TAG: 35mm

Vincente Minnelli’s 1956 melodrama about a mild-mannered boarding school student mercilessly mistreated for possible homosexuality created a storm of controversy. Followed by a discussion with MoMI’s Senior Curator of Film Michael Koresky, and a signing of his new book Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness.

Amidst the jazz scene in 1960s Paris, two musicians—a trombonist and aspiring composer (Paul Newman) and a saxophonist (Sidney Poitier)—dream of success as they hone their craft in nightclubs. The June 19 screening followed by a conversation with Louis Armstrong House Museum Historian Hyland Harris about Armstrong’s film performances, featuring a presentation of archival materials. Screening on 35mm.

Amidst the jazz scene in 1960s Paris, two musicians—a trombonist and aspiring composer (Paul Newman) and a saxophonist (Sidney Poitier)—dream of success as they hone their craft in nightclubs. The June 19 screening followed by a conversation with Louis Armstrong House Museum Historian Hyland Harris about Armstrong’s film performances, featuring a presentation of archival materials. Screening on 35mm.

A pure adrenaline rush, director Pierre Morel and co-writer Luc Besson’s film was one of the international hits of the early 21st century, using the acrobatic athleticism of parkour as the aesthetic basis for a swift-paced urban action saga set in the Parisian banlieues.

A pure adrenaline rush, director Pierre Morel and co-writer Luc Besson’s film was one of the international hits of the early 21st century, using the acrobatic athleticism of parkour as the aesthetic basis for a swift-paced urban action saga set in the Parisian banlieues.

Burt Reynolds plays the title character, a Hollywood stuntman who’s threatened by industry up-and-comer Ski (Jan-Michael Vincent) until the two join forces. Directed by Hal Needham, the highest paid stuntman in the world at the time.

On 5/31, see one of 21st-century cinema’s most dazzling martial arts stuntmen and action choreographers, Tony Jaa, in his breakthrough action blockbuster, following a small-town’s beloved martial arts hero who ventures to Bangkok seeking revenge.

On 5/31, see one of 21st-century cinema’s most dazzling martial arts stuntmen and action choreographers, Tony Jaa, in his breakthrough action blockbuster, following a small-town’s beloved martial arts hero who ventures to Bangkok seeking revenge.

George Roy Hill’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning The Sting reteamed him with Robert Redford, playing a WWI veteran aviator who becomes a barnstorming stunt pilot in late 1920s America on the verge of the Great Depression. Screens on 35mm on 5/24 and 5/25.

George Roy Hill’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning The Sting reteamed him with Robert Redford, playing a WWI veteran aviator who becomes a barnstorming stunt pilot in late 1920s America on the verge of the Great Depression. Screens on 35mm on 5/24 and 5/25.

Tracking the search for serial killer Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre) in a haunted cityscape, Fritz Lang’s 1931 masterpiece is at once a late-Weimar era milestone and a vivid precursor to film noir. Introduced by Tom Gunning on 4/26.

See Bill Murray’s first and to-date only directorial credit on 35mm! Quick Change is a rollicking, finely tuned New York City–set farce, starring Murray, Geena Davis, and Randy Quaid.