Wheels on Reels: American Graffiti
- When
- March 11, 2016
- Where
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Museum of Fine Arts Houston – Brown Auditorium
1001 Bissonnet Street
Houston,TX 77006 - Cost
- $2 - $1001
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents Wheels on Reels. The MFAH exhibition Sculpted in Steel: Art Deco Automobiles and Motorcycles, 1929–1940 inspires this series of classic movies that celebrate memorable cars and their drivers.
American Graffiti
Directed by George Lucas
1973
USA
110 minutes
35mm
Introduced by writer/director Andy Bellin, MFAH film committee member.
George Lucas’s influential sophomore feature captures the nostalgia and rebellion of 1962 high school graduates enjoying their last night of summer before moving on to college.
The cast of soon-to-be superstars come of age cruising the strip in their candy-colored cars and staging teenage pranks. Ron Howard, Harrison Ford, Richard Dreyfuss, Mackenzie Phillips, Charles Martin Smith, and Cindy Williams pay homage to small-town America before the Beatles, the Kennedy assassination, and Vietnam.
The film’s cinematographer was the legendary Haskell Wexler, who passed away last December.
