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10:00–6:00 T1 1:30 T2 1:30 T2 Movie Trailers All Day Hollis Frampton Cavalcade in 1974 1:30 T2 4:30 T2 The Covered Wagon 2:00 T1 One. P.M.; Money Everyone Else 4:30 T2 5:00 T1 This Is the Place 4:00 T2 The Maid View from the East 6:30 T2 7:30 T1 Lost Lost Lost 5:00 T1 The Third Part of Daughters of the Dust the Night 7:00 T1 The Insider: 20th 6:00 T2 Anniversary West Coast Lights Screening

4 Mon 2 Sat 1:30 T2 1:30 T2 Iris Barry’s History of 7 Thu Films from Film, Shorts Program Information 3 1:30 T2 Underworld 2:00 T1 4:00 T1 The Children’s Hour Neighboring Sounds 4:00 T1 3:30 T2 Early Films by 6:00 T2 Ernie Gehr. Introduced Wavelength. by Gehr Introduced by Michael Snow

4:30 T2 7:00 T1 Tom, Tom, the Piper’s The Contenders. Son For details, see moma.org/film. 7:00 T2 4:00 T1 This Is the Place Barking Dogs Never Bite 7:30 T1 8 Fri The Lonely Human 6:30 T2 Voice (aka The Lonely 10:00–6:30 T1 Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Voice of Man) For Children of All Son. Introduced by Ages: Bunin, Griffin, Ken Jacobs Hubley 5 Tue

1:30 T2 The Freshman

4:00 T1 7:00 T1 Killer of Sheep 1:30 T2 Pi The Cat and the 4:30 T2 Canary West Coast Lights 4:00 T2 6:30 T1 Down to the Bone The Cow 7:00 T2 7:00 T2 Films from Early Films by Information Ernie Gehr 7:30 T1 The Contenders. For details, see moma.org/film. 7:00 T2 4:30 T2 9 Sat Flicker, Frame, TV Naked Spaces: Living Is Round 1:30 T2 7:30 T1 Soc. Sci. 127; Little The Return 7:30 T1 Boy The Contenders. For details, see 2:00 T1 moma.org/film. The Contenders. For details, see 8:00 T2 moma.org/film. Wheel of Ashes 3:30 T2 Politics at Play

5:00 T1 12 Tue 16 Sat The Contenders. 1:30 T3 1:30 T2 For details, see The Cabinet of Dr. Politics at Play moma.org/film. Caligari. Discussion with Laurence Kardish 2:00 T1 6:00 T2 The Contenders. Naked Spaces: Living For details, see Is Round moma.org/film. 7:30 T1 13 Wed 4:00 T2 Shadows 1:30 T2 The Family Album; The Last Laugh Vintage: Families of Value 4:00 T1 10 Sun Something Different 5:00 T1 The Contenders. 1:00 T2 4:30 T2 For details, see View from the East Hollis Frampton moma.org/film. in 1974 2:00 T1 7:00 T2 Old Joy 7:00 T2 The Slow Business Fists in the Pocket of Going; Altair 3:00 T2 Lost Lost Lost

4:00 T1 4 Months, 3 Weeks 14 Thu and 2 Days 1:30 T2 Hamlet 6:30 T2 7:30 T1 The Family Album; 4:00 T1 Madame Satã Vintage: Families of I Stand Alone Value 4:30 T2 Flicker, Frame, TV 17 Sun 11 Mon 6:30 T2 1:30 T2 Intimate Dramas Intimate Dramas 1:30 T2 Der Golem; The 7:00 T1 2:00 T1 Skeleton Dance The Contenders. Intimate Lightning For details, see 4:30 T2 moma.org/film. 3:30 T2 Wavelength; More Than a Woman New York Eye and Ear Control 4:00 T1 15 Fri Salaam Bombay! 5:00 T1 Life on Earth 10:00–6:30 T1 5:30 T2 Gimme Shelter All Day 1990 and the New Psychodrama 1:30 T2 Storm over Asia 4:30 T2 18 Mon 21 Thu Library of Congress Collaborations 1:30 T3 1:30 T2 Iris Barry’s History The Passion of Joan 7:00 T1 of Film, Shorts of Arc Atlantics Program 4 4:30 T2 7:30 T2 Films from the First American Federation Circulating of the Arts Catalogue, 1936 19 Tue Collaborations 1:30 T2 7:00 T1 Greed 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 24 Sun 4:00 T1 The Children’s Hour 1:30 T2 Circulating Library 4:30 T2 Documentaries, Wheel of Ashes Program 1 7:00 T1 2:00 T1 The Contenders. 7:30 T2 The Contenders. For details, see Films from the 1955 For details, see moma.org/film. 20th Anniversary moma.org/film. Program 4:30 T2 Circulating Library Documentaries, 22 Fri Program 2 10:00–6:30 T1 5:00 T1 7:30 T2 Your Program of Atlantics 1990 and the New Programs Psychodrama 7:00 T2 Films from the First Circulating 20 Wed Catalogue, 1936

