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.
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 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.
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.
This exhibit explores the art of the title sequence by focusing on designs by one of its most acclaimed practitioners, Dan Perri. His work in the industry spans 50 years, from the early 1970s through the 2010s.
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.
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.
On 12/26, see Ingmar Bergman’s magnificent family saga, shown in Bergman’s preferred version, which aired as a four-part miniseries on Swedish television.
On December 27 & 30, we kick off a week of screening all three extended editions of Peter Jackson’s beloved trilogy.
The second installment in Peter Jackson’s improbably brilliant, mammothly successful trilogy. December 28 & 31.
The third installment in Peter Jackson’s improbably brilliant, mammothly successful trilogy. December 29 and January 1, 2023.
On 12/29, see Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical journey into his adolescence. a marvelously multilayered experience, with costar Paul Dano in person!
On December 27 & 30, we kick off a week of screening all three extended editions of Peter Jackson’s beloved trilogy.
Juan Pablo González has created a drama of striking observational realism that’s as much about environmental change as the fascinating community of people at its center.
The second installment in Peter Jackson’s improbably brilliant, mammothly successful trilogy. December 28 & 31.
Screening 12/31, Rise of the Guardians is a holiday-themed animated adventure tale starring the Immortal Guardians of William Joyce's beloved book series
On December 31, see two brilliant performances by Tilda Swinton—as an elderly mother and her middle-aged filmmaker daughter—in Joanna Hogg's exquisite The Eternal Daughter, which takes the seeming form of a classical ghost story.
The third installment in Peter Jackson’s improbably brilliant, mammothly successful trilogy. December 29 and January 1, 2023.
Hong creates a rich world of mundanity and possibility, in which relationships and professional aspirations are often connected, and no future is certain.
One of Hong’s most ruminative and slyly caustic films, In Front of Your Face follows a middle-aged woman who has come back to South Korea after living abroad for many years.
Lee Hyeyoung gives another standout, ruminative performance as a cantankerous middle-aged novelist who hasn’t written in years and is in desperate need of a new creative outlet.
Dir. Jeff Tremaine. 2022, 96 mins. DCP. With Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Dave England, Wee Man, Danger Ehren, Preston Lacy. Twenty years after the surprising box office success of Jackass: The Movie, and twelve ...
Free screening with director Ron Howard in person! Dir. Ron Howard. 2022, 142 min. DCP. With Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell, Joel Edgerton, and Tom Bateman. Story by Don Macpherson and William Nicholson. Screenplay by William ...
With this video installation by artist sTo Len, who is currently a Public Artist in Residence (PAIR) at the New York City Department of Sanitation, viewers have the chance to report, via green screen, from various shuttered waste sites in New York City, such as the Fresh Kills Landfill.
On 1/6, see the great British director Terence Davies's aching biographical film about pacifist poet and World War I veteran Siegfried Sassoon.
Alex Pritz joins us in person 1/6 for his acclaimed documentary, a marvel of collaborative filmmaking partially shot by the Uru-eu-wau-wau people and filmed over the course of several years.
On 1/7 & 1/13, see one of the most underappreciated films of 2022 from American cinema’s deftest memory maker, Richard Linklater.
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
Olivier Assayas's magical and brilliantly conceived 2022 re-imagining of his own 1996 movie stars Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander as a Hollywood star who has come to Paris to fill the role once inhabited by Maggie Cheung.
The fiction feature debut by documentary filmmaker Alice Diop is both intensely psychological and observationally distant, a film about the impossibility of fully knowing another person and the estrangement of living in an adopted world.
In her exquisitely crafted jewel of a film, Céline Sciamma has fashioned an uncommonly perceptive, lightly metaphysical drama about memory, grief, coming-of-age, and the gifts passed between generations.
Olivier Assayas's magical and brilliantly conceived 2022 re-imagining of his own 1996 movie stars Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander as a Hollywood star who has come to Paris to fill the role once inhabited by Maggie Cheung.
As environmental toxicity and civil unrest escalate, the relationship between this family and the neglected, eco-essential kites forms a poetic chronicle of the city’s collapsing ecology and deepening social fault lines.
In his triumphant return to feature filmmaking, virtuoso South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook delivers a breathlessly involving thriller that doubles as a kind of twisted romantic comedy.
Join Reverse Shot editors and critics for a live online event announcing Reverse Shot's Best of 2022 film list.
Katia and Maurice Krafft loved two things—each other and volcanoes. For two decades, the daring French volcanologist couple roamed the planet, chasing eruptions and documenting their discoveries. Free members screening of Sara Dosa's documentary on 1/11.
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
On 1/7 & 1/13, see one of the most underappreciated films of 2022 from American cinema’s deftest memory maker, Richard Linklater.
Jane Schoenbrun’s feature debut uses the textures and trappings of the horror genre to descend into a striking depiction of a particularly 21st-century loneliness.
Marcel is an adorable one-inch-tall shell who ekes out a colorful existence with his grandmother Connie and their pet lint, Alan. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On plays so successfully as a documentary that you might catch yourself believing it’s true.
On January 14, see one of the most profound and inspiring works of nonfiction in recent memory, a vibrant portrait of life in its loving, generous documentation of death, with director Ondi Timoner and Rabbi Rachel Timoner in person!
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
Claire Denis has never made a film so sharply straight and to the point as this, her wintriest and weariest work, starring Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon.
Stan Brakhage made almost 400 films over 51 years, varying in lengths from nine seconds to four and a quarter hours. His finest films are not his best known, according to Fred Camper, who curated this selection screening 1/14.
