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Celebrate Day of the Dead at Museum of the Moving Image with a performance by a presentation of Aztec Mexica dance, poetry, music from indigenous dance troupe Yayauhki Tezcatlipoka, and a face-painting session inspired by historical characters from Día de Muertos.
This year as part of MoMI’s Day of the Dead celebration on November 2, we present Oscar-winning Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro's emotional and beautifully crafted horror film.
When his young daughter’s technosapien companion, the android Yang, malfunctions, Jake (Colin Farrell) must come to terms with what this loss means for his family. This special screening on 11/2 will be followed by a conversation with producer Theresa Park and a technology expert about “intelligence” in AI.
Perhaps the most faithful transposition of the Batman character from comic book to film, this animated film from 1993 screens on 35mm 10/28, 10/29, and 11/3.
On 11/3 and 11/5, see David Fincher's elegiac, dark-toned mood piece about the intractable forward march of time, the indifference of history itself, and the strange experience of living within a constantly changing human body.
At a time of severe environmental crisis, three teenagers come together to face the climate reality in their home state of Louisiana. This special presentation on 11/3 will be followed by a discussion between director Kira Akerman and landscape architect Kate Orff (SCAPE), moderated by filmmaker Kirsten Johnson.
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 ...
On 11/4, 11/10, and 11/12, see Howard Hawks's unparalleled screwball classic featuring Katharine Hepburn (in her most truly madcap role) as a flighty heiress who, along with her leopard named “Baby,” reduces Cary Grant's paleontologist to a primitive state.
Producer Tim Burton and director Henry Selick employ both live action and stop-motion animation to realize Roald Dahl’s wondrous tale about a young orphan (Terry) who grows a magical, colossal iteration of the fuzzy fruit. Screens 11/4, 11/5, and 11/11.
Maren Ade's microscopic look at a relationship in crisis, or perhaps one that might already have passed the point of no return.
In the hands of Maren Ade, one of the most profound and precisely observed films about the condition of contemporary globalized living was also the funniest.
A psychopathic killer uses the carousel ride at a Coney Island carnival to pick his victims, whom he then murders and dismembers on the world-famous boardwalk. Burt Young appears in his first screen role as a hunchbacked, facially disfigured carnival worker.
On 11/3 and 11/5, see David Fincher's elegiac, dark-toned mood piece about the intractable forward march of time, the indifference of history itself, and the strange experience of living within a constantly changing human body.
Producer Tim Burton and director Henry Selick employ both live action and stop-motion animation to realize Roald Dahl’s wondrous tale about a young orphan (Terry) who grows a magical, colossal iteration of the fuzzy fruit. Screens 11/4, 11/5, and 11/11.
In the hands of Maren Ade, one of the most profound and precisely observed films about the condition of contemporary globalized living was also the funniest.
Following a week of early voting at the Museum, join us for a mini trivia session focused on the right to vote. Form teams with your friends and family for the chance to win MoMI membership, guest passes, and special prizes, such as stress balls. Local early voters are especially welcome to join after casting their vote!
Based on real events, Terrence Malick's film depicts the trials of Austrian martyr and conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to take the Hitler Oath and suffered the consequences of staying true to his ideals.
Terrence Malick’s toweringly ambitious, time-spanning Palme d’Or-winner, a symphonic vision of a boy’s coming-of-age in suburban 1950s Texas, screens on 35mm on November 10 and 12.
On 11/4, 11/10, and 11/12, see Howard Hawks's unparalleled screwball classic featuring Katharine Hepburn (in her most truly madcap role) as a flighty heiress who, along with her leopard named “Baby,” reduces Cary Grant's paleontologist to a primitive state.
Producer Tim Burton and director Henry Selick employ both live action and stop-motion animation to realize Roald Dahl’s wondrous tale about a young orphan (Terry) who grows a magical, colossal iteration of the fuzzy fruit. Screens 11/4, 11/5, and 11/11.