1:30 T2 The Italian Straw Hat 1:30 T2 Hotel Imperial 25 Mon 4:00 T2 1:30 T2 The Slow Business of 4:30 T2 The Wind Going; Altair Essential Tools for Film Students 4:00 T1 4:30 T1 Intimate Lightning The Cow 7:30 T2 Louisiana Story Study 4:30 T2 Film Films by and about Artists, Program 1 7:30 T1 Atlantics

7:00 T1 The Contenders. 23 Sat For details, see moma.org/film. 1:30 T2 7:00 T1 George Eastman Atlantics 7:00 T2 House Collaborations Iris Talks: Celebrating MoMA’s First Silent 2:00 T1 Film Pianist Shadows

4:00 T1 Neighboring Sounds 26 Tue 29 Fri Presented on film Images, calendar, from 1:30 T2 10:00–6:30 T1 left: . The Four Horsemen Animated Shorts 1970. USA. Directed by of the Apocalypse by Women Ernie Gehr. Courtesy the artist; Tom, Tom, the 4:00 T1 Piper’s Son. Courtesy the Xiao Wu artist; Pi. Courtesy Live Entertainment/Photofest; Neighboring Sounds. Courtesy Cinema Guild; The Third Part of the 1:30 T2 Night. Courtesy Polski Dream of a Rarebit State Film/Photofest; Fiend; The Navigator Alice in Wonderland. 4:30 T2 1949. USA. Directed by Louisiana Story 4:00 T1 Dallas Bower. © Souvaine Study Film Atlantics Selective Pictures; Life on Earth. Courtesy Haut 7:00 T1 7:00 T2 et Court; The Return. Atlantics George Eastman Courtesy Kino Lorber; House Collaborations The Slow Business 7:30 T2 of Going. Courtesy Haos Essential Tools for 7:30 T1 Film; Salaam Bombay! Film Students The Contenders. Courtesy Cinecom/ For details, see Photofest; Varda by moma.org/film. Agnès. 2019. France. Directed by Agnès Varda. 27 Wed Courtesy Ciné Tamaris; The Cow. Courtesy Audio 1:30 T2 30 Sat Brandon/Photofest; 4 Anna Christie Months, 3 Weeks and 2 1:30 T2 Days. Courtesy IFC Films/ 4:00 T1 Films by and about Photofest; Kestutis Atlantics Artists, Program 2 Nakas. Your Program of Programs. 1982–83. 2:00 T1 Image courtesy the artist; The Contenders. Railroad Turnbridge. For details, see 1969. USA. Directed by moma.org/film. ; Xiao Wu. Courtesy FSA; Atlantics. 4:00 T2 © Les Films du Bal; 4:30 T2 Circulating Library Whale Songs. 1979. USA. Films from the 1955 Documentaries, Directed by Mary Beams; 20th Anniversary Program 1 The Maid. Courtesy Program Oscilloscope Pictures 5:00 T1 Front cover, from top: 7:00 T1 The Contenders. Neighboring Sounds. The Contenders. For details, see Courtesy Cinema Guild; For details, see moma.org/film. Salaam Bombay! Courtesy moma.org/film. Cinecom/Photofest; 7:00 T2 Varda by Agnès. Courtesy Films by and about Ciné Tamaris Artists, Program 1 Back cover, from top: 28 Thu The Slow Business of 7:30 T1 Going. Courtesy Haos Closed for The Maid Film; The Piano. Courtesy Thanksgiving Miramax/Photofest Library of Congress Nov 7–Jan 8 Collaborations The Contenders A program of films made between 1920 and 1927. Program approx. 2019 95 min. Silent, with musical accompaniment. Sat, Nov 23, 4:30 For this annual series, the Department of Film combs American Federation of the through major studio releases and Arts Collaborations the top film festivals, selecting Sun Tunnels. 1978. Directed by influential, innovative films made Nancy Holt. 26 min. Right Out in the past 12 months that we of History: The Making of Judy believe will stand the test of time. ’s Dinner Party. 1980. For the full screening schedule, Directed by Johanna Demetrakas, visit moma.org/contenders. Thom Tyson. 75 min. Sat, Nov 23, 7:30

