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 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.
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 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.
The incomparable Jamaica, Queens–born rap legend 50 Cent stars in this semi-autobiographical film, which boasts the same name as his nine-time platinum album—released 20 years ago. Screens on 35mm 9/29 and 9/30!
Our 9/29 screening of this surreal and sinister animated film, as haunting as it is exquisitely crafted, will be followed by a Q&A with director Cristóbal León.
The films that comprise José Val del Omar’s Elementary Triptych of Spain (1953–1995) are audiovisual poems of the senses; these encore screenings will take place in the Bartos Screening Room on DCP.
On 9/16 and 9/30, see a special 35mm twentieth-anniversary screening of Sofia Coppola’s confident second film about an aging movie star (Bill Murray) and a newly married twenty-something (Scarlett Johansson in her breakout performance), who meet at a lofty hotel bar in Tokyo.
The Saturday, Sep. 30 screening will be in the Bartos Screening Room. Dir. Wes Anderson. 2009, 87 mins. 35mm. With the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe, Owen Wilson. ...
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.
The incomparable Jamaica, Queens–born rap legend 50 Cent stars in this semi-autobiographical film, which boasts the same name as his nine-time platinum album—released 20 years ago. Screens on 35mm 9/29 and 9/30!
The films that comprise José Val del Omar’s Elementary Triptych of Spain (1953–1995) are audiovisual poems of the senses; these encore screenings will take place in the Bartos Screening Room on DCP.
The Saturday, Sep. 30 screening will be in the Bartos Screening Room. Dir. Wes Anderson. 2009, 87 mins. 35mm. With the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe, Owen Wilson. ...
This expansive and unforgettable documentary shot between 1997 and 2003 by Oscar-winning filmmakers Julia Reichert and Steve Bognar, follows five Ohio families as they deal with the toll of childhood cancer. Screening 10/1.
Assayas’s deeply personal family drama is one of the great films about the meaning and value of things, the inextricable bond of family, and the forward march of time.
On October 1, the final day of Cinema of Sensations: The Never-Ending Screen of Val del Omar, artists Esperanza Collado and David García Casado collaborate on a live expanded cinema performance.
Brian De Palma’s silky, seductive, ridiculously entertaining meta-noir starring Rebecca Romijn and Antonio Banderas.
See the award-winning short films Afronauts and Into the Void and learn about the Museum's free resource, the Sloan Science & Film Teacher's Guide.
The Space Race tells the little-known story of the first Black pilots, scientists, and engineers to become astronauts. Free screening on 10/4 followed by a conversation and Q&A with directors Lisa Cortés and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza.
With material drawn from MoMI’s permanent collection, this exhibit explores the film’s production and makeup design, detailing how a stylish townhouse in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., and an innocent young girl were transformed into sites of horror.
Shot in the Roosevelt Ave/Jackson Heights station, this installation video captures the tide of New Yorkers streaming through an entrance to the subway system in what the filmmakers refer to as a “collective ballet.”
The Saturday, Sep. 30 screening will be in the Bartos Screening Room. Dir. Wes Anderson. 2009, 87 mins. 35mm. With the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe, Owen Wilson. ...
John Singleton's romantic drama starring Janet Jackson and Tupac Shakur will be preceded on Friday, 10/6, by a spoken word showcase with poets King Kamayera and Sabreen Jolley in collaboration with community partner African Peach Arts Coalition, and on Saturday, 10/6, by an introduction by the Criterion Collection's Curatorial Director Ashley Clark.
Terence Davies’s lush, meticulous, and deeply moving 1940s postwar romance starring Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston screens on 35mm on 10/6 and 10/8.
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 ...
Shot over the course of a budget-busting, 11-month period on enormous and extravagant stage sets, Erich von Stroheim’s lavish spectacle remains one of the sensational works of early Hollywood cinema. With live piano accompaniment by Makia Matsumura on October 7.
John Singleton's romantic drama starring Janet Jackson and Tupac Shakur will be preceded on Friday, 10/6, by a spoken word showcase with poets King Kamayera and Sabreen Jolley in collaboration with community partner African Peach Arts Coalition, and on Saturday, 10/6, by an introduction by the Criterion Collection's Curatorial Director Ashley Clark.
Join us for 30th anniversary screenings of Robert De Niro’s first and to-date only directorial effort, an adaptation of screenwriter and co-star Chazz Palminteri’s autobiographical one-man stage show about growing up in 1960s New York. Screening on 10/8 preceded by Neha Gautam's short Passenger Seat.
