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.
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.
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.
Dan Perri and the Art of the Title Sequence
This exhibit explores the art of the title sequence by focusing on designs by one of its most acclaimed practitioners, Dan Perri. His work in the industry spans 50 years, from the early 1970s through the 2010s.
Adapting Stories for the Screen: Chinonye Chukwu’s Till
This new temporary exhibition explores the process of creating the story depicted in Chinonye Chukwu’s acclaimed 2022 feature Till, through storyboards created by Jesse Michael Owen.
11 events,
Elvis with Baz Luhrmann in Person
Elvis with Baz Luhrmann in Person
On November 29 at 7 p.m., join us for a very special free screening of Elvis with director Baz Luhrmann in person!
11 events,
2022 Moving Image Awards
2022 Moving Image Awards
On December 1, join us for the Museum's annual winter fundraising event, honoring directors Sarah Polley and Laura Poitras, novelist and screenwriter Kazuo Ishiguro, and composer Michael Abels.
11 events,
The Balcony Movie
The Balcony Movie
Filmed before the pandemic, Pawel Lozinski’s revelatory documentary was shot entirely from his balcony in Warsaw. Director in person—December 2!
13 events,
Birthplace + Sisters
Birthplace + Sisters
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.
The Way It Is + The Ukrainian Cleaning Lady
The Way It Is + The Ukrainian Cleaning Lady
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.
How It’s Done
How It’s Done
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.
15 events,
Father and Son
Father and Son
On 12/4, Paweł Łoziński introduces the touching film he made with his father, Marcel, documenting a road trip from Warsaw to Paris.
You Have No Idea How Much I Love You
You Have No Idea How Much I Love You
Lozinski’s unwaveringly intimate work documents a triangular psychotherapeutic encounter between a daughter, a mother, and a therapist.
12 events,
Heaven’s Gate (Director’s Cut)
Heaven’s Gate (Director’s Cut)
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.
Expedition Content + Dead Birds
Expedition Content + Dead Birds
Constructed from audio recorded during the making of Robert Gardner’s landmark ethnographic documentary Dead Birds, this work by renowned sound artists is simultaneously an immersive sonic document and a deft critique of the ethnographic endeavor.
14 events,
The Shakedown
The Shakedown
This Universal boxing picture by William Wyler, based on a story discovered by Wyler’s brother Robert, finds the then-young director honing his considerable skills.
My Imaginary Country
My Imaginary Country
ne of the greatest documentary filmmakers the medium has ever known, the 80-year-old Guzmán has been creating works about the political past and hopeful future of his home country Chile for more than fifty years.
We Met in Virtual Reality
We Met in Virtual Reality
This expansive and sensitive documentary was filmed entirely inside the world of virtual reality. See it December 10, featuring a virtual Q&A with director Joe Hunting.
1985: Film Screening and Conversation
1985: Film Screening and Conversation
For AIDS Awareness month, MoMI presents Yen Tan’s 1985 on December 10, plus a conversation with star Cory Michael Smith and local advocates Jimmy Van Bramer, Sainabou Njai, and Frank Naso.
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The Shop Around the Corner
The Shop Around the Corner
On December 22nd through 24th, see Lubitsch’s exquisite, Christmas-set workplace romantic comedy with James Stewart & Margaret Sullavan—a MoMI holiday tradition.
Descendant
Descendant
Brown’s moving documentary about this country’s legacy of slavery and its lingering traumas excavates a violent past that for a community in Mobile, Alabama, remains a painful reality.
Fanny and Alexander
Fanny and Alexander
On 12/26, see Ingmar Bergman’s magnificent family saga, shown in Bergman’s preferred version, which aired as a four-part miniseries on Swedish television.
Riotsville, USA
Riotsville, USA
For her brilliantly executed archival footage documentary, screening 12/11, Sierra Pettengill has uncovered a trove of remarkable and disturbing footage from the late ’60s of a U.S. military experiment.
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Free Preview Screening: Living
Free Preview Screening: Living
From a script by Kazuo Ishiguro, Living is a reimagining of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 classic Ikiru, starring Bill Nighy. Join us for a free sneak preview screening on December 13!
15 events,
Adapting Stories for the Screen: Sarah Polley’s Women Talking
The material on view in this new exhibition provides a glimpse into the process of bringing the story of Sarah Polley’s film Women Talking to the screen.
A Short Film About Killing
A Short Film About Killing
Polish master Krzysztof Kieslowski chose two scripts from his epic 10-part, 10-hour, 10 Commandments–inspired series Dekalog to expand into features, the first of which was based on episode 6, aka “Though Shall Not Commit Murder.” December 16.