Circulating Library Nov 21–Dec 4 Documentaries, Program 1 Histories of Film: Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu. 1980. USA. Produced and directed The Circulating Film by David Loeb Weiss. 29 min. and Video Library Bookwars. 2000. USA. Directed by Jason Rosette. 79 min. Sun, Celebrating 85 years of service Nov 24, 1:30; Sat, Nov 30, 4:00 to the film and education community, The Circulating Film Circulating Library and Video Library holds the Documentaries, Program 2 unusual position of providing FALN. 1965. USA/Venezuela. access outside MoMA to a rare Directed by Robert Kramer, Peter collection of films and videos— Gessner. 25 min. America’s Pop works by important independent Collector. 1974. USA. Directed by filmmakers as well as films that John Schott, E. J. Vaughn. 72 min. tell the history of the medium. Sun, Nov 24, 4:30

Films from the First Circulating Films by and about Artists, Catalogue, 1936 Program 1 A program of films made between Grandma Moses. 1950. USA. 1895 and 1916. Silent, with musical Directed by Jerome Hill. 22 min. accompaniment. Program approx. Film Portrait. 1971. USA. Directed 107 min. Thu, Nov 21, 4:30; Sun, by Jerome Hill. 81 min. Mon, Nov 24, 7:00 Nov 25, 4:30; Sat, Nov 30, 7:00

Films from the 1955 20th Films by and about Artists, Anniversary Program Program 2 A program of films made between A trio of films about artists, made 1927 and 1952. Program approx. between 1950 and 2010. Program 121 min. Thu, Nov 21, 7:30; Wed, approx. 69 min. Sat, Nov 30, 1:30 Nov 27, 4:30

Essential Tools for Film Students A program of films about filmmaking, Nov 22–28 made between 1903 and 1986. Program approx. 92 min. Fri, Nov 22, MoMA Presents: 4:30; Tue, Nov 26, 7:30 Mati Diop’s Atlantics

Louisiana Story Study Film. 1962. Director Mati Diop presents a USA. Prepared and assembled captivating contemporary tale of by N. H. Cominos. Study film using migration from the vantage footage from Robert Flaherty’s point of those left behind. The first Louisiana Story. 128 min. Fri, black woman director to compete Nov 22, 7:30 at Cannes, Diop was awarded the 2019 Grand Prix by the jury. George Eastman House Collaborations Atlantics (Atlantique). 2019. A program of films made between France/Senegal/. Directed 1904 and 1927. Program approx. by Mati Diop. 104 min. Fri, Nov 22, 87 min. Silent, with musical 7:30; Sat, Nov 23, 7:00; Sun, accompaniment. Sat, Nov 23, 1:30; Nov 24, 5:00; Mon, Nov 25, 7:00; Fri, Nov 29, 7:00 Tue, Nov 26, 7:00; Wed, Nov 27, 4:00; Fri, Nov 28, 4:00 Wavelength. 1967. USA. Directed Through Nov 20 by Michael Snow. 44 min. New York Currents: Re- Eye and Ear Control. USA. 1967. Directed by Michael Snow. 32 min. Viewing Cineprobe, Thu, Nov 7, 6:00 (Wavelength 1968–2002 only); Mon, Nov 11, 4:30

