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Spanish director Pablo Berger’s Academy Award–nominated first animated feature, an adaptation of Sara Varon’s celebrated graphic novel, is a beautiful, surprising, and bittersweet tale of a friendship between a dog and his robot companion.
Marlon Riggs’s film is an unclassifiable masterpiece that breaks formal boundaries in an attempt to express an exuberant, joyous, angry, irreducibly complex Black gay identity. Thomas Allen Harris’s similarly formally adventurous film uses video and film to depict three sets of Black queer siblings.
One of the great musicals of the 1980s follows down-and-out flower shop assistant Seymour, who becomes a sensation when he discovers an exotic plant that craves fresh blood. Director Frank Oz will appear in person 10/4 to screen the rare, darker director's cut.
Join us for a celebration of the global phenomenon Yu-Gi-Oh! with a day of can’t-miss events for fans and newcomers alike!
As we celebrate Frank Oz, we take a look at the life of a superstar in whose success Mr. Oz most certainly had a hand. On 10/5 and 10/6 with Craig Shemin, President of the Jim Henson Legacy, in person!
Les Blank’s documentary remains perhaps the most compelling behind-the-scenes movie ever made about a film production.
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
Herzog’s pictorially stunning—and stunningly ambitious—adventure film stars Klaus Kinski as a deranged businessman determined to build an opera house in Peru. Screening 10/5 and 10/6.
When the Muppets’ college revue is a big hit, they decide to take the show all the way to Broadway. Adjusting to the hustle and bustle of New York City, Kermit takes a job at a local restaurant while he searches for a producer.
The global phenomenon Yu-Gi-Oh! has never been more visually exciting than in this 2016 film, presented as part of a day celebrating the series.
Les Blank’s documentary remains perhaps the most compelling behind-the-scenes movie ever made about a film production.
Les Blank’s documentary remains perhaps the most compelling behind-the-scenes movie ever made about a film production.
As we celebrate Frank Oz, we take a look at the life of a superstar in whose success Mr. Oz most certainly had a hand. On 10/5 and 10/6 with Craig Shemin, President of the Jim Henson Legacy, in person!
Herzog’s pictorially stunning—and stunningly ambitious—adventure film stars Klaus Kinski as a deranged businessman determined to build an opera house in Peru. Screening 10/5 and 10/6.
When the Muppets’ college revue is a big hit, they decide to take the show all the way to Broadway. Adjusting to the hustle and bustle of New York City, Kermit takes a job at a local restaurant while he searches for a producer. Director Frank Oz in person!
Les Blank’s documentary remains perhaps the most compelling behind-the-scenes movie ever made about a film production.
For the first time ever, five of the original Muppet performers come together to discuss the creation of their iconic characters under the visionary leadership of Jim Henson. With director Frank Oz in person!
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
Mike Leigh's raw, uncompromising domestic drama stars Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Oscar nominee for Leigh’s Secrets & Lies) in a gutsy, excoriating performance as a middle-aged, working-class woman whose emotional and physical health problems have metastasized into a profound and relentless anger.
In David Cronenberg’s sly and thought-provoking latest, techno-entrepreneur Karsh has developed a new software that will allow the bereaved to bear witness to the gradual decay of loved ones dead and buried in the earth. While reeling from the loss of his wife, Karsh uncovers a potentially vast conspiracy.
When the Muppets’ college revue is a big hit, they decide to take the show all the way to Broadway. Adjusting to the hustle and bustle of New York City, Kermit takes a job at a local restaurant while he searches for a producer.
Celebrate the essential democratic process of voting with this free trivia event! Form teams with your friends and family for the chance to win MoMI membership, Museum guest passes, and special prizes.
Using a mix of puppetry, animatronics, and modern special effects, Jim Henson and Frank Oz create a sense of visual astonishment rarely equaled in fantasy filmmaking. See it with co-director Oz in person on 10/12!
