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Shot over six years, this documentary captures the radical transformation of “the Crossroads of the Universe” from a democratic, interracial home to free speech and free spirits into a sanitized, soulless corporate theme park.
The 2024 Oscar nominee Four Daughters is a compelling portrait of five women and an ambitious work of nonfiction cinema that pushes against the conventional boundaries of the documentary form. Director Kaouther Ben Hania in person on 2/15.
Join us for an exciting new weekend installation of playable video games created by the Creative Tech interns of Tech Kids Unlimited. In our Game Lab, visitors are invited to play various video games about climate change created by autistic game designers from TKU and displayed on arcades.
Jean-Luc Godard’s eccentric, wildly unconventional work of sci-fi film noir starring Eddie Constantine and Anna Karina screens 2/16.
Scorsese’s dark and brilliant ode to classic MGM musicals, starring a sensational Liza Minnelli and Robert De Niro, plays on 35mm February 18.
Artist Robert Longo’s singular vision meets Hollywood in this 1990s sci-fi, adapted from William Gibson’s story of the same name and set in a dystopian 2021.
Snubbed: River Phoenix Dir. Gus Van Sant. 1991, U.S. 102 mins. DCP. With River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, William Richert, James Russo, Udo Kier. Phoenix had already received an Oscar nomination for Running on Empty, and ...
Join us for MoMI community partner The Afrikan Poetry Theatre's annual film festival in honor of Black History Month. Featuring a selection of vibrant new films, including a 45-minute short film program with a discussion followed by a screening of the musical documentary Garland Jeffreys: The King of In Between. Free with RSVP.
Snubbed: Charles Grodin Dir. Elaine May. 1972, U.S. 106 mins. 35mm print courtesy of the BFI National Archive. With Charles Grodin, Cybill Shepard, Jeannie Berlin, Eddie Albert, Audra Lindley. May’s gutsy anti-romantic comedy stars a ...
Prince's tongue-in-cheek musical drama about a piano bar gigolo in the French riviera who seduces and then falls for a caged-bird heiress was a box-office flop in its time but now appears as the most sheerly gorgeous of Prince's five films. Screening on 35mm 2/11 and 2/18.
In this riveting, emphatically theatrical domestic drama, family members gather to celebrate their ailing patriarch's birthday.
Snubbed: River Phoenix Dir. Gus Van Sant. 1991, U.S. 102 mins. DCP. With River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, William Richert, James Russo, Udo Kier. Phoenix had already received an Oscar nomination for Running on Empty, and ...
Scorsese’s dark and brilliant ode to classic MGM musicals, starring a sensational Liza Minnelli and Robert De Niro, plays on 35mm February 18.
The legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki returns after a decade’s hiatus with an extraordinary and eccentric tale of a young boy entering an alternate realm of existence to help change his real world. Screening February 19–23
The legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki returns after a decade’s hiatus with an extraordinary and eccentric tale of a young boy entering an alternate realm of existence to help change his real world. Screening February 19–23
The legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki returns after a decade’s hiatus with an extraordinary and eccentric tale of a young boy entering an alternate realm of existence to help change his real world. Screening February 19–23
The legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki returns after a decade’s hiatus with an extraordinary and eccentric tale of a young boy entering an alternate realm of existence to help change his real world. Screening February 19–23
The legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki returns after a decade’s hiatus with an extraordinary and eccentric tale of a young boy entering an alternate realm of existence to help change his real world. Screening February 19–23
Tarantino's brilliantly made, impossibly entertaining movie is one of his greatest achievements, starring a poignant, mesmerizing Pam Grier. See it on 35mm Friday 2/23 and Saturday 2/24.
Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense is considered by many critics the greatest concert film of all time.
This blockbuster adaptation of the hit 1960s television series gave Harrison Ford one of his greatest roles as Dr. Richard Kimble, a surgeon framed for the murder of his wife. Screening 2/24 and 2/25 on 35mm.
Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense is considered by many critics the greatest concert film of all time.
Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense is considered by many critics the greatest concert film of all time.
