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A man stands with his hands in his pockets at the entrance of a church, with the doors open showing a verdant green landscape beyond

Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

The Camera d’Or winner at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival is a remarkable cinematic experience, a work that pushes past set boundaries to become genuinely existential, marking the arrival of a major new talent.

A group of young people sit at tables looking at laptops working together on coding.

Marvels of Media: Game Design Workshop

As part of Museum of the Moving Image’s Marvels of Media, this two-hour media workshop invites autistic visitors and media-makers to learn how to build their own text-based interactive storytelling games.

Two men smile against a snowy landscape and a bright blue sky.
Dersu Uzala

Dersu Uzala

One of Akira Kurosawa’s greatest films, this spellbinding, Oscar-winning Soviet-Japanese coproduction follows a Russian cartographer at the turn of the twentieth century as he surveys a region in the Far East of Russia. Screens 12/7 and 12/15.

A man with glasses and shaggy brown hair and a woman with long tousled blonde hair stand next to each other at a low angle against a city streetscape with tall buildings. He looks at her, she looks away.

Matt and Mara

Reunited by chance, old flames Matt, a well-known author with a checkered reputation, and Mara, a mild-mannered and ambivalently married poetry professor, rekindle their romance over a series of anxious, halting, tentative rendezvous.

A split screen of a blonde woman in glasses and a dark haired man sleeping in separate beds facing each other, with the man upside down on the left.

Between the Temples

With a 1970s aesthetic and screwball comedy tone, Between the Temples featuring a pair of richly humane performances from Carol Kane and Jason Schwartzman. With director Nathan Silver and screenwriter Chris Wells in person on 12/15!

Two women, one with short white hair and wearing a blur scarf, the other with a red shirt and green jacket, stare out a New York City window, with the city skyline reflected on them.

The Room Next Door

Pedro Almodóvar's luminous, first English-language film is based on the novel What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez, and stars Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore.

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John Denver & The Muppets: A Christmas Together (45th Anniversary) + Henson Holiday Clips

John Denver & The Muppets: A Christmas Together (45th Anniversary) + Henson Holiday Clips

Join us to celebrate the 45th anniversary of John Denver's 1979 Muppet hat trick (Muppet Show appearance, TV special, and album) on 12/14 and 12/15 with a screening of this hard-to-find Christmas special, along with some additional classic Henson holiday clips. Introduced by Craig Shemin, President of The Jim Henson Legacy.

A blurry, surreal image of red and green of a figure in a red dress standing in a field with a glowing light in the middle of the frame.

Last Things (in 35mm) + Incident 

Last Things imagines evolution and extinction from the point of view of the rocks and minerals that will remain on this earth way beyond us. Incident provides witness to the killing of Chicago barber Harith “Snoop” Augustus by local police, through a composite montage of images from surveillance and security footage as well as police bodycams. With Incident director Bill Morrison in person.

Near an open door with light snowflakes blowing, a man in red and green flannel crouches in front of a woman in a fur coat sitting on stairs. Both have serious, sad expressions.
All That Heaven Allows

All That Heaven Allows

Perhaps the greatest of Sirk’s glorious melodramas, All That Heaven Allows traces the melancholy transition of the seasons from crisp autumnal glory to deeply snow-blanketed winter, perfectly expressing the heartrending interiority of the beautifully wrought characters. 

A mustachioed man embraces a woman, both are wearing thick winter clothes, and a white-haired man with a white mustache watches them.
Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago

Following the seismic cultural event of his Lawrence of Arabia, grand-scale moviemaking became Lean’s forte in the sixties, and Doctor Zhivago is among his grandest triumphs.

A black and white photo from the sixties of three people in the back of a town car, looking at camera, two dark-skinned Black men and a lighter-skinned Black woman between them; the men smile, the woman purses her lips.
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

In this kinetic and percussive essay film, director Johan Grimonprez revisits and reanimates a moment when African politics and American jazz collided, around the 1961 assassination of Congo’s leader Patrice Lumumba. Encore screening 12/22.