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Making Movies in : 1912 9

The Cinema and Its Doubles 12 The End of Time 14 SEE IT BIG! 4 Fist and Sword 15

The Life of Pi 16

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2 Sunday, October 28, 1:00 p..

1994, 142 mins. 35mm. With , , , . The slow-witted Forrest Gump floats through his life—and a tumultuous period in American history— ROBERT somehow showing up as a bit player in one iconic moment after another. One of the most acclaimed and successful films of the past twenty years, and the focus of intense critical debate, Forrest Gump is both a technical marvel and a compelling blend ZEMECKIS of comedy and drama. Flight October 28–November 4, 2012 MONDAY, October 29, 6:30 p.m. At the Ziegfeld With , , , , and David Koepp in person Dir. Robert Zemeckis, 2012, 138 mins. Courtesy of Paramount. With Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle, John Goodman, Melissa Leo, . In Zemeckis’s action-packed and dramatically powerful mystery , Academy Award winner Washington stars as Whip Whitaker, a seasoned airline pilot who miraculously crash-lands his plane after a midair catastrophe, saving nearly everyone on board. After the crash, Whip is hailed as a hero, but as more is learned, questions arise as to who or what was at fault and what really happened on that plane. A discussion with Zemeckis, actors Denzel Washington and John Goodman, and screenwriter John Gatins follows the screening, moderated by David Koepp.

Back to the Future Friday, November 2, 2:00 AND 6:30 p.m.

1985, 116 mins. Digital projection. With Michael J. Fox, , , . In this rollicking time-travel story about a teenager who travels back to the , where he must arrange his parents’ meeting, Zemeckis perfectly balances , spectacle, comedy, action, and emotional depth. Robert Zemeckis has directed some of the most entertaining, inventive, and beloved movies of the past three decades, Sunday, November 4, 4:00 p.m. including , the trilogy, ?, Forrest Gump, and Cast Away. As 2000, 143 mins. 35mm. With Tom Hanks, . A Federal Express executive survives a plane crash and winds dazzling as his films can be, they are also marked by a mastery up on a remote Pacific island, where he must learn how to of cinematic language and emotional depth. Zemeckis’s survive. Hanks’s tour de force performance captures the latest film, Flight, is both an action thriller and an intense and grueling physical journey as well as the complex emotional deeply moving character study, with a bracing, audacious transformation. Like all Zemeckis’s best films, this is a performance by Denzel Washington. The Museum members- cinematic triumph that is as deeply moving as it is entertaining. only screening of Flight at the Ziegfeld is the centerpiece of this retrospective featuring four of Zemeckis’s greatest films. The Museum’s scheduled screening of Flight at the Ziegfeld with Denzel Washington in person on Monday, October 29, was canceled due to Hurricane Sandy. This screening will All films directed by Robert Zemeckis. be rescheduled.

3 The Innocents

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Curated by Reverse Shot editors Michael Koresky and Jeff Reichert, and the Museum’s Chief Curator, David Schwartz, and Assistant Film Curator, Rachael Rakes

The Museum’s popular ongoing See It Big! celebrates the joys of large-scale moviegoing. It provides a chance to discover or revisit essential films in their full theatrical splendor in one of the finest film venues in the country. Great movies transport us into new worlds, and they immerse us visually and aurally. Despite the easy availability of movies on portable devices and small screens, there is only one way to really see a movie: BIG! The Museum always endeavors to show a film in the best available version, whether it is a stunning digital restoration, or a rare screening of a vintage 35mm print. Projection formats are noted throughout.

4 Suspiria and Alexander is a lush banquet of a film. Shown here in Bergman’s preferred version, which aired as a four-part FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 7:00 P.M. (Photofest) SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 7:00 P.M. miniseries on Swedish television, the first fourth is devoted to an extravagant and warm Christmas party, Dir. Dario Argento. 1977, 98 mins. Imported 35mm certainly the most remarkable holiday gathering ever Technicolor print. With Jessica Harper, Stefania committed to film. Casini, Udo Kier. Italian director Argento has created some of the most imaginative, gory, and Bonjour Tristesse downright gorgeous horror films of all time, but FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 7:00 P.M. Suspiria—a bizarre tale of an American dancer who SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 3:00 P.M. arrives at a gothic European ballet school after it SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30, 3:00 P.M. has experienced a spate of mysterious murders— is his most beloved. Once you see the first ten Dir. . 1958, 94 mins. DCP. With Jean minutes of this impeccable horror classic, with its Seberg, , . Seventeen-year-old astonishing use of color and its vivid, elaborately Celine (Seberg) and her suave father, Raymond (Niven), staged gore, you will be hooked. maintain a father-daughter relationship just this side of appropriate, sharing everything and treating each other Unforgiven largely as equals. However, when Raymond’s stylish old Suspiria (Photofest) flame Anne (Kerr) pops up on their summer vacation SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9, 3:00 P.M. in Saint Tropez, and romance blossoms again between Introduced by Robert Kapsis, co-editor of : Interviews the two adults, Celine begins scheming, with disastrous Dir. Clint Eastwood. 1992, 131 mins. 35mm. With Clint Eastwood, , , Richard consequences. Preminger’s widescreen frames elevate Harris. Clint Eastwood’s recent co-starring role with a wooden chair aside, this grim revisionist may all the foibles on display to the level of tragedy. be his finest moment. An old gunslinger heads out with a motley crew to collect one last bounty, but the ’s motivations quickly turn murky as a simple righting of a wrong for a fee gives way to bloodthirsty revenge and wanton killing. For Eastwood, the simple pleasures of the classic, cheeky western always came with a violent hidden cost; the best-picture-winning Unforgiven is cinematic debt paying at its finest. Followed by a book signing.

Children of Paradise All That Heaven Allows FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 7:00 P.M. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2012, 7:00 P.M. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 6:30 P.M. Dir. Douglas Sirk. 1955. 89 mins. 35mm. With Jane Dir. Marcel Carné. 1945, 190 mins. DCP presented with Wyman, , . An indictment intermission. In French with English subtitles. With of 1950s small town , and a heartbreaking May– , Jean-Louis Barrault, . An actor, December romance—played with melting intensity Bonjour tristesse (Photofest) a shady criminal, a count, and a mime all vie for the by Hudson and Wyman—All That Heaven Allows is hand of a beautiful and enigmatic woman in Carné’s perhaps the greatest of Sirk’s glorious . epic yet intimate vision of nineteenth-century , Brilliantly shot with expressionistic hues and elaborate set in a meticulously recreated Boulevard du Crime. compositions, and with one of the most affecting holiday La Dolce Vita The Innocents This moving example of classic storytelling has been scenes committed to film, called All That SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 6:00 P.M. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2:00 P.M. deemed by many critics the greatest achievement of Heaven Allows “a masterpiece by one of the most SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30, 6:00 P.M. pre-New Wave French cinema, and now it looks better inventive and recondite directors ever to work in Dir. Clayton. 1961, 101 mins. 35mm. With Dir. . 1960, 174 mins. 35mm. In Italian than ever thanks to a new digital restoration. .” Deborah Kerr, Wyngarde, Michael Redgrave. with English subtitles. With , Anita

This exquisitely eerie adaptation of ’s Children of Paradise Ekberg, Anouk Aimée. A city symphony, personal epic, The Turn of the Screw stars a brilliantly cracked Kerr Fanny and Alexander and pinpoint-accurate portrait of a specific moment SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 3:00 P.M. as a governess who arrives at a secluded house to in time, La Dolce Vita may be Fellini’s grandest SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23, 3:00 P.M. take care of two strange children, whom she grows achievement. Over the course of one hedonistic week, convinced are haunted by a ghost. Featuring brilliant Dir. . 1982, 312 mins. Presented Mastroianni’s gossip columnist Marcello by Freddie Francis, whose every with one intermission. Digital projection. In Swedish, bounces from party to party, woman to woman, all in hushed, black-and-white, CinemaScope frame is a German, and Yiddish with English subtitles. With Bertil search of the ultimate good time. At the end of it, he is in quiet terror, The Innocents is among Guve, Gun Wallgren. Bergman’s magnificent family saga likely none the wiser about what he is actually looking the greatest horror films ever made, and its many encompasses a year in the life of the Ekdahl clan, as for out of life. From the climactic debauched party to scary visual details can truly be grasped only on the mostly seen through the eyes of the imaginative young the indelible scene on the beach, this film is one of the big screen. Alexander. Part , part existential drama, Fanny most lucid cinematic statements of the sixties.

