"Guillermo del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio"
Dec 11-Apr15
MoMA visitors will experience being on a movie set & see first-hand how an international team of designers, craftspeople, & animation artists worked collaboratively to realize
@RealGDT
's vision.
Did you know that
@pinocchiomovie
’s Cinematographer Frank Passingham lit all the Pinocchio sets in our galleries?
“Guillermo del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio”
Now on view!
The French New Wave films you’ve never seen before, all on the big screen!
Watch over 40 features and shorts in “Forgotten Filmmakers of the French New Wave” from May 4 – June 2.
🎟️ Learn more and get tickets →
14 features, four short films, and Tsai Ming-Liang's first visit to the United States since 2009!
"Tsai Ming-Liang:
In Dialogue with Time, Memory, and Self"
Oct 20-Nov 13
Info:
🚨🚨IMPORTANT UPDATE🚨🚨
The one and only Martin Scorsese will now introduce Black Narcissus next Friday!
Thelma Schoonmaker will introduce Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger on Saturday!
“From my many wanderings on this Earth, I had so much to say about imperfect fathers and imperfect sons,”
See Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio on the big screen starting Dec 4 & visit our "Crafting Pinocchio" gallery exhibition starting Dec 11!
Info:
Fresh off his Oscar win, Guillermo del Toro has selected a carte blanche selection of horror, fantasy, screwball comedy, noir, thrillers , drama, and animation films that have inspired his work!
Carte Blanche: Guillermo del Toro
Starts Thurs!
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We are hosting daily matinee screenings of
@RealGDT
's
#PinocchioMovie
from Dec 26- Jan 4!
Make a day of it and see the film and the AMAZING gallery exhibition "Guillermo del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio" on your holiday break!
Free for MoMA members!
Film 🎟️
"Horror: Messaging the Monstrous"
Our 10 week, 100+ film (!) exploration into the themes that the horror genre has explored over the last 60+ years.
June 23- Sep 5
You'll see films like...🧵
Eye Candy: The Coming of Color
Aug 23-Sep 6
Highlighting the use of tinting, hand- and stencil-coloring, and the early experimental systems that predate Technicolor, the series offers restored versions of shorts, features, and avant-garde animation from the United States,
Cinema was not merely an art form, but a way of life for Jean-Luc Godard. An iconoclast to the very end, may he rest in peace.
Our own
@dave_kehr
on his life and legacy in The New York Times:
Did you know...
The Fleischer Brothers *invented* rotoscoping? And the bouncing ball sing along? And, at their peak, their Popeye and Betty Boop cartoons were more popular than Mickey Mouse?
See new restorations of their groundbreaking work all wknd!
Week 3 of Film Vault Summer Camp comes at you with a batch of Dada films, including Ballet Mécanique, Fernand Léger's only film work! Watch them here:
#VirtualViews
FEELS GOOD MAN tells the astonishing story of Pepe the Frog, from his birth in an indie comic to an avatar of the far right. It's the best doc of 2020 you haven't seen. Not to be missed on our Virtual Cinema.
Looking for something to watch this "weekend"? We've put together an exhaustive list of streaming sites for everything from horror to virtual film festivals to experimental cinema and artist's films. Enjoy!
Ciao Papa!
We had a special guest view "Guillermo del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio" this morning: Academy Award-winning composer Alexandre Desplat!
Desplat wrote the beautiful music and songs for Pinocchio. You can see his work in our galleries!
Cinema Unbound:
The Creative Worlds of Powell and Pressburger
June 21-July 31
The landmark
@BFI
retrospective comes to America!
50+ programs!
All 13 "quota quickies"!
All the classics and many rarely screened films!
The full schedule for the most comprehensive survey of Iranian pre-revolutionary cinema ever assembled in North America is now online.
Iranian Cinema before the
Revolution, 1925–1979
Oct 13-Nov 27
Over 70 feature and short films.
Our team of film junkies has put together a humble yet eclectic list of films to stream while we all practice proper social distancing. Check it outttt:
This weekend, get your fill of...
Gothic atmosphere:
THE INHERITANCE (UNCLE SILAS), Fri at 7
Hitchcock:
THE WRONG MAN, Sat at 6:30
Social realism x surrealism:
THE YOUNG AND THE DAMNED, Sun at 2
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Our first full retro of 2019 is a review of Lee Chang-dong's exquisite six film career. He will join us for his int'l breakout success BURNING, as well as SECRET SUNSHINE and PEPPERMINT CANDY. Starts Feb 1!
Silent Movie Week is back!
July 31-Aug 6
7 nights, 7 new restorations from archives around the world!
We open with our own restoration of Victor Sjostrom’s The Wind (1928) in the sculpture garden.
Full schedule:
Your December has been planned.
We celebrate Ennio Morricone with a retrospective of more than 35 films spanning his nearly 60-year career. Over a dozen new digital restorations as well as 35mm archival prints!
See classics like Sergio Leone’s Man with No Name trilogy and Once
Rarely screened in its entirety, Jean-Luc Godard’s magisterial Histoire(s) du cinéma is essential viewing for anyone who loves the movies and for anyone who loves getting caught up in a dense and wondrous thicket of text, sound, and image.
