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july 4-September 30, 2012

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See It Big! 4 Since the Museum opened to the public in 1988, of the film don’t do justice to the bold, expressive we have explored how movies and television colors of the original film. Yet we will present a The Muppet Show 9 shows are made—a process that has been magnificent digital restoration of Apocalypse Outdoor Cinema 2012 10 changing radically in ways largely unseen (and Now Redux that was painstakingly supervised by at Socrates Scultpure Park unheard) by the public. Writing in The New York . Because of the widening Times in 1999, film editor and sound designer array of possible presentation formats, we Film After Film 12 Walter Murch called cinema “a digital sandwich will now be listing format information for all Fist & Sword 17 between two slices of analog bread.” He meant screenings on our website. that theatrical movies were captured and Rural Route Film Festival 18 about film and digital formats presented photographically, but that everything is not just about how movies look—it is also about Extreme Exploration: 19 SEE IT BIG! 4 that happened in the middle—including sound how we look at movies. The digital revolution and Live Music by ARP and picture editing and visual effects—was is affecting the aesthetics and, indeed, the digitally driven. That was true ten years ago, but First Cameraman: Documenting the 20 fundamental nature of the art form itself. The Obama Presidency in Real Time it’s no longer the case. series and exhibition Film After Film, inspired INDUSTRY/CINEMA: An Installation by 21 Today, Murch’s metaphorical sandwich is a digital by J. Hoberman’s new book of the same name, Caroline Martel salad: movies are no longer shot and shown looks at how directors like , Lars exclusively on film. Many are photographed with von Trier, Steven Spielberg, Jean-Luc Godard, Pretty Loaded 22 high-resolution digital video cameras. Finished and others have responded to the technological DVD Dead Drop 22 movies are shipped to theaters on hard drives shifts of the past fifteen years. In the Museum’s and projected in a format known as DCP—the Amphitheater Gallery, we will be showing Joe We Tripped El Hadji Diouf 23 initials for the inelegantly named “Digital Cinema Swanberg’s ultra-low budget feature LOL, about PERSOL MAGNIFICENT OBSESSIONS: 24 FILM AFTER FILM Package.” By 2015, “films” will be distributed romance in the age of social media, on an iPad. 30 stories of craftsmanship in film 12 exclusively in a digital format. The slow march of And the cinematic spectacle of the 2008 Olympics Mediamaking for Families and Teens 26 film from a photographic medium to an all-digital, opening ceremony will be presented in its intended video-based medium has become a trot. Today, format: on a high-definition flat screen monitor. The Kid 27 even the restoration of classic “pre-digital” For film lovers and for digital natives—the new movies is done digitally. The Fall Mamas Expo 27 generation of makers and audiences for whom Behind the Screen 28 We endeavor to show the best available version media and film is format-independent—we strive of a work based on the judgment of our curators. to be a privileged place in which a moving image These days, that often means showing a film masterpiece may be encountered in the best digitally. ’s film editor Thelma possible way, whether that means an archival MUSEUM INFORMATION rural route Schoonmaker, who was married to the great print, restored print, or DCP. And stay tuned. film festival Focus on the Collection 30 18 British director Michael Powell, supervised the This winter we will be applying our thinking to a Become a Member 31 digital restoration of his films The Red Shoes different medium just as dynamic and rapidly and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, and changing as the theatrical motion picture: video Host Your Event 32 she is convinced that they now look better than games. More on that to come. In the meantime, Our Supporters 33 ever. At her request, we will be showing digital we hope to continue this conversation with you versions of these wonderful films. Yet cinephiles at the Museum and online. Daily Schedule 34 should rest assured; we will frequently be showing Carl Goodman outstanding 35mm prints here, long after all of General Information 35 Executive Director PERSOL the multiplexes have gone digital. When Alfred MAGNIFICENT Hitchcock’s masterpiece Vertigo screens this July, OBSESSIONS we will be showing a vintage 35mm Technicolor 24 print, because the new prints and digital versions

2 3 see it big!2001: A Space Odyssey FRIDAY, JULY 6, 7:00 P.M. SATURDAY, JULY 14, 3:00 P.M. SATURDAY, JULY 7, 2:00 P.M. SUNDAY, JULY 15, 3:00 P.M. SATURDAY, JULY 7, 6:00 P.M. Dir. Francis Ford Coppola. 1982, SUNDAY, JULY 8, 2:00 P.M. 108 mins. Restored 35mm print, SUNDAY, JULY 8, 6:00 P.M. courtesy of . Dir. . 1968, 141 mins, With Frederic Forrest, Teri Garr, plus intermission. DCP. With Keir Raul Julia, Nastassja Kinski, Harry Dullea. Kubrick’s mysterious and Dean Stanton. Coppola’s legendary, profound science-fiction epic remains lyrical film maudit is an unexpected, —in the words of its tagline—“the audacious visual treat. Rather than ultimate trip.” Many of its sequences— shoot his tale of a pair of Las Vegas from the spellbinding “dawn of man” lovers in the city itself, Coppola section to the spaceship ballet set to built the town on soundstages, Strauss to the deadly Jupiter mission bankrupting American Zoetrope manned by HAL 9000 to the final though certainly not his wild Stargate mind-blower—are undeniable imagination. Dean Tavoularis’s classics. With just eighteen minutes magical production design is of dialogue, this is a sight-and-sound explored in the exhibition PERSOL experience that simply can’t be MAGNIFICENT OBSESSIONS (see properly appreciated anywhere page 24). other than on a big screen. Cabaret Redux FRIDAY, JULY 20, 7:00 P.M. FRIDAY, JULY 13, 7:00 P.M. JULY 6–SEPTEMBER 9, 2012 Dir. . 1972, 124 mins. SATURDAY, JULY 14, 6:00 P.M. New restoration on DCP. With Liza SUNDAY, JULY 15, 6:00 P.M. Curated by Reverse Shot editors Michael Koresky and Minnelli, Joel Grey. Fosse rightly Dir. Francis Ford Coppola. 1979/2001, won the Oscar for best director for Jeff Reichert, and the Museum’s Chief Curator, David 202 mins. DCP, courtesy of American his shattering musical set in Berlin Schwartz, and Assistant Film Curator, Rachael Rakes Zoetrope. With Marlon Brando, on the eve of Hitler’s rise to power. Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Dennis Minnelli and Grey also scored Oscars, The Museum’s popular ongoing film series See It Big! celebrates the joys of large- Hopper. Coppola’s transposition of for their unforgettable performances Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness as, respectively, Sally Bowles, a scale moviegoing. It provides a chance to discover or revisit essential films in their to the Vietnam War is one of the vivacious but damaged American full theatrical splendor in one of the finest film venues in the country. Great movies most ambitious Hollywood films of singer selling her soul in a seedy transport us into new worlds, and they immerse us visually and aurally. Despite the all time. With ’s nightclub, and the devilish emcee easy availability of movies on portable devices and small screens, there is only one virtuoso cinematography and Walter who presides over it. A devastating, way to really see a movie: BIG! The Museum always endeavors to show a film in the Murch’s overwhelming sound design, delirious movie experience, featuring this is an absorbing work of existential John Kander and Fred Ebb’s rousing best available version, whether it is a stunning digital restoration of Apocalypse terror and awe, lorded over by Brando show tunes and Geoffrey Unsworth’s Now Redux, supervised by Francis Ford Coppola, or a rare screening of a vintage as that icon of madness Colonel Kurtz. gloriously ragged photography. Technicolor 35mm print of Vertigo. Projection formats are noted throughout. This is Coppola’s restored 2001 version, truer in spirit to the Conrad

2001: A Space Odyssey novel than the original release.

4 5 The Red Shoes (Photofest) To Catch a Thief SATURDAY, JULY 28, 3:00 P.M. SUNDAY, JULY 29, 3:00 P.M. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. 1955, 106 mins. New restoration on DCP. With Cary Grant, Grace Kelly. Hitchcock’s Technicolor crime caper is the acme of glamorous 1950s escapism. Grant is devilishly charming—as ever— playing a retired cat burglar on the Riviera suspected of masterminding a new wave of robberies. While he tries to find out who really did it, a gorgeous American tourist catches his eye. Filmed partly on location in France, this is gloriously shot, deliriously witty entertainment.

