Rice Cinema operates during the academic year screening films almost every weekend. To find out what is playing, look online at http://cinema.rice.edu/
Since 1970, Rice Cinema has continued to screen films from around the world—foreign features, shorts, documentaries, and animation. Rice Cinema reaches beyond the university's hedges to the diverse communities of Houston. We offer a living alternative to the monolithic commercial cinema of Hollywood and have screened films from every continent. Among the internationally known filmmakers who have appeared on our campus over the years include Roberto Rossalini, Werner Herzog, Rakhshan Banietemad, Atom Egoyan, Shirin Neshat, Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, Andy Warhol, Jean-Luc Godard, George Lucas, Stan Brakage, Les Blank, Arturo Ripstein, Fernando E. Solanas, Albert Maysles, Patricio Guzman, Lordes Portio and Dennis Hopper.
Rice Cinema works in concert with our academic programs to enrich our students' undergraduate experience. Our film students are provided state-of-the-art screening facilities to examine and study the historical and methodological aspects of movies from around the world in 16, 35 millimeter or digital 4K with Dolby Digital Sound. Film production students can showcase their work during the academic year on our new silver screen in recently renovated projection facilities.
Come experience art at 24 frames per second at the Rice Cinema. Rice Cinema operates during the academic year screening films almost every weekend. To find out what is playing, look online at http://cinema.rice.edu or call the informational telephone line at 713-348-4853
