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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.
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.
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.”
The Zone of Interest
The Zone of Interest
In his chilling, oblique study of evil in Germany during WWII, British director Jonathan Glazer (Under the Skin) has created a singular, unsettlingly timeless representation of inhumanity and our capacity for indifference in the face of atrocity. Screens 10/11.
La Chimera
La Chimera
With her customarily bewitching mixture of earthiness and magical realism, Alice Rohrwacher (Happy as Lazzaro) conjures a marvelous entertainment set in a rural Italy eternally caught between the ancient and the modern. Screens 10/12.
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Bill Duke’s lively and poignant film is especially memorable for its soundtrack, particularly its epochal appearance by a young Lauryn Hill. On Sunday, 10/15, there will be a family day event featuring karaoke activities with songs from Sister Act 2 and music-related video games for the whole family!
Fallen Leaves
Fallen Leaves
Sweet-souled in story, scalpel-sharp in filmmaking precision, this enchanting love story from Finnish virtuoso Aki Kaurismäki circles around two financially strapped Helsinkians who keep finding and losing one another in a world that seems to be falling apart. Screens Friday, 10/13.
4 Black Suits
4 Black Suits
The Marx Brothers meet Aristophanes in this offbeat road movie from Renos Haralambidis.
Lake Mungo
Lake Mungo
One of the most creative, unexpected, and chilling paranormal thrillers of the 21st century, from Australian director Joel Anderson plays 10/13 and 10/15—introduced by critic Adam Nayman at the 10/15 screening.
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Bill Duke’s lively and poignant film is especially memorable for its soundtrack, particularly its epochal appearance by a young Lauryn Hill. On Sunday, 10/15, there will be a family day event featuring karaoke activities with songs from Sister Act 2 and music-related video games for the whole family!
No Budget Story
No Budget Story
Haralambidis’s debut film, winner of the prestigious FIPRESCI prize at the Istanbul Film Festival, is a refreshing look at Athenian culture at the end of the century.
The Heart of the Beast
The Heart of the Beast
Based on a best-selling novel by Petros Tatsopoulos, the film moves between detective film noir, bittersweet comedy, and poetic cinema.
American Movie
American Movie
A sleeper hit when it came out in 1999, the scrappy, comic documentary American Movie has aged into an American classic. See it 10/8 and 10/4.
Hip-Hop & Halloween Family Day
Hip-Hop & Halloween Family Day
On 10/15, join us for an afternoon of family-friendly activities to celebrate 50 years of hip-hop music and to get in the mood for Halloween!
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Bill Duke’s lively and poignant film is especially memorable for its soundtrack, particularly its epochal appearance by a young Lauryn Hill. On Sunday, 10/15, there will be a family day event featuring karaoke activities with songs from Sister Act 2 and music-related video games for the whole family!
Inside Llewyn Davis
Inside Llewyn Davis
The Coen brothers’ acerbic yet profoundly felt character study of a singer-songwriter (Oscar Isaac) will be introduced by critic Adam Nayman, author of The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together, on 10/15.
Kokomo City
Kokomo City
Dir. D. Smith. 2023, 73 mins. DCP. In this wildly entertaining and refreshingly unfiltered documentary, filmmaker D. Smith passes the mic to four Black transgender sex workers in Atlanta and New York City—Daniella Carter, Koko ...
Cheap Smokes
Cheap Smokes
In the most autobiographical of Renos Haralambidis’s films, Nikos, struggling with work, romance, and finding meaningful purpose in life, roams the streets of Athens on a warm summer night looking for love and questioning his existence.
Lake Mungo
Lake Mungo
One of the most creative, unexpected, and chilling paranormal thrillers of the 21st century, from Australian director Joel Anderson plays 10/13 and 10/15—introduced by critic Adam Nayman at the 10/15 screening.