Vertigo SATURDAY, JULY 28, 6:00 P.M. SUNDAY, JULY 29, 6:00 P.M. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. 1958, 128 mins. 35mm IB Technicolor print. With James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Taxi Driver ( Repertory) Geddes. Considered by many cinephiles the greatest of all films, Hitchcock’s peerless psychological The Red Shoes follows a San Francisco private detective who comes out The Wild Bunch for a wondrous journey into another world—a free SATURDAY, JULY 21, 3:00 P.M. of retirement to trail an old schoolmate’s beautiful wife, SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 6:00 P.M. adaptation of Petronius’s satirical ancient novel that is SUNDAY, JULY 22, 3:00 P.M. who appears to be haunted by a figure from her ancestral SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 6:00 P.M. as gritty as it is surreal. Grotesque, erotic, and bizarre, and reportedly inspired by Jack Smith’s Flaming Dirs. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. 1948 past. Both an ingeniously plotted mystery and a profoundly Dir. Sam Peckinpah. 1969, 145 mins. 35mm. With William Creatures, Fellini Satyricon remains a hotly debated film, 133 mins. New restoration on DCP. With Anton Walbrook, disturbing tale of romantic obsession, Vertigo is an Holden, , Robert Ryan, Edmond O’Brien, but no one can deny its almost constant visual invention. Marius Goring, Moira Shearer. The story of a ballerina emotional experience like no other—on the level of image, Warren Oates. As the dried up around who becomes consumed by her obsession with her art sound, and storytelling. This is a very rare screening of him, Peckinpah assembled a group of grizzled veterans Taxi Driver was realized by with obsessive a vintage Technicolor print, with the film’s original for one last trip into the breach. A cadre of aging outlaws, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 7:00 P.M. attention to the power of cinematic expression. The soundtrack and color beautifully intact. fleeing the authorities, attempts to make a final score SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 6:00 P.M. ultimate film about the way that art can take over life, for a Mexican general, but when things go awry, the gang Vertigo (Photofest) SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 6:00 P.M. The Red Shoes was recently restored, fittingly, with finds itself in one of the wildest and bloodiest of screen obsessive perfectionism. Thanks to this truly eye-opening shoot-outs. Peckinpah’s masterpiece is at once classical Dir. Martin Scorsese. 1976, 113 mins. New restoration on restoration, which employed a state-of-the-art blend and revisionist, an exemplar of the very genre it so DCP. With Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Jodie Foster, of photochemical and digital technology, The Red Shoes brilliantly subverts. Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel. Scorsese’s dark, dyspeptic has never looked better. view of New York, made all the more menacing by a The Leopard brassy Bernard Herrmann score, is also a great visual The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 2:00 P.M. love letter to the Big Apple. Among the pimps, prostitutes, Introduced by Thelma Schoonmaker (Saturday only) SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 2:00 P.M. vermin, and trash, Scorsese highlights striking flashes SATURDAY, JULY 21, 6:00 P.M. of visual beauty and ultimately reveals an undying Dir. Luchino Visconti. 1963, 185 mins, plus intermission. SUNDAY, JULY 22, 6:00 P.M. affection for a New York disappearing all around him. New restoration on DCP. With Burt Lancaster, Alain Paul Schrader’s script pays homage to The Searchers, Dirs. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. 1943, Delon, Claudia Cardinale, Pierre Clémenti. Visconti’s a touchstone film for many American directors. 163 mins. New restoration on DCP. With Deborah Kerr, extraordinary, luxuriously beautiful three-hour work— Roger Livesey, Anton Walbrook. Martin Scorsese and Rio Bravo about a prince who watches his fortune and way of The Searchers Thelma Schoonmaker supervised the astonishing new SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 3:00 P.M. life crumble around him amid the upheaval of the SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 3:00 P.M. restoration of the movie that Dave Kehr has called SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 3:00 P.M. Risorgimento in mid-nineteenth-century Italy—is one “very possibly the finest film ever made in Britain.” An SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 3:00 P.M. Dir. Howard Hawks. 1959, 141 mins. New restoration on of the grandest of all movie epics. The sumptuous intricate, deeply ambiguous saga that both satirizes and Dir. John Ford. 1956, 119 mins. New restoration on DCP. DCP. With John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, widescreen cinematography by celebrates military life, it uses a flashback structure to With John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond. Hawks’s and aching Nino Rota score are matched by the truly cover forty years in the existence of a British colonel, Bond, Natalie Wood. Martin Scorsese has claimed that laconic and wise big-screen Technicolor western pits dazzling cast. from the second Boer War to World War II. As Kehr he watches this film, arguably western master John Wayne and a group of misfit deputies against a gang of writes, “Powell’s camera renders the winding plot Ford’s greatest achievement, every year, and with good well-armed bad guys intent on busting one of their own Fellini Satyricon through boldly deployed Technicolor hues and camera reason. Its epic story sweeps from the American out of jail. Will the sheriff and his gang be able to hold SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 6:00 P.M. movements of exquisite design and expressivity.” Southwest to the Canadian border as it tracks Wayne’s tight until the marshal arrives? Bracingly comic and SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 6:00 P.M. increasingly unhinged quest for his beloved niece, unsentimental, Rio Bravo is also the epitome of Hawks, Dir. . 1969, 128 mins. 35mm. With Martin kidnapped by Chief Scar in a raid years before. Wayne’s with its emphasis on professionalism, male camaraderie, Potter, Hiram Keller, Magali Noël, Alain Cuny. The ultimate Ethan Edwards is as neurotically obsessed as DeNiro’s and—with the playful chemistry between Dickinson Fellini phantasmagoria. The maestro’s legendary Travis Bickle. and Wayne—the battle of the sexes. re-creation of first-century Rome provides the backdrop

6 see it big! 7 Brazil (Photofest) The Last Picture Show FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 7:00 P.M. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 7:00 P.M. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 7:00 P.M. Dir. Peter Bogdanovich. 1971, 126 mins. New restoration on DCP. With THE Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd. Bogdanovich emerged as a great American director with this lively and haunting elegy for the West, for movies, and for childhood, MUPPET a coming-of-age saga about three high school friends stuck in a fading town in the 1950s. This black-and-white masterpiece was photographed by the great Robert Surtees, whose other credits include SHOW The Graduate and Ben-Hur. JULY 7–SEPTEMBER 30, 2012 Brazil Doctor Zhivago Ben-Hur FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 7:00 P.M. FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 7:00 P.M. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2:00 P.M. Jim Henson’s Muppets return SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 3:00 P.M. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2:00 P.M. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2:00 P.M. SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 3:00 P.M. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2:00 P.M. to the Museum with continuous Dir. William Wyler. 1959, 212 mins, screenings of select episodes Dir. Terry Gilliam. 1985, 132 mins. Dir. . 1965, 197 mins, plus intermission. New restoration 35mm. With Jonathan Pryce, Robert plus intermission. DCP. With Omar of The Muppet Show, the prime- on DCP. With , De Niro, Ian Holm, Michael Palin. Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine time series that was the most Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Gilliam’s jaw-dropping dystopian Chaplin, . Grand-scale Griffith. This stunning restoration widely watched television show science-fiction , which moviemaking became Lean’s forte was one of the highlights of last around the world in the late 1970s. was almost shelved by Universal, in the 1960s, and Doctor Zhivago year’s New York Film Festival. Heston , Raquel Welch, imagines a totalitarian surveillance was one of his grandest triumphs. is magnetic as Jewish prince Judah society that would make Orwell Based on Boris Pasternak’s novel, Harry Belafonte, Debbie Harry, Ben-Hur, betrayed by his childhood envious. When minor bureaucrat this tale of a love triangle set against and many others perform friend Messala, now a commanding Pryce notices a clerical error that led the Bolshevik Revolution is an officer of a Roman legion. Judah’s alongside Miss Piggy, Kermit, the state to arrest the wrong man, it astonishing feat, as emotionally extensive journey—from a slave Rowlf, and Fozzy; a new episode sets him on a quest for freedom, and involving as it is visually spectacular. galley to the film’s legendary will screen each week. makes him public enemy number one. Highlights include ’s chariot race scene—is paralleled Oscar-winning cinematography and by the rise of Christ. Winner of a A complete schedule is available Blue Velvet Maurice Jarre’s iconic score. record eleven Oscars, Ben-Hur is a at movingimage.us. SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 6:00 P.M. breathtaking biblical epic that outdid SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 6:00 P.M. Special thanks to Craig Shemin, president The Bridge on the even De Mille. of the Jim Henson Legacy and longtime Dir. David Lynch. 1986, 120 mins. River Kwai SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 6:30 P.M. Muppets writer. 35mm. With Kyle MacLachlan, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 6:30 P.M. Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Dean Stockwell. This nightmarish Dir. David Lean. 1957, 161 mins. vision of the suburban underbelly New restoration on DCP. With Alec forever marked Lynch as America’s Guinness, William Holden, Sessue premiere poet of the perverse. Hayakawa. David Lean’s epic and MacLachlan’s straight-arrow kid thrilling drama, which won seven finds himself drawn ever deeper , is set mostly in a into a mystery involving a severed Japanese POW camp, where a British human ear, a melancholy lounge colonel (a superb Guinness) is tasked singer (Rossellini), and a violent, with overseeing the building of a gas-huffing maniac (Hopper, in a railway bridge. Meanwhile, a troop From top, clockwise career-defining performance). The of Allies, led by Holden, has been (with the Muppets on The Muppet Show): effect of this beautifully designed dispatched to blow it up. Equal parts Liza Minelli, widescreen work of American action adventure and psychological Alan Arkin, gothic on the last two decades of drama, this is one of the most Harry Belafonte, moviemaking is incalculable. compelling of all World War II films. Ben-Hur Beverly Sills

