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Curators’ Choice 2024: The First Batch

Dec 1 — Dec 31, 2024

Thanks to a notably strong year for both cinema and television, the Museum’s highly anticipated annual survey of some of our favorite releases from the last 12 months can’t be contained in a single lineup, and thus will roll out in two batches for December and January. Curators’ Choice focuses on work that premiered theatrically (or was initially broadcast) during 2024, while also making room for a few recent films still seeking distribution. The First Batch features a confluence of acclaimed documentaries, including Gotham Awards nominees No Other Land, Intercepted, Union, and Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, as well as recent nonfiction works by Deborah Stratman, Bill Morrison, and Ben Russell. The lineup also includes breakout hits Between the Temples, I Saw the TV Glow, and La Chimera, and two new works by emerging auteur Lance Oppenheim, culminating at the end of the month with a holiday week run of Dune Part Two on 70mm. Throughout, we’ll be welcoming filmmakers to discuss their work, with more guests to be announced closer to the screening dates. Curators’ Choice 2024: The Second Batch will be announced in December, and cover screenings for the month of January.  

Curators Choice: The First Batch was programmed by Senior Curator of Film Eric Hynes and Associate Curator of Film Edo Choi, with contributions from Curator of Science and Technology Sonia Epstein, Associate Director of Special Programs Sarah Luciano, and Editorial Director Michael Koresky.  

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An abandoned room that appears to be in the aftermath of some destruction, with yellow and blue curtains fluttering and red chairs strewn about the room. The windows on the right are missing and appear to have been blown out.

Intercepted
A man in a blue t-shirt reclines in a rocky and green landscape looking at the ground. In the far distance bulldozer can be seen on the horizon.

No Other Land
A woman in profile with dark long hair pulled behind her ear and a white pearl earring looks off with a serious expression, another woman out of focus in the foreground

Black Box Diaries
A man wearing a knit cap and a T-shirt that says "BOYCOT AMAZON" holds a piece of paper over his head against the side of a white truck with blue lettering.

Union
A teenage girl with chin-length brown hair stands in a green-tinted forest looking through branches.

Good One
A black and white photo from the sixties of three people in the back of a town car, looking at camera, two dark-skinned Black men and a lighter-skinned Black woman between them; the men smile, the woman purses her lips.

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
An armored knight rides on a horse in the middle of a Renniassance faire grounds, sword raised, looking at bleachers full of people watching.

Ren Faire
A young female figure sits cross-legged on a bed in a dark room with the silhouette of an older bald man sitting near her in a chair, as blue light streams through a window with half-open blinds.

FX’s Spermworld
An unshaven man in a rumpled beige suit embraced by a woman in a green dress outside at an excavation site at night

La Chimera
A metal tower against a blue sky and billowing clouds.

Direct Action
Two teenagers, one with short hair and medium brown skin and one with long hair and pale skin and red long hair, sit on a couch with a purple TV glow cast on them and a green light background.

I Saw the TV Glow
A man stands with his hands in his pockets at the entrance of a church, with the doors open showing a verdant green landscape beyond

Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
A man with glasses and shaggy brown hair and a woman with long tousled blonde hair stand next to each other at a low angle against a city streetscape with tall buildings. He looks at her, she looks away.

Matt and Mara
A split screen of a blonde woman in glasses and a dark haired man sleeping in separate beds facing each other, with the man upside down on the left.

Between the Temples
A blurry, surreal image of red and green of a figure in a red dress standing in a field with a glowing light in the middle of the frame.

Last Things (in 35mm) + Incident 
A group of people sit around a dinner table at Christmas surrounded by lights and a wreath

Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point
A group of people sit around a dinner table at Christmas surrounded by lights and a wreath

Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point
A group of people sit around a dinner table at Christmas surrounded by lights and a wreath

Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point
A group of people sit around a dinner table at Christmas surrounded by lights and a wreath

Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point
A gloved young woman holds the face of a young man with tousled hair in an intense embrace against a desert backdrop

Dune: Part Two (in 70mm)
A gloved young woman holds the face of a young man with tousled hair in an intense embrace against a desert backdrop

Dune: Part Two (in 70mm)
A man in shorts and a blue jacket kneels in front of a woman sitting in a green coat. They are in a forest, with an open book lying on the ground between them.

Here
A gloved young woman holds the face of a young man with tousled hair in an intense embrace against a desert backdrop

Dune: Part Two (in 70mm)
A gloved young woman holds the face of a young man with tousled hair in an intense embrace against a desert backdrop

Dune: Part Two (in 70mm)
A Native American man prays to the sky holding a feather against a snowy country backdrop, standing next to a fence. Next to the fence there is the top of a brown horse's head.

Eureka