love Story people hissed, booed, gasped in horror, applauded, laughed out loud and cried real tears. Liberal Democrats Chris Dodd and Barney Frank bore the brunt of the films heavy handed guilt trip, and Republican congressman […]
Written on October 1, 2009 | Posted in Posts
Alternative Cinema Houston Blog -an introduction
I’m Creg Lovett, and I’m going to be writing a column on Alternative Cinema in Houston. I first came to Space City Rock 4 years ago when a magazine I was writing for crashed and burned, and left me hanging with no place to publish my cover story on Michael Haaga’s Plus and Minus Show […]
Written on September 21, 2009 | Posted in Posts
