{"id":363072,"date":"2026-07-06T20:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T20:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/363072\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T20:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T20:52:07","slug":"river-oaks-theater-hosting-special-screening-with-drive-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/363072\/","title":{"rendered":"River Oaks Theater hosting special screening with &#8216;Drive&#8217; director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Award-winning filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn will visit Houston later this month for an early access screening of his latest film &#8220;Her Private Hell&#8221; at the River Oaks Theater.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Refn, known Ryan Gosling-led films Drive and Only God Forgives, will come to the River Oaks Theater on July 19 for a post-screening\u00a0Q&amp;A following his latest feature, which is described as a dystopian sci-fi film about a young woman in search of her family, starring Sophie Thatcher, Charles Melton and Havana Rose Liu.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When a mysterious mist engulfs a futuristic metropolis, unleashing a deadly and elusive entity, a troubled young woman searches for her father,&#8221; a description of the movie reads on the River Oaks Theater&#8217;s Instagram post about the screening. &#8220;Her quest collides with an American GI on a harrowing odyssey to rescue his daughter from Hell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Her Private Hell&#8221; recently screened at Cannes earlier this year, which prompted audience members to give\u00a0Refn and cast a 12-minute standing ovation, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/05\/nicolas-winding-refns-her-private-hell-cannes-standing-ovation-1236914843\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to Deadline.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the early access screening at River Oaks Theater are priced at $21 before taxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Award-winning filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn will visit Houston later this month for an early access screening of his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-363072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}