Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas: 45th Anniversary Screening
On November 26 and December 3, Jim Henson Legacy President Craig Shemin will appear in person with special outtakes and excerpts.
You can buy admission tickets online. Pick a date and time to visit the Museum. Timed-entry slots are released generally one-month prior. All sales are final and payments cannot be refunded.
On November 26 and December 3, Jim Henson Legacy President Craig Shemin will appear in person with special outtakes and excerpts.
Lozinski’s first major work, following Henryk Greenberg, a Polish-born American who lost much of his family in the Holocaust, plus a celebrated, delicate short study of familial love.
Wildly underrated at the time of its release, Elaine May’s deceptively screwball comedy is a cross between a Hope and Crosby road movie and a trenchant satire about the Middle East that feels as relevant as it ever was. November 27 & December 4.
In and around his own apartment in Warsaw, Łoziński explores a year in the lives of his neighbors; plus an intimate portrait of the filmmaker’s own cleaning lady, a single mother who left her native Ukraine seeking a better life.
A political media advisor puts out a call for neophyte applicants for political candidacy, and hundreds apply in this dynamic, entertaining, and implicitly damning snapshot of opportunistic populism in action.
Terry Gilliam’s jaw-dropping dystopian science-fiction black comedy imagines a totalitarian surveillance society that would make Orwell envious. November 27 & December 4.
Lozinski captures patients in an oncology clinic where they receive chemotherapy. The context and location engender profound reflections and wide-ranging conversation, each frame teeming with life, light, and humor.
On 12/4, Paweł Łoziński introduces the touching film he made with his father, Marcel, documenting a road trip from Warsaw to Paris.
Lozinski’s unwaveringly intimate work documents a triangular psychotherapeutic encounter between a daughter, a mother, and a therapist.
A teenager on the verge of manhood idolizes his imprisoned father even though he barely remembers him. When the father is released after serving ten years, the boy anticipates finally getting to know him and making up for lost time.
On the outskirts of Beirut, Lilas and her bandmates Shery, Maya, Alma, and Tatyana have big dreams but few opportunities. Shot and directed by L.A.-based filmmaker Rita Baghdadi, Sirens received its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival
This revisionist western, restored to its full length, is a marvel of ambition and complex storytelling, dramatizing the Johnson County War of 1892, when European settlers were targeted for death and displacement by cattle barons. December 9–10.