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
John Landis’s big-canvas extrapolation of Belushi and Aykroyd’s blues and soul duo is the most wildly entertaining adaptation of a Saturday Night Live skit of all time, wall-to-wall with legendary R&B stars. Screening 10/12 and 10/18.
Driven to despair over women's oppressive living conditions in her island community circa 1900, a midwife finds a violent solution to confront the evils of a male-dominated society.
Using a mix of puppetry, animatronics, modern special effects, and more, Jim Henson and Frank Oz’s film creates a sense of visual astonishment rarely equaled in fantasy filmmaking. With Frank Oz in person on 10/12!
Following a promotion, a professor invites his father to travel with him from Athens to Thessaloniki to attend the university ceremony. The trip provides an opportunity for father and son to sharpen their connection.
This tune-filled documentary traces the life of Yani Spanos from the Greek village of Kioto to Paris to Athens, capturing the legacy of the prolific composer who died suddenly in 2019 at age 85.
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
John Landis’s big-canvas extrapolation of Belushi and Aykroyd’s blues and soul duo is the most wildly entertaining adaptation of a Saturday Night Live skit of all time, wall-to-wall with legendary R&B stars. Screening 10/12 and 10/18.
Nagisa Oshima's classic experimental film about a man who survives an execution in late sixties Japan.
The Science New Wave Festival kicks off its 17th year with the U.S. premiere of a film that gets to the core of why we're here, featuring physicist and filmmaker Mark Levinson in person with a panel of guest speakers.
Oscar-winning writer, director, and animator Pete Docter takes us inside the mind of Riley, an 11-year-old girl whose emotions are plunged into chaos after she moves to a new home. Followed by a discussion with performers Frank Oz and Dave Goelz.
Dir. František Vláčil. 1967, 165 mins. Poland. DCP. In Polish with English subtitles. Marketa Lazarová adapts a novel by Vladislav Vančura first published in 1931. One of the leading Czech novelists, Vančura was a member of ...
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
Disney and Pixar’s Inside Out 2 returns to the mind of newly minted teenager Riley just as Headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions.
This is a story about psychological, sexual, and emotional cannibalism. The film tells a tale of two couples involved in academia and politics.
One of the great musicals of the 1980s follows down-and-out flower shop assistant Seymour (Rick Moranis), who becomes a national sensation when he discovers an exotic plant that craves fresh blood.
With spooky season in full swing, join MoMI for a Halloween event, featuring a magic lantern show, a DJ, raffle prizes, and more. Bring your dancing shoes and show off your costume with friends!
Big and furry Sulley (John Goodman) and his wisecracking sidekick Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal) are the top scare team at MONSTERS, INC., the scream-processing factory in Monstropolis in this Pixar favorite.
The story deals with the historical and political irony of a Croatian anarchist leader of the 1930s who is destroyed by his own forces, only later to be resurrected as a hero.
Oscar-winning writer, director, and animator Pete Docter takes us inside the mind of Riley, an 11-year-old girl whose emotions are plunged into chaos after she moves to a new home.
The filmmakers loosely adapt the Biblical story of Jesus, using Christ as a metaphoric symbol of the late ’60s protest movement: the “ultimate hippie.”
Disney and Pixar’s Inside Out 2 returns to the mind of newly minted teenager Riley just as Headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions.
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the New York Community Trust and to celebrate you—the incredible communities the organization has partnered with over the past 100 years—we’re thrilled to host a panel discussion in Queens about supporting people with disabilities and older New Yorkers.
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
For his third feature, Tyler Taormina films a Christmas Eve get-together for the members of an eccentric Italian American family. Taormina in person 10/24!
Big and furry Sulley (John Goodman) and his wisecracking sidekick Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal) are the top scare team at MONSTERS, INC., the scream-processing factory in Monstropolis in this Pixar favorite.
