Museum of the Moving Image
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Shape of Things to Come: MOMI’s First Look Gives Adventurous New Cinema a Home
If you’re heading off to Sundance in a few weeks (or just wincing at the January film releases), you may want to make a stop off in Queens. First Look, the annual showcase of new international cinema, opens today at the Museum of the Moving Image and offers filmgoers many compelling reasons to shake off the post-holiday doldrums and to leave the Netflix cave. It also suggests the expansiveness of independent cinema worldwide. Curated by Dennis Lim (editor of Moving Image Source, the Museum’s multimedia magazine) and the museum’s film curators, Rachael Rakes and David Schwartz, the series presents a […]
by Paul Dallas on Jan 4, 2013 -
WES ANDERSON IN CANNES AND NYC
Wes Anderson, the cover star of the latest issue of Filmmaker, kicked off the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday with his new film, Moonrise Kingdom, which opens Stateside on next Friday. (The estimable David Hudson, now operating at Fandor, collects the critical consensus on the movie here.) If you, like me, are not on the Croisette this year, you can still get your Anderson fix via the Cannes website, which takes a special look at Anderson’s body of work through the prism of his use of pop music, collecting together clips from a string of movies plus an interview with […]
by Nick Dawson on May 18, 2012 -
GUS VAN SANT RETROSPECTIVE AT MUSEUM OF MOVING IMAGE
With his 14th feature, Restless, slated for release on Sept. 16, the Museum of the Moving Image in NYC has announced a retrospective of Gus Van Sant‘s work running Sept. 9-30 with the director on hand for a screening of Restless on Sept. 14. Everything from his debut feature, Mala Noche, to his experimental “Death Trilogy” (Gerry, Elephant and Last Days) to his more commercial successes like Good Will Hunting and Milk (even his less successful shot-for-shot remake of Psycho) will be screened. This is certainly a can’t miss for Van Sant fans and film lovers alike. Most screenings are […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Aug 22, 2011