Snubbed: Jennifer Lopez and George Clooney Dir. Steven Soderbergh. 1998, U.S. 123 mins. 35mm. With George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Albert Brooks, Don Cheadle, Ving Rhames, Catherine Keener, Viola Davis. Soderbergh’s seductive and sleekly earthy adaptation ...
Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense is considered by many critics the greatest concert film of all time.
Tarantino's brilliantly made, impossibly entertaining movie is one of his greatest achievements, starring a poignant, mesmerizing Pam Grier. See it on 35mm Friday 2/23 and Saturday 2/24.
Snubbed: Jennifer Lopez and George Clooney Dir. Steven Soderbergh. 1998, U.S. 123 mins. 35mm. With George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Albert Brooks, Don Cheadle, Ving Rhames, Catherine Keener, Viola Davis. Soderbergh’s seductive and sleekly earthy adaptation ...
Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense is considered by many critics the greatest concert film of all time.
Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense is considered by many critics the greatest concert film of all time.
This blockbuster adaptation of the hit 1960s television series gave Harrison Ford one of his greatest roles as Dr. Richard Kimble, a surgeon framed for the murder of his wife. Screening 2/24 and 2/25 on 35mm.
Snubbed: Charles Grodin Dir. Elaine May. 1972, U.S. 106 mins. 35mm print courtesy of the BFI National Archive. With Charles Grodin, Cybill Shepard, Jeannie Berlin, Eddie Albert, Audra Lindley. May’s gutsy anti-romantic comedy stars a ...
Adam Sandler plays an astronaut who realizes that the marriage he left behind on Earth might not be waiting for him when he returns. Free screening, courtesy of Netflix. With director Johan Renck in person!
Scorsese’s sumptuous cinematic rendering of Edith Wharton’s novel about the social mores of turn-of-the-century New York, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Daniel Day-Lewis, screens March 1 and 3.
Join Movie Trivia NYC at MoMI for an evening of Oscars trivia, featuring a guest round from Michael Koresky.
Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense is considered by many critics the greatest concert film of all time.
Fassbinder's vision of the future in 1970s aesthetics follows a cybernetics engineer Fred Stiller who is employed by Simulacron, a program that creates simulations of people who don’t know they are not flesh-and-blood in order to predict social, economic, and political events.
Terence Davies’s magnificent adaptation of Edith Wharton’s 1905 novel is a sumptuous triumph all around, yet its beating, battered heart belongs to Gillian Anderson, who miraculously evokes tragic heroine Lily Bart. Encore screening 3/22 on 35mm.
George Lucas made his astonishing feature debut with this dystopian science-fiction film, screening 3/2.
Join us for a community event from 1:00–5:00 p.m. on March 3, organized by Shireen Soliman and MoMI’s Neighborhood Council. Immerse yourself in the joyful spirit of Ramadan as we celebrate with a day of fun programming for all ages.
This Oscar-nominated film is based on Deborah Ellis’s novel about a young girl, Parvana, growing up under Taliban's Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan as the War on Terror begins. Followed by a panel discussion about representation of Muslims and Ramadan in film and media.
Scorsese’s sumptuous cinematic rendering of Edith Wharton’s novel about the social mores of turn-of-the-century New York, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Daniel Day-Lewis, screens March 1 and 3.
Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense is considered by many critics the greatest concert film of all time.
Terence Davies’s magnificent adaptation of Edith Wharton’s 1905 novel is a sumptuous triumph all around, yet its beating, battered heart belongs to Gillian Anderson, who miraculously evokes tragic heroine Lily Bart. Encore screening 3/22 on 35mm.
Snubbed: Regina Hall Dir. Andrew Bujalski. 2018, U.S. 93 mins. DCP. With Regina Hall, Haley Lu Richardson, Dylan Gelula, Zoe Graham. Regina Hall is effortlessly magnetic as Lisa, the general manager of the Hooters-like sports ...
Snubbed: Charles Grodin Dir. Elaine May. 1972, U.S. 106 mins. 35mm print courtesy of the BFI National Archive. With Charles Grodin, Cybill Shepard, Jeannie Berlin, Eddie Albert, Audra Lindley. May’s gutsy anti-romantic comedy stars a ...