5 SEE IT BIG! To Kill a Mockingbird Saturday, November 3, 1:00 P.M.

Dir. Robert Mulligan. 1962, 129 mins. 35mm. With , Mary YOUNG Badham. Harper Lee’s heart-wrenching autobiographical novel of racial hatred in small-town is one of the most acclaimed and beloved literary adaptations in Hollywood history. This atmospheric and resonant coming-of-age story featured first-time actress Mary Badham, ACTRESSES, who was 10 years old when she played the young Scout. Beasts of the Southern Wild Saturday, November 3, 4:30 P.M. With actress Quvenzhané Wallis and director Benh Zeitlin in person This screening is presented as part of the series New Visions, in BIG ROLES partnership with Persol November 3–4, 2012 Dir. Benh Zeitlin. 2012, 93 mins. DCP. With Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly. At the center of this raw and lyrical movie about a Louisiana island community on the brink of environmental disaster is First-time actress Quvenzhané Wallis was just five years old the performance of Wallis as Hushpuppy, a charismatic and imaginative when she was cast in the leading role as the strong-willed young girl who was abandoned by her mother and left to care for her Hushpuppy in this year’s breakout American independent ailing father. The film took prizes at both Cannes, where it won the Caméra d’Or, and Sundance, where it won the Grand Jury Prize and hit Beasts of the Southern Wild. Her astonishing portrayal prompted critic Manohla Dargis to write in , “Nothing brings to mind some timeless screen performances by young else at this year’s festival came close to stirring up the excitement and actresses in movies that were also set in the American South, sense of discovery generated by Beasts.” such as Tatum O’Neal’s Oscar-winning turn in Paper Moon, and Mary Badham’s unforgettable portrayal of Scout in the Paper Moon 50-year-old classic To Kill a Mockingbird. Sunday, November 4, 1:30 P.M.

Dir. . 1973, 102 mins. 35mm. With Ryan O’Neal, Tatum O’Neal. Real-life father and daughter Ryan and Tatum O’Neal play a con man and a girl who may be . They work their way across the Depression-era South in Bogdanovich’s lyrical, funny movie, beautifully photographed in by Laszlo Kovacs; the film made 10-year- old Tatum the youngest-ever best supporting actress Oscar winner.

Beasts of the Southern Wild

6 IN THE AMPHITHEATER GALLERY AND BARTOS SCREENING ROOM The Art of Rise of the Guardians November 10, 2012–March 3, 2013

Presented with support from DreamWorks

Organized by guest curator Jenny He and Chief Curator David Schwartz

Rise of the Guardians, the new animated feature from DreamWorks Animation, is a visually enthralling film based on ’s “Guardians of Childhood” book series, with , the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and other beloved characters reinterpreted as action heroes in a parable about the ongoing struggle between good and evil. This gallery exhibition takes a look behind the scenes, revealing the innovative collaborative process behind the making of the film. Original artwork, both digital and hand-drawn, an exclusive video presentation, showing the development of selected sequences from beginning to end, and a revealing documentary, presented exclusively at the Museum that take us into the DreamWorks Animation studio, show how the colorful world of the movie and its memorable characters were created. An accompanying film series, with screenings every Saturday and Sunday at 1:00 p.m. and special holiday screenings, offers visitors the opportunity to experience the finest films from DreamWorks Animation, including the and series, , , and much more, in a theatrical setting.

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7 SPECIAL PREVIEW SCREENING Antz (Photofest) Rise of the Guardians SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1:00 P.M. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1:00 P.M. Introduced by director , production SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1:00 P.M. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1:00 P.M. designer Patrick Hanenberger, and author MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1:00 P.M. Dirs. , John Stevenson. 2008, 90 mins. William Joyce (Saturday only) TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1:00 P.M. DCP. With the voices of , , SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2:00 P.M. , Ian McShane, Seth Rogen. In ancient Dir. . 2011, 90 mins. 3-D. With SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1:00 P.M. China, the bumbling panda Po dreams of becoming a , Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Dir. Peter Ramsey. 2012, 97 mins. Dolby Digital 3-D. kung-fu master. To everyone’s surprise, Po is named the Bob Thornton, Amy Sedaris. A spin-off prequel to the With the voices of , , Hugh chosen one by the old tortoise Oogway, which means Shrek franchise, Puss in Boots follows the adventures Jackman, Isla Fisher, . When the evil that he must bring peace to the land. The film’s colorful, of the suave fighter, lover, and outlaw before his scene- Pitch threatens to put an end to children’s dreams, eye-popping is the most complex stealing appearance in . a team of guardians takes action, including Santa, to date by DreamWorks. the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, the Sandman, and Puss In Boots a newcomer—. Filled with invention and Monsters vs. Aliens personality, Rise of the Guardians boldly reinvents the SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1:00 P.M. iconic heroes of childhood. Antz SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1:00 P.M. TICKETS: $15 public / $9 Museum members / Free for SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1:00 P.M. MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1:00 P.M. Silver Screen members and above. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1:00 P.M. WEDNESDAY–FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26–28, 1:00 P.M. Dirs. , Tim Johnson. 1998, 83 mins. 35mm. Dirs. Rob Letterman, . 2009, 94 mins. How to Train Your Dragon (Photofest) With the voices of , , Dan Dolby Digital 3-D. With the voices of , Aykroyd, , . The first Seth Rogen, Hugh Laurie, Will Arnett, Kiefer Sutherland. entirely computer-animated film by DreamWorks The meteorite that hits Susan on her wedding day Animation, Antz tells the story of the neurotic worker doesn’t kill her—it just makes her green and over 50 ant Z (voiced by Allen), who longs for the legendary feet tall. Nicknamed Ginormica, she is recruited by Insectopia, a place where he can live in freedom and the government to save the planet from the five-eyed Thanksgiving Weekend truly express himself. His escape marks the start of Gallaxhar, a menace to Earth. This sophisticated tribute Workshop nothing less than an ant revolution. to sci-fi B movies of the 1950s was the first film to be Fairy Tale Shadow Plays produced in stereoscopic 3-D format, rather than being Friday–Sunday, November 23–25, Madagascar converted into 3-D after completion. 2:45 and 3:45 p.m. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1:00 P.M. Long before DreamWorks used computer animation SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1:00 P.M. Monsters vs. Aliens (Photofest) to playfully send up classic fairy tales in Shrek (daily Dirs. Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath. 2005, 86 mins. at 1:00 p.m.), artists around the world were animating How to Train Your Dragon DCP. With the voices of , , David fairy tales using nothing more than makeshift Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, . SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1:00 P.M. screens, light, and shadow puppets. In this hour-long When the Zoo decides to ship four SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1:00 P.M. workshop, participants will learn about these very first disobedient animals back to Africa, the pampered moving images, and then design and create their own Dirs. Dean DeBlois, . 2010, 98 mins. urban crew is in for a culture shock. They fall off the paper puppets for a group fairy tale performance. Dolby Digital 3-D. With the voices of , boat and wash ashore in Madagascar, where they must Materials fee: $5 / free for Red Carpet Kids. Ages 7+ Gerard Butler, , , . learn to rediscover their animal instincts. A little Viking boy, Hiccup, is sent to the Isle of Berk to take dragon-killing classes. When he finally catches a Holiday Week Workshop Madagascar (Photofest) dragon, he finds not a monster but a new companion. Claymation Creatures Saturday, December 22–Tuesday, January 1, Shrek 2:45 and 3:45 p.m. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1:00 P.M. (The Museum is closed on Christmas Day) SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1:00 P.M. Catch a family matinee of a great DreamWorks SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1:00 P.M. animated film featuring monsters, aliens, or fairy tale Dirs. , . 2001, 90 mins. characters (daily at 1:00 p.m.), then create your own 35mm. With the voices of , , animated creature. Computer animators make their , . The original Shrek film characters using 3-D models. Here, participants will introduced audiences to the grouchy ogre who is lured design and make 3-D characters with armatures and out of his solitary existence by a stubborn and clay, then animate them. The workshop will culminate the lovely , in a highly creative story that in a screening of their short videos. both embraces and subverts fairy tales. Materials fee: $10 / $5 for Red Carpet Kids. Ages 9+

8 THE ART OF RISE OF THE G UARDIANS MAKING MOVIES IN NEW YORK: 1912 November 10–11, 2012

Guest curator: Richard Koszarski, author of Hollywood on the Hudson

One hundred years ago, even while most local studios already maintained some sort of winter quarters in Florida, Arizona, or Southern , New York was still the center of the American movie industry. In this second annual review of the local scene as it existed exactly a century ago, it is clear that New York filmmakers never limited themselves to New York stories. Few of these films take place on city streets, and most of the action seems to occur in generic small towns and suburbs. Still, the influence of local history and culture (and regional or ethnic performance traditions) is unavoidable. Studios in and Philadelphia made a lot of movies, too, but the cosmopolitan sensibility that would mark New York for the rest of the century can already be seen in these pictures. While the established Biograph, Vitagraph, and Edison studios dominated the marketplace in 1912, new studios were going up throughout the metropolitan region, and independent producers like Solax and Thanhouser were finding their own ways of winning audiences. Pushing aside the business model of the old Motion Picture Patents Company, many of these independents formed new combinations that year, including umbrella operations, like Universal and Paramount, out of which the future of the American motion picture industry would develop. Most of the studios represented here would soon move to feature-length pictures, aiming at downtown audiences and upscale ticket prices. But in 1912 they were all still working on a smaller canvas, packing as much comedy or as possible into every thousand-foot film reel.

