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Tut’s Fever Movie Palace

Tut’s Fever is a working movie theater and art installation created by Red Grooms and Lysiane Luong, an homage to the ornate, exotic picture palaces of the 1920s

Behind the Screen

Museum of the Moving Image

The Museum's core exhibition immerses visitors in the creative and technical process of producing, promoting, and presenting films, television shows, and digital entertainment.

Against a green, forest background, a man with a beard, bandana, and microphone holds a green felt frog puppet in his arm and they man and muppet look at each other fondly.

The Jim Henson Exhibition

Museum of the Moving Image

This dynamic experience explores Jim Henson’s groundbreaking work for film and television and his transformative impact on culture. 

A white elevator from the inside, with the door open, and a screen on the side

Refreshing the Loop

Refreshing the Loop continues Museum of the Moving Image’s tradition of displaying GIFs in our passenger elevator. This new iteration places artists who have been widely known for their GIFs for more than two decades in conversation with selected artists who have gained notable popularity in the last few years.

An overhead shot of a man in a yellow sweatshirt standing in front of subway turnstiles

Mr. Yellow Sweatshirt

Shot in the Roosevelt Ave/Jackson Heights station, this installation video captures the tide of New Yorkers streaming through an entrance to the subway system in what the filmmakers refer to as a “collective ballet.”

A group of people, children and adults, in bathing suits by a beautiful idyllic lake, sitting in the grass

The Zone of Interest

In his chilling, oblique study of evil in Germany during WWII, British director Jonathan Glazer (Under the Skin) has created a singular, unsettlingly timeless representation of inhumanity and our capacity for indifference in the face of atrocity. Screens 10/11.

A man in a rumpled white suit surrounded by seven shorter people stands in a room near a window, all of them looking interested past the camera

La Chimera

With her customarily bewitching mixture of earthiness and magical realism, Alice Rohrwacher (Happy as Lazzaro) conjures a marvelous entertainment set in a rural Italy eternally caught between the ancient and the modern. Screens 10/12.

Three young women sitting in a classroom looking towards the camera; the woman in the middle-ground wearing sunglasses, the woman in the foreground staring with attitude
Recurring

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

Bill Duke’s lively and poignant film is especially memorable for its soundtrack, particularly its epochal appearance by a young Lauryn Hill. On Sunday, 10/15, there will be a family day event featuring karaoke activities with songs from Sister Act 2 and music-related video games for the whole family! 

A man and woman sit at a table with flowers on it having dinner and facing each other

Fallen Leaves

Sweet-souled in story, scalpel-sharp in filmmaking precision, this enchanting love story from Finnish virtuoso Aki Kaurismäki circles around two financially strapped Helsinkians who keep finding and losing one another in a world that seems to be falling apart. Screens Friday, 10/13.

Five men in suits stand around an upright closed coffin on a city street in front of a municipal building

4 Black Suits

The Marx Brothers meet Aristophanes in this offbeat road movie from Renos Haralambidis.