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
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Behind the Screen
The Museum's core exhibition immerses visitors in the creative and technical process of producing, promoting, and presenting films, television shows, and digital entertainment.
The Jim Henson Exhibition: Imagination Unlimited
This traveling exhibition explores Jim Henson’s groundbreaking work for film and television and his transformative impact on popular culture.
The Jim Henson Exhibition
This dynamic experience explores Jim Henson’s groundbreaking work for film and television and his transformative impact on culture.
Creatures from the Land of Thra: Character Design for The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
This exhibition explores the process of designing the fantastical characters for the Netflix series prequel to the 1982 film.
An Act of Seeing: Barry Jenkins’s The Gaze
In his companion piece installation to The Underground Railroad, Jenkins further engages ideas about visibility, history, and power in moving-image portraits of the show’s background actors.
Twitch, Pop, Bloom: Science in Action
This video exhibition presents films produced for scientific education and entertainment between 1904 and 1936, an era when cinema was still a novel tool for manipulating time and scale to show what was imperceptible to the naked eye.
Living with The Walking Dead
This major new exhibition addresses the origins, production, fandom, and impact of The Walking Dead, one of the most watched shows in the history of cable television. Presented with support from AMC Networks.
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LAIKA: Life in Stop Motion
This new exhibition invites visitors of all ages to appreciate the painstaking work of stop-motion animation, with eight animation stations equipped with 2-D LAIKA character figures and environments that visitors can use to experiment with and create their own short films.
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Invisible Invaders
Invisible Invaders
Though somewhat forgotten, this film harnesses stock footage with a rather clear-eyed view of the cost of war and a pervasive eeriness that eclipses its dated special effects.
Creature with the Atom Brain
Creature with the Atom Brain
This film marks the slow-building shift toward a more “raceless” zombie figure, discarding the symbolically Black trappings of Haiti and voodoo.
Zombies of Mora Tau
Zombies of Mora Tau
While other zombie films of the era were more preoccupied with the “atomic” zombie—a manifestation of scientific overreach rather than a mystical being—Cahn’s film contains prescient imagery to which several later zombie films may trace their lineage.
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The Story of Film: A New Generation
The Story of Film: A New Generation
A decade after his synoptic inquiry into 20th-century cinema, The Story of Film: An Odyssey, film historian Mark Cousins returns with a hopeful tale of cinematic innovation at the frontiers of our young century. Playing 9/9–9/23!
Deathdream
Deathdream
Bob Clark's second zombie feature is an ominous retelling of the W. W. Jacobs’s short story “The Monkey's Paw.”
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Shock Waves
Shock Waves
A master class in atmosphere, the film nods to post-World War II zombie cinema and features several satisfyingly chilling chase sequences.
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Plague of the Zombies
Plague of the Zombies
Far from the exoticized Caribbean islands, John Gilling’s film roots its tale of horror in Victorian-era England.
The Ornithologist
The Ornithologist
João Pedro Rodrigues’s sensual and irreverent 2016 gem, wherein a solitary ornithologist embarks on a journey seeking an elusive species of stork.
9 events,
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Screening of Short Films:
A Murmur Underground (and others TBA)
Screening of Short Films:
A Murmur Underground (and others TBA)
A free program of short films including an experimental documentary that focuses on emotions and human sensitivity evoked by the 2017 earthquake that severely damaged thousands of villages in Oaxaca and Chiapas in the Tehuantepec Istmus, Mexico.
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Mexican Independence Day Celebration
Mexican Independence Day Celebration
On September 15, join us to explore reflections on Mexican identity in film on the eve of Mexican Independence Day. Featuring screenings, tours, ceremonies, music and dance performances, and more.
Living with The Walking Dead: Online Tour and Q&A with Barbara Miller
Living with The Walking Dead: Online Tour and Q&A with Barbara Miller
On September 15 at 7:00 p.m., join MoMI’s Director of Curatorial Affairs Barbara Miller for a virtual tour of our latest exhibition, Living with The Walking Dead, followed by a Q&A.
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The Godfather
The Godfather
On September 16 and 18, the granddaddy of contemporary crime films screens as part of the Caan Film Festival.
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El Dorado
El Dorado
For his penultimate film, Howard Hawks recruited longtime collaborator John Wayne to star as a wizened gunslinger who teams up with an alcoholic sheriff (Robert Mitchum), to defend a town against a greedy rancher and his hired guns. Not only does Hawks give a young James Caan his first major Hollywood role, he’s also given a star entrance.
Safety Last!
Safety Last!
This Harold Lloyd classic, filmed on location in downtown Los Angeles, remains every bit as astonishing and thrilling as the day it was released. Screens September 17–30.
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“I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians”
“I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians”
This ingeniously conceived film is by one of contemporary Europe's most distinctive creators.
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The Gambler
The Gambler
In a magnetic, psychologically rich performance, Caan plays Axel Freed, a college literature professor who teaches Dostoyevsky by day and echoes the author's antiheroic Gambler by night.
Bulletproof
Bulletproof
On September 23, Todd Chandler’s breakthrough documentary is a slow-burn cinematic meditation on the array of forces that shape the culture of violence in the United States. With director in person.
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Harry and Walter Go to New York
Harry and Walter Go to New York
Mixing slapstick comedy with sepia-toned lensing by master DP László Kovács, and featuring committed performances by both the lead cast and a deep well of great character actors, Harry and Walter Go to New York remains a strange and inviting brew.
Celebrating Jim Henson’s Birthday with “Sam and Friends”
Celebrating Jim Henson’s Birthday with “Sam and Friends”
To commemorate Jim Henson’s birthday, on September 24, join us for the launch of the new book Sam and Friends: The Story of Jim Henson’s First Television Show, written by Craig Shemin.
Gangs of Wasseypur
Gangs of Wasseypur
Anurag Kashyap’s ambitious and extraordinary blood-and-bullets-fueled crime saga charts 70 years in the lives of two mafia-like families fighting for control of the coal-mining town of Wasseypur, India.
Cinderella Liberty
Cinderella Liberty
In this overlooked gem from Hollywood’s 1970s heyday, Caan plays Baggs, a sailor marooned in Seattle on extended shore leave when his records are lost amid a ship transfer.
The Killer Elite
The Killer Elite
Released during the heyday of the 1970s conspiracy thriller, Peckinpah’s The Killer Elite might rank as the most cynical of them all.
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Soylent Green (introduced by Bill Nye)
Soylent Green (introduced by Bill Nye)
On September 25, see Richard Fleischer’s iconic sci-fi thriller, one of the first ecologically minded films to envision the effects of climate change, introduced by legendary science educator Bill Nye.
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Sam and Friends
This program presents four of the fifteen surviving episodes of Sam and Friends, a five-minute, live television show created by Jim Henson and Jane Nebel (later Jane Henson) that aired daily on Washington, D.C.–based WRC-TV from 1955 to 1961.
Queens at the Margins and in the Center: Films by Neha Gautam
Queens at the Margins and in the Center: Films by Neha Gautam
Combining labor, migration and resistance, this community program on September 30 features screenings of new films by longtime Queens resident, community organizer, and filmmaker Neha Gautam.
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Alien Nation
Alien Nation
Bedecked in ’80s genre trappings yet motivated by allegory, Alien Nation situates a mismatched buddy cop story within a near-future Los Angeles inundated by 300,000 humanoid extraterrestrials.
Bottle Rocket
Bottle Rocket
In Wes Anderson’s beloved, tonally distinctive debut comedy, three aimless Texas friends aspire to a life of crime and outlaw notoriety, elaborately scheming up low-level burglaries that ride the line between fantasy role-play and real-world consequences.