Tapping into the history of Soc. Sci. 127. 1969. USA. Directed Cineprobe—the landmark film by Danny Lyon. 21 min. Little Boy. program that ran at MoMA 1977. USA. Directed by Danny Lyon. from 1968 to 2002—Currents 54 min. Two films by America’s most traces the vibrant history of imaginative documentarian. Sat, artist’s cinema and independent Nov 9, 1:30 film in MoMA’s collection. Politics at Play This Is the Place A program tracing Cineprobe’s Films by James Benning, Bette engagement with political film and Gordon, Peter Hutton, and Storm media, from Vietnam to the AIDS de Hirsch. Program 78 min. Fri, crisis. Program 80 min. Sat, Nov 9, Nov 1, 4:30; Mon, Nov 4, 7:00 3:30; Sat, Nov 16, 1:30

Lost Lost Lost. 1976. USA. Directed Naked Spaces: Living Is Round. by Jonas Mekas. This diary film 1985. Mauritania/Mali/Burkina Faso/ opus contains footage from nearly Togo/Benin/Senegal. Directed 15 years. 178 min. Fri, Nov 1, 6:30; by Trinh T. Minh-Ha. Minh-Ha’s first Sun, Nov 10, 3:00 feature is a poetic treatise on ethnography and representation. Films from Information 135 min. Sat, Nov 9, 6:00; Fri, Revisiting the landmark 1970 Nov 15, 4:30 MoMA exhibition through work by , Bruce Conner, and The Family Album. 1986. USA. more. Program 80 min. Sat, Nov 2, Directed by Alan Berliner. 60 min. 1:00; Fri, Nov 8, 7:00 Vintage: Families of Value. 1995. USA. Directed by Thomas Allen Early Films by Ernie Gehr Harris. 72 min. A double bill of Films from 1968–70, virtually all in exemplary diary films. Sun, Nov 10, MoMA preservation premieres. 6:30; Sat, Nov 16, 4:00 Program 97 min. Sat, Nov 2, 3:30; Tue, Nov 5, 7:00 Flicker, Frame, TV A survey of self-reflexive, structural, Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son. 1971. and media-inflected work. Program USA. Directed by Ken Jacobs. 65 min. Mon, Nov 11, 7:00; Wed, Jacobs’s masterwork transforms a Nov 13, 4:30 1905 into a study of light and movement. 105 min. Sat, Nov 2, Intimate Dramas 6:30; Mon, Nov 4, 4:30 Rousing human experiences channeled in animation and Hollis Frampton in 1974 performance. Program 65 min. Thu, Summer Solstice, Autumnal Equinox, Nov 14, 6:30; Sun, Nov 17, 1:30 and Winter Solstice. Program 95 min. Sun, Nov 3, 1:30; Wed, Nov 13, 4:30 Wheel of Ashes. 1968. France/USA. Directed by Peter Emmanuel View from the East Goldman. This rarely seen film Three decades of experimental hauntingly traffics in devotion and short films from Eastern and Central desire. 95 min. Fri, Nov 15, 8:00; . Program 65 min. Sun, Tue, Nov 19, 4:30 Nov 3, 4:00; Sun, Nov 10, 1:00 More than a Woman West Coast Lights Joyce Weiland, Gunvor Nelson and Bay Area urban symphonies, Dorothy Wiley, Greta Snider, and found-footage films, and media Anne Charlotte Robertson put female experiments. Program 70 min. Sun, experiences to film. Program 70 min. Nov 3, 6:00; Tue, Nov 5, 4:30 Sun, Nov 17, 3:30

