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
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Behind the Screen
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
This dynamic experience explores Jim Henson’s groundbreaking work for film and television and his transformative impact on culture.
Creatures from the Land of Thra: Character Design for The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
This exhibition explores the process of designing the fantastical characters for the Netflix series prequel to the 1982 film.
An Act of Seeing: Barry Jenkins’s The Gaze
In his companion piece installation to The Underground Railroad, Jenkins further engages ideas about visibility, history, and power in moving-image portraits of the show’s background actors.
LAIKA: Life in Stop Motion
This new exhibition invites visitors of all ages to appreciate the painstaking work of stop-motion animation, with eight animation stations equipped with 2-D LAIKA character figures and environments that visitors can use to experiment with and create their own short films.
Adapting Stories for the Screen: Chinonye Chukwu’s Till
This new temporary exhibition explores the process of creating the story depicted in Chinonye Chukwu’s acclaimed 2022 feature Till, through storyboards created by Jesse Michael Owen.
Adapting Stories for the Screen: Sarah Polley’s Women Talking
The material on view in this new exhibition provides a glimpse into the process of bringing the story of Sarah Polley’s film Women Talking to the screen.
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.
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.
10 events,
10 events,
11 events,
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
12 events,
Some Came Running
Some Came Running
Vincente Minnelli’s phenomenally directed and acted tale of rootlessness in post–World War II starring Frank Sinatra, introduced by Jake Perlin and Michael Koresky as part of a series celebrating the new series about Wes Anderson's inspirations for Asteroid City.
Jennifer’s Body
Jennifer’s Body
Karyn Kusama's teen horror cult favorite, featuring Diablo Cody’s signature droll and idiosyncratic dialogue, is the ultimate ode to toxic femininity. Introduced on May 20 by critic Kyle Turner and followed by a signing of his new book The Queer Film Guide.
18 events,
Access Mornings at MoMI
Access Mornings at MoMI
Offered the first Saturday of each month (June 2023–May 2024), free Access Mornings at MoMI are dedicated to families with children on the autism spectrum and give families an exclusive opportunity to explore exhibitions and ...
The Rescuers
The Rescuers
Among the most charming and vividly realized animated features of Disney’s post–Golden Age, this hit adaptation of a series of books by Margery Sharp follows the adventures of the Rescue Aid Society, a group of mice helping international victims in peril.
The Misfits
The Misfits
John Huston’s psychologically rich, exquisitely shot and acted neo-western, featuring a screenplay by Arthur Miller, based on his own short story, gave Marilyn Monroe one of her finest dramatic roles.
Nitrate Kisses
Nitrate Kisses
Experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer spent her career charting unknown pathways by inventing a language of cinematic lesbianism, not least of all with this exceptional 1992 work of nonfiction.
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
Ace in the Hole
Ace in the Hole
Billy Wilder’s acid satire of the American media is a joltingly grim drama about a former big-city newspaper reporter named Chuck Tatum (a ferocious Kirk Douglas) who wields his lack of ethics with cynical glee.
O Fantasma
O Fantasma
Portuguese filmmaker João Pedro Rodrigues dives deep into social and erotic alienation, and finds in queerness an embrace of our most feral human impulses.
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
With its singular mix of Hollywood melodrama and ragged seventies authenticity, this film remains a crucial film to understanding the complexity and diversity of Scorsese’s filmography.
15 events,
A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire
Full of iconic moments that pointed toward a new kind of cinema of the 1950s, Elia Kazan’s film is the ultimate cinematic representative of the Actors Studio period in movie.
The Rescuers
The Rescuers
Among the most charming and vividly realized animated features of Disney’s post–Golden Age, this hit adaptation of a series of books by Margery Sharp follows the adventures of the Rescue Aid Society, a group of mice helping international victims in peril.
Rope
Rope
Contemporary critics may have all but ignored what was going on between Hitchcock's Leopold and Loeb–like killers in favor of fixating on its form—a movie told in real time through extended shots and invisible cuts—modern audiences can revel in the simmering erotic tension between Granger and Dall.
10 events,
11 events,
Moving Image Awards
Moving Image Awards
The Moving Image Awards honors the most renowned and acclaimed actors and artists of our time. This June 6, MoMI is thrilled to celebrate legendary actor Michael J. Fox with a Lifetime Achievement Award and John Wilson for Innovative Series.
10 events,
13 events,
Sloan Science & Film Shorts: The Chef and A Hole
Sloan Science & Film Shorts: The Chef and A Hole
Join us for a presentation of two short narrative films selected from the Sloan Science & Film Teacher’s Guide which address the intersection of technology and society.
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
Dead Ringers
Dead Ringers
A modern take on David Cronenberg’s 1988 thriller, Dead Ringers features Rachel Weisz playing the double-lead roles of Elliot and Beverly Mantle.
12 events,
Back to the Future
Back to the Future
Powered by Oscar-winning special effects, a catchy pop song by Huey Lewis & the News, and a mind-bending riff on the Oedipal complex, this Reagan-era blockbuster has stood the test of time.
16 events,
Fool for Love
Fool for Love
This absorbing, intensely physical drama set at a rundown motel in the Mojave Desert is based on the play by Sam Shepard, also stars as a rodeo stunt rider trying to convince his ex-girlfriend (Kim Basinger) that they should rekindle their flame.
Back to the Future
Back to the Future
Powered by Oscar-winning special effects, a catchy pop song by Huey Lewis & the News, and a mind-bending riff on the Oedipal complex, this Reagan-era blockbuster has stood the test of time.
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
Bad Day at Black Rock
Bad Day at Black Rock
John Sturges’s lean-and-mean CinemaScope color noir featuring a beguiling Spencer Tracy as a no-nonsense man investigating a suspected killing in a tiny California desert town plays 6/10 on 35mm.
LARP: Creatures of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
LARP: Creatures of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
Join us for a live-action role-playing game to explore the fantastical and sometimes terrifying stories of the planet Thra, designed and led by game designer, writer, and interactive artist Sharang Biswas and MoMI educators.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Spielberg's operatic tale of a group of humans (including Dreyfuss’s suburban everydad) preparing to make contact with mysterious outer-space visitors is an emotionally stirring, visually jaw-dropping journey.
15 events,
Inferno (3-D)
Inferno (3-D)
One of the best films produced during Hollywood’s brief embrace of Technicolor 3-D, Roy Ward Baker’s sunbaked potboiler finds Robert Ryan in the role of Donald, a callous millionaire stranded in the Mojave Desert with a broken right leg.
Nitrate Kisses
Nitrate Kisses
Experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer spent her career charting unknown pathways by inventing a language of cinematic lesbianism, not least of all with this exceptional 1992 work of nonfiction.
Three Classics by the Maysles Brothers: Showman, Meet Marlon Brando, A Visit with Truman Capote
Three Classics by the Maysles Brothers: Showman, Meet Marlon Brando, A Visit with Truman Capote
Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson have been devoted fans of groundbreaking documentarians Albert and David Maysles for their entire careers together. This program features three Maysles films that evoke the period or locations depicted in Asteroid City.
O Fantasma
O Fantasma
Portuguese filmmaker João Pedro Rodrigues dives deep into social and erotic alienation, and finds in queerness an embrace of our most feral human impulses.
10 events,
10 events,
10 events,
10 events,
13 events,
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Spielberg's operatic tale of a group of humans (including Dreyfuss’s suburban everydad) preparing to make contact with mysterious outer-space visitors is an emotionally stirring, visually jaw-dropping journey.
Mulholland Drive
Mulholland Drive
On 6/16, see Lynch’s bleary and bewitching vision of Tinsel Town, a love story about two women whose bond—with all its frustration, eroticism, chemistry, blending, bleeding, and explosive desire—spans the feeling of cinema itself.
14 events,
Celebrate Juneteenth at MoMI 2023
Join us for a weekend of performances, film screenings, media-making activities, and a gallery talk.
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The film that introduced Indiana Jones to the world remains one of the most exciting films of all time, a perfectly engineered roller coaster that functions as both a winking homage to the action serials of director Spielberg’s childhood and a singular adventure in its own right.
The Watermelon Woman
The Watermelon Woman
For her wildly assured and wonderful 1996 feature, multihyphenate Dunye dives into a meta-cinematic world of cultural history, self-interrogation, cinematic dialectics, and sex and romance.
15 events,
Beat Street
Beat Street
The Harry Belafonte–produced, Arthur Baker–scored Beat Street made a bigger impact globally than Breakin' and has aged much better as both a Black-led musical and an invaluable document of early ’80s hip-hop culture in New York.