Claire Denis created one of her warmest, most lived-in dramas in this superb and subtly drawn film, inspired by Yasujiro Ozu’s Late Spring in its evocation of the rich, complex emotions experienced by a father and daughter as he quietly learns to accept that she’s growing up
The Eyeworks Festival is an annual screening series focusing on experimental animation presented by Pioneer Works. This year, Museum of the Moving Image hosts the New York presentation of the 2023 program on November 11.
Maren Ade's microscopic look at a relationship in crisis, or perhaps one that might already have passed the point of no return.
The Eyeworks Festival is an annual screening series focusing on experimental animation presented by Pioneer Works. This year, Museum of the Moving Image hosts the New York presentation of the 2023 program on November 11.
Based on real events, Terrence Malick's film depicts the trials of Austrian martyr and conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to take the Hitler Oath and suffered the consequences of staying true to his ideals.
On 11/4, 11/10, and 11/12, see Howard Hawks's unparalleled screwball classic featuring Katharine Hepburn (in her most truly madcap role) as a flighty heiress who, along with her leopard named “Baby,” reduces Cary Grant's paleontologist to a primitive state.
Terrence Malick’s toweringly ambitious, time-spanning Palme d’Or-winner, a symphonic vision of a boy’s coming-of-age in suburban 1950s Texas, screens on 35mm on November 10 and 12.
See De Palma’s astonishingly well-crafted gangster tale, a kinetic reteaming of the director and star of Scarface, on 11/17 and 11/19.
This program presents Solondz’s latest film, the sprawling, spreading We Don’t Talk Like We Used To alongside a set of personally selected works by the artist’s friends, influences, and teachers. Solondz will appear in person.
Composed of eleven long hypnotic shots, this transfixing ethnographic documentary follows various pilgrims and tourists as they travel to and from a Nepalese temple via a cable car suspended high over a mountain jungle.
Shot on-site at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and made in collaboration with the museum’s own office of film and television, this Sesame Street special was nominated for a primetime Emmy and won France’s 1984 Prix Jeunesse/International. Screening 11/18, 11/19. and 11/24.
This inspired and intimate portrait of a place and its people witnesses the lives of Daniel Collins and Quincy Bryant, two young African American men from rural Hale County, Alabama, over the course of five years.
Claire Denis created one of her warmest, most lived-in dramas in this superb and subtly drawn film, inspired by Yasujiro Ozu’s Late Spring in its evocation of the rich, complex emotions experienced by a father and daughter as he quietly learns to accept that she’s growing up
The film that marked the arrival of one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary American cinema, The Wise Kids is a poignant coming-of-age drama about young people in the Bible Belt struggling with growing up and growing apart. With director Stephen Cone in person on 11/18!
Director Stephen Cone’s subtle and deeply felt film is one of the great recent coming-of-age movies. With Cone in person on 11/18!
Shot on-site at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and made in collaboration with the museum’s own office of film and television, this Sesame Street special was nominated for a primetime Emmy and won France’s 1984 Prix Jeunesse/International. Screening 11/18, 11/19. and 11/24.
This inspired and intimate portrait of a place and its people witnesses the lives of Daniel Collins and Quincy Bryant, two young African American men from rural Hale County, Alabama, over the course of five years.
An overprotective mother engages a film crew working on a documentary about absentee civil servants, mistakenly believing they can help find her missing civil servant son.
Composed of eleven long hypnotic shots, this transfixing ethnographic documentary follows various pilgrims and tourists as they travel to and from a Nepalese temple via a cable car suspended high over a mountain jungle.
See De Palma’s astonishingly well-crafted gangster tale, a kinetic reteaming of the director and star of Scarface, on 11/17 and 11/19.
Mexico Now pays homage to renowned TV, theater, and film actor Ignacio López Tarso with a screening of the supernatural drama that launched the actor to international fame and was the first Mexican work to be nominated for an Oscar. With author Susana López Aranda (López Tarso’s daughter) in person.
