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The Master

Drama

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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...

  1. Until Sat May 25
  2. Museum of the Moving Image 36-01 35th Ave, (at 37th St), Queens, 11106
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The Harder They Come

Action & adventure, Thriller

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  • 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.

  1. Until Sat May 25
  2. Museum of the Moving Image 36-01 35th Ave, (at 37th St), Queens, 11106
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"Behind the Screen"

Film & Television, Digital & interactive, Film & video, Mixed media

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  • 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...

"Behind the Screen"
  1. Sun May 26
    – Tue Dec 31
  2. Museum of the Moving Image 36-01 35th Ave, (at 37th St), Queens, 11106
  3. $10, seniors and students $7.50, childre...
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"Spectacle: The Music Video"

Categories, Museums & Attractions

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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...

"Spectacle: The Music Video"
  1. Sun May 26
    – Sun Jun 16
  2. Museum of the Moving Image 36-01 35th Ave, (at 37th St), Queens, 11106
  3. $6–$12. Fri 4–8pm free.
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  • Sun May 26:

    • 1:00pm
    • 3:00pm

DIG!

Filmmaker Ondi Timoner's seven-year chronicle shows the relationship between two bands, the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols.

  • Sun May 26:

    • 2:00pm

Dig!

Documentary, Musicals

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  • 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...

  1. Sun May 26
  2. Museum of the Moving Image 36-01 35th Ave, (at 37th St), Queens, 11106
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  • Sun May 26:

    • 3:00pm

Greendale

A small-town family deals with turmoil after one of its members goes to jail for killing a policeman.

  • Sun May 26:

    • 5:00pm

Greendale

Documentary, Musicals

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Neil Young directed (under a pseudonym) this dramatized version of his concept album. It tends to wow avant-garde-leaning critics, but leave almost everybody else cold.

  1. Sun May 26
  2. Museum of the Moving Image 36-01 35th Ave, (at 37th St), Queens, 11106
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