Shot over the course of a budget-busting, 11-month period on enormous and extravagant stage sets, Erich von Stroheim’s lavish spectacle remains one of the sensational works of early Hollywood cinema. With live piano accompaniment by Makia Matsumura on October 7.
Join us for 30th anniversary screenings of Robert De Niro’s first and to-date only directorial effort, an adaptation of screenwriter and co-star Chazz Palminteri’s autobiographical one-man stage show about growing up in 1960s New York. Screening on 10/8 preceded by Neha Gautam's short Passenger Seat.
A sleeper hit when it came out in 1999, the scrappy, comic documentary American Movie has aged into an American classic. See it 10/8 and 10/4.
Terence Davies’s lush, meticulous, and deeply moving 1940s postwar romance starring Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston screens on 35mm on 10/6 and 10/8.
In his chilling, oblique study of evil in Germany during WWII, British director Jonathan Glazer (Under the Skin) has created a singular, unsettlingly timeless representation of inhumanity and our capacity for indifference in the face of atrocity. Screens 10/11.
With her customarily bewitching mixture of earthiness and magical realism, Alice Rohrwacher (Happy as Lazzaro) conjures a marvelous entertainment set in a rural Italy eternally caught between the ancient and the modern. Screens 10/12.
Bill Duke’s lively and poignant film is especially memorable for its soundtrack, particularly its epochal appearance by a young Lauryn Hill. On Sunday, 10/15, there will be a family day event featuring karaoke activities with songs from Sister Act 2 and music-related video games for the whole family!
Sweet-souled in story, scalpel-sharp in filmmaking precision, this enchanting love story from Finnish virtuoso Aki Kaurismäki circles around two financially strapped Helsinkians who keep finding and losing one another in a world that seems to be falling apart. Screens Friday, 10/13.
The Marx Brothers meet Aristophanes in this offbeat road movie from Renos Haralambidis.
One of the most creative, unexpected, and chilling paranormal thrillers of the 21st century, from Australian director Joel Anderson plays 10/13 and 10/15—introduced by critic Adam Nayman at the 10/15 screening.
Bill Duke’s lively and poignant film is especially memorable for its soundtrack, particularly its epochal appearance by a young Lauryn Hill. On Sunday, 10/15, there will be a family day event featuring karaoke activities with songs from Sister Act 2 and music-related video games for the whole family!
Haralambidis’s debut film, winner of the prestigious FIPRESCI prize at the Istanbul Film Festival, is a refreshing look at Athenian culture at the end of the century.
Based on a best-selling novel by Petros Tatsopoulos, the film moves between detective film noir, bittersweet comedy, and poetic cinema.
A sleeper hit when it came out in 1999, the scrappy, comic documentary American Movie has aged into an American classic. See it 10/8 and 10/4.
On 10/15, join us for an afternoon of family-friendly activities to celebrate 50 years of hip-hop music and to get in the mood for Halloween!
Bill Duke’s lively and poignant film is especially memorable for its soundtrack, particularly its epochal appearance by a young Lauryn Hill. On Sunday, 10/15, there will be a family day event featuring karaoke activities with songs from Sister Act 2 and music-related video games for the whole family!
The Coen brothers’ acerbic yet profoundly felt character study of a singer-songwriter (Oscar Isaac) will be introduced by critic Adam Nayman, author of The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together, on 10/15.
Dir. D. Smith. 2023, 73 mins. DCP. In this wildly entertaining and refreshingly unfiltered documentary, filmmaker D. Smith passes the mic to four Black transgender sex workers in Atlanta and New York City—Daniella Carter, Koko ...
In the most autobiographical of Renos Haralambidis’s films, Nikos, struggling with work, romance, and finding meaningful purpose in life, roams the streets of Athens on a warm summer night looking for love and questioning his existence.
One of the most creative, unexpected, and chilling paranormal thrillers of the 21st century, from Australian director Joel Anderson plays 10/13 and 10/15—introduced by critic Adam Nayman at the 10/15 screening.
Eva Davidova’s participatory installation playfully incorporates both ancient myth and contemporary reality, highlighting the theme of interdependent responsibility in the wake of ecological disaster.
A singular collaboration between vanguard filmmaker Nicolas Roeg and visionary artist Jim Henson, The Witches adapts one of Roald Dahl’s most frightful books for children with phantasmagoric gusto.