Claire Denis’s distinctively Denisian take on the erotic political thriller stars Qualley as a marooned American journalist and Alwyn as the shifty English dealmaker with whom she becomes entangled in ethically unstable Nicaragua.
Available once again, only on 16mm per Camper’s wishes, these films demonstrate that Camper is not only one of our most invaluable film critics but also a formidable artist. Screening 1/14.
Marcel is an adorable one-inch-tall shell who ekes out a colorful existence with his grandmother Connie and their pet lint, Alan. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On plays so successfully as a documentary that you might catch yourself believing it’s true.
The action spectacle of the summer took audiences by storm and surprise with its old-fashioned storytelling vigor and brilliantly orchestrated stunt work that demands to be seen on a big screen.
Gut-bustingly funny even as it grows increasingly surreal and provocative, The Rehearsal questions the dubious concept of reality itself.
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an epic, emotional, and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin.
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
This immersive VR experience humanizes the potential of nuclear catastrophe, focusing on how the presence, production, and use of nuclear weapons can only lead to violence and destruction.
Marcel is an adorable one-inch-tall shell who ekes out a colorful existence with his grandmother Connie and their pet lint, Alan. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On plays so successfully as a documentary that you might catch yourself believing it’s true.
Richard Kelly’s horror-tinged drama about a suburban kid (Jake Gyllenhaal) plagued by apocalyptic visions is one of the true cult classics of the 21st century. November 18–19.
On 1/20, we kick off our Snubbed series with Howard Hawks’s unqualified noir masterpiece, starring Bogart as Philip Marlowe, a private detective hired to investigate a series of troubles plaguing an affluent family.
Richard Kelly’s horror-tinged drama about a suburban kid (Jake Gyllenhaal) plagued by apocalyptic visions is one of the true cult classics of the 21st century. November 18–19.
Investing two years and two million dollars, Chaplin dared to make a silent picture four years after synchronized sound revolutionized cinema—and created his masterpiece. See it on the big screen 1/21 & 1/22!
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
American cinema classicist James Gray proves yet again his crucial place in the contemporary cinematic landscape with this profoundly felt, autobiographically inspired coming-of-age drama set in Queens circa 1980.
On January 21 and 22, see Qiu Jiongjiong's hand-crafted masterwork, an homage to classical Chinese opera.
Investing two years and two million dollars, Chaplin dared to make a silent picture four years after synchronized sound revolutionized cinema—and created his masterpiece. See it on the big screen 1/21 & 1/22!
On 1/22, we begin our Qiu Jiongjiong retrospective with these two playful and entertaining short documentaries, introduced by guest curator Shelly Kraicer.
On 1/20, we kick off our Snubbed series with Howard Hawks’s unqualified noir masterpiece, starring Bogart as Philip Marlowe, a private detective hired to investigate a series of troubles plaguing an affluent family.
On January 22, see Qiu Jiongjiong's hand-crafted masterwork, an homage to classical Chinese opera.
This moody and electrifying thriller with Humphrey Bogart and directed by Nicholas Ray, master of the fifties melodrama about troubled masculinity, is among Hollywood’s darkest character studies.
Investing two years and two million dollars, Chaplin dared to make a silent picture four years after synchronized sound revolutionized cinema—and created his masterpiece. See it on the big screen 1/21 & 1/22!
Screening on 1/27, as part of Science on Screen, one of the most acclaimed documentaries of 2022, set on the legendary Sable Island, known for its herd of wild horses, unparalleled population of grey seals, and shipwrecks.
Qiu’s remarkable debut is an experimental black-and-white documentary portrait of his father.
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
This moody and electrifying thriller with Humphrey Bogart and directed by Nicholas Ray, master of the fifties melodrama about troubled masculinity, is among Hollywood’s darkest character studies.
On January 28, artist sTo Len will be in conversation with Assistant Curator of Public Programs Tiffany Joy Butler to discuss his artistic practice of remixing DSNY’s media archives and his residency at the New York Department of Sanitation.
Dir. Leo McCarey. 1937, 92 mins. 35mm. With Beulah Bondi, Victor Moore, Thomas Mitchell, Fay Bainter. When McCarey won the Best Director Oscar in 1937 for his sparkling screwball comedy The Awful Truth, he stood ...
This thoroughly entertaining film is Qiu’s expansive family chronicle, a documentary in the form of an art-folk tale.
Replete with intrigue and hilarious surprises, this classic, beloved farce from Greece's famed Finos Film studio concerns a woman who devises a devilish plan to expose her husband's cheating ways.
Qiu’s brilliant fiction-documentary hybrid is based on the life of Zhang Xianchi, a so-called “rightist” persecuted for his unorthodox beliefs.
Dir. Leo McCarey. 1937, 92 mins. 35mm. With Beulah Bondi, Victor Moore, Thomas Mitchell, Fay Bainter. When McCarey won the Best Director Oscar in 1937 for his sparkling screwball comedy The Awful Truth, he stood ...
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
Acting legend Charles Laughton’s sole screen directorial credit is perhaps cinema’s most remarkable one-off.
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
On February 4 and 5, see encore screenings of Qiu Jiongjiong's hand-crafted masterwork, an homage to classical Chinese opera.
Acting legend Charles Laughton’s sole screen directorial credit is perhaps cinema’s most remarkable one-off.
On February 4 and 5, see encore screenings of Qiu Jiongjiong's hand-crafted masterwork, an homage to classical Chinese opera.