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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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Cinema of Sensations: The Never-Ending Screen of Val del Omar
This major exhibition brings the immersive, multisensory cinematic installations of visionary Spanish artist, filmmaker, and inventor José Val del Omar (1904–1982) to U.S. audiences for the first time, along with commissioned pieces by contemporary artists Sally Golding, Matt Spendlove, and Tim Cowlishaw; Duo Prismáticas; Esperanza Collado; and Colectivo Los Ingrávidos.
Refreshing the Loop
Refreshing the Loop continues Museum of the Moving Image’s tradition of displaying GIFs in our passenger elevator. This new iteration places artists who have been widely known for their GIFs for more than two decades in conversation with selected artists who have gained notable popularity in the last few years.
2001: A Space Odyssey (70mm)
2001: A Space Odyssey (70mm)
See Stanley Kubrick's cinema-shifting masterwork in 70mm August 3–27 at MoMI.
Airport
Airport
Epically filmed by 70mm veteran Ernest Laszlo, Airport sparked the star-studded disaster blockbuster genre that is still going strong today. Screens 8/19–8/26 in a double feature with its spoof Airplane!
Migrant Nation Reel Stories: Film Screening and Community Conversation
Migrant Nation Reel Stories: Film Screening and Community Conversation
Join us 8/25 for Migrant Nation Reel Stories, a free screening of moving, inspiring documentary shorts about the theme of immigrant resilience directed by filmmakers who reside in New York City.
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Baby Boy
Baby Boy
John Singleton’s film offers an unsparing look at the cyclical, intergenerational trials faced by a young man, Jody (Gibson), as he struggles to live up to the challenges and responsibilities of adulthood,
Labyrinth
Labyrinth
Dir. Jim Henson. 1986, 101 mins. DCP. With Jennifer Connelly, David Bowie. In order to save her brother, who has been captured by the Goblin King, Sarah must find her way through a magical labyrinth. ...
Idlewild
Idlewild
On August 26, see Idlewild and John Singleton's Baby Boy in a special discount combination ticket! Dir. Bryan Barber, 2006. 121 mins. With André 3000, Big Boi, Terrence Howard, Paula Patton, Cicely Tyson, Macy Gray, ...
Airport
Airport
Epically filmed by 70mm veteran Ernest Laszlo, Airport sparked the star-studded disaster blockbuster genre that is still going strong today. Screens 8/19–8/26 in a double feature with its spoof Airplane!
Baby Boy
Baby Boy
John Singleton’s film offers an unsparing look at the cyclical, intergenerational trials faced by a young man, Jody (Gibson), as he struggles to live up to the challenges and responsibilities of adulthood,
Beyond the Mat
Beyond the Mat
On 8/26, the documentary on the no-holds-barred world of professional wrestling will be introduced by Tod Gordon, creator of Extreme Championship Wrestling, and author Sean Oliver, co-owner of pro wrestling production company Kayfabe Commentaries, plus a signing of their new book Tod Is God: The Authorized Story of How I Created Extreme Championship Wrestling!
Airplane!
Airplane!
The wild comedy spoof Airplane! sparked a spoof comedy explosion. Screening 8/19, 8/26, and 9/2 alongside a 70mm screening of Airport, the self-serious disaster melodrama that inspired it.
Labyrinth
Labyrinth
Dir. Jim Henson. 1986, 101 mins. DCP. With Jennifer Connelly, David Bowie. In order to save her brother, who has been captured by the Goblin King, Sarah must find her way through a magical labyrinth. ...
Bend It Like Beckham
Bend It Like Beckham
In this megahit from 2002, Jess (Parminda Nagra) wants to pursue a passion for football, to the chagrin of her parents, who want her to live up to their ideas of a woman’s duties and fear for her acceptance due to their own traumatic experiences.
Starman
Starman
Horror master Carpenter shifted gears in 1984 for this gentle yet commanding extra-terrestrial love story starring an Oscar-nominated Bridges as an outer-space being who crash lands in Wisconsin.
Brick Lane
Brick Lane
Based on the novel by Monica Ali, Brick Lane is a tender depiction of the Bangladeshi community, immersing the viewer in a time and place marked by crisis without reducing the very full characters to political allegory.
My Beautiful Laundrette
My Beautiful Laundrette
In this Thatcher-era smash, Omar (Gordon Warnecke), a first-generation Pakistani-British man living in London, encounters his childhood friend turned skinhead Johnny (Daniel Day-Lewis), and love unexpectedly blooms while they manage Omar’s family laundry business.
2001: A Space Odyssey (70mm)
2001: A Space Odyssey (70mm)
See Stanley Kubrick's cinema-shifting masterwork in 70mm August 3–27 at MoMI.