Daily-ist: Monday

::Movie Monday - Double Feature::

Two series we love return tonight: Monday Night Movies at Domy Books, and Movies Houstonians Love at the MFA.

Liquid Sky, 1983, 112 min
Domy Books | 1709 Westheimer
8:30 - 10:30pm
FREE

Drugs, 80s Art Punks, and Aliens translated through director Slava Tsukerman would be the easy way to describe Liquid Sky.

The hard way would include the endless amount of unlikable characters (including the two leads played by Anne Carlisle) who prey off of each other for the next high or orgasm, a German scientist following aliens who feed on the release of our pleasure, and a social scene based on decadence and little else.

While the effects and production reflect the budget, the atmosphere of self-loathing, emptiness, and the portrayal of an art scene that consumes those that live in it highlight the film's charm. Add to it a soundtrack based on classical and original pieces, and you have one of independent cinema's strangest and unique films. Delicious. delicious indeed.

No Highway in the Sky, 1951, Black & White, 98 Minutes
presented by Dr. John H. Lienhard
Museum of Fine Arts, Brown Auditorium | 1001 Bissonnet Street
tickets: $7

No Highway in the Sky stars Jimmy Stewart as a scientist trying to convince people that a particular new type of aircraft is unsafe to fly.

He is sent to evaluate the wreckage of a new passenger plane designed by his company and theorizes that the plane suffers metal fatigue after a few hours in the air. After boarding a plane he determines will fail in the coming hours, he decides to warn the crew and create an "incident." Marlene Dietrich costars.

Dr. John H. Lienhard, author and voice of the nationally syndicated public radio program Engines of Our Ingenuity, is M.D. Anderson Professor Emeritus of mechanical engineering and history at the University of Houston.