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Week of Events
Tut’s Fever Movie Palace
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
Museo
Museo
This gem of Mexican independent cinema, recreating the true story of a famous 1985 museum heist, artfully explores notions of replica, theft, and patrimony as they relate to Mexico’s indigenous cultural heritage.
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.
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!
The Godfather
The Godfather
On September 16 and 18, the granddaddy of contemporary crime films screens as part of the Caan Film Festival.
Vengeance
Vengeance
Virtuoso genre stylist Johnnie To returns with a darkly beautiful homage to the films of Jean-Pierre Melville.
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.
Games
Games
One of Curtis Harrington’s most successful films and a hidden highlight of Caan’s early career.
Us
Us
With this terrifying and intensely symbolic film, which cleverly evokes the DuBoisian concept of “double-consciousness,” Jordan Peele cemented his status as the premier horror director of contemporary Hollywood.
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!
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.
The Godfather
The Godfather
On September 16 and 18, the granddaddy of contemporary crime films screens as part of the Caan Film Festival.
“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.