Thief, 1981

Thief, 1981
Michael Mann
122 Minutes 

At a time when thrillers have been devalued by the routine repetition of the same dumb chases, sex scenes, and gunfights, Thief is completely out of the ordinary. Roger Ebert

Sonatine, 1993

Sonatine, 1993
Takeshi Kitano, 
94 minutes

Sonatine may be the purest example of Kitano's singularity as a cult filmmaker, a fresh take on the age-old yakuza genre that's infused by odd flourishes of style and playfulness, and jarring outbursts of humor and violence. Scott Tobias, A.V. Club

Jellyfish Eyes, 2013

Jellyfish Eyes, 2013
Takashi Murakami
101 minutes, Japanese with English subtitles

Jellyfish Eyes is engrossing on many levels, one of which is an ambience that recalls Japanese kaijū (monster) movies from the 1950s. Some of the Friends could have been inspired by Godzilla or Mothra — only scaled down and child-friendly. Kaori Shoji, Japan Times

Slow Art at the Modern

The aim of the Slow Art movement is to break with the often frenetic pace of modern life to simply enjoy works of art in a deliberate and unhurried fashion. Slow Art at the Modern invests in this pause with a 30-minute spotlight tour focusing on one work of art. Led by a Modern docent the third Friday of each month, Slow Art at the Modern begins at 5:30 pm.

Third Fridays, 5:30 pm

Art Tooth - Meet Me at the Mueck

Join Art Tooth in partnership with the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and Tarrant County College for “Meet Me at the Mueck.” Ron Mueck is known for his extraordinary lifelike sculptures of people in fragile, naked states, presented with dramatic shifts in scale. The figures are disconcerting and yet impossible to resist.

Jeff Shore and Jon Fisher

I think you and I both fell hard for Jeff Shore and Jon Fisher’s room, which is motion-activated, and the sound aspect of it is crucial. Though they’re also the ones who completely obliterated their cylinder by building a square video projection room inside it. Those guys are so, so good. Christina Rees in “A Conversation About Art and the Silos on Sawyer,” Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees, Glasstire, October 30, 2017

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