AFS and Blanton Team Up for 'Desire'
This week, the Blanton Museum of Art opens a new exhibit, "Desire," featuring work by contemporary artists on that theme. Austin Film Society is teaming up with the museum to show four films this month about desire.
The movies will be shown at the Blanton, with discounted admission for AFS members, museum members, and UT students/faculty/staff.
The four movies:
- Sunday, Feb. 7 at 3 pm: L'Avventura, Michelangelo Antonioni's 1960 film
- Sunday, Feb. 14 at 3 pm: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Pedro Almodovar's crazy, chaotic comedy from 1988, starring Carmen Maura and Antonio Banderas
- Sunday, Feb. 21 at 3 pm: She's Gotta Have It, Spike Lee's first feature film, from 1986
- Sunday, Feb. 28 at 3 pm: Happy Together, the 1997 film from Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai
This sounds like a wonderful way to spend a Sunday afternoon, especially on Valentine's Day. I don't know if the Blanton will have parking discounts in the nearby garage for this event, but nearby street parking shouldn't be hard to find. Also, although the Blanton will happily sell you concessions downstairs, they won't tell you until you get to the theater that you can't bring them inside, so bear that in mind.