External Shudders
On Friday, May 13, a live performance using slide projectors, external shudders, and a rotating screen with Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy.
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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.
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Mantrap
One of Clara Bow’s most beloved pictures and her own personal favorite, with live accompaniment by Makia Matsumura on May 14.
Three Materialist Shorts + Matsumoto’s Atman and Owen Land’s Wide Angle Saxon
With Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy in person.
The Thin Man
Dashiell Hammett’s hit novel—about retired private detective Nick, reluctantly pulled back into service, with the help of his keenly perceptive wife, Nora—was adapted into the comic mystery of 1930s Hollywood, kicking off a successful movie franchise to boot.
Her Name Was Europa
In the early 1920s, zoologist brothers Heinz and Lutz Heck launched a breeding back program to revive the aurochs, an extinct species of wild cattle shrouded in mythological belief and credited with supernatural powers.
Coming to America
Full of iconic moments and characters, John Landis's comedy classic featuring Eddie Murphy brings warmth and humor to the immigrant experience. Followed by book signing author and critic Jason Bailey.
Propagating Assent: Three Wartime Films
These three short films from Frank Capra, John Ford, and John Huston, all made during World War II under the auspices of the United States military, constitute some of the most artistically successful works of propaganda ever fabricated.
The Thin Man
Dashiell Hammett’s hit novel—about retired private detective Nick, reluctantly pulled back into service, with the help of his keenly perceptive wife, Nora—was adapted into the comic mystery of 1930s Hollywood, kicking off a successful movie franchise to boot.
The Trial
Sergei Loznitsa’s found-footage documentary is constructed of painstakingly researched and restored black-and-white footage from one of Joseph Stalin's first show trials, recorded in 1930 in Moscow.
Hud
Working with Martin Ritt, one of his favorite directors, Paul Newman plays a hell-raising cowboy with a pink Cadillac who doesn’t get along with his moralistic rancher father. It perhaps Newman’s greatest and most psychologically complex movie of the 1960s.
Memoria
Apichatpong Weerasethakul's serene masterpiece set in Colombia and starring Tilda Swinton begs for the big-screen treatment. Playing at MoMI May 20–22!
Memoria
Apichatpong Weerasethakul's serene masterpiece set in Colombia and starring Tilda Swinton begs for the big-screen treatment. Playing at MoMI May 20–22!