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Wednesdays, July 4–August 22, 2012 (Rain Date: August 29) The American Experience his scruffy fish-stick counter into a Senna Certified Copy JULY 4 haute-boho destination. An energetic AUGUST 1 BRAZIL AUGUST 15 FRANCE/ITALY soundtrack of funk, punk, and reggae Socrates Sculpture Park and AT&T, in 51 mins. On America’s birthday, we Dir. Asif Kapadia. 2010, 106 mins. Dir. . 2010, 106 mins. complements an eclectic cast of celebrate the nation’s diversity, daring, Filled with breathtaking archival In this playful and provocative collaboration with Museum of the Moving characters, rapid-fire silliness, and and charm in a program of short films material, the acclaimed and popular romantic drama from the legendary lavish food fun. (Not rated) Image and Rooftop Films, present the that are alternately funny, revelatory, and Senna documents ’s Kiarostami—his first film made outside 14th Annual Festival of International Film, dramatic. Preceded by a live-feed of the Lemonade Joe exciting life, from being a Formula One of Iran— plays a Macy’s fireworks display. triple world champion to his early gallery owner living in a Tuscan Music, Dance, and Food. JULY 18 CZECH REPUBLIC death. Unfolding with the pacing of a village. Her encounter with a British Mulvar Is Correct Candidate! Presented with support from the live-action thriller, the film explores author over the course of a day takes Pre-screening performances begin at 7:00 p.m. (Patrick Désilets, 1 min.) Czech Center New York Senna’s racing achievements, tests increasingly perplexing turns, as Month One Films begin at sunset. Free admission. Dir. Oldrich Lipský. 1964, 84 mins. of endurance, personal clashes, and Kiarostami slyly plays with the rules (Michael Galinsky and Joanna Arnow, Czech New Wave political satire meets political convictions—and looks at the of narrative. Binoche won the best 10 mins.) Hollywood westerns and musicals in Come to Socrates Sculpture Park (Vernon Boulevard and Broadway, legendary status he achieved in his actress award at Cannes. (Not rated) You Have the Right to an Attorney the raucous Lemonade Joe, the story home country of Brazil. (Rated PG-13) Long Island City) and sample regional cuisine from neighborhood (Matt Bockelman, 13 mins.) of a yellow-clad cowboy with a good- Spring, Summer, Fall, restaurants, picnic on the grass as the sun sets over the city, enjoy natured grin and an unquenchable My American Life Summer Wars Winter. . . and Spring thirst for justice and Kolaloka lemonade performances by local musicians and dancers, and as the sky (Mohammed Yakub, 6 mins.) AUGUST 8 JAPAN AUGUST 22 SOUTH KOREA (Joe also happens to be a traveling darkens, see exceptional international films—all set against the Dir. Mamoru Hosoda. 2009, 114 mins. Presented in cooperation with The Thread salesman for the brand). This silly and spectacular backdrop of the Manhattan skyline. The story of a teen math prodigy who Korea Society (Iva Radivojevic, 7 mins.) sharp comedy became an international unwittingly unlocks a virtual world of Dir. Kim Ki-duk. 2003, 103 mins. Norman Schwarzkopf Made Me Gay cult favorite, and one of the earliest All films, performers, and vendors are subject to change or avatars, this cyber-fantasy/sci-fi Though all the action takes place (Sara Zia Ebrahimi, 10 mins.) and most original western genre spoofs. cancellation. Please visit socratessculpturepark.org or call love story is a breathtaking tour of a at a tranquil and isolated Buddhist (Not rated) 718 956 1819 to confirm programming. No More Questions visually brilliant alternate universe, monastery, Kim’s ninth feature (Rauch Bros., 4 mins.) Her Master’s Voice and a clever parable about technology, abounds with tension and sensuality. family, and society. The winner of the Tracing the story of a monk from his JULY 25 Soul Kitchen Japan Academy prize for , youth as a protégé into adulthood, JULY 11 GERMANY Dir. Nina Conti. 2012, 60 mins. In this Summer Wars confirms Hosoda’s and his battles with desire, anger, Dir. Fatih Akin. 2009, 99 mins. gutsy and sidesplitting self-examination, place in the new generation of great and cruelty along the way, the film An irresistible multi-culti farce from a conflicted ventriloquist Conti takes anime directors. (Rated PG) reflects the struggle to be human in director better known for his dramatic the bereaved puppets of her mentor the modern world. With spectacular films (Head On, The Edge of Heaven), on a pilgrimage to the resting place landscape photography and pacing Soul Kitchen tells the story of a young for deceased performers’ puppets. that echoes the joys and sorrows of German-Greek diner owner who— Nina and “Monkey” will appear live! life, this classic of the New Korean anticipating gentrification of his industrial (Not rated) Cinema is not to be missed on the big Hamburg neighborhood—transforms (outdoor) screen. (Rated R)