One P.M. 1971. USA. Directed by D.A. 1990 and the New Psychodrama Pennebaker. Pennebaker’s “notes With Peggy Ahwesh, Keith Sanborn, towards a movie” of an uncompleted and Janie Geiser. Program 64 min. collaboration with Jean-Luc Godard. Sun, Nov 17, 5:30; Tue, Nov 19, 7:30 95 min. Money. 1984. USA. Directed by Henry Hills. 14 min. Wed, Nov 6, 4:30 The Slow Business of Going. 2000. O Som ao Redor (Neighboring Greece/USA. Directed by Athina Sounds). 2012. . Directed by Rachel Tsangari. Tsangari’s sprawling Kleber Mendonça Filho. Filho’s debut traces the journey of a cyborg sharply observed debut lays bare protagonist. 102 min. Altair. 1994. the inner dynamics of Brazilian USA. Directed by Lewis Klahr. 8 min. society. 131 min. Mon, Nov 4, 4:00; Sat, Nov 16, 7:00; Wed, Nov 20, 4:00 Sat, Nov 23, 4:00

The Lonely Voice of Man (aka The Lonely Human Voice). 1978–87. Through Dec 5 USSR. Directed by Aleksandr Sokurov. In the 1920s, in the wake of Vision Statement: the Russian Civil War, a young couple Early Directorial find themselves in a ruinous, joyless Works landscape. 87 min. Mon, Nov 4, 7:30 Killer of Sheep. 1977. USA. Written A director’s oeuvre may not and directed by Charles Burnett. An always be “consistent,” but an African American man, unable to auteur’s continuity of vision provide for his children or satisfy his is often evident right from the wife, is enveloped in perpetual beginning, and it is always thrilling despair. 80 min. Tue, Nov 5, 4:00 to follow new, original cinematic voices. This series highlights The Cow. 1969. Iran. Directed by statement-making first, second, Dariush Mehrjui. A man is consumed and third features, made since by madness when he learns that his the 1950s by directors from six cow—the only one in his village—has continents, drawn from MoMA’s mysteriously disappeared. 105 min. collection. Tue, Nov 5, 6:30; Wed, Nov 20, 4:30 La hora de los niños (The La nana (The Maid). 2009. Chile. Children’s Hour). 1969. Mexico. Directed by Sebastián Silva. After 20 Directed by Arturo Ripstein. A clown years working for the Valdes family as babysitter might be entertaining a live-in maid, Raquel’s devotion is during the day, but it’s another story absolute—as is the boundary between at bedtime. 65 min. Sat, Nov 2, 2:00; employer and employee. 95 min. Tue, Nov 19, 4:00 Wed, Nov 6, 5:00; Sat, Nov 30, 7:30 Barking Dogs Never Bite. 2000. Trzecia część nocy (The Third South Korea. Directed by Joon-ho Part of the Night). 1971. Poland. Bong. In Bong’s blackly comic debut, Directed by Andrzej Żuławski. a lowly graduate student, submissive In Nazi-occupied Warsaw, a man to his pregnant wife, turns his anger descends into a nightmarish on a yapping dog in their apartment labyrinth of resistance fighters, complex. 110 min. Sat, Nov 2, 4:00 assassinations, medical experiments, and doppelgängers. Pi. 1998. USA. Written and directed 105 min. Wed, Nov 6, 7:30 by . A math wizard obsessed with a series of numbers The Piano. 1993. New Zealand/ connected to pi is menaced by Australia/France. Written and Hasidic numerologists and a Wall directed by . A mute Street executive. 84 min. Sat, Scottish woman is sent to marry a Nov 2, 7:00 colonist in 19th-century New Zealand, arriving with her young Alle Anderen (Everyone Else). daughter and a piano. 