Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Radu Jude's anarchic satire is a wild and unforgettable ride through the vulgar indignities of the 21st century.
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Access Mornings at MoMI
Access Mornings at MoMI
Offered the first Saturday of each month (June 2023–May 2024), free Access Mornings at MoMI are dedicated to families with children on the autism spectrum and give families an exclusive opportunity to explore exhibitions and ...
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Radu Jude's anarchic satire is a wild and unforgettable ride through the vulgar indignities of the 21st century.
Seven Seas: Chapter 1—Virginity
Seven Seas: Chapter 1—Virginity
This harrowing, intricately plotted urban melodrama depicts the disgrace and subsequent revenge of a virtuous young woman from a traditional middle-class household who suffers at the hands of the predatory scion of the wealthy, westernized Yagibashi family.
Seven Seas: Chapter 2—Chastity
Seven Seas: Chapter 2—Chastity
Part two of Shimizu's harrowing, intricately plotted urban melodrama depicting the disgrace and subsequent revenge of a virtuous young woman from a traditional middle-class household, who suffers at the hands of the predatory scion of the wealthy, westernized Yagibashi family.
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Radu Jude's anarchic satire is a wild and unforgettable ride through the vulgar indignities of the 21st century.
A Hero of Tokyo
A Hero of Tokyo
In just over an hour of tautly paced, plot-filled action, Shimizu unspools the tragic generational tale of Kenichi, a boy whose backsliding father abandons him.
Japanese Girls at the Harbor
Japanese Girls at the Harbor
Hiroshi Shimizu’s most celebrated silent film—about the jealousy that ensnares devoted Catholic school mates Sunako and Dora as they both fall for the motorcycle-sporting playboy Henry—screens with live piano accompaniment by Makia Matsumura on 5/4.
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The Abyss: Special Edition
The Abyss: Special Edition
James Cameron has re-released his beloved underwater sci-fi adventure in a newly restored, remastered version of the acclaimed extended director’s cut screens 5/3 and 5/5.
Forget Love for Now
Forget Love for Now
This devastating story of a single mother Oyuki who supports herself and her son Haruo by working at a “chabuya,” a hostess bar catering to foreigners, is set in the cosmopolitan harbor city of Yokohama.
A Woman Crying in Spring
A Woman Crying in Spring
Shimizu’s first talkie enacts another tale of fallen womanhood and migrant struggle.
I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me
I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me
On May 5, see this engrossing dark comedy from Mexican director Fernando Frías, based on the novel by acclaimed writer Juan Pablo Villalobos, followed by a Q&A with Frías.
Mr. Thank You
Mr. Thank You
Screening 5/5, Hiroshi Shimizu's beloved road movie fashions a tour of depression-era Japan that deserves mention in the company of Ford’s Stagecoach and Renoir’s The Crime of Monsieur Lange.
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Fertile Memory
Fertile Memory
Prismatic Ground kicks off its fourth edition with the Belgian Film Archive restoration of this mournful, poetic glimpse of everyday life in the occupied West Bank.
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Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
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Children in the Wind
Children in the Wind
In Shimizu’s most renowned and adored film in Japan, the idyllic country life of two brothers is suddenly thrown into crisis one summer when their father is wrongly arrested for embezzlement.
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The Muppets Take Manhattan
The Muppets Take Manhattan
Kermit the Frog and the Muppets take the show to Broadway in this classic comedy directed by Frank Oz, released 40 years ago.
Sayon’s Bell
Sayon’s Bell
Shimizu's film draws on the then widely circulated story of a 17-year-old Taiwanese aboriginal girl whose patriotic zeal so gripped her that she drowned amid a storm while seeing off her Japanese teacher for the Chinese front.
Four Seasons of Children: Spring/Summer
Four Seasons of Children: Spring/Summer
Singled out by several Shimizu scholars as a masterpiece, this two-volume sequel to Children in the Wind portrays the ongoing trials of boys Zenta and Sanpei as their family once again falls on hard times.
Four Seasons of Children: Autumn/Winter
Four Seasons of Children: Autumn/Winter
Singled out by several Shimizu scholars as a masterpiece, this two-volume sequel to Children in the Wind portrays the ongoing trials of boys Zenta and Sanpei as their family once again falls on hard times.
Ornamental Hairpin
Ornamental Hairpin
Shimizu’s plaintive romance turns on the encounter between a convalescing soldier (Ozu stalwart Chishu Ryū) and a young woman (the great Kinuyo Tanaka) fleeing her sordid past at a secluded mountain spa.
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The Muppets Take Manhattan
The Muppets Take Manhattan
Kermit the Frog and the Muppets take the show to Broadway in this classic comedy directed by Frank Oz, released 40 years ago.
Introspection Tower
Introspection Tower
This collection of vignettes set in the titular rural hilltop reformatory might be the most soberly realistic of Shimizu’s many films about children.
A Star Athlete
A Star Athlete
Shimizu’s episodic sports comedy is a favorite among film historians for its virtuoso passages of camera movement, including a sublime 40-shot march along a country road that’s pure back-and-forth axial motion.
The Masseurs and a Woman
The Masseurs and a Woman
Shimizu’s most eccentrically personal film, which he conceived and wrote himself and shot on his favored Izu peninsula, follows a pair of blind masseuses who come across a variety of characters whose dilemmas range from tragic to comic, suggesting another of Shimizu’s cross-sections of contemporary Japan.
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2024 Teen Film Festival
2024 Teen Film Festival
Join us for the annual Teen Film Festival, hosted by the MoMI Teen Council! The festival will feature a screening of 12 selected short film works from the New York 5 boroughs by local teen filmmakers.
House on Haunted Hill
House on Haunted Hill
This fan favorite chiller from gimmick master William Castle stars horror icon Price in one of his most gleefully sinister performances.
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The Right Stuff
The Right Stuff
Kaufman’s mammoth adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s bestseller about the selection and lift-off of NASA’s first astronauts, known as the Mercury Seven, is a singular Hollywood epic. Screens 5/18 and 5/25.
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House on Haunted Hill
House on Haunted Hill
This fan favorite chiller from gimmick master William Castle stars horror icon Price in one of his most gleefully sinister performances.
Notes of an Itinerant Performer
Notes of an Itinerant Performer
Largely due to its atypical period setting in the late Meiji era and its theme of female self-sacrifice, Shimizu’s film has drawn comparison to similar works by Kenji Mizoguchi.
Children of the Beehive
Children of the Beehive
The most celebrated of Shimizu’s postwar films is a momentous work depicting the shattered state of reconstruction-era Japan.
Three Promises
Three Promises
In the early 2000s, Suha begins filming her daily life in Bethlehem as the Israeli army lays siege to the West Bank in retaliation over the second intifada.
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The Right Stuff
The Right Stuff
Kaufman’s mammoth adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s bestseller about the selection and lift-off of NASA’s first astronauts, known as the Mercury Seven, is a singular Hollywood epic. Screens 5/18 and 5/25.