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The Magic of Oz: A Frank Oz Retrospective

Oct 4 — Nov 30, 2024

Cookie Monster. Miss Piggy. Little Shop of Horrors. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Bowfinger. Yoda. Whether he’s calling shots from behind the camera or acting in front of it, creating a character with only his voice or animating one through puppetry, Frank Oz has been one of the most versatile, eclectic, influential, and industrious moving image artists of the last half-century. In this comprehensive retrospective of the art of Oz, MoMI will screen all 15 films for which he served as director, including two collaborations with friend and mentor Jim Henson and four with fellow funnyman Steve Martin; films in which he stole scenes as a performer, such as The Empire Strikes Back and Inside Out; programs celebrating his character creations for Sesame Street and The Muppet Show; and conversations between Oz and friends, such as Steve Martin.  

Please note: there will be no opportunities for signing autographs.

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Upcoming Events in Series

Little Shop of Horrors: Director’s Cut with Frank Oz in person

Miss Piggy: A Retrospective
A number of colorful puppets, best known as Muppets, stand in front of a night-time New York City skyline.

The Muppets Take Manhattan

Miss Piggy: A Retrospective
A number of colorful puppets, best known as Muppets, stand in front of a night-time New York City skyline.

The Muppets Take Manhattan with Frank Oz in person
Five people, four men and a woman, sit in reclining chairs around a small table talking in a sunlit room

Muppet Guys Talking with Frank Oz in person
A number of colorful puppets, best known as Muppets, stand in front of a night-time New York City skyline.

The Muppets Take Manhattan
A fantastical creature opens its arms to a large pink floating crystal, surrounded by other creatures holding staffs

The Dark Crystal
Two men in sunglasses, fedoras, and suits look at us, the one on the left crossing his hands

The Blues Brothers
A fantastical creature opens its arms to a large pink floating crystal, surrounded by other creatures holding staffs

The Dark Crystal
Two men in sunglasses, fedoras, and suits look at us, the one on the left crossing his hands

The Blues Brothers
still from an animated film that shows a pink elephant-like creature next to two other cartoonish girl characters

Inside Out with Frank Oz and Dave Goelz
Two animated characters, one blue with glasses and one yellow with blue hair walk through a purple and blue fantasy world with light beams, looking up in wonder and awe

Inside Out 2

Little Shop of Horrors: Director’s Cut
Two animated creatures smile friendly at each other, a furry blue beast and a small round green creature with a single large eye and a mouth full of teeth

Monsters, Inc.
still from an animated film that shows a pink elephant-like creature next to two other cartoonish girl characters

Inside Out
Two animated characters, one blue with glasses and one yellow with blue hair walk through a purple and blue fantasy world with light beams, looking up in wonder and awe

Inside Out 2
Two animated creatures smile friendly at each other, a furry blue beast and a small round green creature with a single large eye and a mouth full of teeth

Monsters, Inc.
A man smiles into the camera, wearing a beige members only jacket

What About Bob?
A man smiles into the camera, wearing a beige members only jacket

What About Bob?
A little boy holds a tiny, toy-sized man wearing a Native American headdress in his hand

The Indian in the Cupboard
A little boy holds a tiny, toy-sized man wearing a Native American headdress in his hand

The Indian in the Cupboard
A white-haired man in a dark suit and a blonde woman in a black shirt embrace against an outdoor New England backdrop near a fountain and a church spire in the distance

Housesitter
Two men stand and smile at each other in a beige colored room, the man in the left in a yellow shirt and glasses around his neck attached to a string, the one on the right wearing a red shirt with a white collar.

Bowfinger
Two fashionably suited men with slick backed hair sit with cocktails at an outdoor restaurant on the docks

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with Steve Martin and Frank Oz in person
Two men stand and smile at each other in a beige colored room, the man in the left in a yellow shirt and glasses around his neck attached to a string, the one on the right wearing a red shirt with a white collar.

Bowfinger
Two fashionably suited men with slick backed hair sit with cocktails at an outdoor restaurant on the docks

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
A white-haired man in a dark suit and a blonde woman in a black shirt embrace against an outdoor New England backdrop near a fountain and a church spire in the distance

Housesitter
Two men—one bearded and one clean-shaven—smile joyously in a black and white photo.

The Best of Frank Oz: Frank’s Favorites
A man crouches on the road next to a woman collapsed in a billowing white wedding dress

In & Out
Two men, one wearing sunglasses, look to the left against a reddish yellow haze

The Score
Two men—one bearded and one clean-shaven—smile joyously in a black and white photo.

The Best of Frank Oz: Frank’s Favorites
A man crouches on the road next to a woman collapsed in a billowing white wedding dress

In & Out
Two men, one wearing sunglasses, look to the left against a reddish yellow haze

The Score
Two men in grey funereal suits talk surreptitiously in a coat closet

Death at a Funeral
A brunette woman in a black shirt and dark grey sweater gestures suspiciously with her hand while standing next to a brightly dressed blonde woman with a pink hair ribbon, white shirt and gingham skirt

The Stepford Wives
A small green creature named Yoda leans on a cane as he looks at a man in a tank top in a wooded area

The Empire Strikes Back (Special Edition)
A man in a suit stands in front of six illuminated screens against a dark brown wall.

Derek DelGaudio’s In and of Itself
A stern looking family of 12 people sit and stand in a beige and yellow colored library on an ornate rug. In the center is an elderly man in a suit who is clearly the patriarch. All seem to be posing for a picture.

Knives Out
A bearded man in a cloak with a serious expression stands against a stone wall

Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Two men in grey funereal suits talk surreptitiously in a coat closet

Death at a Funeral
A man in a suit stands in front of six illuminated screens against a dark brown wall.

Derek DelGaudio’s In and of Itself
A small green creature named Yoda leans on a cane as he looks at a man in a tank top in a wooded area

The Empire Strikes Back (Special Edition)
A brunette woman in a black shirt and dark grey sweater gestures suspiciously with her hand while standing next to a brightly dressed blonde woman with a pink hair ribbon, white shirt and gingham skirt

The Stepford Wives
A bearded man in a cloak with a serious expression stands against a stone wall

Star Wars: The Last Jedi