—Richard Koszarski, Rutgers University The Musketeers of Pig Alley

9 An Unexpected Reception Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 16mm, . Pathé. Probably shot somewhere near Pathé’s Jersey City studio, this rude French-style farce makes good use of two incredibly tenacious pit bulls. would model American slapstick comedy on films like this. A Grocery Clerk’s Romance Dir. Mack Sennett. Digital projection. Keystone. The first few Keystones were shot in New York and New Jersey, just days before Mack and Mabel got on the train for Hollywood. This (literally) anarchic Ford Sterling comedy was made in and around Rambo’s Tavern in Fort Lee, where Sennett had been working with D. W. Griffith’s for the past Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde two years. Dir. Lucius Henderson. 35mm, Library of Congress. Thanhouser. Robert Louis Stevenson’s diabolical tale A Grocery Clerk’s Romance of split personality had been a great success onstage, and would prove a natural for screen adaptation as well. Director Lucius Henderson was highly praised for his performance of both main roles—although recent scholarship suggests that it may not always be Cruze under all that makeup. The Cry of the Children Dir. George Nichols. 16mm, Thanhouser Company. Thanhouser. A horrifying progressive-era attack on child labor, with interiors shot in a satanic mill near Thanhouser’s New Rochelle studio. Quotations from A Vitagraph Romance Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s 1843 poem seem designed to make everything less appalling, but even poetry can’t A Night at the Flo’s Discipline Classical Cinema do much to soften this film’s hopeless conclusion. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 4:00 P.M. Dir. Harry Solter. 35mm, Library of Congress. Universal- SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 6:30 P.M. Introduced by Richard Koszarski Victor. Lawrence—promoted as America’s first Live music by Donald Sosin Live music by Donald Sosin film star—has trouble with her boarding school charges Dir. Ètienne Arnaud. 35mm, Fort Lee Film in this Coytesville, New Jersey, . One of With theater owners doing their best to attract a more Commission. Éclair. Shot at Éclair’s new studio in Despite the release of a handful of feature-length films, the earliest releases from the newly organized Universal upscale clientele, producers responded by plundering Fort Lee, this earliest surviving Robin Hood film was most movies in 1912 still lasted only ten or fifteen Film Manufacturing Company. history and literature. High-class French and Italian inspired less by Howard Pyle’s illustrations than by minutes. Thousands of motion picture theaters across imports provided the model, and by 1912 most Reginald De Koven’s once-popular operetta. The the country did their best to offer a balanced program Winter Visit to Central Park studios were looking to the classics to add a veneer of half-hour epic was intended to combine European of fiction and non-fiction, comedy and melodrama, with 35mm, Library of Congress. Edison. This respectability to their programs of one-reel comedies style and sensibility with American stars (Robert most of them changing the bill every single day. Program comprehensive bit of reportage seems to show and melodramas. Program runs approximately 70 Frazer as Robin, Barbara Tennant as ) runs approximately 70 minutes. All films from 1912. nearly everything in and around the park, from the minutes. All films from 1912. and locations (whatever the Palisades might offer). Met to the Dakota, as well as the zoo, the Arsenal, A Vitagraph Romance and Cleopatra’s Needle—with time out for roller A Japanese Idyll Dir. James Young. 16mm, The . hockey and some ice-skating on “the frozen lake.” Dir. Lois Weber. 35mm, Library of Congress. Universal- Clara Kimball Young is among the stars in this early The Land Beyond the Sunset Rex. Madame Butterfly was still under copyright, so behind-the-scenes showcase, which was designed to Dir. Harold Shaw. 35mm, George Eastman House. Universal’s most ambitious writer-director-actor came give movie fans a taste of what life in the big Brooklyn Edison. When the Fresh Air Fund takes newsboy Joe up with her own one-reel version of the bittersweet studio was like. out of the slums for a day in the country, the results encounter between a Japanese maid (Cherry Blossom, How a Mosquito Operates are hardly what anyone might expect. A remarkably played by Weber herself) and a visiting American. Of Dir. Winsor McCay. 35mm, Library of Congress. ambivalent take on social activism for a film course, with an adaptation this free, no one will mind if Originally intended to accompany McCay’s live apparently sponsored by one of New York’s great you fix the ending. vaudeville act, this bit of nightmarish surrealism from social welfare agencies. the master of screen animation is astonishing, hilarious, Robin Hood and surprisingly bloody.

10 MAKING MOVIES IN NEW YORK: 1912 Griffith in Fort Lee Alice Guy Blaché, Queen of Solax Algie, the Miner SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 3:00 P.M. 35mm, The Museum of Modern Art. With Blanche SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 6:00 P.M. Dirs. Edward Warren, Harry Schenck. 35mm, Library Introduced by Richard Koszarski Sweet. No chases or last-minute rescues here. Or Introduced by Richard Koszarski of Congress. With Billy Quirk. A “sissy boy” (as the Live music by Donald Sosin even much of a happy ending. Instead, Griffith offers Live music by Donald Sosin Solax ad put it) is sent out west to become a man. A social context and performance style. Critics of the regeneration drama that gradually reveals itself as a Although he was already spending half the year in day, accustomed to “mad scenes” that could blow The first woman to produce and direct her own films, curious and complicated love story. California by 1912, D. W. Griffith still spent every the roof off, sat astonished as the 16-year-old Sweet and the only one ever to own her own studio, Alice The Detective’s Dog summer and fall in New York. Avoiding the cramped showed that with movie acting, less really could be Guy Blaché had been directing films in Paris since Dir. Alice Guy Blaché. 35mm, Library of Congress. Biograph studio on East 14th Street whenever more. before the turn of the century. Sent to America possible, Griffith and his company preferred to take with her husband, Herbert, to promote Gaumont’s With Darwin Karr, Magda Foy. Years before Rin-Tin-Tin, the ferry to Fort Lee where exteriors for all the films in The Musketeers of Pig Alley talking film system in 1907, she saw the opportunity Solax (and cute little Magda Foy) send their trusty this program were shot (even those that seem to have 16mm, The Museum of Modern Art. With Lillian to launch her own production company and three Saint Bernard to the rescue when our inquisitive hero been shot on the Lower East Side). There he could Gish, Elmer Booth. Inspired by New York newspaper years later opened the Solax studio in Flushing. As finds himself tied to a log in a sawmill. accounts of street and police corruption, work on uncrowded streets and tap into a supportive business took off, she built an impressive new Solax The Girl in the Armchair this landmark film packs an entire world of crime infrastructure of local hotels, businesses, and movie- on Lemoine Avenue in Fort Lee, which the company Dir. Alice Guy Blaché. 35mm, Library of Congress. With and redemption into the confines of a one-reel struck extras, treating the town as his personal back moved into during the summer of 1912. But even Blanche Cornwall, Darwin Karr. It’s hard to say which melodrama. And as usual with Griffith, when lot. All films directed by D. W. Griffith from 1912. when Solax was releasing two or three films every is more important here: the noble young heroine or authority proves feckless, community is all we have Program runs approximately 85 minutes. week, this busy studio head still found time to direct the carefully arranged armchair that hides her from to depend on. most of them herself. Program runs approximately 85 the other players (but not the audience). minutes. All films from 1912. 35mm, Library of Congress. With . The New York Hat Canned Harmony An ex-convict tries to go straight for the sake of his A Fool and His Money Dir. Alice Guy Blaché. 35mm, Library of Congress. With family, but the law—and some of his old associates— Dir. Alice Guy Blaché. 35mm, Library of Congress. Billy Quirk, Blanche Cornwall. Fooling Dad with the aid won’t make it easy. Also starring the remarkable With James Russell. The earliest known film with an of the phonograph. A decade earlier, Alice Guy Blaché Elmer Booth, who not only looks like all-black cast, this farcical romance suggests one of had been directing talking films for Gaumont, shot but seems to have all the same mannerisms. the routines popular on segregated vaudeville circuits to playback. Now much of this same technology was at the time. But the focus on class over race reveals available to mischievous middle-class consumers. an essentially European perspective quite different Making of an American Citizen from later American “race movies.” Dir. Alice Guy Blaché. 35mm, Lobster Films. With Falling Leaves Lee Beggs, Blanche Cornwall. An “Americanization” Dir. Alice Guy Blaché. 35mm, Library of Congress. film directed by a woman who had arrived in the With Marian Swayne, Magda Foy. Two little girls try States only five years earlier and was not herself a for a miracle, with some help from a passing doctor citizen. Obsolete traditions brought over from the old and a nod to O. Henry’s tale “The L ast Leaf.” country—notably wife beating—must be recast in the great American melting pot.