When his hairdressing salon is destroyed by the municipality, Romeo must leave the high street of Toamasina for a harder-to-find shack in a residential neighborhood. Madagascan director Michael Andrianaly will appear in person with his wonderful documentary Nofinofy on 3/8.
Criminal mastermind Constantine, a Kermit the Frog look-alike, replaces Kermit as the Muppets go on a European tour. Introduced by Craig Shemin on 3/9 and 3/10.
Jonathan Demme was at the height of his madcap powers with this quintessential rollicking eighties comic adventure starring a breakout Melanie Griffith as the maniacally free-spirited Lulu.
An intimately raw and magical journey through the life, mind, and heart of Frida Kahlo, Frida tells the artist's story through her own words for the very first time. Director Carla Gutiérrez in person.
Mike Leigh's brilliantly unexpected comedy about happiness and the perception of our shared reality stars a singular Sally Hawkins as Poppy, a bouncy, relentlessly optimistic primary school teacher from North London. See it in 35mm during our Snubbed series 3/9 and 3/10.
Criminal mastermind Constantine, a Kermit the Frog look-alike, replaces Kermit as the Muppets go on a European tour. Introduced by Craig Shemin on 3/9 and 3/10.
Mike Leigh's brilliantly unexpected comedy about happiness and the perception of our shared reality stars a singular Sally Hawkins as Poppy, a bouncy, relentlessly optimistic primary school teacher from North London. See it in 35mm during our Snubbed series 3/9 and 3/10.
Using a unique directorial approach, Alexandros Voulgaris tells the story of a woman who returns to Polydroso, the village where she was born and raised, to care for her ailing mother.
Snubbed: Charles Grodin Dir. Elaine May. 1972, U.S. 106 mins. 35mm print courtesy of the BFI National Archive. With Charles Grodin, Cybill Shepard, Jeannie Berlin, Eddie Albert, Audra Lindley. May’s gutsy anti-romantic comedy stars a ...
Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense is considered by many critics the greatest concert film of all time.
The Working on It program offers a lab-like environment for work-in-progress screenings, workshops, and discussions about the artistic process. This year’s edition will take place during the afternoons of March 13–15, and is open to ...
For First Look 2024 opening night on 3/13, see the Sundance-awarded drama in which a young man, orphaned by the Mexican drug cartels, grows up in the shadow of violence. Directed by Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez, two of the finest filmmakers of their generation.
The Working on It program offers a lab-like environment for work-in-progress screenings, workshops, and discussions about the artistic process.
For the seventh consecutive year, First Look presents Jury award–winning graduate and undergraduate student films from the Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism at the Missouri School of Journalism.
In the economic capital of Madagascar, four undocumented workers from across the country at a neighborhood car wash endure their lot until they can earn enough to secure their identity papers and seek a better future. Paired with Everson’s mesmerizing black-and-white diptych.
In the spectacular mountains of southwest Georgia sits the Abastumani sanatorium, a treatment hospital for patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis, which becomes a site of fantasies and nightmares, a home of the living and the dead, in this reflection of a place and moment.
Young women in the remote Mexican town of El Echo exude vivacious optimism while shouldering disproportionately gendered responsibilities of family, farm life, and town. See it 3/14 with director Tatiana Huezo in person for First Look 2024.
The Working on It program offers a lab-like environment for work-in-progress screenings, workshops, and discussions about the artistic process. This year’s edition will take place during the afternoons of March 13–15, and is open to ...
Join us for a reception on March 15 with artist Fiona Tan to celebrate the opening of Footsteps, now on view in the Amphitheater Gallery. The reception will include a conversation between Tan and curator Sonia Epstein.
The same year that Alain Resnais’s masterpiece Hiroshima mon amour was released, science fiction writer and theorist Stanisław Lem began writing his influential novel Solaris, an artistic confluence that inspires this wholly original and emotionally resonant found footage film.