Program One: Future Shock
Program One: Future Shock
Total Running Time: 93 mins. Nice Shoes Dir. Jonathan Lawrence, 2019, 4 mins. Catch the ’40s sci-fi classic movie references featured in this epic music video. Megaville After Hours Dir. Tim Cürlis, Christian Skibinski, 2022, ...
A Short Film About Love
A Short Film About Love
Polish master Krzysztof Kieslowski chose two scripts from his epic 10-part, 10-hour, 10 Commandments–inspired series Dekalog to expand into features, the second of which was based on episode 7, aka “Though Shalt Not Commit Adultery.” December 16.
Program Two: A Separate Reality
Program Two: A Separate Reality
Total Running Time: 90 mins. Chaska (Trailer) Dir. Liz Guarracino, 2022, 2 mins. How would you feel if you found out the U.S. government created ancestry.com to catch a single being? Last Orders (Trailer) Dir. ...
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The Muppet Christmas Carol: 30th Anniversary Screening
The Muppet Christmas Carol: 30th Anniversary Screening
MoMI presents the beloved adaptation of Dickens's novel, celebrating thirty years of enchanting movie-lovers of all ages.
Program Three: Best of International Sci-Fi Shorts
Program Three: Best of International Sci-Fi Shorts
Total Running Time: 102 mins. Belonging–Night Dir. Cory Williams, Jacqueline Cooper, 2022, 5 mins. In this dreamily reimagined excerpt from Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night (1956), a poetic sailor is at peace in ...
Program Four: Nowhere to Hide—Best of Sci-Fi Supernatural Shorts
Program Four: Nowhere to Hide—Best of Sci-Fi Supernatural Shorts
Total Running Time: 89 mins. Memento Mori (Trailer) Dir. Izzy Lee, 2022, 2 mins. In 1983, a scientist in isolation resurrects a dead colleague. The Fortune Teller Dir. Brian Abraham, 2022, 4 mins. Virtual Reality ...
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Rise of the Guardians
Rise of the Guardians
Screening 12/31, Rise of the Guardians is a holiday-themed animated adventure tale starring the Immortal Guardians of William Joyce's beloved book series
Program Five: Journey to the Far Side of Your Mind
Program Five: Journey to the Far Side of Your Mind
Total Running Time: 74 mins. Chimera Dir. Andrew Lee Ryan, 2022, 25 mins. In a small town in the not-too-distant future, a VR life simulation junkie goes on a mission in reality to get a ...
The Silence of the Mole (El Silencio del topo)
The Silence of the Mole (El Silencio del topo)
Anaïs Taracena's debut feature unspools as a political thriller that tells the story of Elías Barahona, a journalist who, during the 1970s, infiltrated the most repressive government in the history of Guatemala.
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Women Talking
Women Talking
The latest from writer/director Sarah Polley follows a group of women in an isolated religious colony as they struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony's men.
12 events,
12 events,
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Extended Edition)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Extended Edition)
On December 27 & 30, we kick off a week of screening all three extended editions of Peter Jackson’s beloved trilogy.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Extended Edition)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Extended Edition)
The second installment in Peter Jackson’s improbably brilliant, mammothly successful trilogy. December 28 & 31.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Extended Edition)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Extended Edition)
The third installment in Peter Jackson’s improbably brilliant, mammothly successful trilogy. December 29 and January 1, 2023.
The Fabelmans—with Paul Dano in person
The Fabelmans—with Paul Dano in person
On 12/29, see Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical journey into his adolescence. a marvelously multilayered experience, with costar Paul Dano in person!
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Dos Estaciones
Dos Estaciones
Juan Pablo González has created a drama of striking observational realism that’s as much about environmental change as the fascinating community of people at its center.
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The Eternal Daughter
The Eternal Daughter
On December 31, see two brilliant performances by Tilda Swinton—as an elderly mother and her middle-aged filmmaker daughter—in Joanna Hogg's exquisite The Eternal Daughter, which takes the seeming form of a classical ghost story.
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Introduction
Introduction
Hong creates a rich world of mundanity and possibility, in which relationships and professional aspirations are often connected, and no future is certain.
In Front of Your Face
In Front of Your Face
One of Hong’s most ruminative and slyly caustic films, In Front of Your Face follows a middle-aged woman who has come back to South Korea after living abroad for many years.
The Novelist’s Film
The Novelist’s Film
Lee Hyeyoung gives another standout, ruminative performance as a cantankerous middle-aged novelist who hasn’t written in years and is in desperate need of a new creative outlet.
Jackass Forever
Jackass Forever
Dir. Jeff Tremaine. 2022, 96 mins. DCP. With Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Dave England, Wee Man, Danger Ehren, Preston Lacy. Twenty years after the surprising box office success of Jackass: The Movie, and twelve ...