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
This dynamic experience explores Jim Henson’s groundbreaking work for film and television and his transformative impact on culture.
Horrible Sites: Makeup and Production Design for The Exorcist
With material drawn from MoMI’s permanent collection, this exhibit explores the film’s production and makeup design, detailing how a stylish townhouse in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., and an innocent young girl were transformed into sites of horror.
Mr. Yellow Sweatshirt
Shot in the Roosevelt Ave/Jackson Heights station, this installation video captures the tide of New Yorkers streaming through an entrance to the subway system in what the filmmakers refer to as a “collective ballet.”
Reflected Forms: Story and Character in the Films of Todd Haynes
On the occasion of Todd Haynes’s May December, MoMI presents an exhibit with materials from the archives of filmmaker Todd Haynes, now part of the Museum’s collection, offering a glimpse into his process of transforming historical and cultural referents into formally ambitious, richly emotional films.
Auriea Harvey: My Veins Are the Wires, My Body Is Your Keyboard
The first major survey of the pioneering net-artist and sculptor Auriea Harvey features more than 40 of Harvey’s works from her career spanning nearly four decades. Extended through December 1, 2024!
Videofreak
Allen Riley's Videofreak reimagines the arcade game experience by emphasizing the art of video manipulation over traditional gameplay elements like scorekeeping and end goals.
Tide Predictor
Tide Predictor is LoVid’s first code-driven generative artwork, a departure from a majority of their catalog, which centers experimentation with actual analog video. It will be displayed on the Museum's Schlosser Media Wall in the lobby.
Fiona Tan: Footsteps
In this video installation drawn exclusively from films made between 1896 and the late 1920s, Tan pairs mesmerizing moments of people working over a century ago—sewing fishing nets, harvesting wheat, collecting chicken eggs, sorting oysters—with missives from her Australia-based father, read aloud by Scottish actor Ian Henderson.
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The Abyss: Special Edition
The Abyss: Special Edition
James Cameron has re-released his beloved underwater sci-fi adventure in a newly restored, remastered version of the acclaimed extended director’s cut screens 5/3 and 5/5.
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Radu Jude's anarchic satire is a wild and unforgettable ride through the vulgar indignities of the 21st century.
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Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Radu Jude's anarchic satire is a wild and unforgettable ride through the vulgar indignities of the 21st century.
Seven Seas: Chapter 1—Virginity
Seven Seas: Chapter 1—Virginity
This harrowing, intricately plotted urban melodrama depicts the disgrace and subsequent revenge of a virtuous young woman from a traditional middle-class household who suffers at the hands of the predatory scion of the wealthy, westernized Yagibashi family.
Seven Seas: Chapter 2—Chastity
Seven Seas: Chapter 2—Chastity
Part two of Shimizu's harrowing, intricately plotted urban melodrama depicting the disgrace and subsequent revenge of a virtuous young woman from a traditional middle-class household, who suffers at the hands of the predatory scion of the wealthy, westernized Yagibashi family.
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Radu Jude's anarchic satire is a wild and unforgettable ride through the vulgar indignities of the 21st century.
A Hero of Tokyo
A Hero of Tokyo
In just over an hour of tautly paced, plot-filled action, Shimizu unspools the tragic generational tale of Kenichi, a boy whose backsliding father abandons him.
Japanese Girls at the Harbor
Japanese Girls at the Harbor
Hiroshi Shimizu’s most celebrated silent film—about the jealousy that ensnares devoted Catholic school mates Sunako and Dora as they both fall for the motorcycle-sporting playboy Henry—screens with live piano accompaniment by Makia Matsumura on 5/4.
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The Abyss: Special Edition
The Abyss: Special Edition
James Cameron has re-released his beloved underwater sci-fi adventure in a newly restored, remastered version of the acclaimed extended director’s cut screens 5/3 and 5/5.
