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Curators’ Choice 2024

Dec 1, 2024 — Jan 31, 2025

Thanks to a notably strong year for both cinema and television, the Museum’s highly anticipated annual survey of some of our favorite releases from the last 12 months has rolled out in two batches, the first in December and the second in January. Curators’ Choice focuses on work that premiered theatrically (or was initially broadcast) during 2024, while also making room for a few recent films still seeking distribution. Throughout, we’ll be welcoming filmmakers to discuss their work, including Jane Schoenbrun, Annie Baker, Aaron Schimberg, Mohammad Rousolof, and many more.

Curators Choice: The First Batch was programmed by Senior Curator of Film Eric Hynes and Associate Curator of Film Edo Choi, with contributions from Curator of Science and Technology Sonia Epstein, Associate Director of Special Programs Sarah Luciano, and Editorial Director Michael Koresky.  

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Past Films in Series

Couples Therapy

About Dry Grasses

Green Border
A long-haired blonde woman holding up a phone and filming herself while leaning against a sink in a bathroom, wearing a multicolored spangled purple, blue, and gold dress, while another blonde-haired woman pokes around the bathroom wall and peeks at her as she films herself

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

Mambar Pierrette
A young woman in a white Dutch-style maid hat and uniform stands in a crowd and looks up while all the women around her look down.

The Girl with the Needle

All We Imagine as Light

Youth (Homecoming)

Last Summer

Pictures of Ghosts
Two people hug on a city street from a distance, one clutching a bag of unidentifiable food. There is Farsi writing against the building behind them.

Universal Language

All We Imagine as Light

Youth (Hard Times)

A Different Man
A red headed young girl with glasses sits on a couch in a modern looking living room in the afternoon while a woman stands and watched her from the door on the left.

Janet Planet
A man in a blue t-shirt reclines in a rocky and green landscape looking at the ground. In the far distance bulldozer can be seen on the horizon.

No Other Land

Incident + Buried News with Bill Morrison in person
A dark-skinned man in a beige hat and jacket looks at a statue displayed in a museum.

Dahomey
Two young men, one wearing red and the other blue, look up to the sky with bemused painful expressions.

A Real Pain

Industry with Ken Leung in person  

Sugarcane

Somebody Somewhere

Anora (in 35mm)

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Nickel Boys

All We Imagine as Light
A woman talks intensely into a cell phone.

Hard Truths

Evil Does Not Exist
A Native American man prays to the sky holding a feather against a snowy country backdrop, standing next to a fence. Next to the fence there is the top of a brown horse's head.

Eureka
A gloved young woman holds the face of a young man with tousled hair in an intense embrace against a desert backdrop

Dune: Part Two (in 70mm)
A young man with tousled dark hair reaches for a young woman with long dark hair and embraces her cheek as he reaches in for a kiss

Challengers
A gloved young woman holds the face of a young man with tousled hair in an intense embrace against a desert backdrop

Dune: Part Two (in 70mm)
A man in shorts and a blue jacket kneels in front of a woman sitting in a green coat. They are in a forest, with an open book lying on the ground between them.

Here
A gloved young woman holds the face of a young man with tousled hair in an intense embrace against a desert backdrop

Dune: Part Two (in 70mm)
A gloved young woman holds the face of a young man with tousled hair in an intense embrace against a desert backdrop

Dune: Part Two (in 70mm)
A group of people sit around a dinner table at Christmas surrounded by lights and a wreath

Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point
A group of people sit around a dinner table at Christmas surrounded by lights and a wreath

Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point
A group of people sit around a dinner table at Christmas surrounded by lights and a wreath

Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point
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
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 
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
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
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
Two teenagers, one with short hair and medium brown skin and one with long hair and pale skin and red long hair, sit on a couch with a purple TV glow cast on them and a green light background.

I Saw the TV Glow
A metal tower against a blue sky and billowing clouds.

Direct Action
An unshaven man in a rumpled beige suit embraced by a woman in a green dress outside at an excavation site at night

La Chimera
A young female figure sits cross-legged on a bed in a dark room with the silhouette of an older bald man sitting near her in a chair, as blue light streams through a window with half-open blinds.

FX’s Spermworld
An armored knight rides on a horse in the middle of a Renniassance faire grounds, sword raised, looking at bleachers full of people watching.

Ren Faire
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
A teenage girl with chin-length brown hair stands in a green-tinted forest looking through branches.

Good One
A man wearing a knit cap and a T-shirt that says "BOYCOT AMAZON" holds a piece of paper over his head against the side of a white truck with blue lettering.

Union
A woman in profile with dark long hair pulled behind her ear and a white pearl earring looks off with a serious expression, another woman out of focus in the foreground

Black Box Diaries
A man in a blue t-shirt reclines in a rocky and green landscape looking at the ground. In the far distance bulldozer can be seen on the horizon.

No Other Land
An abandoned room that appears to be in the aftermath of some destruction, with yellow and blue curtains fluttering and red chairs strewn about the room. The windows on the right are missing and appear to have been blown out.

Intercepted