The Sundance Film Festival opens in Houston: Tickets still available for screenings this weekend | Flix! | victoriaadvocate.com

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Houstonians gathered in Moonstruck and drove to the opening night of the Sundance Film Festival. (Photo courtesy of Michelle Mower)

This year, due to COVID-19, the world's leading film festival Sundance has become fake. Most movies will be screened online, but there are also some live screenings at special satellite locations including Houston.

The experience of watching a movie on a 40-foot screen is unparalleled. So, how to safely get the cinema experience during the pandemic? It's easy. Moonstruck, Houston's first and only self-driving movie theater, is located in the city's East District (EaDo).

Moonstruck is one of the only three satellite screens at the Texas Sundance Film Festival, and is a film festival cooperating with independent cinemas in the United States and around the world, and one of the largest locations for world premieres this year. This year, the Houston Motion Picture Association and the Sundance Film Festival will drive into the venue for live screenings at Moonstruck and DeLUXE Theatre Pop Up located at 3303 Lyons Avenue, Ward Cultural and Arts District, Houston's fifth district.

On Thursday night, Houstonians gathered at the Moonstruck Depot at 100 Bringhurst Street to watch the Sundance Movie Night premiere film "Coda" directed by director Siân Heder, which is a moving and joyful family drama. It is about a teenager named Ruby (Emilia Jones). The only hearing member in a deaf family. View link here

Although the full-ticket pass is sold out, tickets are still available for screenings from tonight to Tuesday, February 2. Each ticket is $30 per car, and can hold up to the total number of legal seat belts per car. Moonstruck’s drive-in service can accommodate 150 vehicles and provides restrooms and discounts. Encourage guests to socialize and wear masks when getting off the bus.

Rebecca Hall's directorial debut "Passing" and Shaka King's "Judas and the Black Messiah" (Judas and the Black Messiah) have been sold out, but tickets for the following movies are still in stock.

(January 29 (Friday)-Moonstruck drives in) The squally wind on the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii never stops. It kept rustling outside Masao's house, providing a warm sound background. Nature is both a driving force and a spiritual indicator. In "I am a simple person", this is the second characteristic of the writer and director Christopher Makto Yogi. When Masao is healthy, his plants flourish. When an incurable disease invades, the plant wilts and die. From the sugar plantation on Oahu before World War II to the founding of Hawaii to Honolulu, the island’s environmental noise (waves, wind, birds) runs through the time-lapse chapters of the movie.

As Masao fell ill, the ghosts of his past visited him, including his wife Grace (Constance Wu), and he helped to take him further afield. I am not only a dream but also a family history, a simple person who feels cordial and incredible. The director’s restricted filming made the film based on the idyllic scenery of Hawaii, while the game editing and surrealist editing changed time and space, connecting and destroying the past and the present and a family with their patriarch and what they called Relationship with your home.

(Sunday, January 31-Moonstruck drives in) An unusual storm is approaching, which will change everything for Ana (Grace Van Patten). After a short circuit in her workplace, she mysteriously transported her to another world, and she met a group of female soldiers who had fallen into endless war. On the strange and uneven coastline, men are faced with looming realities that lurks behind the girls who seem to be in trouble. Under the leadership of Mia Goth, Anna trained as a sharpshooter and found a newfound freedom in this unruly sisterhood. She soon felt that she might not be the cruel killer they expected, and time was running out, she could not find a way home.

Director and director Karen Cinorre is not afraid to break through the boundaries of the movie, blurring the genre in fashion, bringing us into the unique realm of her extraordinary debut, where the possibilities increase endlessly and women control their own destiny. Mayday is both a feminist fever dream and an ambitious reimagining of war films, detonating people's doubts about the true foundation of empowerment, and firmly portraying Cinorre as a rising film producer.

(Sunday, January 31, Deluxe Theater) Turquoise Jones is a single mother, a family, a rebellious teenager, and almost all the relics of Wayman BBQ & Lounge. Turquoise is also a true beauty queen-she was once crowned Miss Juneteenth, to commemorate the day the slaves in Texas were released (two years after the Emancipation Proclamation). The result of life is not as good as the title says, but Turquoise decided to correct her mistakes. Even if Kai wants something else, she is also training her daughter Kai to become the 16th Miss.

(Tuesday, February 2-Moonstruck boarding) Literary superstar Amy Tan (Amy Tan) analyzes her life, work and life in this longitudinal biographical film directed by James Redford Her family, now and in the past. When Tan traced her childhood through the "Joy Luck Club" and later works, she analyzed the issues of representation, multi-generational trauma, and the stigma and challenge of disease. With matriarchal power as the core, this film has been circulated among the generations of the Tan family, revealing that listening is the core of Tan’s creative practice, and reflects Tan’s patience to break through obstacles and wait on the other side. Welcome to the world Join her.

This is the last film of the late James Redford. It demonstrates his filmmaking talents, sympathizes with others' life stories, and leaves a clear and warm director's vision. Tanford has so deliberately and perfectly achieved generative listening. Redford actively responded to and participated in this three-dimensional portrait of one of the most important writers in contemporary novels.

For more information about the Houston Sundance Film Festival, please visit the website.

Joe Friar is a member of the Critics’ Choice Association in Los Angeles and the Houston Film Critics Association. He is a lifelong fan of the film industry. He co-founded the Victoria Film Association (Flors Fright Fest) and is a recognized critic of Rotten Tomatoes.

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