Forget Love for Now
Forget Love for Now
This devastating story of a single mother Oyuki who supports herself and her son Haruo by working at a “chabuya,” a hostess bar catering to foreigners, is set in the cosmopolitan harbor city of Yokohama.
A Woman Crying in Spring
A Woman Crying in Spring
Shimizu’s first talkie enacts another tale of fallen womanhood and migrant struggle.
I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me
I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me
On May 5, see this engrossing dark comedy from Mexican director Fernando Frías, based on the novel by acclaimed writer Juan Pablo Villalobos, followed by a Q&A with Frías.
Mr. Thank You
Mr. Thank You
Screening 5/5, Hiroshi Shimizu's beloved road movie fashions a tour of depression-era Japan that deserves mention in the company of Ford’s Stagecoach and Renoir’s The Crime of Monsieur Lange.
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Fertile Memory
Fertile Memory
Prismatic Ground kicks off its fourth edition with the Belgian Film Archive restoration of this mournful, poetic glimpse of everyday life in the occupied West Bank.
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Children in the Wind
Children in the Wind
In Shimizu’s most renowned and adored film in Japan, the idyllic country life of two brothers is suddenly thrown into crisis one summer when their father is wrongly arrested for embezzlement. Screens Friday, 5/10.
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The Muppets Take Manhattan
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!
Sayon’s Bell
Sayon’s Bell
Shimizu's film draws on the then widely circulated story of a 17-year-old Taiwanese aboriginal girl whose patriotic zeal so gripped her that she drowned amid a storm while seeing off her Japanese teacher for the Chinese front.
Four Seasons of Children: Spring/Summer
Four Seasons of Children: Spring/Summer
Singled out by several Shimizu scholars as a masterpiece, this first part of the 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. Screening 5/11.
Four Seasons of Children: Autumn/Winter
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.
Ornamental Hairpin
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.
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The Muppets Take Manhattan
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!
Introspection Tower
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 Star Athlete
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.
The Masseurs and a Woman
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.
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My Own Yard to Play in
My Own Yard to Play in documents children at play on the streets of Harlem in the late 1950s.
Back to Black
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.
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the V01D
Joshua Davis's the V01D is a programmatic artwork capable of generating tens of thousands of visual outputs.
2024 Teen Film Festival
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.
House on Haunted Hill
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.
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The Right Stuff
The Right Stuff
Kaufman’s mammoth adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s bestseller about the selection and lift-off of NASA’s first astronauts, known as the Mercury Seven, is a singular Hollywood epic. Screens 5/18 and 5/25.
Open Worlds Opening Day
Open Worlds Opening Day
Join MoMI for the opening day festivities of Open Worlds. Following a ceremonial ribbon-cutting at 4:00 p.m, DJ Stretch Armstrong will kick off the party alongside an installation by artist Joshua Davis.
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House on Haunted Hill
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.
Live Code: Real-Time Visual Music Since the 1980s
Live Code: Real-Time Visual Music Since the 1980s
Don’t miss this panel, part of Open Worlds opening weekend, featuring artists and subject experts who will share insights into the groundbreaking artwork, software, and events that have shaped live code practices.
Notes of an Itinerant Performer
Notes of an Itinerant Performer
Largely due to its atypical period setting in the late Meiji era and its theme of female self-sacrifice, Shimizu’s film has drawn comparison to similar works by Kenji Mizoguchi.
Children of the Beehive
Children of the Beehive
The most celebrated of Shimizu’s postwar films, screening 5/19, is a momentous work depicting the shattered state of reconstruction-era Japan.
Three Promises
Three Promises
In the early 2000s, Suha begins filming her daily life in Bethlehem as the Israeli army lays siege to the West Bank in retaliation over the second intifada.
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Summer Blockbuster Movie Trivia
Summer Blockbuster Movie Trivia
This Friday, bring your movie knowledge to MoMI! Movie Trivia NYC is back and leading an exciting trivia night dedicated to a Memorial Day weekend tradition: summer blockbuster season kick-off!