Over the past thirteen years, Zhang has documented her father’s village in Hubei, China, as a repository of ancestral memory; for the tenth of these films, Zhang installed herself permanently in the village upon the outbreak of COVID-19. The result is an immense accomplishment, vividly depicting a year in the life of a stoic rural community, far removed from an urban-centered pandemic.
This rapturous, dazzlingly unconventional debut feature dives deep into the life, mind, and spirit of a twentysomething Dominican American woman finding her footing in South Brooklyn. Screens 3/15 as part of First Look 2024.
Select scenes from the two screenplays awarded the 2023 Sloan Student Prizes will be read by professional actors as part of this special program, produced and directed by Mêlisa Annis, and followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.
The magnetic pull between artist and filmmaker yields something beguiling and precious, celebrating the fiery Philly even as she and the world she fought to protect are being actively extinguished.
This poignant, warts-and-all portrait of a family separated by space but still profoundly connected in each other’s hearts, minds, and dreams is composed almost entirely of webcam footage between the Berlin-based, Iranian émigré filmmaker, his parents, and his friend.
Playful, elusive, and tactile, these eclectic works are unified by their filmmakers’ attempts to orient themselves in a world of constant, turbulent flux.
In Farhad Delaram’s seductive, shape-shifting debut feature, former filmmaker Farid works nights at a Tehran hospital—and sleeps there most days too. Estranged from his partner and hopeless about the future, he starts to awaken after meeting a patient in the psychiatric ward whose supposed fits of madness he innately understands.
Documenting her family’s attempts at locating her brother after he goes missing in a war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Shoghakat Vardanyan films things we don’t often see: the struggles, emotions, and Kafkaesque runarounds when missing soldiers and their families are reduced to a statistic. Screens 3/16 as part of First Look 2024.
In 1968, Brazil’s military dictatorship enacted Institutional Act No. 5, which suspended the constitution, silenced citizens, and opted overtly into totalitarianism. This astonishing and ingenious film features archival audio document of the meeting that decided this act, combined with blithe moving image propaganda perpetuated by the government.
Imagine a lost feature by the Maysles Brothers or Ricky Leacock, filmed right when they might have consorted with a colorful and tragic character like Pep, and you’ve got The Featherweight. See it 3/16 with director Robert Kolodny in person for First Look 2024.
The filmmakers drop into the fictional landscape of the videogame DayZ as journalistic avatars and must battle a zombie apocalypse while endeavoring to stay alive long enough to film their interactions with the surprising community of people who spend their time in this VR world.
In Kim Taeyang’s richly cryptic debut feature, a young man and woman, unnamed former acquaintances, meet by chance in the historic Jongno district at the heart of Seoul, then walk and talk, visiting and revisiting Jongno’s landmarks and byways over the years, much of the city and them changing beyond recognition.
In Yangon, Myanmar, a couple, Aung Min and San San Oo, operate a neighborhood clinic, providing low-cost treatments and therapies for a range of physical and psychological maladies. They also make art—paintings and films—as revealed in this shapeshifting film that starts as direct cinema then blossoms into a self-reflexive examination of the Burmese soul.
In this form-blending, refreshing work of autofiction, siblings Arthur and Diana are on a meandering road trip through France, Germany, and Italy that brings out deep-seated family dynamics that will feel familiar to older sisters and younger brothers.
Lois Patiño’s latest inquiry into the spiritual valences of cinema travels first to the temples of Laos and then to the shores of Tanzania by way of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Screening 3/17 as part of First Look 2024.
Georgian filmmakers Elene Asatiani and Soso Dumbadze construct an archival horror film about 1991’s bloody military coup d'état against the government of Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgia’s first democratically elected president, forgoing contextual titles, narration, or interviews.
Graham Swon’s sophomore feature, displaying a remarkable devotion to craft, combining elements of Gothic horror, pulp mystery, and period romance, screens 3/17 as part of First Look 2024.
In the First Look 2024 closing night film, five recent high-school graduates escape small-town Oregon for one last adventure together, trekking 500 miles westward for their first visit to the Pacific coast. The latest film from Bill and Turner Ross is a joyous exploration (and detonation) of the borderlands of reality, mythology, narrative, improvisation, the discernable, and the ineffable.