121 min. Thu, 2009. Germany. Written and Nov 7, 4:00 directed by Maren Ade. Gitti and Chris are vacationing in Sardinia, Down to the Bone. 2004. USA. where they spend most of the time Directed by . A young in an emotional tug of war, to mother juggles her kids, work as sometimes comical, sometimes a cashier, and a drug addiction. painful effect. 124 min. Sun, Nov 3, 102 min. Fri, Nov 8, 4:00 2:00 Shadows. 1959. USA. Directed by Daughters of the Dust. 1991. USA. . Cassavetes’s Directed by Julie Dash. In 1902, directorial debut, centered on the a Gullah family, led by their clan life of three African American matriarch, gathers together before siblings—all musicians—brings the most of them migrate from the Big Apple’s vibrant art scenes to Sea Islands of South Carolina and life. 81 min. Sat, Nov 9, 7:30; Sat, Georgia. 112 min. Sun, Nov 3, 5:00 Nov 23, 2:00 Old Joy. 2006. USA. Directed by Intimní osvětlení (Intimate Kelly Reichardt. Two old buddies get Lighting). 1965. Czechoslovakia. together for an impromptu camping Directed by Ivan Passer. Two old trip. This simple, unassuming second friends spend a tender, leisurely time feature delivers transcendent in the countryside drinking, eating, moments of meditation on life and bantering, and making music in this the passage of time. 76 min. Sun, radically minimalist, humorous Nov 10, 2:00 Czech New Wave debut. 73 min. Sun, Nov 17, 2:00; Mon, Nov 25, 4:00 4 luni, 3 săptămâni și 2 zile (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days). Salaam Bombay! 1988. . 2007. . Directed by Cristian Directed by Mira Nair. The rough Mungiu. In late-1980s Romania, a streets of Bombay are no place young woman races against time to for children, but there they are, help her college roommate get an vying for survival alongside pimps, abortion. 113 min. Sun, Nov 10, 4:00; prostitutes, and drug addicts. Thu, Nov 21, 7:00 This realistic portrait celebrates their resilience and humanity. La vie sur terre (Life on Earth). 114 min. Sun, Nov 17, 4:00 1998. Mali/Mauritania. Written and directed by . Xiao Wu (Pickpocket). 1997. . A young man, just back from France, Directed by Jia Zhangke. While his old tours his small Malian town on gang buddies have found fortune as a bicycle, taking in the sights and entrepreneurs, small-town pickpocket sounds of home. 61 min. Mon, Xiao Wu sticks to his old trade Nov 11, 5:00 and gradually finds himself deserted by everyone he once knew. 110 min. The Return. 2003. Russia. Directed Tue, Nov 26, 4:00 by Andrey Zvyagintsev. The father of two teenage boys suddenly reappears after a 12-year absence. The three embark on a road trip Through Dec 18 to rekindle their bond, but something sinister hangs in the air. 110 min. Hidden Histories Mon, Nov 11, 7:30 This special reopening series features a choice selection of O nĕčem jiném (Something rarely—if ever—screened works Different). 1963. Czechoslovakia. from MoMA’s film collection, Directed by Věra Chytilová. Věra buried treasures and curator Chytilová’s debut feature intercuts favorites that have remained between the stories of a gymnast obscure due to their unusual and a housewife; the former character, commercial in documentary and the latter in unavailability, or restoration fiction. 81 min. Wed, Nov 13, 4:00 status. I pugni in tasca (Fists in the The Insider: 20th Anniversary Pocket). 1965. Italy. Written and Screening directed by . A The Insider. 