The Detective’s Dog The New York Hat 35mm print, The Museum of Modern Art. With Mary Pickford, . Why is the minister sending extravagant gifts to Little Mary? The town’s self-appointed moral guardians (Griffith’s favorite villains) think they have the answer. A little masterpiece of comedy, romance, melodrama, and social criticism, graced with a pair of elegantly understated An Unseen Enemy performances from Pickford and Barrymore. 35mm, preserved by The Museum of Modern Art The Burglar’s Dilemma with support from the Trust for Film 16mm print, Niles Essanay Museum. Preservation. With Lillian Gish, . The With Henry B. Walthall, Lionel Barrymore. While first screen appearance of the Gish sisters, trapped the police, as usual, are about to beat a confession in an isolated country house and menaced by a out of the wrong man, spineless weakling Walthall dissolute housemaid. But the real interest here is wrestles with a dilemma that arises after he kills the race to the rescue, which runs back and forth all his own brother. Justice is not a legal issue, Griffith over Bergen County, even defying the treacherous tells us, but something much more personal. bridge over the Hackensack River.

11 MAKING MOVIES IN NEW YORK: 1912 THE CINEMA AND ITS DOUBLES NOVEMBER 17–DECEMBER 16, 2012

The popular literary trope of the doppelgänger—an apparition or double of a main character—is an ideal cinematic device, raising provocative questions about the people we see on screen. It is fitting that ’s Vertigo, in which Jimmy Stewart’s obsessed detective turns ’s character into a double—of herself—was recently named the greatest of all films. Other directors, including Luis Buñuel, , , Maya Deren, , and more, have plumbed the endless depths of the doppelgänger theme. Whether we are seeing one actor play two roles, two actors playing one character, or two characters joined in what seems like a psychic connection, the films in this series use the double to explore themes of identity, performance, and the tensions between good and evil and between appearance and reality, and to show us that there is always more than meets the eye.

That Obscure Object of Desire

Vertigo Mulholland Drive The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Followed by: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 4:00 P.M. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 7:00 P.M. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 4:00 P.M. Meshes of the Afternoon SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 7:00 P.M. With live music by Donald Sosin Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. 1958, 128 mins. 35mm IB Dir. Maya Deren. 1943, 13 mins. 16mm. With Maya Technicolor print. With , Kim Novak, Dir. David Lynch. 2001, 147 mins. 35mm. With Naomi Dir. Robert Weine. 1920, 78 mins. 35mm print restored Deren, Alexander Hammid. Meshes of the Afternoon, . Recently deemed the greatest film Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux. Newly arrived in by the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv of Germany, with made in the shadows of Hollywood, is one of the most of all time in the influential Sight & Sound critics’ poll, , the talented actress Betty Elms (Watts) original color tinting. With Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt. influential works of the American avant-garde. In a Hitchcock’s romantic melodrama is about a detective finds an intruder in her aunt’s apartment. Intrigued, The lines between authority and insanity and between surrealist nightmare, a woman (Deren) follows a dark (Stewart) who rescues a woman (Novak) and remakes Betty commits to helping the strange woman, an reality and fantasy are blurred in this quintessential and mysterious hooded figure on the streets, and is led her in the image of the woman he loved. Fittingly, the amnesiac brunette (Harring) who calls herself Rita, classic of German Expressionism, known for its stylized to her own home. Coming face-to-face with the figure, film has a mirrorlike structure, its two parts bisected and an intimate relationship develops between the sets and its complex story about a somnambulist she discovers that he has a mirror for a face, and later by a key plot revelation. Shown in an extremely rare two. Mysteriously, in a parallel sphere, the failed (Veidt) at an insane asylum who commits a series of she finds herself seated around a table with her double, collector’s IB Technicolor print, which keeps the original actress Diane Selwyn (also Watts) is anguished by her mysterious murders. Is he acting under the control of triple, and quadruple. soundtrack and color beautifully intact. unrequited love for Camilla (also Harring). As Stephen Dr. Caligari? Who is whose double? Holden wrote in The New York Times: “The movie is an ever-deepening reflection on the allure of Hollywood and on the multiple role-playing and self-invention that the moviegoing experience promises.”

12 The Dark Mirror The Other Femme Fatale FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 7:00 P.M. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 6:00 P.M. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 3:00 P.M. Dir. Robert Mulligan. 1972, 108 mins. 35mm. With Uta Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz. 1950, 138 mins. 35mm. Hagen, Diana Muldaur, Chris Udvarnoky. In the rural With , Anne Baxter, . South, a seemingly good boy is haunted by the return of star Margo Channing (Davis) is introduced his evil twin brother, who was thought dead. One of the to a young and seemingly charming fan, Eve (Baxter). most neglected films by Mulligan (To Kill a Mockingbird), Unaware that the girl is scheming to take over her The Other may be—or may not be—a supernatural career and romantic life, Margo offers Eve work as thriller that alternates masterfully between subjective her live-in assistant. Receiving access to all spheres and objective reality. of the celebrated actress’s life, Eve becomes Margo’s understudy in the most sinister of ways. Mankiewicz’s Celine and Julie Go Boating endlessly witty script is at the heart of this classic film, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 3:00 P.M. which won six . Newly restored 35mm print The Dark Mirror Dir. Jacques Rivette. 1974, 193 mins. 35mm. With Juliet SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 6:00 P.M. Berto, Dominique Labourier. In what David Thomson SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 3:00 P.M. Restored 35mm print from UCLA Film & TV Archive has called “the most radical and delightful narrative SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 6:00 P.M. Femme Fatale Dir. . 1946, 85 mins. 35mm restored film since ,” two friends—a librarian and a FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 7:00 P.M. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. 1943, 108 mins. 35mm. With Teresa print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. magician—embark on an identity-swapping adventure, Wright, , Macdonald Carey. When a bored Preservation funded by The Film Foundation, Paramount exploring the streets and suburbs of Paris and multiple Dir. Brian De Palma. 2002, 114 mins. 35mm. With high school student Charlie (Wright) wills her namesake Pictures, and the Packard Humanities Institute. With layers of imagination, reality, and improvisation. Romijn, Antonio Banderas, Peter Coyote. Supermodel uncle (Cotten) to pay the family a visit, she gets more de Havilland, . Siodmak’s atmospheric Romijn plays a blonde bombshell who takes on a new than she bargained for, not realizing that the deceptive reflects Hollywood’s postwar fascination with Cat Scratch Fever identity in De Palma’s brilliantly convoluted , charmer is a homicidal maniac. “Do you know if you psychoanalysis, as a therapist tries to determine which SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 7:00 P.M. a deceptive and sure-handed film that evokes Mulholland ripped the fronts off houses you’d find swine?” asks her of two twin sisters, both played by , With director Lisa Duva in person Drive as much as Hitchcock. has dangerous doppelgänger. Written by is a murderer. Siodmak skillfully explores the identity called it “a synthesis of every previous Brian De Palma Dir. Lisa Duva. 2011, 73 mins. Digital projection. () and Sally Benson (Meet Me in St. Louis), this theme with such German Expressionist techniques as film... I enjoyed every minute of it, maybe because De With Starsha Gill, Kara Elverson. Playing like a witty, was Hitchcock’s favorite among his own films. the use of shadows, distortions, and mirror images. Palma took such obvious pleasure in putting it together.” microbudget, Brooklyn homage to Celine and Julie Go Boating, Duva’s charming feature is about roommates Shadow of a Doubt Invasion of the Body Snatchers who discover they can observe parallel universes online The Whole Town’s Talking and quickly become consumed with stalking themselves in other dimensions. It is the ultimate reality television: How can you sleep when you can watch yourself sleeping? As they sink deeper into their voyeuristic addiction, they lose the ability to distinguish between their real and alternate lives.

