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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
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.
The Situation Room
Commissioned by the Museum, seven artists have each created four original GIFs that will be presented as two-month installations on the walls and ceiling of the visitor elevator.
Dialogues with the Unseen: Short Films from Southeast Asia
Six short works that touch on the theme of unseen forces that shape our world, created by artists from Southeast Asia.
Icons: Framing Images of Black Women on Movie Posters
An exhibit of lobby cards and posters from the 1930s through the 2010s for American films with Black women in featured roles.
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.
“A Wonderful, Awful Idea”: Animating the Grinch Who Stole Christmas
The sketches, animation cels, and backgrounds illustrate Chuck Jones’s approach to adapting Theodor Geisel’s classic story for the screen in this temporary exhibition.
Deepfake: Unstable Evidence on Screen
“Deepfakes” are videos that intentionally distort or fabricate actual events. This temporary exhibition presents a variety of media that demonstrate the instability of on-screen truths.
jackass-a-thon
jackass-a-thon
Museum of the Moving Image and Paramount Pictures present a special marathon screening of the first three jackass films, culminating in a preview screening of jackass forever, followed by a Q&A with Johnny Knoxville, Jeff ...
Boogie Nights
Boogie Nights
Paul Thomas Anderson's career kicked into high gear with his second film, a glorious and poignant paean to the extravagances of the 1970s set in the underground porn world of Los Angeles.
Muppet Treasure Island: 26th Anniversary
Muppet Treasure Island: 26th Anniversary
A screening of Brian Henson's beloved musical adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s swashbuckling adventure.
Nina Wu
Nina Wu
After eight years toiling in bit parts, aspiring actress Nina Wu finally gets her big break with a leading role in a spy thriller.
Ivan the Terrible, Parts I & II
Ivan the Terrible, Parts I & II
Cinema founding father Sergei Eisenstein’s final completed works form an historical diptych unprecedented in scale and visual audacity.
Notturno
Notturno
Notturno consists of astonishing, exactingly rendered images of everyday life navigated along liminal lands in the Middle East.
Freak Orlando
Freak Orlando
New German Cinema's Ulrike Ottinger playfully toyed with religion, literature, genre, and the sexually normative modern world.
Saint Jack
Saint Jack
Bogdanovich closed out his most celebrated decade with an underappreciated gem that adapts the novel by Paul Theroux.