1999. USA. Directed by mother and her four grown children . and Russell harbor personal discontent in Crowe star in the true story of a former a conservative provincial town. tobacco scientist and a 105 min. Thu, Nov 13, 7:00 producer in a battle to bring an explosive news story to the American Seul contre tous (I Stand Alone). people. 157 min. Fri, Nov 1, 7:00 1998. France. Directed by Gaspar Noé. An unemployed butcher roams around like a ticking time bomb in Noé’s dedut, a riveting sociological study of discontent, isolation, Through Dec 27 violence, and the underclass. 93 min. Open Door Fridays Thu, Nov 14, 4:00 Open Door Fridays gives visitors Madame Satã. 2002. Brazil. unlimited, all-day access to film Directed by Karim Aïnouz. Aïnouz’s programs that run continuously debut, based on the life of João during Museum hours. Every Francisco dos Santos, a black Friday, you are encouraged to drop Brazilian drag performer and street in to the theater at any point and hustler born in 1900, takes us to stay as long as you like to enjoy the sweaty, messy corners of a audience favorites and hidden bohemian nightlife district in Rio de gems from MoMA’s collection— Janeiro. 105 min. Sat, Nov 16, 7:30 with no film tickets required! Movie Trailers All Day Shorts Program 3 Some movie trailers are memorable, Hydrothérapie fantastique most are...not. We’ll be screening (The Doctor’s Secret). 1908. the good, the bad, and the ugly, all France. Directed by Georges Méliès. taken from MoMA’s collection, Approx. 9 min. Gertie the grouped together randomly on 35mm Dinosaur. 1914. USA. Directed reels. Fri, Nov 1, 10:00–6:00 and animated by Winsor McCay. Approx. 8 min. For Children of All Ages: Bunin, His Bitter Pill. 1916. USA. Directed Griffin, and Hubley by Fred Fishback. Approx. 20 min. Thirty years of animation preserved The Sex Life of the Polyp. 1928. by the Museum, from Lou Bunin, USA. Directed by Thomas Hope and Morey Bunin, John and Chalmers. 11 min. Mon, Nov 4, 1:30 Faith Hubley, and George Griffin. Fri, Nov 8, 10:00–6:30 The Freshman. 1925. USA. Directed by Fred Newmeyer, Sam Gimme Shelter All Day Taylor. “It was after he assumed David and Albert Maysles and horn-rimmed glasses in 1917 Charlotte Zwerin’s documentary that Harold Lloyd developed his about the 1969 Rolling Stones own ingenuous type of character- concert at Altamont speedway, comedy....” Approx. 75 min. juxtaposed with A Well Spent Life, Les Tue, Nov 5, 1:30 Blank’s portrait of guitarist Mance Lipscomb. Fri, Nov 15, 10:00–6:30 Cavalcade. 1933. USA. Directed by Frank Lloyd. “The producers Your Program of Programs sent technicians to England to A full day of episodes of the 1982–83 record the play as it was produced Manhattan Cable public-access in London.... This explains why show created by and starring Cavalcade...sticks so faithfully to Lithuanian American theater artist theatrical form.” Sound. 112 min. Kestutis Nakas. Fri, Nov 22, Wed, Nov 6, 1:30 10:00–6:30 Underworld. 1927. USA. Directed A Day of Animated Films by . by Women “Underworld upon its appearance The Circulating Film and Video created a considerable impression Library has long included and with its relatively frank and fostered the work of women uncompromising picture of filmmakers, including the 11 films in gangster land, and its comparative this program, made between 1935 lack of whitewash.” Approx. 80 min. and 1989. Fri, Nov 29, 10:00–6:30 Thu, Nov 7, 1:30

