MOMA FILM APRIL 2012

Cole Smithey

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ANNOUNCES FILM EXHIBITIONS FOR APRIL 2012

ADVISORY: The Museum is replacing the escalators that service The Roy and Niuta Titus theaters. We anticipate that this work will be completed by mid-March. The Museum’s film program will continue to be held in the Titus 1 and 2 theaters and in The Celeste Bartos Theater during this time, and we advise patrons to arrive early for all film screenings.

Carte Blanche: Cindy Sherman
The Museum of Modern Art
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters
April 2-10, 2012

For this Carte Blanche series, Cindy Sherman selected films across a wide range of eras and genresfrom camp (John Waters’s Desperate Living, 1977) to horror (Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, 1974) to classic art films (Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon, 1943)reflecting her diverse interests and influences, running in conjunction with MoMA’s Cindy Sherman retrospective.

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ContemporAsian: Eric Khoo’s Tatsumi
The Museum of Modern Art
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters
April 4-9, 2012

ContemporAsian, MoMA’s annual showcase of Asian cinema, features weeklong engagements of films that capture the various styles, histories, and changes in contemporary Asian filmmaking. This series includes recent independent gems by both new and established filmmakers whose work represent the rapidly transforming visual culture of the region. The fifth season of ContemporAsian opens with the U.S. premiere of Tatsumi, a riveting animated documentary about the life and art of celebrated graphic novelist Yoshihiro Tatsumi.

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Filmmaker in Focus: Philip Kaufman
The Museum of Modern Art
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters
April 11-16, 2012

Writer-director Philip Kaufman (American, b. 1936) creates provocative, often experimental films that convey a deep reverence for filmmaking as an art form. His work also exhibits a remarkable versatility for a filmmaker who engages recurrent themes, from the mythology of heroes (and antiheroes) in The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972) and The Right Stuff (1983) to the erotically charged existentialism of The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) and Henry and June (1990). This presentation of Kaufman’s work also features his directorial debut,Goldstein, winner of the Prix de la Nouvelle Critique at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival.

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Mezhrabpom: The Red Dream Factory
The Museum of Modern Art
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters
April 11-30, 2012

Organized by the Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin, and the Berlin International Film Festival, The Red Dream Factory presents a selection of extraordinary films from the legendary Soviet film studio, Mezhrabpom, made between its 1922 founding by Moisei Aleinikov and its transformation into a studio for children’s films 14 years later by decree of Josef Stalin. The exhibition includes not only acknowledged masterworks of world cinema by filmmakers like Boris Barnet, Vsevolod Pudovkin, and Yakov Protazanov, but also rarely screened jewels like Alexander Andriyevsky’s science-fiction fable Lost Sensation (1935), and V. A. Schneider’s Soviet “Western” The Golden Lake (1934).

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Kino! 2012: New Films from Germany
The Museum of Modern Art
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters
April 25-May 2, 2012

For the 33rd edition of Kino!, MoMA’s annual survey of recent German cinema, veteran filmmaker Andreas Dresen returns with his Cannes-acclaimed “reality drama” Stopped on Track, in which a family man is suddenly diagnosed with a life-threatening disease. A different sort of family is described in Andres Veieil’s If Not Us, Who, about Gurdun Ensslin’s development into a social activist and terrorist. Other films in the series include Miguel Alexandre’s adaptation of Udo Jurgens’s biography Man with a Bassoon, which veers between Russiaboth pre-Soviet and Sovietand Germany; Moscow-born German filmmaker Leo Khasin’s Kaddish for a Friend, about a Muslim youth and an elderly Jewish war veteran; Stefan Rick’s directorial debut, the taut thriller The Good Neighbor; and Jan Zabeil’s The River Used to Be a Man, a virtually wordless excursion into deep Africa.

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Continuing through April:

New Directors/New Films 2012
The Museum of Modern Art
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters

Now in its 41st year, the renowned New Directors/New Films festival, presented jointly by The Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art, introduces New York audiences to the work of emerging or not-yet established filmmakers from around the world.

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