Top Gun (70mm)

A box-office smash and cultural touchstone of Reagan-era America, the original Top Gun was, and remains, an unapologetic turbo-engined Hollywood spectacle. 70mm print featuring a rare 6-track magnetic soundtrack!

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May 29, 2025

Sorry, Baby

Writer, director, and star Eva Victor—in an auspicious triple-threat debut—upends the way we usually tell stories of trauma in this unabashedly frank and transcendently funny portrait. Screening introduced by cinematographer Mia Cioffi Henry.

July 28, 2025

CatVideoFest 2025

After last summer’s smash success, we’re pleased to bring back the world’s #1 cat video festival. Each year, across the country, local theaters partner with nearby cat-focused charities, animal welfare associations and shelters alike—a portion of ticket proceeds from every show goes directly to local cats in need.

June 19, 2025

Let There Be Light screening & Artists’ Conversation

This portrait of African American inventor, engineer, poet, artist, and American Civil War veteran Lewis H. Latimer is told through the experiences of his wife, Mary, on the eve of Lewis’s historic modification to the incandescent lightbulb. Following the screening, join us for an Artists’ Conversation with Let There Be Light director Jon K. Jones and lighting designer Quincy Drane who has created a cinema-inspired light installation on the Museum’s first floor, “Magic Hours.” Lewis Latimer House executive director Ran Yan will moderate the conversation.

July 2, 2025

Top Gun: Maverick

The action spectacle of summer ’22 took audiences by storm and surprise with its old-fashioned storytelling vigor and brilliantly orchestrated stunt work that demands to be seen on a big screen. 

May 29, 2025

2001: A Space Odyssey (70mm)

Stanley Kubrick’s mysterious and profound sci-fi epic—“the ultimate trip”—is about nothing less than the beauty and the banality of civilization. Screens 7/31-8/24.

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2001: A Space Odyssey (70mm)

Stanley Kubrick’s mysterious and profound sci-fi epic—“the ultimate trip”—is about nothing less than the beauty and the banality of civilization. Screens 7/31-8/24.

Tags: 70mm

Collateral

With a shock of white hair, Tom Cruise expertly inhabits one of his true unambiguously villainous characters in Michael Mann’s slick action thriller. Screens 7/26 and 7/27.

Tags: 35mm

Ragtag + Desire with Giuseppe Boccassini

Ragtag draws from more than 300 film noirs from the 1940s and 1950s to reveal the intoxicating dreamlike nature of the genre, and Desire draws from melodramas from around the world. Giuseppe Boccassini will appear in person for a conversation about his work, along with Tom Gunning via Zoom.

June 19, 2025

Minority Report

Set in a future where U.S. citizens can be arrested for crimes they have not yet committed, Spielberg’s film raises questions of guilt and innocence that seem eerily prescient. Screens 7/25 and 7/27 on 35mm.

Tags: 35mm

May 29, 2025

Junk Dump Film Festival 2025: Day Two

The Junk Dump Film Festival highlights emerging and underrepresented filmmakers working at the intersection of video art and storytelling, presenting a curated program of narrative, animated, and experimental short films made by artists using unique processes to tell singular and engaging stories. 

June 26, 2025

War of the Worlds

One of the first major American movies to explicitly reference the tragedies of 9/11 and a world undone by terrorism (and the American response to it), Spielberg’s genuinely scary box office smash starring Tom Cruise is an astonishing memento mori.

Tags: 35mm

May 29, 2025