Museum of the Moving Image
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What's on at Museum of the Moving Image
"Behind the Screen"
Film & Television, Digital & interactive, Film & video, Mixed media
- $
- Critics' pick
At the museum’s core exhibit (which was completely updated during renovations), you can put sound effects into film scenes, insert your voice into a part of The Wizard of Oz, or even make a short animated film and e-mail it to yourself. Learn about live...
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Fri May 24
– Tue Dec 31 - Museum of the Moving Image 36-01 35th Ave, (at 37th St), Queens, 11106
- $10, seniors and students $7.50, childre...
"Spectacle: The Music Video"
Categories, Museums & Attractions
- $
- Critics' pick
Moving Image brings more than 300 music videos to its exhibition halls for this survey on the song-length films. Curated by Jonathan Wells and Meg Grey Wells of creative design company Flux and organized by the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, the...
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Fri May 24
– Sun Jun 16 - Museum of the Moving Image 36-01 35th Ave, (at 37th St), Queens, 11106
- $6–$12. Fri 4–8pm free.
The Master
Drama
- $
Ponderous and demanding, Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest slows to a rattlesnake-swallowing-a-mouse lurch. The mouse is Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix), an aberrant WWII sailor transitioning to a life of department-store fistfights and drunkenness. The rattlesnake...
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Fri May 24
– Sat May 25 - Museum of the Moving Image 36-01 35th Ave, (at 37th St), Queens, 11106
The Master
Rating: 3/5Ponderous and demanding, Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest slows to a rattlesnake-swallowing-a-mouse lurch, a pace that makes There Will Be Blood feel like Boogie Nights. The mouse is Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix, rid of the beard but definitely not th...
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Fri May 24:
- 7:00pm
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Sat May 25:
- 2:00pm
The Harder They Come
Rating: 2/5“I was here but I disappeared,” reads the graffiti scrawled on signs by Jamaican musician Ivanhoe “Ivan” Martin (Jimmy Cliff), a country boy turned outlaw haunting Kingston’s mean streets. Robbed on his first day in town, the down-and-out dreamer is...
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Sat May 25:
- 5:00pm
The Harder They Come
Action & adventure, Thriller
- $
- Critics' pick
What most people remember about this movie is the killer reggae soundtrack, but the plot, which finds aspiring musician Jimmy Cliff turning to a life of crime, actually isn’t half bad.
- Sat May 25
- Museum of the Moving Image 36-01 35th Ave, (at 37th St), Queens, 11106
Dig!
Documentary, Musicals
- $
- Critics' pick
A sprawling indie-rock tell-all swirled in trippy video fantasia and some rather stupefying naïveté: Even if you’re not savvy to Timoner’s dueling subjects—two rambunctious ’60s-obsessed acts called the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre—that’s...
- Sun May 26
- Museum of the Moving Image 36-01 35th Ave, (at 37th St), Queens, 11106
DIG!
Filmmaker Ondi Timoner's seven-year chronicle shows the relationship between two bands, the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols.
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Sun May 26:
- 2:00pm
















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