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GENERAL ADMISSION
You can buy admission tickets online. Pick a date and time to visit the Museum. Timed-entry slots are released generally one-month prior. All sales are final and payments cannot be refunded.
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
The Jim Henson Exhibition
This dynamic experience explores Jim Henson’s groundbreaking work for film and television and his transformative impact on culture.
Refreshing the Loop
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
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
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.”
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Eva Davidova’s participatory installation playfully incorporates both ancient myth and contemporary reality, highlighting the theme of interdependent responsibility in the wake of ecological disaster.
Dissolution
Dissolution
David Levine’s Dissolution is a jewel-box sculpture that conjures the past and future of the moving image. A 20-minute film played on a loop, it draws on the central conceit of iconic 1980s movies and TV shows such as Tron and Max Headroom: human characters who find themselves dematerialized and confined within the interior worlds of electronic devices.
Reflected Forms: Story and Character in the Films of Todd Haynes
Reflected Forms: Story and Character in the Films of Todd Haynes
On the occasion of Todd Haynes’s May December, MoMI presents an exhibit with materials from the archives of filmmaker Todd Haynes, now part of the Museum’s collection, offering a glimpse into his process of transforming historical and cultural referents into formally ambitious, richly emotional films.
Beau Is Afraid
Beau Is Afraid
Ari Aster joins us on January 3 for his most fully realized vision yet: a gonzo dark comedy that gets uncomfortably close to a man who's falling into a million pieces as he desperately tries to get back home.
Oppenheimer in 70mm
Oppenheimer in 70mm
Christopher Nolan’s surprise box-office behemoth starring Cillian Murphy, the rare blockbuster devoted to psychological warfare and the weight of history, will be presented in 70mm.
Hugo in 3-D
Hugo in 3-D
Martin Scorsese’s first feature designed for family audiences is a love letter to the art form that uses the new technology of digital 3-D filmmaking to celebrate the birth of movies. See it in 3-D January 5–7. Author Brian Selznick, who wrote the book on which the film is based, will appear in person on January 5!
Anatomy of a Fall
Anatomy of a Fall
With director Justine Triet in person! Triet’s sly and formidable Palme d’Or winner takes the form of both courtroom procedural and marriage postmortem, with an astonishingly modulated performance at its center by the great Sandra Hüller.
Citizen Ruth
Citizen Ruth
Alexander Payne’s debut, starring Laura Dern as a poor, drug-addicted mother of four unable to care for her children who finds herself pregnant yet again, instantly announced a striking new dark-comic voice to American cinema.
Election
Election
Classically structured, insightful, merciless, and jam-packed with finely tuned characters, Election remains one of Alexander Payne’s purest and funniest commentaries on human fallibility.
Hugo in 3-D
Hugo in 3-D
Martin Scorsese’s first feature designed for family audiences is a love letter to the art form that uses the new technology of digital 3-D filmmaking to celebrate the birth of movies. See it in 3-D January 5–7. Author Brian Selznick, who wrote the book on which the film is based, will appear in person on January 5!
About Schmidt
About Schmidt
This poignant and incisive character study of an ordinary Midwestern businessman on a journey of self-discovery stars Jack Nicholson in one of his most purely touching performances.
Fallen Leaves
Fallen Leaves
There’s nothing quite like a movie by Aki Kaurismäki, who has been honing to perfection sweetly melancholic stories of lonely eccentrics for decades. His latest is one of his purest, sweetest doses.
The Zone of Interest
The Zone of Interest
Glazer has made a film about the Holocaust unlike any other, using obliqueness and the abstraction of terror to speak to the ways in which we all shield our eyes from evil.
Sideways
Sideways
Packed in equal measure with brilliant comic set pieces and wistful dialogues between people desperate for connection, Alexander Payne's Sideways remains one of the 21st century’s most gratifying surprise hits. Screening 1/6 on 35mm.
Hugo in 3-D
Hugo in 3-D
Martin Scorsese’s first feature designed for family audiences is a love letter to the art form that uses the new technology of digital 3-D filmmaking to celebrate the birth of movies. See it in 3-D January 5–7. Author Brian Selznick, who wrote the book on which the film is based, will appear in person on January 5!
The Descendants
The Descendants
Dir. Alexander Payne. 2011, 115 mins. DCP. With George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Judy Greer, Matthew Lillard, Robert Forster. Payne’s eagerly awaited follow-up to Sideways is a smart and moving dramatic comedy with a remarkable ensemble ...
Godland
Godland
Hlynur Pálmason's film, shortlisted for the International Film Oscar, is a psychological epic in which morality, spirituality, tradition, and brute force collide amidst the majesty and terror of the natural world. Screening 1/7.
Nebraska
Nebraska
Dir. Alexander Payne. 2013, 115 mins. DCP. With Bruce Dern, June Squibb, Will Forte. Payne’s black-and-white, jewel-like family drama bears traces of the writer-director's more acerbic earlier films, but pushes his filmography into more introspective, ...
Downsizing
Downsizing
Payne’s speculative science-fiction comedy is premised on a fascinating and plausible scientific theory: if we were all five inches tall, the world’s resources would go a long way.
Succession, Season 4, Episode 3: “Connor’s Wedding”
Succession, Season 4, Episode 3: “Connor’s Wedding”
The most riveting hour of television in 2023, “Connor’s Wedding” unfolds in what feels like real time. On January 7, Emmy Award–winning director Mark Mylod will appear in person to talk about this episode, which altered the course of the series.