Cat Scratch Fever

Invasion of the Body Snatchers The Whole Town’s Talking FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 7:00 P.M. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 3:00 P.M. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 3:00 P.M. Dir. . 1935, 93 mins. 35mm. With Edward G. Dir. Don Siegel. 1956, 80 mins. 35mm. With Kevin Robinson, Jean Arthur, Arthur Hohl. In a delightful role McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates. The “normal” that allowed him to play around with his screen persona, residents of a small town are replaced by pods that Robinson plays a mild-mannered clerk who bears an grow into soulless duplicates, in this resonant and uncanny resemblance to a notorious . With a unsettling science-fiction film that perfectly evokes the script co-written by ’s longtime collaborator social pressures of an era marked by conformity and Robert Riskin and based on a story by W. R. Burnett paranoia. Siegel masterfully uses the widescreen frame (Little Caesar, ), this rarely screened to claustrophobic effect. gem is one of Ford’s most enjoyable films of the 1930s.

13 THE CINEMA AND ITS DOUBLES The End of Time THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 8:00 P.M. Imagine Science Film Festival opening night

U.S. premiere With director Peter Mettler in person

Fight Club (Photofest)

That Obscure Object of Desire The Nutty Professor SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 6:00 P.M. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 3:00 P.M. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16, 3:00 P.M. Dir. Luis Buñuel. 1977, 102 mins. 35mm. With Fernando IB Technicolor 35mm print from the Rey, Carole Bouquet, Angela Molina. For his final film, Academy Film Archive The End of Time surrealist master Buñuel finds a new way to explore the age-old themes of romantic obsession and the Dir. . 1963, 107 mins. 35mm. With Jerry gulf between men and women, casting two different Lewis, , Del Moore. Lewis’s directorial Dir. Peter Mettler. 2012, 109 mins. DCP. Buddha’s enlightenment to a transcendent actresses (Bouquet and Molina) to play the same masterpiece is a variation on the Jekyll and Hyde Canadian-Swiss filmmaker and photographer final section that simply must be seen character, a young maid hired by a wealthy man who theme, with Lewis playing the meek science teacher quickly falls in love with “her.” Rather than having each Julius Kelp, whose potion turns him into the irresistible Peter Mettler’s stunning and provocative on the big screen. The Imagine Science actress portray a different facet of the woman, Buñuel lounge singer Buddy Love. Dave Kehr has described it films combine elements of documentary, Film Festival, celebrating its fifth year was alternates between them randomly, enhancing the film’s as “one of the most intense investigations of self ever essay, and experimental cinema. The End founded by scientists as a showcase for masterfully controlled strangeness. put on film, a technically impeccable work of inspired of Time is a peripatetic exploration that compelling narratives that present accurate megalomania.” challenges our conception of time, and science. The festival takes place at venues Fight Club SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9, 6:00 P.M. perhaps the very fabric of our existence. throughout the city. For more information, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16, 6:00 P.M. With brilliant photography and a knack for visit imaginesciencefilms.org. Dir. . 1999, 139 mins. 35mm. With , Edward Norton, . Norton Dir. David Cronenberg. 1988, 116 mins. DCP. With capturing astonishing moments, The End plays a bored professional who meets his nihilistic , Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske, of Time journeys from the CERN particle TICKETS: $15 public / $9 Museum members doppelgänger (Pitt) and is drawn into an anarchistic Barbara Gordon. Irons plays the lead characters in accelerator near Geneva to the lava flows / Free for Silver Screen members and above. underground group that stages brutal fights for fun. this story about twin gynecologists whose relationship in Hawaii that have overtaken all but one Fincher’s premillennial zeitgeist film is one of the most begins to deteriorate into madness and horror home on the south side of the Big Island; provocative and cinematically ambitious Hollywood when they both fall in love with the same woman, movies of its time. Cronenberg’s most audacious exploration of fractured from the disintegration of inner-city identity and sexuality. to a Hindu funeral rite near the place of

14 THE CINEMA AND ITS DOUBLES 14 The Man with the Iron Fists Thursday, November 1, 8:00 p.m. Introduced by RZA Sponsored by TimeWarner Dir. RZA. 2012, 96 mins. 35mm print courtesy of . Starring RZA, , Lucy fist Liu. presents The Man With the Iron Fists, an action-adventure inspired by Kung Fu classics as interpreted by his longtime collaborators RZA and Eli Roth. Making his feature-film debut as a director, co-writer, and , RZA—alongside an exciting international cast led by Russell Crowe as Jack Knife and Lucy Liu as Madam Blossom—tells the and epic story of warriors, assassins, and a lone outsider hero who all descend on one fabled village in China for a winner-takes-all battle for a fortune in gold. Blending astonishing martial arts sequences from some of the masters of this world with the signature vision he brings as the leader of the Wu-Tang Clan and as one of hip-hop’s most dominant figures of the past sword two decades, RZA embarks upon his most ambitious, An ongoing martial arts series stylized, and thrilling project to date. curated by Warrington Hudlin The screening is part of the Museum’s ongoing series Fist and Sword curated by Warrington Hudlin, devoted to martial arts and action films, and is also the inaugural film in the new series Changing the Picture, devoted to outstanding works by filmmakers of color.

Needle Through Brick SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9, 5:00 P.M. Dir. Patrick Daly. 2009, 52 mins. Digital projection. Told from the perspective of time-honored Chinese Kung Fu masters, Needle Through Brick explores the history and the art of Kung Fu and asks critical questions about cultural heritage in the modern world. Joining intimate storytelling and superb visuals with personal histories and anecdotes, this fantastic documentary explores the world of an endangered tradition with touching detail and awe.

The Man with the Iron Fists

15 15 Life of Pi (TM and © 2011 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) BOOKSTALLS: FILM, POETRY, AND PERFORMANCE IN CELEBRATION OF JOSEPH CORNELL FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 7:00 P.M.

Organized by Paolo Javier, Queens poet laureate

Life of Pi Friday, November 9, 7:00 p.m. Preview screening in Dolby Digital 3-D With screenwriter David Magee in person Rose Hobart (Photofest)

Dir. . 2012, 120 mins. With Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan. Dolby Digital 3-D courtesy The influence of avant-garde poetry runs throughout the art of Joseph Cornell (1903–72), of 20th Century Fox. After the sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing the reclusive genius who spent most of his life in a small home on Utopia Parkway in on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a 16-year-old boy named Flushing, Queens. In this unique event, contemporary poets and filmmakers will share new Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orangutan, and a 450-pound Royal work inspired by Cornell’s surrealist assemblages and films. There will be readings by poet- Bengal tiger. Yann Martel’s beloved novel, an international best-seller, has been brought scholars Alan Ramón Clinton and Elizabeth Willis; a collaborative film narration by Flushing- to the screen in spectacular fashion by Lee (; Crouching Tiger, Hidden based poet and filmmaker Stephanie Gray and Queens poet laureate Paolo Javier; a joint Dragon), with a screenplay by David Magee. There will be a conversation with Magee performance by poet and professor Lee Ann Brown and poet-artist Julie Patton; and recent following the screening. work by experimental filmmaker Mark Street. Sixteen-millimeter presentations of key films by Cornell, including Rose Hobart (1936, 17 mins.), A Legend for Fountains (1957–1965, 19 TICKETS: $20 public / $12 Museum members / Free for Silver Screen members and above. mins.), Angel (1957, 3 mins.), and Centuries of June (1955, 11 mins. Co-directed with Stan Brakhage) will be interspersed throughout the evening.

16 Punch Sunday, October 28, 5:00 p.m. Dir. Lee Han. 2011, 107 min. With Yoo Korean Cinema Ah-in, Kim Yun-seok. A neglected and hot-tempered 17-year-old and his abrasive schoolteacher form the unlikely pair that anchors this Showcase: charming ensemble drama, which unfolds in the busy streets of Seoul. A commercial hit in Korea, Lee’s fourth film is layered in Filmmakers of thematic details that lift it beyond the narrative conventions of the coming-of-age —a funny, reserved, and genuinely heartfelt the Future picture. Through December 16, 2012 Choked SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 5:00 P.M.