10 11 August 25–October 28, 2012 Guest curator: J. Hoberman

Is it possible to speak of a 21st-century cinema barely a decade into the millennium? Jurassic Park Digital Works by Ernie Battle in Heaven Film critic J. Hoberman’s new book, Film After Film: (Or, What Became of 21st Century SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1:00 P.M. Gehr and Michael Snow SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 7:00 P.M. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 12:30 P.M. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 7:00 P.M. Cinema?) (2012, Verso) is a timely and provocative collection of writings that Dir. Carlos Reygadas. 2005, 98 mins. Introduced by Ernie Gehr chronicle how the advent of digital technology has led to the displacement of the Dir. Steven Spielberg. 1993, 127 mins. With Marcos Hernández, Anapola With Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Mushkadiz. A chauffeur seeks medium of film—and the very relationship between movies and reality. Meanwhile, *Corpus Callosum Goldblum. Jurassic Park became the Dir. Michael Snow. 2002, 93 mins. absolution for a horrific crime the trauma of 9/11 and the ensuing “war on terror” reshaped movies politically. highest-grossing film of its day; it committed while having an affair with Film After Film, a screening series and exhibition, guest curated by Hoberman, Preceded by: was also the first major film to feature Cotton Candy his boss’s daughter. A post-Warhol reflects the ideas in the book and shows how filmmakers have responded to these real people in convincing interaction filmmaker, Reygadas employed Dir. Ernie Gehr. 2002, 64 mins. seismic shifts in the art form. with computer-generated imagery. untrained actors for this provocative The film brought dinosaurs back Opening with a cheeky nod to his portrait of modern Mexico, using to life even as it presaged the own Wavelength, *Corpus Callosum long takes and explicit sex scenes. extinction of film as we knew it. is a satiric retrospective of Michael The film abounds with ritual—from Snow’s body of work, set in an fellatio to military procession to in the amphitheater gallery In Praise of Love information-age office, featuring religious pilgrimage—and heralds a SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 4:00 P.M. visual gags and digitally produced new ceremonial, quasi-documentary The Decay of Fiction Introduced by J. Hoberman distortions, and shot and edited on cinema, inscribing its cosmic battle followed by book signing video. Cotton Candy is another video in the vulgarities of everyday life. remembrance of sorts, by an artist Dir. Jean-Luc Godard. 2001, 97 best known for his 16mm films, here mins. With Bruno Putzulu, Cécile Southland Tales using DV technology to preserve FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 7:00 P.M. Camp. An artist begins an ambitious the eclectic collection of cinematic SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 3:30 P.M. project on the subject of love and carnival toys at San Francisco’s mourns the end of his own romance Dir. Richard Kelly. 2006, 145 mins. Musée Mécanique. Like the corpus with a mysterious woman. In a With , Seann William callosum of Snow’s title, these pointed reversal of the color scheme Scott, , Justin works bridge a gap—between film of Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s Timberlake. Manic, messy, and and video, past and present. List, Godard depicts the present in endlessly referential, Southland Tales photographic black-and-white and Inland Empire may not be for everyone, but what it the past in lurid, oversaturated, lacks in precision it more than makes SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 3:00 P.M. video-produced color. This film, up for in ambition. The film is set in whose French title translates as Dir. David Lynch. 2006, 180 mins. the aftermath of two catastrophic “Elegy for Love,” is Godard’s elegy With Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons, Harry nuclear attacks in Texas and follows for his own films—suffused with Dean Stanton. An actress plunges the intertwining storylines of an historical memory—and for cinema into Hollywood’s underbelly, actor, a porn star, and a This installation of moving image works Ambassador Hotel, an old-time movie-star in general. attempting her comeback in a pair of twin brothers. Stylistically cursed production. Inland Empire is it is no less convoluted, mashing demonstrates some of the ways that film lives hangout; Zhang Yimou’s dazzling opening Followed by a book signing for Lynch’s most surreal and formally up high and low art in a pitch-black beyond the walls of the —by ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, with a Film After Film: (Or, What Became audacious since comedy pastiche. The film skewers of 21st Century Cinema?) with inhabiting our hand-held devices, television cast of 15,000 performers and a reported cost Eraserhead. Written scene by scene George W. Bush, , J. Hoberman in the Moving Image screens, monitors, and walls. Selected works of $100 million; and Joe Swanberg’s LOL (2006), during the shooting process, it and digital media to present an Store. on view include Pat O’Neill’s The Decay of a film about romance in the social- seems to spring directly from its unforgettable satire of post-9/11 director’s subconscious. His expressive Fiction and Tracing the Decay of Fiction (2002), network era, with love stories playing out on America. use of crude digital video lends the a video installation and interactive DVD-ROM laptops, cell phones, and online chat rooms. film an uncanny veneer. based on his 35mm film set in the abandoned

12 13 Avalon (Photofest) Cloverfield(Photofest)

An inquisitive girl discovers a portal to a parallel universe Avalon Cloverfield Coraline (Focus Features) SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 7:00 P.M. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 7:00 P.M. that isn’t as perfect as it seems. A rare stereo animation with an interest in actual depth, this whimsical coming- Dir. Mamoru Oshii. 2001, 106 mins. With Malgorzata Dir. Matt Reeves. 2008, 85 mins. With Michael Stahl- of-age tale, based on the beloved children’s novel by Neil Foremniak, Dariusz Biskupski. Best known for his David, T. J. Miller, Odette Yustman, Jessica Lucas, Lizzy Gaiman, marries old-school stop-motion puppetry with animated work (Ghost in the Shell), Oshii creates a new Caplan. A twenty-something party in digital 3-D. sort of cyborg entity—a digital-photographic fusion. is derailed by an alien invasion in this found-footage In this Japanese ’s dystopic future, the thriller produced by J. J. Abrams. A precursor to Trash Ten population is hooked on an illegal virtual reality war Humpers, and much admired by French cineastes, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 4:00 P.M. game called Avalon, and a lone player risks real death Cloverfield combines shaky handheld footage from a in pursuit of its elusive final level. Oshii creates a professional high-definition camera and a consumer Dir. Abbas Kiarostami. 2002, 91 mins. With Mania sepia-toned digital-photographic hybrid, punctuated by camcorder to propose a cinema vérité for the digital age. Akbari, Amin Maher. Shot with a dashboard digicam, revelatory action shots that dissolve into 2-D layers. Ten consists of ten conversations between a newly divorced female driver and a series of passengers. Preceded by an excerpt from Waking Life (Dir. Richard Once Upon a Time in Anatolia FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 7:00 P.M. These intimate, sometimes banal discussions take on an Linklater. 2000, 5-minute excerpt). An animated feature unexpected poetry by unfolding on the streets of Tehran, produced by digitalizing photographic material, Waking Dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan. 2011, 157 mins. With Muhammet in the midst of life. Kiarostami has called Ten a movie Life includes an episode that playfully evokes André Uzuner, Yılmaz Erdoğan, Taner Birsel. A group of men made without a director, relying on nonprofessional Bazin’s notion of cinema’s relation to the real. search for truth (and a dead body) in the “empty” void of actors and substantial improvisation. the Anatolian steppe. Gökhan Tiryaki’s high-definition, Trash Humpers remarkably low-light digital photography, which was Preceded by: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 3:30 P.M. transferred to 35mm, has all the sumptuous breadth of C’est vrai (One Hour) CinemaScope, projecting a desolate atmosphere for this Dir. Robert Frank. 1990, 60 mins. With Kevin O’Connor, Dir. Harmony Korine. 2009, 78 mins. Proposed as a meditation on human uncertainty. Peter Orlovsky. C’est vrai (One Hour) is a single-take VHS tape found in a ditch, Korine’s provocative Trash film of a trip through Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Humpers depicts masked actors simulating sex with This (almost) spontaneous action “documentary” garbage, mimicking the grungy amateur aesthetic of a Coraline SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1:00 P.M. captures the goings-on of the neighborhood in real time found home movie with seemingly random cuts between SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1:00 P.M. but gradually gives the lie to its provocative title (“It’s vignettes in alleyways, backyards, and parking lots. Real”), betraying its elaborate choreography in a series An “ode to vandalism,” according to the filmmaker, Dir. Henry Selick. 2009, 100 mins. In Dolby Digital 3-D. of staged events. The film is a one-of-a-kind stunt, part Trash Humpers rewards the open-minded viewer with With the voices of Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer street theater and part urban . moments of astonishing and unexpected poignancy. Saunders, Dawn French, John Hodgman, Ian McShane.

14 film after film 15 The Idiots (Photofest) Cloverfield(Photofest) AN ONGOING Martial Arts Series curated by Warrington Hudlin