Shot on-site at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and made in collaboration with the museum’s own office of film and television, this Sesame Street special was nominated for a primetime Emmy and won France’s 1984 Prix Jeunesse/International. Screening 11/18, 11/19. and 11/24.
Director Stephen Cone’s subtle and deeply felt film is one of the great recent coming-of-age movies. With Cone in person on 11/18!
Directed by Michael Koresky, Jeff Reichert, and Farihah Zaman, Feast of the Epiphany is an uncommonly sensitive rumination on the ways people form and choose communities, collaborations, and support groups in the face of hardship, labor, and loss.
Ten years after the original Ernest & Celestine film introduced the world to the unlikely friendship between a bear and a mouse, the sequel A Trip to Gibberitia takes the duo on a new adventure. Screening 11/25 (in French with English subtitles and 11/26 (in English).
One of the greatest romantic films ever made, a brilliantly acted, consistently playful, at times wrenching portrait of lost time, missed chances, and the possibility of changing one’s destiny.
The third outing in the saga of Jesse and Céline, set in Greece in late summer, is a bold, intensely emotional conclusion to their story.
Ten years after the original Ernest & Celestine film introduced the world to the unlikely friendship between a bear and a mouse, the sequel A Trip to Gibberitia takes the duo on a new adventure. Screening 11/25 (in French with English subtitles and 11/26 (in English).
See Venezuela’s Oscar submission for Best International Feature: the story of Leo, a blue-collar worker who participates in a musical contest in the capital of Caracas to help solve his economic problems. With director Miguel Ángel Ferrer in person!
One of the greatest romantic films ever made, a brilliantly acted, consistently playful, at times wrenching portrait of lost time, missed chances, and the possibility of changing one’s destiny.
Named for a Farsi term of endearment, Joonam is a personal film that echoes common experiences of the Iranian diasporic community, and will speak to anyone affected by the dislocation of the immigration experience. Screening 11/26 with director Sierra Urich in conversation with Farihah Zaman.
The third outing in the saga of Jesse and Céline, set in Greece in late summer, is a bold, intensely emotional conclusion to their story.
Filmed over a 13-year period, this is an unpredictable, entertaining, occasionally jaw-dropping documentary in which filmmaker Lea Glob follows artist Apolonia Sokul as she makes her way in the art world, moves around the world, and navigates various relationships. Glob will appear in person.
The Museum’s complete Todd Haynes retrospective kicks off December 1 with a special evening featuring the filmmaker himself, alongside a selection of his rarely screened early works, including The Suicide and Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud.
Inspired by his own childhood fixation on I Love Lucy, Todd Haynes created this poignant, marvelously transgressive short about a young boy in 1960s suburbia obsessed with a female sitcom star. Haynes will appear in person to present this and other early short films.
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 ...
Instructed by puppeteer Brian Carson, this media workshop focuses on the making of a short video (from 30 seconds to one minute) that involves puppet characters talking or resolving a problem.
See Todd Haynes’s brilliant latest film, a tricky and gripping dark comic creation starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, with Haynes in person on 12/2! Tickets free for MoMI members.
A lyrical and beautifully observed portrait of a friendship tested by the strains of the modern world, Against the Tide depicts the struggles of Bombay fishermen Rakesh and Ganesh, inheritors of the great Koli knowledge system. With director Sarvnik Kaur in person on 12/2.
In this delightfully creative compendium of musical numbers across Sondheim’s career, a trio of directors tackle highlights from six different shows in unexpected ways. In his segment, Haynes constructs a sultry and innovative update of Follies’ classic torch song “I’m Still Here." Free screening!
Hurricane Season is a powerful and stunning film, with an impressive ensemble cast and impeccable cinematography by María Secco. Director Elisa Miller will appear in person.
A magnificently mounted and beautifully acted film that both evokes and subverts the craftsmanship and artifice of Hollywood studio filmmaking, Far from Heaven was writer-director Todd Haynes’s most instantly critically acclaimed film.