This first of three selections of films from the first half of experimental film legend Lewis Klahr’s career, screening 10/20, features some of his best-known titles made between 1987 and 2004. With Lewis Klahr in person!
John Carpenter’s sci-fi horror western has grown in stature as a cult favorite since its release, and features Ice Cube in the kind of unapologetically tough but ultimately fair and kind-hearted role he was made for.
Lewis Klahr's latest feature-length series of collage films is a compilation of six films created between 2015 and 2021. Lewis Klahr in person on 10/20.
A singular collaboration between vanguard filmmaker Nicolas Roeg and visionary artist Jim Henson, The Witches adapts one of Roald Dahl’s most frightful books for children with phantasmagoric gusto.
John Carpenter’s sci-fi horror western has grown in stature as a cult favorite since its release, and features Ice Cube in the kind of unapologetically tough but ultimately fair and kind-hearted role he was made for.
The films in this program explore the surreal, while reflecting on the intersection of personal identity and pop culture giving way to the complex landscapes of the human condition.
The Coen brothers’ acerbic yet profoundly felt character study of a singer-songwriter (Oscar Isaac) will be introduced by critic Adam Nayman, author of The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together, on 10/15.
D. Smith's Sundance NEXT Innovator Award winner will be preceded by the short Alpha Kings with filmmakers Faye Tsakas and Enrique Pedráza-Botero in person
M. Night Shyamalan's most conceptually complex, intricately patterned film, a Bush-era political allegory that evokes the literature of Hawthorne and Irving in its deeply American fears of the unknown, screens on 35mm 10/21 and 10/28.
With spooky season in full swing, join MoMI for a members-only Halloween event on 10/21, featuring a performance by drag queen Avant Garbage, a DJ, refreshments provided by QNSY cocktails and local restaurants, a costume contest, themed gallery tours, trivia, and more.
As we approach Halloween, we've selected three season-appropriate episodes of The Muppet Show, featuring Alan Arkin, Twiggy, and Vincent Price.
The best and scariest of the new "desktop horror" subgenre of films is Unfriended: Dark Web, in which a young man makes the very bad mistake of bringing home a discarded laptop from a coffee house
Jane Schoenbrun appears in person Sunday, October 22, at 2:30 p.m. with her feature debut, which uses the textures and trappings of the horror genre to descend into a striking depiction of a particularly 21st-century loneliness.
A favorite at the Berlin Film Festival, the third feature by Argentine writer-director Pablo Solarz is an endearing personal coming-of-age tale of self-realization.
A filmmaker of singular vision and ingenuity, Safi Faye fearlessly experimented with genre and form in order to honor the people from her home country of Senegal, particularly the working class and women from rural regions. See two of her films on 10/22.
On 10/26, spend a very special evening with the great filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, including a screening of his 2022 film A Couple, a rare fiction feature that looks at the long marriage between Leo and Sophie Tolstoy through a series of monologues, followed by a conversation between Wiseman and series curator David Schwartz.
David Levine’s Dissolution is a jewel-box sculpture that conjures the past and future of the moving image. A 20-minute film played on a loop, it draws on the central conceit of iconic 1980s movies and TV shows such as Tron and Max Headroom: human characters who find themselves dematerialized and confined within the interior worlds of electronic devices.
A singular collaboration between vanguard filmmaker Nicolas Roeg and visionary artist Jim Henson, The Witches adapts one of Roald Dahl’s most frightful books for children with phantasmagoric gusto.
Set 15 years later, the film follows Lieutenant William F. Kinderman (Scott) and his investigation of a string of bizarre murders around Georgetown that seem to link back to a long-dead serial killer.
Perhaps the most faithful transposition of the Batman character from comic book to film, this animated film from 1993 screens on 35mm 10/28, 10/29, and 11/3.
In his first starring role, James Stewart plays a New York reporter separated from his wife (Margaret Sullavan) when he’s posted to Rome and she refuses to give up her acting career. Marsha Gordon will sign copies of her book Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life & Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott, after the October 28 screening.
First-time filmmaker Victor Dryere utilizes analog technology and the gimmick of found-footage horror to create warm, foggy imagery that expertly shocks and scares.
M. Night Shyamalan's most conceptually complex, intricately patterned film, a Bush-era political allegory that evokes the literature of Hawthorne and Irving in its deeply American fears of the unknown, screens on 35mm 10/21 and 10/28.