Presented in collaboration with the Korea Society Dir. Kim Joong-hyun. 2011, 111 mins. With Um Tae-goo, Park Se-jin, Kil Hae-yeon. Amidst an economic downturn, Youn-ho finds all of his relationships threatened by the myriad consequences of debt, materialism, and false entrepreneurial starts. Beautifully shot on widescreen Red during wintertime in Seoul, this impressive first feature by Joong-hyun paints a chilly and unforgiving portrait of status-obsessed culture that transcends national borders.

Barbie SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16, 5:00 P.M.

Dir. Lee Sang-woo. 2011, 97 min. With Kim Sae-ron, Kim Ah-ron, Lee Chun-hee. Channeling her dreams of immigrating to the through her Barbie doll, young Soon-Ja becomes bitterly jealous when an American man takes interest in adopting her Working with low budgets and mostly unknown actors, directors Kim Joong- older, healthier sister Soon-Young. hyun, Lee Han, and Lee Sang-woo are creating a new “indie” movement in their Moored by the moody atmospheric country, and fostering Korea’s ever-increasing prominence on the international cinematography of Min-su Kim, Lee’s latest feature is a thought- festival scene. This trio of films share a focus on the private lives and personal provoking exploration of Korean- situations of young Koreans, melding them with universal themes of sibling American adoption and multi- rivalry, generational misunderstanding, and the transition to (and deferment of) cultural identification. adulthood. Together they provide an excellent starting point to glimpsing a new generation of talent emerging in Korea.

Choked (CJE&M)

17 18 In the Changing Exhibitions Gallery PHil solomon: american falls THROUGH November 25, 2012

Image courtesy of Phil Solomon

Phil Solomon, who has been making films since 1979, is known journey through the catacylsms of American history, and an among them—opens with crackling images of Edson for his “image alchemy,” manipulating existing and original elegy to the film medium that welcomes a new era of mixed Taylor, the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a footage to create evocative, dreamlike works that reveal medias. Combining chemically degraded film images with barrel. These are interlaced with clips from American cinema, subterranean depths in the imagery. Solomon’s immersive computer editing precision, Solomon’s piece recasts the including scenes with Buster Keaton, , Busby three-screen HD installation American Falls (2000–2012, 55 Niagara Falls as both a metaphoric landscape and audiovisual Berkeley dance numbers, and Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will be mins.), which was originally commissioned by the Corcoran backdrop to American history. Archival footage of moments Blood, all accompanied by an intricate soundtrack of historical Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., transforms the Museum’s in ’s history—the fall of presidents, the Great addresses, popular music, and sound effects, designed and Changing Exhibitions Gallery into a panoramic and artistic Depression, Amelia Earhart’s flight, the civil rights struggle mixed in 5.1 surround by Wrick Wolff.

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OPENING December 15, 2012

Spacewar!: Video Games Blast Off looks broadly at the first 50 years of video games through the lens of Spacewar!, the first digital , its development and the culture from which it sprang. In addition to a rare, commissioned playable replica of the original PDP-1 computer running Spacewar!, the exhibition presents a selection of video games ranging in platform (arcade, console, handheld, PC), genre (shooters, platformers, action, arcade) and developer (commercial, independent, experimental). From Missile Command to Halo 4, and from Star Fox to Portal, these video games draw connections and contrasts on the importance of Spacewar! and the first 50 years of video games.

Spacewar! was the start of many important cultural, technical, and ludic considerations. Indeed, Spacewar! set off a seismic rumble in the early computer science community, the ripples of which are still felt today in the game industry, academia, and player cultures. This first “computer toy,” as its developers called it, set the template for the game development industry and its relationship to technology, gamer culture, game modifications, shooting as a core game mechanic, space and science fiction themes, and many other cultural threads still present today.

19 20 in the lobby Ming Wong: Persona Performa Panorama ongoing

This installation, created as part of Persona Performa, a performance commissioned for PERFORMA 11 at the Museum in 2011, was inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 film Persona, and by the motion studies of photographer Eadweard Muybridge (featured in the Museum’s core exhibition Behind the Screen). Persona Performa Panorama consists of 24 actors from , each representing a single frame of a moving image strip.

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ONGOING

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Image courtesy of Agency Net Photo courtesy of the artist

Pretty Loaded, by the digital creative agency Big Spaceship, is composed of For this new commissioned work, artist Aram Bartholl nearly 50 “preloaders,” animated graphics that show how much of a website (, b. 1972) embeds an inconspicuous, slot-loading DVD has loaded. Originally, preloaders were utilitarian, employing progress bars, burner into the side of the Museum, made available to the pie charts, or text, but designers soon started working inside the form’s public 24 hours a day. Visitors who insert a blank DVD-R will constraints to create playful, engaging, and even suspenseful graphics that receive a surprise collection of digital files that may include hinted at what lay beyond the loading screen. These preloaders were originally found footage, animated GIFs, video games, feature films, produced by agencies and independent designers for websites primarily or interactive art curated or created by artists selected by promoting films, television shows, and consumer products. Viewed one after Bartholl. DVD Dead Drop imbues the act of data transfer with another, they create a never-ending cycle, directing attention to the preloader a tangibility left behind in a world of cloud computing and as its own creative space and to the inventive ways in which designers appstores, using a medium—the digital versatile disc—that communicate the simple idea of progress from 0 to 100 percent. is quickly becoming another artifact of the past.

Pretty Loaded installation made possible by Big Spaceship. View an expanded version DVD Dead Drop installation made possible by the Harpo Foundation. online at prettyloaded.com

21 23 The Museum’s core exhibition, Behind the BTS HIGHLIGHT Screen, immerses visitors in the creative and technical process of producing, promoting, The Vitaphone sound-on-disc system was the first commercially and presenting films, television shows, and successful effort to synchronize digital entertainment. It includes over 1,400 sound and film, recording artifacts—from nineteenth-century optical and playing back sound using toys to video games—as well as an array of phonograph records that were interactive experiences, audiovisual material, linked directly to a camera or projector. Warner Bros. used the and artworks to reveal the skills, material Vitaphone system to produce The resources, and artistic decisions that go Jazz Singer (1927), the “talkie” into making moving images. that astonished audiences and marked the end of the silent film era. Unreliable and expensive to operate, Vitaphone was soon replaced by an optical system that printed sound onto film. One of the only remaining operational Vitaphone projectors is on exhibit in Behind the Screen.

SCREENINGS IN TUT’S FEVER Movie palace 3-D Lenticular Posters for The Hobbit: An Red Grooms and Lysiane Luong’s artwork/movie theater, the world in the late 1970s. The half-hour variety show Unexpected Journey Tut’s Fever Movie Palace, an homage to the days of the delighted audiences with its Muppet cast and famous October 27, 2012–March 31, 2013 ornate movie palace, is the perfect venue for screenings guest stars. A selection of the best episodes will be of classic movie serials. Now playing Returns shown, with a new episode starting each Saturday. Presented with support from Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema, and (Dir. , , 1938), through Special thanks to Craig Shemin, president of The Jim Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures November 16. Starting November 17, we will screen Henson Legacy. episodes of The Muppet Show. Seen in more than Director filmed The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in 3-D at 48 frames per 100 countries by upwards of 235 million people, The Screenings on Saturdays and Sundays at 1:00 p.m., second to invite the audience to enter Middle-earth for an immersive cinematic experience. Emblematic of this experience is a series of specially commissioned lenticular posters from Muppet Show (1976–1981), created by Jim Henson, was 2:00 p.m., and 3:30 p.m., and on weekdays at 2:00 p.m. designer Grayson Marshall, featuring seventeen of the main characters in the film, including probably the most widely viewed television program in Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf, Thorin Oakenshield, Gollum, and Galadriel.

22 The Panaflex camera, introduced by Panavision in 1972, revolutionized motion picture cinematography. Lightweight and compact, it allowed cinematographers greater freedom of movement than was possible with existing studio cameras. It is nearly silent to operate, eliminating the need for a cumbersome “blimp,” which encases a camera to mask its noise. Panavision refined the Panaflex line throughout the 1970s and 1980s, resulting in even more compact cameras with improved optics. Panaflex cameras remained the industry standard for many years.

