Sloan Science & Film Shorts: Afronauts and Into the Void
See the award-winning short films Afronauts and Into the Void and learn about the Museum's free resource, the Sloan Science & Film Teacher's Guide.
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The Space Race
The Space Race tells the little-known story of the first Black pilots, scientists, and engineers to become astronauts. Free screening on 10/4 followed by a conversation and Q&A with directors Lisa Cortés and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza.
Horrible Sites: Makeup and Production Design for The Exorcist
With material drawn from MoMI’s permanent collection, this exhibit explores the film’s production and makeup design, detailing how a stylish townhouse in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., and an innocent young girl were transformed into sites of horror.
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.”
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Saturday, Sep. 30 screening will be in the Bartos Screening Room. Dir. Wes Anderson. 2009, 87 mins. 35mm. With the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe, Owen Wilson. ...
Poetic Justice
John Singleton's romantic drama starring Janet Jackson and Tupac Shakur will be preceded on Friday, 10/6, by a spoken word showcase with poets King Kamayera and Sabreen Jolley in collaboration with community partner African Peach Arts Coalition, and on Saturday, 10/6, by an introduction by the Criterion Collection's Curatorial Director Ashley Clark.
The Deep Blue Sea
Terence Davies’s lush, meticulous, and deeply moving 1940s postwar romance starring Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston screens on 35mm on 10/6 and 10/8.
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 ...
Foolish Wives
Shot over the course of a budget-busting, 11-month period on enormous and extravagant stage sets, Erich von Stroheim’s lavish spectacle remains one of the sensational works of early Hollywood cinema. With live piano accompaniment by Makia Matsumura on October 7.
Poetic Justice
John Singleton's romantic drama starring Janet Jackson and Tupac Shakur will be preceded on Friday, 10/6, by a spoken word showcase with poets King Kamayera and Sabreen Jolley in collaboration with community partner African Peach Arts Coalition, and on Saturday, 10/6, by an introduction by the Criterion Collection's Curatorial Director Ashley Clark.
A Bronx Tale
Join us for 30th anniversary screenings of Robert De Niro’s first and to-date only directorial effort, an adaptation of screenwriter and co-star Chazz Palminteri’s autobiographical one-man stage show about growing up in 1960s New York. Screening on 10/8 preceded by Neha Gautam's short Passenger Seat.
Slam
Set in the Dodge City section of Washington, D.C., Slam follows Ray (Williams), who hopes his poetry will allow him to find a way out of drug dealing.