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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.
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.
Dan Perri and the Art of the Title Sequence
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
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.
Adapting Stories for the Screen: Sarah Polley’s Women Talking
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Nope
Nope
On 12/30, see Jordan Peele's wildly expansive, primally frightening movie, one of the year’s most puzzled-over, debated, and admired studio productions.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 ...