Unlike most companies, Panavision rented rather than sold their equipment, making it difficult if not impossible for institutions to acquire their cameras. As digital cinematography increasingly replaces the use of film cameras, and demand for Panaflex cameras has declined, Panavision has made their historic cameras available to selected public institutions across the country. This year, Panavision generously donated a Panaflex Gold camera to the collection of Museum of the Moving Image, where it is now on exhibit in the Museum’s lobby.

Photo by Daniel Love

23 SPECIAL WORKSHOP Reanimator Lab Saturday, November 17, 12:00 p.m. Led by Jason Eppink, Kelly Goeller, and Adrienne Silverman, participants use a range of materials DROP-IN to recreate frames of short that are reassembled into new animated GIFs. Free with Museum admission.

Thanksgiving Weekend MOVING IMAGE Workshop Fairy Tale Shadow Plays Friday–Sunday, November 23–25, 2:45 and 3:45 p.m. Long before DreamWorks used computer animation to playfully send up classic fairy tales in Shrek (daily at 1:00 p.m.), artists around the world were animating STUDIO fairy tales using nothing more than makeshift screens, light, and shadow puppets. In this hour-long workshop, participants will learn about these very first moving images, and then design and create their own paper puppets for a group fairy tale performance. Materials fee: $5 / free for Red Carpet Kids. Ages 7+

Holiday Week Workshop Claymation Creatures Saturday, December 22–Tuesday, January 1, 2:45 and 3:45 p.m. (The Museum is closed on Christmas Day) Catch a family matinee of a great DreamWorks animated film featuring monsters, aliens, or fairy tale characters (daily at 1:00 p.m.), then create your own animated creature. Computer animators make their characters using 3-D models. Here, participants will design and make 3-D characters with armatures and clay, then animate them. The workshop will culminate Every Saturday, 12:00–5:00 p.m. in a screening of their short videos. Ages 7+ accompanied by an adult (12+ on their own) Materials fee: $10 / $5 for Red Carpet Kids. Ages 9+

Museum of the Moving Image offers drop-in studio sessions for young visitors ages seven and up. With the assistance of Museum educators, visitors engage in hands-on creative work, making projects ranging from flipbooks and thaumatropes (hand-drawn optical toys) to stop-motion and computer animations and video games. Studio visitors also have an opportunity to see, handle, and explore the inner workings of moving-image technology, such as projectors, film strips and video tape, video game consoles, and more. Some special sessions will feature artist-led group projects. 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.

Photo by Brian Palmer

1724 26 HOST YOUR EVENT

Photo by Brian Palmer

Featuring extraordinary BIRTHDAY PARTIES PRIVATE EVENTS PRIVATE SCREENINGS facilities, Museum Your child can be the star of his or her very The Museum is able to accommodate a wide The 267-seat Main Theater and 68-seat own party at the Museum. The birthday party range of events, from weddings and bar/bat Celeste and Armand Bartos Screening Room of the Moving Image program has been developed for children mitzvahs to meetings and location shoots. are available for private screenings. Host a is a stunning setting aged 8+. We create a memorable and fun- Galleries can remain open after hours for screening of your favorite film for your friends filled extravaganza for your child and guests, guests to enjoy our exhibitions and interactive to celebrate a milestone or mark a special for private events with a special educator-led tour, interactive experiences. Museum educators are available to occasion. and screenings experiences, a private screening, and party bags. offer gallery talks and demonstrations.

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23 28 museum of the moving image salutes hugh jackman Tuesday, December 11, 2012 Cipriani Wall Street

Perhaps best known around the world as Emmy nomination), Jackman brought his Wolverine in the X-Men series, Jackman has honed skills to Hollywood where he hosted starred in films for such directors as Baz the 81st Annual Academy Awards in 2009. Luhrmann (Australia), Woody Allen (Scoop), Hugh Jackman joins the ranks of past (The Prestige), and Darren honorees who have received the Museum’s Aronofsky (The Fountain). Later this year, he Salute, including Alec Baldwin, , will headline as Jean Valjean in the eagerly Clint Eastwood, Robert DeNiro, Goldie awaited screen version of the musical epic Hawn, Dustin Hoffman, Tom Hanks, Steve Les Misérables from acclaimed director Martin, , , Sidney (The King’s Speech), set for Poitier, Julia , , and a December 14 release. As comfortable on . stage as he is on screen, Jackman has seen Funds raised from the Salute support the additional success on Broadway with credits programs, exhibitions, and educational including the musical The Boy From Oz (for activities of Museum of the Moving Image. which he won Tony, Drama Desk, Drama The education programs, which include League, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre curriculum-based tours, screenings, and World Awards), his recent one-man show workshops, serve nearly 50,000 students Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway, and the per year. drama A Steady Rain opposite . In addition to serving as host for For information on tickets and tables, contact three consecutive years from 2003 to Event Associates at 212 245 6570. Please 2005 (his second appearance earned him an note individual tickets start at $1,500. Emmy Award, and the final garnered an

27 Museum of the Moving Image is housed in a building owned Additional support: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Public support for the Museum’s expansion and renovation by the City of New York and has received significant support Sciences; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Betsy provided by: New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; from the following public agencies: New York City Department and Michael Barker; Howard and Stacy Bass; Nathan Bernstein New York City Economic Development Corporation; New York of Cultural Affairs; New York City Economic Development and Katharina Otto-Bernstein; Joshua Bilmes; Consulate City Council; Office of the Queens Borough President; PlaNYC; Corporation; New York State Council on the Arts; Institute of of the ; Joan Ganz Cooney; Ellin A. Delsener; Dormitory Authority of the State of New York; New York State Museum and Library Services; National Endowment for the Krystyna O. and Ronald J. Doerfler; DreamWorks Animation; Council on the Arts; New York State Office of Parks, Recreation Humanities; National Endowment for the Arts; Natural Heritage Embassy of in the United States; Jo-Ann Fox-Weingarten; and Historic Preservation; U.S. Department of Housing and Trust (administered by the New York State Office of Parks, Raphael Gonzalez; Michael Gordon; Harpo Foundation; HBO; Urban Development; National Endowment for the Humanities. Recreation and Historic Preservation). Cheryl Henson; Hive Digital Media Learning Fund in The New York Community Trust; The Jane Henson Foundation; Janklow Major support for the Museum’s expansion and renovation The Museum gratefully acknowledges the leadership and Foundation; Richard I. Kandel; Richard A. Leibner; The Liman provided by: Mahnaz and Adam Bartos; Booth Ferris assistance of: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg; Queens Borough Foundatoion; Ivan and Andrea Lustig; Luxottica USA; Marc Haas Foundation; NBCUniversal; Leon and Michaela President Helen M. Marshall; Commissioner of Cultural Affairs Kate Foundation; The Marilyn and Foundation; Constantiner; Krystyna O. and Ronald J. Doerfler; Michael and D. Levin; Speaker of the New York City Council Christine C. Quinn; The McGraw-Hill Companies; Robert Menschel; Michael Tuch Lauren Gordon; HBO; The Hearst Corporation; The Hearst Council Members Leroy G. Comrie, Domenic M. Recchia, Jimmy Foundation; Mondriaan Fund; ; Michael Foundation; Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation; Linda LeRoy Van Bramer, and the entire Queens delegation of the New York and Gabrielle Palitz; Dennis and Coralie Paul; Persol; Rohauer Janklow; George S. Kaufman; Ivan and Andrea Lustig; John T. City Council; Hon. Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor, New York State; Collection Foundation, Inc.; Jane Rosenthal; Rochelle Slovin; McGuire; New York Community Bank Foundation; Michael and New York State Senators Michael N. Gianaris, George Onorato, and Sony Corporation; The Studio in a School Association; Warner Gabrielle Palitz; Rockstar Games; Herbert and Judith Schlosser; Malcolm Smith; New York State Assembly Members Catherine Bros. Pictures; William Fox, Jr. Foundation; Mike and Woan Jen Silvercup Studios; Time Warner Inc.; Ann and Andrew Tisch; T. Nolan and Aravella Simotas; Congressman Joseph Crowley; Wu; Jeffrey Zucker; Anonymous. William Fox, Jr. Foundation; Variety Group. Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney. Funding for the Museum’s after-school programs has been Major program and operating support provided by: Alfred P. provided by: JP Morgan Chase Foundation; New York City Sloan Foundation; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Bloomberg Council Members Leroy Comrie, Daniel Dromm, Peter F. Vallone, Philanthropies; Institute of Museum and Library Services; Malt Jr., Jimmy Van Bramer, and Mark Weprin, through the New York Products Corporation; Pannonia Foundation; Herbert S. Schlosser; City Department of Cultural Affairs. Foundation; Theatrical Teamsters Local 817; Time Warner Inc.; Ann and Andrew Tisch.

