Men in Black
This sardonic, New York–set sci-fi smash features Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones in comic-cool mode as agents of a top-secret organization that polices extraterrestrial activity on Earth.
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Ouanga
Notable at the time for starring a Black actress, and even as the narrative blatantly antagonizes her, Fredi Washington’s presence imbues the film with unexpected depth.
Sleeping Beauty introduced by John Canemaker
On August 20, filmmaker and animation historian John Canemaker introduces Disney's visually spectacular fairy tale presented on rare 70mm.
The Ghost Breakers (with special panel discussion 8/28)
Bob Hope is a radio personality who ends up following Paulette Goddard to Cuba, where she's set to inherit a plantation and—likely haunted—castle. The August 28 screening will be followed by a panel discussion on zombies and race with Yasmina Price, Dr. David Bering-Porter, and guest curator Kelli Weston.
Licorice Pizza
Paul Thomas Anderson's acclaimed misfit romance plays at MoMI on 70mm August 12–September 3.
Sleeping Beauty
You have two more chances to see this gorgeous 70mm print of Walt Disney’s classic 1959 fairy tale, at the time the most expensive animated film ever made. Screening September 3 and 5!
Queens of Destruction: A Selection of Films from Cinema’s First Nasty Women
This selection of highlights from Kino Lorber’s forthcoming collection Cinema’s First Nasty Women features eleven recently restored and newly scored comic shorts from the U.S. and Europe that anarchically celebrate feminist and racial protest, slapstick rebellion, and gender play.
Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
The ninth film from Quentin Tarantino revisits Los Angeles at the tail end of the 1960s, when the Hollywood studio system was fading and hippie subversion was ascendant.
Ascension
Global capitalism has incentivized systems of destruction and waste, domination and extraction, which have specific, local consequences, explored in this pairing.
Men in Black
This sardonic, New York–set sci-fi smash features Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones in comic-cool mode as agents of a top-secret organization that polices extraterrestrial activity on Earth.
Tron
This groundbreaking feature follows rebel computer programmer Kevin Flynn as he is scanned and transported into an autocratic universe of zipping vectors and shiny surfaces, somewhere inside the mainframe of an arcade game.
I Walked With a Zombie
Easily the most sophisticated and memorable of the zombie films of the subgenre’s premier era, Tourneur and low-budget producer extraordinaire Val Lewton’s remarkable collaboration is a dreamlike horror fable that loosely reimagines Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre.