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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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
The Museum's core exhibition immerses visitors in the creative and technical process of producing, promoting, and presenting films, television shows, and digital entertainment.
This traveling exhibition explores Jim Henson’s groundbreaking work for film and television and his transformative impact on popular culture.
This dynamic experience explores Jim Henson’s groundbreaking work for film and television and his transformative impact on culture.
This exhibition explores the process of designing the fantastical characters for the Netflix series prequel to the 1982 film.
An exhibit of lobby cards and posters from the 1930s through the 2010s for American films with Black women in featured roles.
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.
This video exhibition presents films produced for scientific education and entertainment between 1904 and 1936, an era when cinema was still a novel tool for manipulating time and scale to show what was imperceptible to the naked eye.
The Museum is collaborating with creative technology studio Scatter on this project, which reimagines oral storytelling as a virtual, 3D experience and presents new possibilities for the future of the moving image.
An early classic from animation legends Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki, before they founded Studio Ghibli, this charming panda family film celebrates its 50th anniversary.
On May 29, Mann’s revival of the trendy 1980s TV series he helped create, a doubling down on the original’s themes of confused identity, extra-national criminality, and undercover blues.
In honor of Broadway's Tony Awards, on June 10 we present an encore of some of the best Muppet moments featuring stars and songs of musical theater.
A remake of Archie Mayo’s 1933 pre-Code The Life of Jimmy Dolan, this Warner Bros. crime film features John Garfield, in his first top billed role, as a New York boxer who goes on the lam to rural Arizona after being wrongly accused of murder.
The cult fervor for this early 2000s video store queer favorite remains as strong as ever thank to its streaks of black humor, John Waters–inspired aesthetic and color palette, and sincere performances from its romantic leads.
James Wong Howe’s first directorial feature dramatizes the formation of the Harlem Globetrotters, and features Sidney Poitier: 5/28 & 6/5.
A return to the lonely intimacy of the director’s earlier features (Thief, Manhunter), the film is a brooding study in disconnection and inhumanity, traced across a weblike urban landscape. Here, a taxi’s dim interior light reveals characters trapped within their own delusions.
In honor of Broadway's Tony Awards, on June 10 we present an encore of some of the best Muppet moments featuring stars and songs of musical theater.
On May 29, Mann’s revival of the trendy 1980s TV series he helped create, a doubling down on the original’s themes of confused identity, extra-national criminality, and undercover blues.
On June 10, with director Isidore Bethel in person! This documentary is a singular work of exploration and confession.
James Wong Howe paired for the first time with frequent collaborator William K. Howard for this ensemble dramatic thriller set entirely on a transatlantic ocean-liner where the high seas aren’t nearly as dangerous as the passengers, conspiring and interfighting over fortunes made and lost.
This early sound gem provided a young Spencer Tracy with a meaty, larger-than-life showcase as Tom Garner, a cigar-chomping, up-by-his-bootstraps industrialist whose supposed villainy is steadfastly contradicted by his right-hand man.
The infamous, real-life story of the quashing of an explosive 60 Minutes segment on Big Tobacco is the basis of Mann’s most urgent and stirring film.
A sui generis Hollywood entertainment about a hipster Greenwich Village witch, played by Kim Novak, who casts a romantic spell on her upstairs neighbor (James Stewart), Bell, Book and Candle was released the same year as Stewart-Novak’s other famous pairing, Vertigo.
On June 16, join us for a reception celebrating the exhibition on classic science and nature films, with a live performance by musicians Will Epstein and Fast Forward.
From June 17–19, celebrate the holiday commemorating the official end of slavery in the United States, and stop by MoMI for a weekend of media-making activities for the whole family that celebrate Black American heritage.
On June 17 and 19, celebrate Juneteenth with this gorgeously animated modern retelling of the classic Grimm fairy tale “The Frog Prince,” featuring Disney's first Black American princess.
One of the great New York movies of the 1950s, Sweet Smell of Success pits Lancaster’s ruthless columnist J. J. Hunsecker against Curtis’s desperate publicist Sidney Falco in a noirish, pitch-dark morality play.
A modern queer classic set in the Chinese American community in Flushing, Queens, the charming and emotional feature debut by filmmaker Alice Wu.
Herbert Ross's continuance of the Fanny Brice story was bolder than its trappings would indicate, and despite its 1930s setting, serves as a startlingly jaundiced look at its own time.
James Wong Howe paired for the first time with frequent collaborator William K. Howard for this ensemble dramatic thriller set entirely on a transatlantic ocean-liner where the high seas aren’t nearly as dangerous as the passengers, conspiring and interfighting over fortunes made and lost.
This early sound gem provided a young Spencer Tracy with a meaty, larger-than-life showcase as Tom Garner, a cigar-chomping, up-by-his-bootstraps industrialist whose supposed villainy is steadfastly contradicted by his right-hand man.
On June 17 and 19, celebrate Juneteenth with this gorgeously animated modern retelling of the classic Grimm fairy tale “The Frog Prince,” featuring Disney's first Black American princess.
On June 17 and 19, celebrate Juneteenth with this gorgeously animated modern retelling of the classic Grimm fairy tale “The Frog Prince,” featuring Disney's first Black American princess.
In this double feature, MoMI presents the New York premiere of Roy’s World: Barry Gifford’s Chicago, followed by a 35mm presentation of Wild at Heart.
One of the great New York movies of the 1950s, Sweet Smell of Success pits Lancaster’s ruthless columnist J. J. Hunsecker against Curtis’s desperate publicist Sidney Falco in a noirish, pitch-dark morality play.
A free preview screening of the debut feature of the beloved character Marcel, with star Jenny Slate in person
Herbert Ross's continuance of the Fanny Brice story was bolder than its trappings would indicate, and despite its 1930s setting, serves as a startlingly jaundiced look at its own time.
This major new exhibition addresses the origins, production, fandom, and impact of The Walking Dead, one of the most watched shows in the history of cable television. Presented with support from AMC Networks.
Artist Kirk Manley joins us in person on Opening Day to sign his exclusive exhibition poster art for the Living with The Walking Dead!
A sui generis Hollywood entertainment about a hipster Greenwich Village witch, played by Kim Novak, who casts a romantic spell on her upstairs neighbor (James Stewart), Bell, Book and Candle was released the same year as Stewart-Novak’s other famous pairing, Vertigo.
George A. Romero’s seminal, independent zombie movie, which laid the groundwork for the indie horror film, as part of our series Films of the Dead: Romero & Co.—next screening on July 9.
One of the most purely entertaining films legendary director Samuel Fuller made for indie producer Robert Lippert, The Baron of Arizona was shot by James Wong Howe during a fallow period of his career for a small fraction of his normal salary, and his chiaroscuro, hushed tones, and focus on interiority defines a film that elides the outdoor grandiosity aimed for in so many B westerns.
A fiendishly fun horror comedy with an enduring cult status, offering an entirely different take on the zombie film from its predecessors.
On June 26, Sofia Coppola’s singular debut feature, introduced by Hannah Strong, author of Sofia Coppola: Forever Young, followed by a book signing.
A fiendishly fun horror comedy with an enduring cult status, offering an entirely different take on the zombie film from its predecessors.
A newly restored, Santo vs. the Evil Brain marks the cinematic debut of El Santo (Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta), the most famous and iconic of all Mexican luchadores.
On June 30, an evening of cinematic fun. Join us for the chance to win MoMI membership, guest passes, and bragging rights.
The latest film from David Cronenberg is a return to the speculative body horror of the Canadian auteur’s early career, showing July 1–9.
The latest film from David Cronenberg is a return to the speculative body horror of the Canadian auteur’s early career, showing July 1–9.
Marks the reunion of Romero and special effects legend Tom Savini, and together they deliver a picture that pushes the envelope on every level, from body-munching gore to biting social critique.
Craig Shemin and puppet designer and builder Bonnie Erickson, will introduce this rarely seen 1972 gem and clip show on July 2 and 8.
The latest film from David Cronenberg is a return to the speculative body horror of the Canadian auteur’s early career, showing July 1–9.
George A. Romero’s seminal, independent zombie movie, which laid the groundwork for the indie horror film, as part of our series Films of the Dead: Romero & Co.—next screening on July 9.
The latest film from David Cronenberg is a return to the speculative body horror of the Canadian auteur’s early career, showing July 1–9.
An independent film crew making a low-budget zombie film encounters real-life zombies in Shinichiro Ueda's fresh and funny comic horror meta-movie—screening July 2 and 10.
Marks the reunion of Romero and special effects legend Tom Savini, and together they deliver a picture that pushes the envelope on every level, from body-munching gore to biting social critique.
George A. Romero’s seminal, independent zombie movie, which laid the groundwork for the indie horror film, as part of our series Films of the Dead: Romero & Co.—next screening on July 9.
The latest film from David Cronenberg is a return to the speculative body horror of the Canadian auteur’s early career, showing July 1–9.
Hilarious, endlessly quotable, gloriously gory, and endearingly sweet, Shaun of the Dead is a zombie film like no other—the world’s first “rom-zom-com.”