28 daily schedule Thursday, November 8 Saturday, November 24 Sunday, December 16 Key to location 8:00 The End of Time with director 1:00 Shrek (MT, p. 8) 1:00 Kung Fu Panda (MT, p. 8) Peter Mettler in person (MT, p. 14) 3:00 Shadow of a Doubt (MT, p. 13) 3:00 The Nutty Professor (MT, p. 14) MT Main Theater 6:00 The Dark Mirror (MT, p. 13) 5:00 Barbie (MT, p. 17) Friday, November 9 6:00 Dead Ringers (MT, p. 14) BA Celeste and Armand Bartos 7:00 Life of Pi in 3-D with screenwriter Sunday, November 25 Screening Room David Magee in person (MT, p. 16) 1:00 Shrek (MT, p. 8) Friday, December 21 3:00 All About Eve (MT, p. 13) 7:00 All That Heaven Allows (MT, p. 5) Screenings of classic movie serials in Tut’s Saturday, November 10 6:00 Shadow of a Doubt (MT, p. 13) Fever Movie Palace, weekdays at 2:00 p.m., 2:00 Rise of the Guardians in 3-D introduced by Saturday, December 22 weekends at 1:00, 2:00, and 3:30 p.m. Peter Ramsey, Patrick Hanenberger, Friday, November 30 1:00 Monsters vs. Aliens in 3-D (MT, p. 8)

All program times, dates, formats, and locations and William Joyce (MT, p. 8) 7:00 Invasion of the Body Snatchers (MT, p. 13) 3:00 Fanny and Alexander (MT, p. 5) are subject to change. Unless otherwise noted, all 4:00 A Night at the Nickelodeon with live screenings are free with Museum admission. music by Donald Sosin, introduced by Sunday, December 23 Richard Koszarski (MT, p. 10) DECEMBER 1:00 Monsters vs. Aliens in 3-D (MT, p. 8) 6:30 Classical Cinema with live music by 3:00 Fanny and Alexander (MT, p. 5) Donald Sosin (MT, p. 10) Saturday, December 1 1:00 Antz (MT, p. 8) Monday, December 24 Sunday, November 11 3:00 Invasion of the Body Snatchers (MT, p. 13) 1:00 Monsters vs. Aliens in 3-D (MT, p. 8) 1:00 Rise of the Guardians in 3-D (MT, p. 8) 6:00 The Other (MT, p. 13) OCTOBER 3:00 Griffith in Fort Lee with live music by Wednesday, December 26 Donald Sosin, introduced by Richard Sunday, December 2 1:00 Monsters vs. Aliens in 3-D (MT, p. 8) Sunday, October 28 Koszarski (MT, p. 11) 1:00 Antz (MT, p. 8) 1:00 Forrest Gump (BA, p. 3) 6:00 Alice Guy Blaché, Queen of Solax with 3:00 Celine and Julie Go Boating (MT, p. 13) Thursday, December 27 5:00 Punch (BA, p. 17) live music by Donald Sosin, introduced 7:00 Cat Scratch Fever with director 1:00 Monsters vs. Aliens in 3-D (MT, p. 8) by Richard Koszarski (MT, p. 11) lisa Duva in person (MT, p. 13) Friday, December 28 NOVEMBER Friday, November 16 Friday, December 7 7:00 Bonjour Tristesse (MT, p. 5) 7:00 Bookstalls: Film, Poetry, and 7:00 Femme Fatale (MT, p. 13) Thursday, November 1 Performance in Celebration of Saturday, December 29 8:00 The Man with the Iron Fists Joseph Cornell (MT, p. 16) Saturday, December 8 1:00 Puss in Boots in 3-D (MT, p. 8) with RZA in person (MT, p. 15) 1:00 Madagascar (MT, p. 8) 3:00 Bonjour Tristesse (MT, p. 5) Saturday, November 17 3:00 The Whole Town’s Talking (MT, p. 13) 6:00 La Dolce Vita (MT, p. 5) Friday, November 2 1:00 How to Train Your Dragon in 3-D (MT, p. 8) 6:00 That Obscure Object of Desire (MT, p. 14) 2:00 Back to the Future (MT, p. 3) 4:00 Vertigo (MT, p. 12) Sunday, December 30 6:30 Back to the Future (MT, p. 3) 7:00 Mulholland Drive (MT, p. 12) Sunday, December 9 1:00 Puss in Boots in 3-D (MT, p. 8) 7:00 Suspiria (BA, p. 3) 1:00 Madagascar (MT, p. 8) 3:00 Bonjour Tristesse (MT, p. 5) Sunday, November 18 5:00 Needle Through Brick (BA, p. 15) 6:00 La Dolce Vita (MT, p. 5) Saturday, November 3 1:00 How to Train Your Dragon in 3-D (MT, p. 8) 6:00 Fight Club (MT, p. 14) 1:00 To Kill a Mockingbird (BA, p. 6) 4:00 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari with live music Monday, December 31 4:30 Beasts of the Southern Wild by Donald Sosin, followed by Meshes of Friday, December 14 1:00 Puss in Boots in 3-D (MT, p. 8) with actress Quvenzhané Wallis and the Afternoon (MT, p. 12) 7:00 Children of Paradise (MT, p. 5) director Benh Zeitlin in person (MT, p. 6) 5:00 Choked (BA, p. 17) 7:00 Suspiria (MT, p. 5) 7:00 Mulholland Drive (MT, p. 12) Saturday, December 15 1:00 Kung Fu Panda (MT, p. 8) JANUARY Sunday, November 4 Friday, November 23 3:00 The Nutty Professor (MT, p. 14) 1:30 Paper Moon (BA, p. 6) 1:00 Shrek (MT, p. 8) 6:30 Children of Paradise (MT, p. 5) Tuesday, January 1 2:00 The Innocents (MT, p. 5) 7:00 All About Eve (MT, p. 13) 1:00 Puss in Boots in 3-D (MT, p. 8) 4:00 Cast Away (MT, p. 3)

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Nearby discounted parking is available for Museum patrons.

Members: 15% discount Non-members: 10% discount (Same day parking tickets must be validated at the Museum)

Parking provided by PV Parking Corp 34-11 Steinway Street (entrance on 41 Street between 34 & 35 Avenue; wheelchair accessible). pvparkingny.com

TICKETED EVENTS

Paid tickets are required for some events. To order tickets, call 718 777 6800 or buy online at movingimage.us. In addition to free admission to regular film screenings, Museum members enjoy a significant discount on all ticketed events.

GROUP TOURS

The Museum offers special discounted rates for groups of eight or more, as well as engaging educator-led group tours of its core exhibition, Behind the Screen. Reservations are required. Call 718 777 6800.

ADDRESS ADMISSION DIRECTIONS MOVING IMAGE STORE

36-01 35 Avenue (at 37 Street) ADULTS Ages 18+ $12 Just minutes away from Midtown , the The Moving Image Store has hundreds of books Astoria, NY 11106 SENIORS Ages 65+ $9 Museum is located on the campus of the historic for everyone from cinephiles to casual movie 718 777 6888 STUDENTS $9 Kaufman Astoria Studios, in Astoria, Queens. buffs, video gamers to students. The Store also movingimage.us CHILDREN Ages 3–12 $6 offers a selection of , specially designed Subway: or (weekdays only) to Steinway Under 3 Free Moving Image souvenirs, and gifts for children Street ; or (weekdays only) HOURS Members Free and adults. Members receive a 15% discount. to 36 Avenue. Tuesdays–Thursdays: 10:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Bus: Q101 (from Midtown Manhattan) Gallery admission is free on Fridays from MOVING IMAGE CAFÉ Fridays: 10:30 a.m.–8:00 p.m. to 35 Avenue; Q66 (from Flushing) to 4:00–8:00 p.m. Steinway Street. The café serves soup, salads, a rotating Saturdays and Sundays: 11:30 a.m.–7.00 p.m. Paid admission includes all regular selection of sandwiches, and a variety of snacks The Museum will be closed on Monday, film screenings. and sweets. Beverages include Lavazza coffee

November 12 (Veterans Day), Thursday, drinks, fine tea, and juices. Members receive a Tickets for screenings are not included November 22 (Thanksgiving), and December 25 10% discount. (Christmas Day), and will be open on January 1, with free admission on Fridays. 2013 (New Year’s Day).

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