Mars Attacks!
Mars Attacks!
On 5/24, Tim Burton's gleeful riff on 1950s sci-fi schlock, about an invasion of ray-gun-wielding Martians, kicks off our wide-ranging summer series See It Big at the '90s Multiplex.
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The Right Stuff
The Right Stuff
Kaufman’s mammoth adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s bestseller about the selection and lift-off of NASA’s first astronauts, known as the Mercury Seven, is a singular Hollywood epic. Screens 5/18 and 5/25.
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Princess Mononoke
Princess Mononoke
Princess Mononoke is one of Hayao Miyazaki's most beloved films, a complex, often violent tale that pitted warring clans and creatures against each other in 14th-century Japan. Screening 5/26 and 6/1.
The Thin Red Line
The Thin Red Line
Terrence Malick’s World War II epic marked not only a professional comeback after 20 years of silence but also a major turning point in the filmmaker’s art.
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Preview Screening: The Dead Don’t Hurt
Preview Screening: The Dead Don’t Hurt
The Dead Don’t Hurt is a story of star-crossed lovers on the western U.S. frontier in the 1860s. Followed by a Q&A with Viggo Mortensen and Vicky Krieps
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The Thin Red Line
The Thin Red Line
Terrence Malick’s World War II epic marked not only a professional comeback after 20 years of silence but also a major turning point in the filmmaker’s art.
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NYC Gaymers at MoMI
NYC Gaymers at MoMI
To kick off Pride, MoMI welcomes NYC Gaymers for their 2nd annual Gaymer Pride, celebrating all aspects of gaming within the LGBTQIA+ community.
Princess Mononoke
Princess Mononoke
Princess Mononoke is one of Hayao Miyazaki's most beloved films, a complex, often violent tale that pitted warring clans and creatures against each other in 14th-century Japan. Screening 5/26 and 6/1.
Defending Your Life
Defending Your Life
Albert Brooks’s captivating romantic comedy about the afterlife, screening 6/1 and 6/2, is a perfect showcase for the inimitable writer-director-star's mix of caustic social observation and emotional warmth.
Joe Versus the Volcano
Joe Versus the Volcano
After winning the Oscar for writing Moonstruck, Shanley got the greenlight for his ambitious, surreal comedy about a hypochondriac workaday schlub (Tom Hanks) who finds out he has a fatal “brain cloud” and dumps his soul-sucking office job to embark on a final adventure.
The Big Lebowski
The Big Lebowski
The Coen brothers’ funniest film is a scene-to-scene blast, expertly folding an endless array of visual jokes and verbal gags into an absurdly convoluted plot that casts Jeff Bridges's unemployed, eternally stoned Los Angeles bowling bum Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski as a loser Philip Marlowe.
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Joe Versus the Volcano
Joe Versus the Volcano
After winning the Oscar for writing Moonstruck, Shanley got the greenlight for his ambitious, surreal comedy about a hypochondriac workaday schlub (Tom Hanks) who finds out he has a fatal “brain cloud” and dumps his soul-sucking office job to embark on a final adventure.
Introducing the Industry with IATSE
Introducing the Industry with IATSE
IATSE is the union behind entertainment, with over 170,000 members working in television, motion pictures, theater, and beyond. At this FREE EVENT on 6/2, meet the people who make the magic of the moving image possible, and discover how they got their start in the industry.
Defending Your Life
Defending Your Life
Albert Brooks’s captivating romantic comedy about the afterlife, screening 6/1 and 6/2, is a perfect showcase for the inimitable writer-director-star's mix of caustic social observation and emotional warmth.
Mars Attacks!
Mars Attacks!
On 5/24, Tim Burton's gleeful riff on 1950s sci-fi schlock, about an invasion of ray-gun-wielding Martians, kicks off our wide-ranging summer series See It Big at the '90s Multiplex.