The best and scariest of the new "desktop horror" subgenre of films is Unfriended: Dark Web, in which a young man makes the very bad mistake of bringing home a discarded laptop from a coffee house
Jane Schoenbrun appears in person Sunday, October 22, at 2:30 p.m. with her feature debut, which uses the textures and trappings of the horror genre to descend into a striking depiction of a particularly 21st-century loneliness.
Perhaps the most faithful transposition of the Batman character from comic book to film, this animated film from 1993 screens on 35mm 10/28, 10/29, and 11/3.
In his first starring role, James Stewart plays a New York reporter separated from his wife (Margaret Sullavan) when he’s posted to Rome and she refuses to give up her acting career. Marsha Gordon will sign copies of her book Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life & Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott, after the October 28 screening.
Rarely seen stateside since its 1983 release, Devil Fetus is a zany, sleazy, and ambitious Hong Kong horror movie featuring stop-motion monsters, show-stopping makeup effects, and a scene-stealing, demon-battling, martial artist holy man.
Set 15 years later, the film follows Lieutenant William F. Kinderman (Scott) and his investigation of a string of bizarre murders around Georgetown that seem to link back to a long-dead serial killer.
The latest from Canadian multi-hyphenate artist Lina Rodriguez is a sharply calibrated story of dislocation and exile, centered on an émigré whose hard-fought sense of belonging and empowerment is made tenuous thanks to forces from both the political past and cultural present. Director and producer in person 10/29!
Celebrate Day of the Dead at Museum of the Moving Image with a performance by a presentation of Aztec Mexica dance, poetry, music from indigenous dance troupe Yayauhki Tezcatlipoka, and a face-painting session inspired by historical characters from Día de Muertos.
This year as part of MoMI’s Day of the Dead celebration on November 2, we present Oscar-winning Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro's emotional and beautifully crafted horror film.
When his young daughter’s technosapien companion, the android Yang, malfunctions, Jake (Colin Farrell) must come to terms with what this loss means for his family. This special screening on 11/2 will be followed by a conversation with producer Theresa Park and a technology expert about “intelligence” in AI.
Perhaps the most faithful transposition of the Batman character from comic book to film, this animated film from 1993 screens on 35mm 10/28, 10/29, and 11/3.
On 11/3 and 11/5, see David Fincher's elegiac, dark-toned mood piece about the intractable forward march of time, the indifference of history itself, and the strange experience of living within a constantly changing human body.
At a time of severe environmental crisis, three teenagers come together to face the climate reality in their home state of Louisiana. This special presentation on 11/3 will be followed by a discussion between director Kira Akerman and landscape architect Kate Orff (SCAPE), moderated by filmmaker Kirsten Johnson.
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 ...
On 11/4, 11/10, and 11/12, see Howard Hawks's unparalleled screwball classic featuring Katharine Hepburn (in her most truly madcap role) as a flighty heiress who, along with her leopard named “Baby,” reduces Cary Grant's paleontologist to a primitive state.
Producer Tim Burton and director Henry Selick employ both live action and stop-motion animation to realize Roald Dahl’s wondrous tale about a young orphan (Terry) who grows a magical, colossal iteration of the fuzzy fruit. Screens 11/4, 11/5, and 11/11.
Maren Ade's microscopic look at a relationship in crisis, or perhaps one that might already have passed the point of no return.
A psychopathic killer uses the carousel ride at a Coney Island carnival to pick his victims, whom he then murders and dismembers on the world-famous boardwalk. Burt Young appears in his first screen role as a hunchbacked, facially disfigured carnival worker.
In the hands of Maren Ade, one of the most profound and precisely observed films about the condition of contemporary globalized living was also the funniest.
On 11/3 and 11/5, see David Fincher's elegiac, dark-toned mood piece about the intractable forward march of time, the indifference of history itself, and the strange experience of living within a constantly changing human body.
Producer Tim Burton and director Henry Selick employ both live action and stop-motion animation to realize Roald Dahl’s wondrous tale about a young orphan (Terry) who grows a magical, colossal iteration of the fuzzy fruit. Screens 11/4, 11/5, and 11/11.
In the hands of Maren Ade, one of the most profound and precisely observed films about the condition of contemporary globalized living was also the funniest.
Following a week of early voting at the Museum, join us for a mini trivia session focused on the right to vote. Form teams with your friends and family for the chance to win MoMI membership, guest passes, and special prizes, such as stress balls. Local early voters are especially welcome to join after casting their vote!