The Cat and the Canary. 1927. USA. Directed by Paul Leni. Through Dec 31 “The oblique camera angles, the scene looking downward on Modern Matinees: the assembled characters, the shot Iris Barry’s History through the high back of a chair.... 1927 was the year of of Film camera-angles.” Approx. 75 min. Fri, Nov 8, 1:30 The founding of the MoMA Film

Library (now the Department The Skeleton Dance. 1929. USA. of Film) in 1935 was a catalyst for Directed by . Animation the study of the motion picture by . 6 min. Der Golem as art in the United States. Using (The Golem). 1920. Germany. the 1935 publication Film Notes, Directed by Carl Boese, Paul by Iris Barry, the Library’s first Wegener. “[In the 1920 version] curator, as a guidepost, this the clay image of the Golem [is] series endeavors to reconstruct brought to life by the old Rabbi. a range of MoMA’s earliest film This legendary figure of the middle programs. Films are silent, with ages is afterwards instrumental musical accompaniment, unless in delivering the Jews from the otherwise noted. Quotes are oppression of their overlord.” excerpted from Film Notes. Silent, with musical accompaniment. 87 min. Mon, Nov 11, 1:30 The Covered Wagon. 1923. USA. Directed by James Cruze. 98 min. “In The Covered Wagon, many of the best functions of the cinema are combined.” Fri, Nov 1, 1:30 Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (The Iris Talks: Celebrating MoMA’s Cabinet of Dr. Caligari). 1920. First Silent Film Pianist Germany. Directed by Robert Wiene. MoMA accompanist Ben Model joins “It was for its settings that Caligari us to present an evening of film was first acclaimed and has remained excerpts, music, and discussion of famous.... They derive from Arthur Kleiner’s 30 years compiling, expressionist paintings, through the arranging, and performing music settings of expressionist plays for silent film at the Museum. Wed, and particularly of Der Sturm group.” Nov 20, 7:00 Approx. 75 min. Discussion with Laurence Kardish. Tue, Nov 12, 1:30 La passion de Jeanne d’Arc (The Passion of Joan of Arc). 1928. Der Letzte Man (The Last Laugh). France. Directed by Carl Theodor 1924. Germany. Directed by F. W. Dreyer. Iris Barry included a Murnau. “It was this film that comment from MoMA photography constituted the revolution: it broke curator Beaumont Newhall: “The with the past both in technique Passion of Joan of Arc is a display and in theory.” Approx. 80 min. Wed, of the emotional power of Nov 13, 1:30 photography.” Approx. 84 min. Thu, Nov 21, 1:30 Hamlet. 1920. Denmark/Germany. Directed by Svend Gade, Heinz Hotel Imperial. 1927. USA. Directed Schall. “[Its] somewhat startling by Mauritz Stiller. “[Mauritz Stiller] denouement, revealing that Hamlet did not succeed in directing any was actually a woman, is derived picture of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, from Edward P. Vining’s The Mystery the company that brought him over, of Hamlet (1881).” 110 min. Thu, and made only the present film Nov 14, 1:30 and Street of Sin (1928) before his death in 1928.” Approx. 82 min. Fri, Potomok Chingis-khan (Storm Nov 22, 1:30 over Asia). 1928. USSR. Directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin. Though The Wind. 1928. USA. Directed this film was not actually included by Victor Sjöström. 72 min. “In in Iris Barry’s 1935 programs, The Wind both the power and the Barry referred to its editing as limitations of [Sjöström’s] American a “technical tour-de-force.” direction are clearly visible.” Mon, Approx. 74 min. Fri, Nov 15, 1:30 Nov 25, 1:30

Shorts Program 4 The Four Horsemen of the Paris qui dort (The Crazy Ray). Apocalypse. 1921. USA. Directed 1923. France. Directed by René by Rex Ingram. “[The film] Clair. Approx. 62 min. Ballet established the reputation of its mécanique. 1924. France. Written leading man, Rudolph Valentino, and directed by Fernand Léger. who became the idol of a cult that Approx. 12 min. Ménilmontant. persists years after his death.” 1925. France. Directed by Dmitri Approx. 137 min. Tue, Nov 6, 1:30 Kirsanov. Approx. 38 min. Mon, Nov 18, 1:30 Anna Christie. 1930. USA. Directed by Clarence Brown. “For well over a Greed. 1924. USA. Written and reel, George Marion and Marie directed by Erich von Stroheim. Jay Dressler admirably sustain interest, Leyda, Soviet film scholar and and yet there is impatience to hear assistant to Iris Barry, wrote, “[Von] and to see Greta Garbo.” Sound. Stroheim insisted upon adapting 89 min. Wed, Nov 27, 1:30 the accumulative structure of the novel by including its every detail Dream of a Rarebit Fiend. 1906. and filming every scene against its USA. Directed by Edwin S. Porter. original background....” 123 min. Approx. 6 min. The Navigator. Tue, Nov 19, 1:30 1924. USA. Directed by Donald Crisp, Buster Keaton. “[Where] Un chapeau de paille d’Italie (The Robinson Crusoe on a deserted Italian Straw Hat). 1928. France. island has to create the rudiments Directed by René Clair. “[Clair] was of civilization; Keaton...has to beautifully able to humor his own create the rudiments of natural predilection for this past by existence.” Approx. 60 min. Fri, adapting Labiche’s play into a film... Nov 29, 1:30 which was to look as though it had actually been filmed in 1895.” Approx. 84 min. Wed, Nov 20, 1:30 The 11 West 53 Street

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