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale

The Idiots Goodbye, Dragon Inn (New Yorker Films) SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 7:00 P.M. The Raid: Redemption Warriors of the Fireball Dir. Lars von Trier. 1998, 117 mins. Imported 35mm print FRIDAY, JULY 27, 8:00 P.M. Rainbow: Seediq Bale SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 5:00 P.M. SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 5:00 P.M. of uncut European version. With Bodil Jørgensen, Jens Dir. Gareth Evans. 2011, 101 mins. Dir. Thanakorn Pongsuwan. 2009, Albinus, Anne Louise Hassing. A group of politically With Iko Uwais, Joe Taslim, Donny Dir. Wei Te-Sheng. 2011, 150 mins. 94 mins. In order to learn the identity minded actors explore their “inner idiots” by pretending Alamsyah. Deep in Jakarta’s slums With Lin Ching-Tai, Umin Boya, of his twin brother’s attackers, Tai to be mentally disabled in public. Itself a sort of lies an impenetrable, derelict Masanobu Ando. In one of the joins a team that plays “fireball,” an documentary provocation, this was Lars von Trier’s apartment building that has become grandest productions in Taiwanese underground, hybrid, kill-or-be-killed first film made in accordance with the manifesto of the a safe house for the city’s most film history, Warriors of the Rainbow sport that joins basketball, cage movement, which posited a pure cinema free dangerous murderers, killers, and details the 1930 rebellion against fighting, and martial arts and is of special effects and postproduction tricks. gangsters. An elite team is tasked Japanese troops of 300 warriors who controlled by the heads of organized with raiding the building in order to have been forced to renounce crime in Thailand. All of the bloodlust Useless bring down the notorious crime their traditions and work as laborers. takes place on the court, as Tai SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 4:00 P.M. Goodbye, Dragon Inn lord Tama Riyadi. Thrillingly staged Lin (himself a member of Taiwan’s maneuvers through elegant air kicks, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 7:00 P.M. Dir. Jia Zhangke. 2007, 80 mins. With Ma Ke. The and stunningly violent, this pulse- aboriginal community) anchors the punches, and jabs to get to the truth. second installment of Jia’s “trilogy of artists,” this Dir. Tsai Ming-liang. 2003, 82 mins. With Lee Kang- pounding, nonstop action fest was film as Mona Rudao, a tribal chief This Thai genre film is full of action, high-definition documentary examines the place of sheng, Chen Shiang-chyi, Kiyonobu Mitamura. A a critical and box office hit. who overcomes his lassitude to lead energy, and vengeance. the garment industry in a rapidly modernizing China. historic Taipei theater unspools its final attraction, the his people on a desperation-fueled Jia offers no easy answers for the mixed blessing of beloved Dragon Inn. Goodbye, Dragon mission. globalization, dwelling on the work of factory laborers, Inn is a superimposed double feature, with the frenetic fashion designers, and rural tailors with extraordinary movie-within-a-movie collapsed into a programmatically grace and humanity. Useless is a snapshot of China at static one. While Tsai’s long, stationary takes are a crossroads, struggling to reconcile its history with its basic Lumière, the elaborate gags of his near wordless industrial future. narrative evoke the lost world of silent cinema.

16 film after film 17 Rural Route Film Festival EXTREME AUGUST 3–5, 2012 With its focus on rural life, the Rural Route Film The First Season EXPLORATION Festival’s fiction, documentary, and experimental SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 5:00 P.M. With director Rudd Simmons in person programs are dedicated to highlighting people, EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND places, and cultures not normally represented in Dir. Rudd Simmons. 2012, 83 mins. United States. U.S. premiere. Paul and Phyllis van Amburgh, embracing the mainstream media. Each program will open with LIVE MUSIC BY ARP values essential to life on a small farm (honest toil, thrift, a by Robert Gardner, whose lyrical films and dedication to family), take their life savings and buy FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 7:00 P.M. are among cinema’s greatest ethnographic works. a defunct dairy. With three children, plus a fourth on the The festival is programmed by Alan Webber. way, they fight to become full-time farmers. Simmons (producer of The Royal Tenenbaums) makes his Presented by Cinema 16 In addition to these programs, there will be closing directorial debut with this documentary, filmed over a Guest curator: Molly Surno night screenings on Sunday, August 5, at 8:00 p.m. year. Preceded by Old Lady (Dir. Robert Gardner, 1958, and 10:00 p.m. at Brooklyn Grange, a few blocks 4 mins.), about a woman in the Kalahari Desert. from the Museum—the city’s largest rooftop How Are You Doing, Rudolf Ming farm, tended by local urban agrarians. (Kā tev klājas, Rūdolf Ming?) SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 2:00 P.M. Dir. Roberts Rubins. 2010, 60 mins. Latvia. U.S. premiere. Latvian thirteen-year-old Rudolf Ming’s near-obsessive See ruralroutefilms.com passion for filmmaking and violence is captured in this for more information. intimate documentary. He draws bloody scenes frame by frame on long, thin strips of parchment paper, adding the voice of every character in his scripts while moving the homemade filmstrips in front of an old slide projector. Fuji (Anthology Film Archives) SPECIAL 70MM SCREENING Baraka Preceded by short films: Hauling Sharks (Dir. Robert Gardner, 1968, 10 mins., Eritrea), Our Summer Made FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 7:00 P.M. In an era when movies have been largely reduced Gary Beydler’s Hand Held Day (1974, 6 mins.) Her Light Escape (Dir. Sasha Waters Freyer, 2012, 5 mins., to the tiny screens of laptops and smartphones, depicts a day in the Arizona desert through Dir. Ron Fricke. 1992, 96 mins. United States Magnificently United States. World premiere), Morning Glory (Dir. Cinema 16 refreshes the communal viewing time-lapse photography and a handheld mirror; photographed on six continents, Baraka views the Robert Todd, 2011, 14 mins.), Crosshairs (Dir. Mike experience. Cinema 16 is a free-floating series Charles and Ray Eames’s Powers of Ten (1977, wonders of a world, without words, through man’s and Hoath, 2011, 12 mins., Australia. New York premiere). nature’s prisms of symmetry, savagery, harmony, and named in honorof the underground 1950s New York 9 mins.) illustrates the awesome scope and chaos. This rare 70mm screening will be preceded by Now, Forager City avant-garde film venue. Founded by the late breadth of our relationship to the universe by a special preview of Fricke’s new film, Samsara, and by SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 4:30 P.M. Amos Vogel, the original Cinema 16 was a zooming away from Earth (and returning); Robert the Robert Gardner short It Could Be Good, It Could Be Dirs. Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin. 2012, 93 mins. Bad (1997, 6 mins.), about a breathtaking flight over the community of cinephiles interested in experimental Breer’s Fuji (1974, 9 mins.), through line drawing, United States. Exclusive sneak preview screening. Chilean Andes. and avant-garde films. Today, artist and curator rotoscope, and , lyrically depicts a train Lucien and Regina are an atypical couple who live in Molly Surno keeps this collective passion alive, ride past Mount Fuji; Walerian Borowczyk and Jersey City and forage deep into the Garden State for Upside Down (Khalti doka varti paay) commissioning musicians to reinterpret short Chris Marker’s Les astronautes (1959, 12 mins.) wild mushrooms to sell to gourmet restaurants. As SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 2:00 P.M. Regina seeks more stability as a prep cook at a trendy experimental films for site-specific performances. offers a surreal combination of live action, stop- Dir. Ajay Singh. 2012, 80 mins. India. Sneak preview restaurant and Lucien wants to devote himself to full- motion animation, and collage cutouts to tell the screening. The endearing and family-friendly Upside Down For Moving Image, a selection of films based on time, nomadic, cross-country mushroom hunting, their story of the adventures of an inventor who builds is about a child’s much-anticipated trip from rural extreme exploration and adventure, including marriage is put to a test. a spacecraft; Bruce Conner’s psychedelic Looking Maharashtra to the big city of Mumbai. Preceded by psychedelic, terrestrial, and celestial travel, are Preceded by Salt (Dir. Robert Gardner, 1968, 3 mins., Life Keeps on Passing (Dir. Robert Gardner, 1985, for Mushrooms (1967, 4 mins.) revolves around Ethiopia) and The Grasslands (Dir. Pema Tsetan, 2004, scored by New York-based artist and musician 5 mins.), filmed on the River Ganges. mushroom hunts by Conner and Timothy Leary in 22 mins., Tibet). Alexis Georgopoulos’s solo project ARP. Mexico and San Francisco. A fitting collaboration, ARP’s music is an otherworldly fusion of analog synthesizers Tickets: $15 public / $9 Museum members/ Now, Forager and classical instruments. Free for Silver Screen members and above.

