MFAH Film – Movies Houstonians Love: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Introduced by author Gwendolyn Zepeda, Houstons first poet laureate)

Often surprising and always intriguing, Movies Houstonians Love has become one of the Museum’s most popular film series.

Over the past decade, more than 60 local luminaries from different fields—the arts, politics, sports, education, restaurants, medicine, and beyond—have shared anecdotes from their personal moviegoing histories, and then taken a seat to enjoy the incomparable experience of watching the film on the big screen, with an audience.

This year, each presenter has chosen a favorite comedy.

The 2015–16 season opens on September 28 with Ken Hoffman, the highly entertaining Houston Chronicle columnist. The next two months bring architect Jim Furr on October 26; and Stephanie Saint Sanchez, Señorita Cinema founder, on November 23.

Save the dates for these memorable Monday night screenings! The lineup continues monthly through April, so check back for additional presenters, film descriptions, and tickets.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Introduced by author Gwendolyn Zepeda, Houston’s first poet laureate

Hansel, a wannabe rock star from East Berlin, leaves Germany for an American GI but is abandoned in a Kansas trailer park after a botched sex-change operation.

Now calling herself Hedwig (played by director/screenwriter John Cameron Mitchell), she dresses in glam-rock style with sparkly costumes and various wigs and forms a band called the Angry Inch.

Hedwig ends up falling for a teenage boy (Michael Pitt) who steals her songs and her dreams of stardom.

“The Rocky Horror Picture Show for an America that has come out of the closet. Where Rocky Horror was tame, campy singalong fun, Hedwig has far more range. The story . . . is wildly witty, but also inventive, audacious, and poignant.” —USA Today

About the presenter
Gwendolyn Zepeda was born in Houston in 1971 and attended the University of Texas at Austin. She was the first Latina blogger and began her writing career online in 1997 as one of the founding writers of the site Television without Pity.

Zepeda has since published three critically acclaimed novels, four award-winning children’s books, a short-story collection, and two books of poems.

She was Houston’s first poet laureate, from 2013 to 2015.

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