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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

Museum of the Moving Image

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

Museum of the Moving Image

This dynamic experience explores Jim Henson’s groundbreaking work for film and television and his transformative impact on culture. 

A gallery with a screen showing a statue's face, over which is projected black and white stripes that also emerge out of the screen onto the walls of the gallery

Cinema of Sensations: The Never-Ending Screen of Val del Omar

This major exhibition brings the immersive, multisensory cinematic installations of visionary Spanish artist, filmmaker, and inventor José Val del Omar (1904–1982) to U.S. audiences for the first time, along with commissioned pieces by contemporary artists Sally Golding, Matt Spendlove, and Tim Cowlishaw; Duo Prismáticas; Esperanza Collado; and Colectivo Los Ingrávidos.

A white elevator from the inside, with the door open, and a screen on the side

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.

A young woman with a boy's haircut reclines on a stuffed bear's head on the floor and holds a champagne bottle in one hand and a champagne glass in the other, smiling past the camera
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Sylvia Scarlett

On 9/23 and 9/30, see George Cukor and Katharine Hepburn’s screwball passion project. Made soon after the industry-transforming enforcement of Hollywood’s Production Code, it was considered scandalous in its day.

A pregnant woman in a red house dress lies on a couch smiling
Recurring

Junebug

Director Phil Morrison will appear in person Saturday 9/23 at 3:00 p.m. for a screening of this true American beauty, rich in character, complex in theme—one of the smartest and most moving domestic dramas of the century so far.

A black and white shot of a woman standing under a tree outdoors and facing a chair
Recurring

Fremont

Jalali’s Sundance standout, about a newly immigrated twentysomething from Afghanistan in the San Francisco Bay Area, has an exquisitely modulated tone all its own: somewhere between deadpan comedy and offhand sorrow. Screening 9/15–9/24.

A man in yellow and gray windbreaker and a woman in a pink jacket stand under a blue and white umbrella in the rain smiling
Recurring

Just Wright

In this romantic comedy from director Sanaa Hamri and writer Michael Elliot, physical therapist Leslie Wright (Queen Latifah) helps Scott McKnight (Common) find a second chance at love, compassion, and confidence, on and off the court.

A woman sits in a bathtub, the water nearly overflowing as she looks off screen

Femme Fatale + Reverse Shot Anniversary Reception

On Saturday 9/23 at 6:00 p.m., Brian De Palma’s silky, seductive, ridiculously entertaining meta-noir will be introduced by Reverse Shot editors Michael Koresky and Jeff Reichert and followed by a reception celebrating the 20th anniversary of Reverse Shot.