18 19 Photo by Pete Souza in the amphitheater gallery

May 17–August 12, 2012 First

Apart from the familiar world of feature films, there Cameraman: exists a lesser-known world of industrial films, instructional and informational sponsored short Documenting The Obama films that were shown in schools, at corporate events, in the workplace, and at commercial Presidency In Real Time theaters before features. Documentary filmmaker Caroline Martel’s installation Industry/Cinema SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 3:00 P.M. takes an illuminating journey through film history With Arun ChaudhAry In Person by juxtaposing industrial images with those from popular or canonical films made between 1903 Followed by book signing and 1991. With headphones and channel switches, visitors can toggle back and forth between the From the early months of the 2008 campaign parliament by his belt, or being trapped in a White soundtracks. Images and sounds comment on through the first years of the Obama administration, House bathroom while Obama conducts a YouTube each other, often in surprising ways, allowing for a former NYU film professor Arun Chaudhary town hall on the other side of the door. singular interactive experience. Scenes from films had a unique perspective on the president of the Film and politics have been intertwined ever by Thomas Edison, Charles Chaplin, François United States. He was the first person to hold since the first films rattled in nickelodeons more Truffaut, and Stanley Kubrick are shown alongside the role of official White House videographer. than a century ago. But with the advent of new such archival gems as How Business Girls Keep “I’m sort of like President Obama’s wedding technologies and a new public that is hungry for Well, Along These Lines, and The Speech Chain, an videographer,” he explains, “if every day was a images of their leaders, Chaudhary has been AT&T film with a computer singing “Daisy Bell,” wedding with the same groom but a constantly in the right place at the right time to participate which was sung by the computer HAL 9000 in rotating set of hysterical guests.” in the interplay of film and politics at the very 2001: A Space Odyssey. Some of the moments Chaudhary captures are highest level. Chaudhary will talk about his small, like the president throwing warm-up experience, which he chronicles in his new book, pitches deep inside Busch Stadium in St. Louis First Cameraman: Documenting the Obama before the All-Star Game. Some are intensely Presidency in Real Time, and he will present some emotional, as when Obama comforts a grieving unforgettable video clips. The program will be teenager whose father has died in a devastating followed by a book signing in the Moving Image tornado. And some are just plain bizarre, like Store. Chaudhary getting thrown out of the Indian

20 21 in the TISCH EDUCATION CENTER in the LOBBy Pretty Loaded ONGOING we tripped presentation by big sPACESHIP, FRIDAY, July 20, 6:00–8:00 p.m.

Pretty Loaded, by the digital creative agency Big Spaceship, is composed of nearly 50 “preloaders,” el hadji animated graphics that show how much of a website has loaded. Originally, preloaders were utilitarian, employing progress bars, pie charts, or text, but designers soon started working inside the form’s constraints to create playful, engaging, and diouf even suspenseful graphics that hinted at what lay beyond the loading screen. These preloaders were June 15–September 23, 2012 originally produced by agencies and independent designers for websites primarily promoting films, Curated by Jason Eppink, Assistant Curator of Digital Media television shows, and consumer products. Viewed one after another, they create a never-ending cycle, directing attention to the preloader as its own creative space and to the inventive ways in Pretty Loaded installation made possible by Big Spaceship. which designers communicate the simple idea of View an expanded version online at prettyloaded.com progress from 0 to 100 percent. Image courtesy of Agency Net DVD Dead Drop ONGOING Opening reception, THURSDAY, August 16, 6:00–8:00 p.m.

For this new commissioned work, artist Aram On February 5, 2011, T. Finn, a member of the comedy website Bartholl (Berlin, b. 1972) embeds an inconspicuous, Something Awful, posted a doctored animated GIF of Senegalese slot-loading DVD burner into the side of the soccer player El Hadji Diouf being clobbered by an invisible Museum, made available to the public 24 hours a opponent. His challenge to image-editing-savvy members was day. Visitors who insert a blank DVD-R will receive simple: visualize what tripped El Hadji Diouf. Over the next several a surprise collection of digital files that may include weeks, more than a hundred remixed animated GIFs poured in. found footage, animated GIFs, video games, The cumulative result was one of the Web’s most “epic” Photoshop feature films, or interactive art curated or created threads, highlighting the ease of moving-image manipulation by artists selected by Bartholl. DVD Dead Drop and its proliferation as a natural extension of everyday online imbues the act of data transfer with a tangibility communication. The installation We Tripped El Hadji Diouf left behind in a world of cloud computing and presents the most surprising, clever, and imaginative responses. appstores, using a medium—the digital versatile These short videos were not created with commercial intentions disc—that is quickly becoming another artifact or claims to fine art. Instead, their makers were using widely of the past. available image-editing tools to participate in a humorous visual conversation and engage in playful one-upmanship. DVD Dead Drop installation made possible by the Harpo Foundation. Photo courtesy of the artist

22 23 The second installation of a three-exhibition series, PERSOL MAGNIFICENT OBSESSIONS: 30 stories of craftsmanship in film, uncovers ten powerful stories of obsessive workmanship within filmmaking. It offers a unique opportunity to view rarely seen artifacts from some of cinema’s most legendary films, as well as behind-the- scenes research notes, sketches, video interviews, and materials used in the development process by some of the world’s greatest filmmakers.

Among the celebrated stories is that of director , who made detailed color charts for his film Far from Heaven, precisely calibrating the emotional tone and aesthetic of each scene. And when helping to bring to life the story of controversial socialite Wallis Simpson in W.E., costume designer Arianne Phillips turned to Simpson’s own obsession with adornment to create a wardrobe that not only evoked the look and quality of historic haute couture but also used each garment to reflect shifts in character and mood, aswell as the passage of time. Actor-director Ed Harris immersed himself in the character of Jackson Pollock for years, learning to paint in the style of the artist. Actor Hilary Swank, for her part as Maggie in Million Dollar Baby, got so good at boxing that she earned the respect of her legendary trainer.

The exhibition also looks at the work of French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amélie), cinematographer Vittorio Storaro (The Last Emperor), director Alfred Hitchcock (North by Northwest), special effects supervisor and technical innovator Douglas Trumbull (Stargate sequence of 2001: A Space Odyssey), composer Ennio Morricone (his collaborations with Sergio Leone), and production designer Dean Tavoularis (One from the Heart).

June 14–August 19, 2012

Guest curator: Michael Connor

W.E. (Semtex Films / The Kobal Collection / Anthony Souza)

24 25 Mediamaking for FAMILIES AND TEENS PRESENTED AS PART OF THE FALL MAMAS EXPO SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1:30 p.m. DROP-IN MOVING IMAGE STUDIO SUMMER MEDIA CAMP 2012 Every Saturday, 12:00–5:00 p.m. August 6–31, 2012 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 11:00 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. Ages 7+ accompanied by an adult (12+ on their own) At the Moving Image Summer Media Camp, children and Beginning July 7, Museum of the Moving Image will offer teens use state-of-the-art equipment and software to Dir. Charlie Chaplin. 1921, 68 mins. With Charlie Chaplin, Edna drop-in studio sessions for young visitors ages seven and create their own , live-action videos, and video Purviance, Jackie Coogan. Combining Chaplin’s trademark up. With the assistance of Museum educators, they will games, in a series of weeklong workshops. There quirky comedy with a tinge of dramatic sentimentality, The Kid engage in hands-on creative work, making projects ranging are two sections: ages 9–11 and ages 12+. Visit is a silent gem that remains a hilarious delight. When the Little from flipbooks and thaumatropes (hand-drawn optical movingimage.us/summermediacamp for more details. Tramp finds an abandoned child on the street, they join to form toys) to stop-motion and computer animations and video games. Studio visitors will also have an opportunity to one of American cinema’s most famous partnerships. Chaplin’s see, handle, and explore the inner workings of moving- first feature-length film, which he also wrote, The Kid made Jackie image technology, such as projectors, film strips and Coogan a famous child star, and proved Chaplin’s mastery on all video tape, video game consoles, and more. Some sides of the camera. This presentation features Chaplin’s own special sessions will feature artist-led group projects. score composed for the film’s reissue in 1971. More information is available at movingimage.us/families. Free with Museum admission. Admission is first-come, first-served. Parents/caregivers are welcome and encouraged to participate in the studio. The Fall Mamas Expo For parents of children ages 5+ SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 AND 23, 10:00 A.M.–4:00 P.M. The Museum is pleased to team up with the Queens Mamas for the Fall Mamas Expo, focused on the elementary set and above. In addition to gaining insider access to more than 40 vendors—from educational resources to new products and services—in the Museum’s Education Center, attendees will be able to hear experts speak, experience screenings of family- friendly films in the Museum’s stunning theater, and explore its exhibitions. Bring the whole family for a great day at the Museum. Families can expect: • Screenings of Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid and Muppet Show episodes • Hands-on creative fun in the drop-in Moving Image Studio • Special preview screening to be announced

Additional details to be announced online at movingimage.us.