When agoraphobic shut-in Bob Wiley (Bill Murray) shows up at his office one day, little does uptight psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin (Richard Dreyfuss) know that he’s about to be plunged into his own absurd nightmare.
Part-thriller, part-romance between digital and desiring bodies, this is a film about the loss of childhood innocence.
The second feature by Egyptian artist Hala Elkoussy, this baroque and excessive film stands out within African and Arab cinemas, invoking the spirits of the “new cinemas” of the sixties and seventies.
Ale is a film director, and Alex is an actor. After 15 years together, they decide to go their separate ways and begin to act on an old joke made by Ale's father, that separations—and not unions—are cause for celebration.
When agoraphobic shut-in Bob Wiley (Bill Murray) shows up at his office one day, little does uptight psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin (Richard Dreyfuss) know that he’s about to be plunged into his own absurd nightmare.
Precocious tween Karin finds herself abandoned by her father in rural Japan. Living in a temple with her grandfather, she meets Anzu, a giant “ghost cat” and notorious layabout tasked with looking after her.
On the occasion of its restoration, we are delighted to present this major and yet still little-known film by Chantal Akerman.
This pocket-size portrait of evil and despair from Val Lewton stars Oscar-winner Kim Hunter in her film debut as a young woman who leaves the safety of her boarding school to track down her missing sister (a haunting Jean Brooks), who has fallen in with a death-obsessed, Satan-worshipping cult.
This pocket-size portrait of evil and despair from Val Lewton stars Oscar-winner Kim Hunter in her film debut as a young woman who leaves the safety of her boarding school to track down her missing sister (a haunting Jean Brooks), who has fallen in with a death-obsessed, Satan-worshipping cult.
Many believe Godzilla has turned his back on humanity when he suddenly arrives in Japan, leaving destruction in his wake. But when the true Godzilla appears, the monster on the rampage is revealed to be Mechagodzilla, a mechanical menace built by an invading alien force.
When nine-year-old Omri (Hal Scardino) receives a cupboard for his birthday, he soon realizes that with just one turn of a magical key, the toys he puts inside come to life. The best-selling children’s novel by Lynne Reid Banks comes to entrancing life in Frank Oz’s richly realized adaptation.
Organized by genre, this curated program brings together classical animators, self-taught pioneers, and independent and underground filmmakers.
Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko are covering the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg belonging to Mothra is found in Japanese waters and claimed by greedy capitalists.
From the smallest man in the world to an exhilarating journey to Mars, this luminous program presents creations from the last two decades of Argentine animated cinema that will appeal to the youngest viewers.
Celebrate a vibrant Day of the Dead at Museum of the Moving Image with a performance of Aztec Mexica dance, ofrendas, fun digital media activities for kids and families, and music from Indigenous dance troupe Yayauhki Tezcatlipoka.
hidorah, the Three-Headed Monster is an electrifying debut for Godzilla’s most popular enemy and marks a turning point in the original cycle of Showa era Godzilla films that sees the King of the Monsters come to the aid of humanity for the very first time.
Following the Museum's 2024 Day of the Dead celebration, we present Alejandro Amenábar's brilliant 2001 ghost story, starring Nicole Kidman as a young British mother awaiting her husband’s return from the front lines of World War I.
Thirty years after the kaiju’s first attack, a string of shocking disasters at sea signals the return of Godzilla
This program showcases happily mutant creations from yesterday and today, animated shorts that transform the animated medium, odysseys of growth, science, and nature that address evolutionary leaps in the human race.
From comics to animated blockbusters, to his children's magazine Anteojito (the longest running magazine of its kind in Latin American history), to commercials, García Ferré founded a powerful, heartfelt, and playful empire with no equal in Argentina.
When nine-year-old Omri (Hal Scardino) receives a cupboard for his birthday, he soon realizes that with just one turn of a magical key, the toys he puts inside come to life. The best-selling children’s novel by Lynne Reid Banks comes to entrancing life in Frank Oz’s richly realized adaptation.
