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GISH AT THE MOVIES
HEAD OUTDOORS FOR FILMS!
By Sarah Gish
IT’S MAY AND IT’S HOT BUT WE AIN’T SEEN NOTHING YET SO HEAD OUTDOORS WHILE YOU
STILL CAN AND CATCH SOME MOVIES.
DISVOVERY GREEN
MILLER OUTDOOR THEATRE
Photography by Michelle Watson
MARKET SQUARE PARK
Photography by Jeff Grass
Sarah Gish is an artist, mama, igniter and
connector who has been writing for Local
magazine since 1998. She was one of the
co-founders of Q-Fest, Houston’s only LGBT
festival, and was the publicist and city manager for Landmark Theatres in the 1990s,
overseeing the River Oaks, Greenway and
Saks movie theatres. She owns Gish
Creative (www.gishcreative.com), a personal, family and business enrichment company that she founded in 2000. It’s her joy
to bring the love of movies to Houstonians
and to let people know about all the amazing arts and culture in Houston.
Photography courtesy of Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas
MILLER OUTDOOR THEATRE has been a
mainstay for free, first-class culture in
Houston for almost 100 years and
for the last twenty years has been
home to movies under the stars.
Boasting a “hill” rising from leftover
dirt from the creation of Fannin
Street, Miller has a choice of air-conditioned, ticketed seating or hilltop
seating in the open air. Managing
Director Cissy Segal Davis programs
“from the heart,” bringing several
films each season that include classic and current hits, films for families,
seasonal nods, trilogies and classics
like the original Wizard of Oz
(screening on July 3). This month,
they’re happy to be bringing back
Sons de L'âme (“Sounds of the
Soul”) in conjunction with the
Houston Cinema Arts Society and
the Houston Ballet. This encore presentation is a stunning documentary
dance performance film choreo-
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graphed by Houston Ballet Artistic
Director Stanton Welch and set to
piano pieces by Frédéric Chopin
performed by Lang Lang. It screens
on May 8.
Susanne Theis of DISCOVERY GREEN
does an amazing job programming
a wide variety of events and happenings on their downtown lawn,
including monthly films for families
and adults. Upcoming screenings
are Growing Cities on May 8, a
Parks and Recreation Marathon on
May 16, and everyone’s summer
favorite, Jaws, on June 20. MARKET
SQUARE PARK is another fun place to
see outdoor flicks – their regular
monthly film screenings are part of
the Alamo Drafthouse’s Rolling
Roadshow program. Coming soon
are Terms of Endearment on May 8
and native son Wes Anderson’s The
Royal Tenenbaums on June 5.
Downtown’s newest renovation
transformation, GREENSTREET, at
1201 Fannin Street, is showing
Jurassic Park on May 22.
The Montrose eatery BRASIL CAFÉ is
a regular venue for outdoor screenings on their lovely patio and has
hosted picks by people such as film
programmer Peter Lucas, filmmaker
Stephanie Saint Sanchez and the
dynamic duo, husband-and-wife
team Elizabeth and Paul Nelson,
also known as Cinema Bomar
(named after the street they live on).
Around the corner from Brasil, THE
MENIL COLLECTION occasionally hosts
outdoor screenings – their next one
is Painters Painting on June 3.
Be sure to check out the screenings
at the Tomball Depot (Dennis the
Menace on May 9) and the Sugar
Land Town Square (Planes Fire &
Rescue on May 9).
WANT TO SEE MORE ART FILMS?
CHECK OUT THESE VENUES
14 Pews (www.14pews.org)
Alamo Drafthouse (www.drafthouse.com)
Asia Society (www.asiasociety.org/texas)
Aurora Picture Show (www.aurorapictureshow.org)
Blaffer Art Museum (www.blafferartmuseum.org)
Café Brasil (www.cafe-brasil.net)
Contemporary Arts Museum (www.camh.org)
Discovery Green (www.discoverygreen.com)
DiverseWorks (www.diverseworks.org)
Holocaust Museum (www.hmh.org)
Jewish Community Center (www.erjcchouston.org)
Landmark River Oaks Theatre
(www.landmarktheatres.com)
Miller Outdoor Theatre (www.milleroutdoortheatre.com)
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (www.mfah.org/films)
Orange Show (www.orangeshow.org)
Rice Cinema (www.ricecinema.rice.edu)
Sundance Cinemas (www.sundancecinemas.com)