Photo by Brian Palmer

26 27 Behind the screen HIGHLIGHT The Howdy Doody Show (1947–1960) was one of the earliest and most popular children’s programs on behind television. By 1950 the show had generated an unprecedented range of licensed merchandise; Howdy was featured on such products as cookie jars, night lights, coloring books, lunch boxes, watches, puzzles, the sCReen and shoe polish. The Museum’s core exhibition, Behind the Screen, immerses visitors in the creative See this Howdy Doody Coloring Book and technical process of producing, promoting, and presenting films, television and over one hundred other examples shows, and digital entertainment. It includes over 1,400 artifacts—from nineteenth- of licensed merchandise in Behind century optical toys to video games—as well as an array of interactive experiences, the Screen. audiovisual material, and artworks to reveal the skills, material resources, and artistic decisions that go into making moving images.

Aliens, Gadgets, and Photo by Thanassi Karageorgiou Guns: Designing the World of Men in Black 3 May 9–September 23, 2012 DEMONSTRATIONS CLASSIC MOVIE SERIALS IN TUT’S

Educators demonstrate the professional craft of film FEVER Movie palace Rick Baker, the master special effects makeup artist and sound editing, and allow visitors to view a film on Red Grooms and Lysiane Luong’s artwork/movie who has won seven Academy Awards, created the aliens a Kinetoscope and play a prototype of the first home theater, Tut’s Fever Movie Palace, an homage to the for the Men in Black movies. Baker’s extraterrestrials, video game system. Demonstrations are conducted days of the ornate movie palace, is the perfect venue as well as futuristic firearms and ingenious gadgets, on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. for screenings of classic movie serials. Through are among the most memorable visual elements in Visit movingimage.us/exhibitions for more information. August 3: Terry and the Pirates (Dir. James W. Horne, the comical action adventure series about a pair of 1940, 15 episodes). Starting on August 4 is Dick Tracy agents who monitor a population of unruly space aliens ON VIEW IN TV LOUNGE Returns (Dir. John English, William Witney, 1938, 15 posing as ordinary citizens. Aliens, Gadgets, and Guns: episodes). The sequel to the original Dick Tracy serial Designing the World of Men in Black 3 presents over Coinciding with the theatrical release of The Amazing finds Dick battling spies and saboteurs in his quest 25 objects from the third installment of the series, and Spider-Man, starting July 5, each week TV Lounge will to bring the notorious Stark crime gang to justice. includes Baker’s aliens, memory-erasing neuralyzers, feature an episode of the animated television series Screenings on Saturdays and Sundays at 1:00 p.m., fantastical guns, a monocycle, and the iconic black Spider-Man (1967), Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends 2:00 p.m., and 3:30 p.m., and on weekdays at 2:00 p.m. shades worn by Agents J and K. Exclusive behind-the- (1981), and the latest installation, The Ultimate Spider- scenes footage of Baker in his studio and on the set of Man (2012). Men in Black 3 is also featured in the exhibit.

28 29 focus on the collection In 2001, the Museum acquired over 2,000 artifacts Museum of the Moving Image is the country’s only museum dedicated to film, related to the work of puppeteers Hope and Morey Bunin. television, and digital media—a one-of-a kind destination for audiences of all The Bunins created a cast of puppet characters that ages and interests, from connoisseurs of world cinema and avid gamers to were featured on television as early as 1944. They are best children and families. Join today and take advantage of: known for creating CBS’s first children’s television program, Lucky Pup (1948–1951), and its nearly identical • Free admission to over 400 screenings a year in our state-of-the-art successor on ABC, Foodini the Great (1951). These two theater shows were tremwendously popular with adults and children alike, and, at the time of their broadcast, were • Invitations to exclusive events featuring such guests as cinema greats as well known as The Howdy Doody Show (1947–1960) Martin Scorsese, David Cronenberg, Oliver Stone, Alexander Payne, and Kukla, Fran and Ollie (1947–1957). Rachel Weisz, and Sir Ben Kingsley

The Museum’s collection includes a unique, comprehensive • Unlimited access to thought-provoking and interactive exhibitions seen set of material illuminating the production, promotion, by over 200,000 visitors a year and fan response to Lucky Pup and Foodini the Great. This • Family programs including screenings, workshops, and special events material sheds light on the making of one of television’s • Discounts at the Moving Image Store and Café first hit shows, and opens a window into the world of its fans, young and old. Artifacts include the original hand Membership starts at $75 per year. To join or for more information about puppets, annotated scripts, handmade props and becoming a member, please visit movingimage.us or call 718 777 6877. costumes, promotional material, a rich assortment of licensed merchandise, and fan letters and drawings that reflect the dramatic impact of television on audiences as it emerged as a significant form of mass entertainment.

Artifacts in this donation also include photographs and puppets from a range of other early television appearances by the Bunin Puppets, as well as material related to Aniforms, Morey Bunin’s pioneering system for performing live “cartoon” characters on television.

Barbara Miller Collection Curator

Visit the Museum’s online collection database to view catalog records for these and thousands of other artifacts: collection.movingimage.us. CORPORATE MEMBERSHIP

Become a Corporate Member today and demonstrate your company’s commitment to the arts. Comic book, Pinhead and Foodini, vol. 1, no. 1, July 1951 Corporate Members play a vital role in supporting the Puppet, Foodini, undated Museum’s wealth of exciting film series, immersive Correspondence, contest submission education programs, and innovative exhibitions. Your from Susan Martin, 1949 company’s employees will enjoy all the benefits Television still, Lucky Pup, or Foodini the listed above, plus the opportunity to host events in Great, undated the Museum’s recently revamped and architecturally Sound recording, Foodini’s Trip to the distinctive facilities. Moon, 1949 To join, please visit movingimage.us or call 718 777 6877. All gifts of the family of Charlotte and Morey Bunin. Photo by Brian Palmer

30 31 Featuring extraordinary new facilities, the transformed Museum of the Moving Image is housed in a building owned by the City of New York and has received significant support from the following public agencies: New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; New York Museum of the Moving Image is a stunning setting FOR City Economic Development Corporation; New York State Council on the Arts; Institute of Museum and Library private events AND SCREENINGS Services; National Endowment for the Humanities; National Endowment for the Arts; Natural Heritage Trust (administered by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation). The Museum gratefully acknowledges the leadership and assistance of: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg; BIRTHDAY PARTIES PRIVATE EVENTS PRIVATE SCREENINGS Queens Borough President Helen M. Marshall; Commissioner of Cultural Affairs Kate D. Levin; Speaker of the New York Your child can be the star of his or her Galleries can remain open after hours The 267-seat Main Theater and City Council Christine C. Quinn; Council Members Leroy G. Comrie, Domenic M. Recchia, Jimmy Van Bramer, and the very own party at the Museum. for guests to enjoy our exhibitions 68-seat Celeste and Armand Bartos entire Queens delegation of the New York City Council; Hon. Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor, New York State; New York We create a memorable and fun-filled and interactive experiences. Museum Screening Room are available for State Senators Michael N. Gianaris, George Onorato, and Malcolm Smith; New York State Assembly Members extravaganza for your child and educators are available to offer private screenings. Host a screening Catherine T. Nolan and Aravella Simotas; Congressman Joseph Crowley; Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney. guests, with a special educator-led gallery talks and demonstrations. of your favorite film for your friends Major program and operating support provided by: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; tour, interactive experiences, a to celebrate a milestone or mark a Bloomberg Philanthropies; Institute of Museum and Library Services; Malt Products Corporation; National Endowment private screening, and party bags. special occasion. for the Arts; Pannonia Foundation; Herbert S. Schlosser; Screen Actors Guild Foundation; Theatrical Teamsters Local 817; Time Warner Inc.; Ann and Andrew Tisch. For more information about renting spaces at the Museum, please Additional support: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; Kathleen Altman; The contact BG Hacker at 718 777 6868 Foundation for the Visual Arts; Betsy and Michael Barker in honor of Tim Choate, Arthur Krim, Akira Kurosawa, or [email protected]. Ed Lowry, Louis Malle; Howard and Stacy Bass; Nathan Bernstein and Katharina Otto-Bernstein; Joshua Bilmes; Lane Brettschneider in honor of Donald R. Manes; Consulate General of the Netherlands; Joan Ganz Cooney; Ellin A. Delsener; Charles and Valerie Diker; Krystyna O. and Ronald J. Doerfler; Embassy of France in the United States; Five Napkin Burger; Jo-Ann Fox-Weingarten; Jerome and Mary Goldman; Raphael Gonzalez; Michael Gordon; Harpo Foundation; Hazen Polsky Foundation, Inc., in memory of Joseph H. Hazen; HBO; Cheryl Henson; Hive Digital Media Learning Fund in The New York Community Trust; The Jane Henson Foundation; Janklow Foundation; Preethi Krishna; Richard I. 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Key to LOCATION All program times, dates, formats, and locations are Episodes of The Muppet Show are shown continuously Screenings of classic movie serials in Tut’s Fever Movie MT Main Theater subject to change. Unless otherwise noted, all programs during Museum hours, in the Fox Amphitheater or the Palace, weekdays at 2:00 p.m., weekends at 1:00, 2:00, BA Celeste and Armand Bartos Screening Room are free with Museum admission. Bartos Screening Room and 3:30 p.m. DLS Digital Learning Suite