The Watermelon Woman
The Watermelon Woman
For her wildly assured and wonderful 1996 feature, multihyphenate Dunye dives into a meta-cinematic world of cultural history, self-interrogation, cinematic dialectics, and sex and romance.
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The film that introduced Indiana Jones to the world remains one of the most exciting films of all time, a perfectly engineered roller coaster that functions as both a winking homage to the action serials of director Spielberg’s childhood and a singular adventure in its own right.
13 events,
Beat Street
Beat Street
The Harry Belafonte–produced, Arthur Baker–scored Beat Street made a bigger impact globally than Breakin' and has aged much better as both a Black-led musical and an invaluable document of early ’80s hip-hop culture in New York.
10 events,
10 events,
10 events,
12 events,
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Spielberg’s enduring masterpiece, one of the most wondrous and deeply touching of all science-fiction movies, screens 6/23, 6/25 & 7/1.
13 events,
The Great Muppet Caper
The Great Muppet Caper
Jim Henson’s feature directorial debut brings the Muppets to England, where reporters Kermit and Fozzie (and their photographer Gonzo) are tracking down jewel thieves who have set their sights on the incredibly valuable Baseball Diamond.
The Green Ray (Le rayon vert)
The Green Ray (Le rayon vert)
One of the great movies set during summertime, Eric Rohmer’s emotionally complex yet intensely satisfying tale deals with the anxieties and pleasures of that elusive thing known as vacation.
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
This pivotal 1950s monster movie influenced generations of genre films, including the Godzilla franchise, with its tremendous stop-motion special effects created by the legendary Ray Harryhausen.
14 events,
The Great Muppet Caper
The Great Muppet Caper
Jim Henson’s feature directorial debut brings the Muppets to England, where reporters Kermit and Fozzie (and their photographer Gonzo) are tracking down jewel thieves who have set their sights on the incredibly valuable Baseball Diamond.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Spielberg’s enduring masterpiece, one of the most wondrous and deeply touching of all science-fiction movies, screens 6/23, 6/25 & 7/1.
The Watermelon Woman
The Watermelon Woman
For her wildly assured and wonderful 1996 feature, multihyphenate Dunye dives into a meta-cinematic world of cultural history, self-interrogation, cinematic dialectics, and sex and romance.
The Green Ray (Le rayon vert)
The Green Ray (Le rayon vert)
One of the great movies set during summertime, Eric Rohmer’s emotionally complex yet intensely satisfying tale deals with the anxieties and pleasures of that elusive thing known as vacation.
10 events,
10 events,
10 events,
10 events,
12 events,
The Great Muppet Caper
The Great Muppet Caper
Jim Henson’s feature directorial debut brings the Muppets to England, where reporters Kermit and Fozzie (and their photographer Gonzo) are tracking down jewel thieves who have set their sights on the incredibly valuable Baseball Diamond.
The Duke of Burgundy
The Duke of Burgundy
Unpredictable British genre filmmaker Strickland, through the use of hypnotic imagery and a tsunami of phantasmagoric sound design, finds the idiosyncrasy of two women's kinky relationship as well as its very human core.
14 events,
Access Mornings at MoMI
Access Mornings at MoMI
Offered the first Saturday of each month (June 2023–May 2024), free Access Mornings at MoMI are dedicated to families with children on the autism spectrum and give families an exclusive opportunity to explore exhibitions and ...
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Visually extravagant yet written with a sharp eye for small details, Who Framed Roger Rabbit is the rare blockbuster that’s also a quirky, personal, movie-mad homage.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Spielberg’s enduring masterpiece, one of the most wondrous and deeply touching of all science-fiction movies, screens 6/23, 6/25 & 7/1.
The Duke of Burgundy
The Duke of Burgundy
Unpredictable British genre filmmaker Strickland, through the use of hypnotic imagery and a tsunami of phantasmagoric sound design, finds the idiosyncrasy of two women's kinky relationship as well as its very human core.
12 events,
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Visually extravagant yet written with a sharp eye for small details, Who Framed Roger Rabbit is the rare blockbuster that’s also a quirky, personal, movie-mad homage.
An American Werewolf in London
An American Werewolf in London
Rick Baker’s eye-popping practical makeup effects (which won an Oscar) enhance this marvelous dark comedy that still has the power to make audiences scream and giggle.