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A black-and-white image from the 1930s of young Japanese boys dressed in school uniforms and caps standing amidst a sun-dappled field of wheat

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.

A long-blonde-haired woman in a gray sweater looks up at a man with short dark hair in a gray suit in a modern-looking room with blue neon lights
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The Beast

Bertrand Bonello has created a dynamic and disturbing parable that jumps between three different time periods (1910, 2014, and 2044) to diagnose our acute—and perhaps eternal—feelings of estrangement and alienation. Screening 5/10–5/18.

A black and white photo of a Japanese man and woman standing by a tree outside; he looks at her, she looks off past the camera.

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.

A number of colorful puppets, best known as Muppets, stand in front of a night-time New York City skyline.
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The Muppets Take Manhattan

Kermit the Frog and the Muppets take the show to Broadway in this classic comedy directed by Frank Oz, screening 5/11 and 5/12 for its 40th anniversary, with Craig Shemin, President of the Jim Henson Legacy, in person!

A black and white photo of a Japanese man and woman standing on the shore of a beach, looking off, as lines of children in formation in the background of the shot face the water

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 black and white photo of two men in hats and uniforms standing and facing each other in a field of grass amidst other children figures who surround and watch them.

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.

A long-blonde-haired woman in a gray sweater looks up at a man with short dark hair in a gray suit in a modern-looking room with blue neon lights
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The Beast

Bertrand Bonello has created a dynamic and disturbing parable that jumps between three different time periods (1910, 2014, and 2044) to diagnose our acute—and perhaps eternal—feelings of estrangement and alienation. Screening 5/10–5/18.

A black and white photo of a woman in classical Japanese clothing holding an elaborate parasol.

The Masseurs and a Woman

Shimizu’s most eccentrically personal film, screening 5/12, follows a pair of blind masseuses who come across a variety of characters whose dilemmas range from tragic to comic.

A woman dressed as singer Amy Winehouse, in an upswept black hairdo, holds a microphone on a stage, while two men in black suite slightly out of focus are on the right side of the stage

Back to Black

This new film dramatizes the extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s rise to fame from her early days in Camden to the making of her groundbreaking album. With director Sam Taylor-Johnson and star Marisa Abela in person.

A long-blonde-haired woman in a gray sweater looks up at a man with short dark hair in a gray suit in a modern-looking room with blue neon lights
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The Beast

Bertrand Bonello has created a dynamic and disturbing parable that jumps between three different time periods (1910, 2014, and 2044) to diagnose our acute—and perhaps eternal—feelings of estrangement and alienation. Screening 5/10–5/18.

A movie theater with a full audience looking at a screen with the number 7 on it counting down to showtime

2024 Teen Film Festival

Join us on 5/17 for the annual Teen Film Festival, hosted by the MoMI Teen Council. The festival will screen twelve selected short works by teen filmmakers from New York City's five boroughs.  Learn more.

Five people stand in a dark room in an old house with cobwebs in a black and white image
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House on Haunted Hill

This fan favorite chiller from gimmick master William Castle, screening 5/17 and 5/19, stars horror icon Vincent Price in one of his most gleefully sinister performances.