New Yorkers, I hope you have a lot of free time next month. You’re going to be spending a lot of it at the Museum of the Moving Image.
As we told you back in October, the Moving Image is reopening on January 15th with a new extension that contains a state-of-the-art theater where all kinds of amazing screenings will be held.
They’ve just sent over the schedule for the first few weeks, and it’s a good time to be a film buff in NYC, let me tell you. Highlights include brand new restored 70mm prints of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Jacques Tati’s Playtime, the world premiere of a restored print of The Hustler, and the start of their family matinees with screenings such as Coraline in Digital 3D and the classic Marx Brothers flick Duck Soup. That’s not even talking about screenings like John Ford’s lost silent film Upstream which will be performed with live music, or the wuxia classic The Valiant Ones which will be having one of its rare screenings. It’s hard to hold in the ecstasy here, folks- I live right near here the museum and plan to be attending as much as possible. The 15th alone- man, I might spend all day in the theater.
You can bet that I’m getting a membership this year.
Here’s the full schedule so far! See you there.
Saturday, January 15
12:30 Duck Soup
1:00 Playtime
2:00 The Hustler
4:00 2001: A Space Odyssey
5:00 George and Mike Kuchar Films
8:00 Signal to Noise
Sunday, January 16
1:00 Magic, Music, and Early Movies: Georges Melies and Sxip Shirey
2:00 The Hustler
4:00 Magic, Music, and Early Movies: Georges Melies and Sxip Shirey
5:30 George and Mike Kuchar Films
7:00 Mumbai Diaries
Monday, January 17
1:00 Coraline
3:00 King: A Filmed Record
Tuesday, January 18
8:00 Cinema Eye Honors
Friday, January 21
7:00 The Big Combo
Saturday, January 22
12:30 Oliver Twist
2:30 Digital Drawing workshop with Shantell Martin
3:00 The Big Combo
6:00 Autour de L’Argent
7:30 L’Argent with music by the Mont Alto Orchestra
Sunday, January 23
1:00 Oliver Twist
2:00 L’Argent with music by the Mont Alto Orchestra
4:00 Poetry
6:00 Autour de L’Argent
7:30 The Cross Revolves at Sunset: Avant-garde films introduced by Mark Toscano
Tuesday, January 25
7:00 The Art of Televised Baseball, with Bill Webb and Curt Gowdy, Jr. in Person
Friday, January 28
7:00 Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Saturday, January 29
12:30 Way Out West
2:00 Rome, Open City
3:00 Avant Garde Masters mixed program
4:15 Fellini’s Roma
7:00 The Salvation Hunters
Sunday, January 30
12:30 Way Out West
2:00 The Ghost Train
5:00 Upstream
5:30 Avant Garde Masters mixed program
7:00 The Mayor of Hell, introduced by Mike Mashon
Friday, February 4
7:00 The Match King
Saturday, February 5
12:30 M. Hulot’s Holiday
2:00 Doomed Love
3:00 M. Hulot’s Holiday
Sunday, February 6
1:00 M. Hulot’s Holiday
2:00 Nathan the Wise
3:00 Fist and Sword program with Stephan Berwick
4:30 Follow the Fleet, introduced by Rajendra Roy
7:00 Face
Thursday, February 10
7:00 Changing the Picture: NBC and the Emergence of African-Americans in Television, with Diahann Carroll and Herbert S. Schlosser in Person
Friday, February 11
7:00 Public Access Reunion 2011
Saturday, February 12
12:30 The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T
2:30 The Wedding Day
2:30 Cartoon Morphing Workshop with Tiny Furniture
3:00 Phones, Cheap and Out of Control
5:00 Shindig
7:00 The New York School: Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara in Person
Sunday, February 13
1:00 The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T
2:00 Lonesome
3:00 Phones, Cheap and Out of Control
3:30 Lost, Lost, Lost
4:00 The Valiant Ones
5:00 Shindig
7:00 My Brilliant Career
Friday, February 18
7:00 Out of the Past
Saturday, February 19
12:30 Aardman Animation, Program 1
1:00 Gregory Markopoulos Panel
1:00 Claymation Workshop
2:30 Claymation Workshop
3:00 Eniaios: Cycle 5
3:00 Soho TV Presents
5:00 After Hours
7:00 Les Ordres
Sunday, February 20
12:30 Aardman Animation, Program 2
1:00 Claymation Workshop
2:30 Claymation Workshop
2:00 Here’s Your Life
3:00 Soho TV Presents
5:00 After Hours
6:00 HaHaHa
Monday-Friday, February 21-25
12:00 Aardman Animation, Program 1
1:00 Claymation Workshop
2:30 Claymation Workshop
3:00 Aardman Animation, Program 2
Tickets go on sale January 4th at http://movingimage.us.