Friday, July 13 Sunday, July 22 3:00 Rio Bravo (MT, p. 6) Saturday, August 18 Saturday, September 15 Friday, September 28 JULY 7:00 3:00 The Red Shoes (MT, p. 6) AUGUST 4:30 Now, Forager, preceded by 3:00 The Searchers (MT, p. 7) SEPTEMBER 1:00 Jurassic Park (MT, p. 13) 7:00 Once Upon a Time in (MT, p. 5) 6:00 The Life and Death of Salt and The Grasslands 5:00 Warriors of the Rainbow: 4:00 In Praise of Love, Anatolia (MT, p. 14) Wednesday, July 4 Colonel Blimp (MT, p. 6) Wednesday, August 1 (BA, p. 18) Seediq Bale (BA, p. 17) Saturday, September 1 introduced by 7:00 The American Experience, Saturday, July 14 7:00 Senna (Socrates Sculpture 6:00 The Wild Bunch (MT, p. 7) 6:00 Taxi Driver (MT, p. 7) 2:00 Doctor Zhivago (MT, p. 8) J. Hoberman (MT, p. 13) Saturday, September 29 preceded by live video 3:00 One from the Heart Wednesday, July 25 Park, p. 1 1) 6:30 The Bridge on the River 7:00 Cotton Candy and 1:00 Coraline (MT, p. 15) feed of Macy’s fireworks (MT, p. 5) 7:00 Her Master’s Voice Wednesday, August 8 Sunday, August 19 Kwai (MT, p. 8) *Corpus Callosum, 3:00 The First Cameraman: display (Socrates 6:00 Apocalypse Now Redux (Socrates Sculpture Park, Friday, August 3 7:00 Summer Wars (Socrates 3:00 The Searchers (MT, p. 7) introduced by Ernie Gehr Documenting the Obama Sculpture Park, p. 10) (MT, p. 5) p. 11) 7:00 Baraka, preceded by Sculpture Park, p. 11) 6:00 Taxi Driver (MT, p. 7) Sunday, September 2 (MT, p. 13) Presidency in Real Time, Samsara preview and It 2:00 Doctor Zhivago (MT, p. 8) with Arun Chaudhary in Friday, July 6 Sunday, July 15 Friday, July 27 Could Be Good, It Could Saturday, August 11 Wednesday, August 22 6:30 The Bridge on the River Sunday, September 16 person (MT, p. 20) 7:00 2001: A Space Odyssey 3:00 One from the Heart 8:00 The Raid: Redemption Be Bad (MT, p. 18) 2:00 The Leopard (MT, p. 7) 7:00 Spring, Summer, Fall, Kwai (MT, p. 8) 12:30 Jurassic Park (MT, p. 13) 4:00 Ten, preceded by (MT, p. 5) (MT, p. 5) (MT, p. 17) 6:00 Fellini Satyricon (MT, p. 7) Winter… and Spring 3:00 Inland Empire (MT, p. 13) C’est vrai (One Hour) 6:00 Apocalypse Now Redux Saturday, August 4 (Socrates Sculpture Park, Friday, September 7 7:00 Battle in Heaven (MT, p. 13) (BA, p. 15) Saturday, July 7 (MT, p. 5) Saturday, July 28 2:00 Upside Down (Khalti doka Sunday, August 12 p. 11) 7:00 The Last Picture Show 7:00 The Idiots (MT, p. 16) 2:00 2001: A Space Odyssey 3:00 To Catch a Thief (MT, p. 6) varit paay), preceded by 2:00 The Leopard (MT, p. 7) (MT, p. 8) Friday, September 21 (MT, p. 5) Wednesday, July 18 6:00 Vertigo (MT, p. 6) Life Keeps on Passing 6:00 Fellini Satyricon (MT, p. 7 Friday, August 24 7:00 Southland Tales (MT, p. 13) Sunday, September 30 6:00 2001: A Space Odyssey 7:00 Lemonade Joe (BA, p. 18) 7:00 Brazil (MT, p. 8) Saturday, September 8 1:00 Coraline (MT, p. 15) (MT, p. 5) (Socrates Sculpture Park, Sunday, July 29 3:00 Rio Bravo (MT, p. 6) Wednesday, August 15 2:00 Ben-Hur (MT, p. 8) Saturday, September 22 4:00 Useless (MT, p. 16) p. 11) 3:00 To Catch a Thief (MT, p. 6) 5:00 The First Season, 7:00 Certified Copy Saturday, August 25 7:00 The Last Picture Show 10:00 The Fall Mamas Expo 7:00 Goodbye, Dragon Inn Sunday, July 8 6:00 Vertigo (MT, p. 6) preceded by Old Lady, (Socrates Sculpture Park, 3:00 Brazil (MT, p. 8) (MT, p. 8) (DLS, p. 27) (MT, p. 16) 2:00 2001: A Space Odyssey Friday, July 20 with Rudd Simmons in p. 11) 6:00 Blue Velvet (MT, p. 8) 1:30 The Kid (MT, p. 27) (MT, p. 5) 6:00 Presentation by person (BA, p. 18) Sunday, September 9 3:30 Southland Tales (MT, p. 13) 6:00 2001: A Space Odyssey Big Spaceship (Fox 6:00 The Wild Bunch (MT, p. 7) Thursday, August 16 Sunday, August 26 2:00 Ben-Hur (MT, p. 8) 5:00 Fireball (BA, p. 17) (MT, p. 5) Amphitheater, p. 22) 6:00 Opening reception 3:00 Brazil (MT, p. 8) 7:00 The Last Picture Show 7:00 Avalon (MT, p. 14) 7:00 Cabaret (MT, p. 5) Sunday, August 5 for DVD Dead Drop 6:00 Blue Velvet (MT, p. 8) (MT, p. 8) Wednesday, July 11 2:00 How Are You Doing, (Lobby, p. 22) Sunday, September 23 7:00 Soul Kitchen Saturday, July 21 Rudolf Ming? (Kā tev Friday, August 31 Friday, September 14 10:00 The Fall Mamas Expo (Socrates Sculpture Park, 3:00 The Red Shoes (MT, p. 6) klājas, Rūdolf Ming?), Friday, August 17 7:00 Doctor Zhivago (MT, p. 8) 7:00 Extreme Exploration: (DLS, p. 27) p. 10) 6:00 The Life and Death of preceded by Hauling 7:00 Taxi Driver (MT, p. 7) Experimental Film and 11:00 The Kid (MT, p. 27) Colonel Blimp, introduced Sharks, Our Summers Live Music by ARP 1:30 The Kid (MT, p. 27) by Thelma Schoonmaker Made Her Light Escape, (MT, p. 19) 3:30 Trash Humpers (MT, p. 14) (MT, p. 6) Morning Glory, and 7:00 Cloverfield(MT, p. 14) Crosshairs (BA, p. 18)

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