Dec 1-23
1/2 Guillermo asked me to produce a Pinocchio painting to be released as posters and prints in celebration of the exhibit Guillermo del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio. What an honor to be part of this artistic phenomenon created by a league of extraordinary talent.
Coming this Friday...
Ennio Morricone
a 39 film retrospective
First weekend faves: Cinema Paradiso, the Man with No Name trilogy, The Lizards & more!
Tix + sched:
Silent Movie Week
Aug 2-8
Full schedule now available!
The best new silent film restorations from around the world, hand picked by
@dave_kehr
! NY and US premieres!
Sched + Info:
We're back! We return to our regularly scheduled programming on Oct 21, and we have a lot going on, including: a show that recreates our earliest film programs, originally curated by Iris Barry!
Kazuo Miyagawa was the most influential Japanese cinematographer of the post-war period & we are honored to host the first major US retro of his work in 30 years w/our friends at
@js_film_nyc
! We open w/a new restoration of Ozu's FLOATING WEEDS next Thurs!
Now whip it. Whip it good.
On Jan 27, DEVO founders Gerald Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh come to MoMA to present a program of restored music videos, video based work and Bruce Conner's Mongoloid!
New York's hottest club is the Women Film Pioneers Project at MoMA. It has everything:
- world premiere of a restored Japanese sound film
- drag kings
- previously lost Argentinian documentaries
- a train conducted by Satan
- live piano accompaniment
Starts Oct 25!
Next Friday we host the NY premiere of the breathtaking new 4k restoration of Masahiro Shinoda's DEMON POND!
See this & more in "Beyond Ozu: Hidden Gems of Shochiku Studios"
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We are excited to welcome
@RealGDT
's PINOCCHIO back to our BIG SCREENS next week!
Catch a matinee after you check out our stunning gallery exhibit "Guillermo del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio"!
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It's officially Fellini week at The Museum of Modern Art!
Weds: I VITELLONI at 4, LA STRADA at 7
Thurs: VARIETY LIGHTS at 4, THE WHITE SHEIK at 7
Fri: AMARCORD at 4
All films restored in beautiful 4k!
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Our Pre-Code Fox Rarities series is coming in May! New 4k scans from the original nitrate material. SHERLOCK HOLMES, QUICK MILLIONS and ME AND MY GAL. May 6-20.
MoMA &
@TheWarholMuseum
have been undertaking the monumental task of digitizing Andy Warhol's films & we are honored to premiere the first ever digital screening of THE CHELSEA GIRLS on May 4! Don't worry: we screen the orig 16mm version that wknd as well!
"Forgotten Filmmakers of the French New Wave"
Over 40 rarely seen features and shorts from filmmakers like Alain Cavalier, James Blue, Jacques Panijel, Jacques Melo Kane, Mamadou Sarr, Paulin Soumanou Viera & Paula Delsol
Starts May 4!
Happy Contenders Day! We are so excited to bring the year's best films to you. Many screenings sell out in advance but we *always* do a stand by line. In honor of tonight's opening screening of Varda by Agnès, please enjoy Agnès dancing with Angelina Jolie...
Pauli Murray was a true luminary *and* a trailblazing lawyer, Black activist, feminist, poet, and priest.
See the acclaimed Sundance Festival favorite MY NAME IS PAULI MURRAY on the big screen this upcoming Saturday!
Tix avail now!
Winner of Best Screenplay at the 2019 Venice Film Festival, Yonfan’s NO. 7 CHERRY LANE is a glorious achievement in animation. It's a seductive homage to cinema , literature, and the power of art to provoke memory, desire, and revolt. Now streaming!
"The base of amateur films is love". A timely and timeless message. Take a moment this weekend to tour the first
#MoMAVirtualViews
exhibition, culled from our landmark home movie show 'Private Lives Public Spaces'
Coming to our Virtual Cinema on Thursday:
Our absolutely *stunning* restoration of Ernst Lubitsch's ROSITA.
"Miss Pickford is a very remarkable woman. She is not only of the highest personal character, but she is an artiste of real genius. It was a pleasure to work with her."
Oh, hey, check THIS out: We are accepting
@MoviePass
at MoMA during New Directors/New Films starting tomw thru the end of the fest! Don't miss out on your chance to see the best new films from around the world! Schedule, tix + info:
#NDNF
Recovered and assembled by MoMA curators, the unreleased and unfinished 1913 film, Lime Kiln Club Field Day, the earliest surviving feature film with an entirely Black cast, is now available on the
@criterionchannl
.
"Forgotten Filmmakers of the French New Wave" starts a week from TODAY!
Over 40 rarely seen features and shorts!
Many with brand new English translations and sub titles!
Many on 35mm!
Some highlights of the first week...
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Michael Snow! On our big screen!
*Corpus Callosum, Friday at 4
J. Hoberman writes "*Corpus Callosum is a bonanza of wacky sight gags, outlandish color schemes, and corny visual puns that can be appreciated equally as an abstract Frank Tashlin comedy and as a playful