Museum of the Moving Image Curators’ Choice 2023 Looks Back on the Year in Cinema

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Published on Thursday, 14 December 2023 17:07

Written by Brad Balfour

Fallen Leaves

Located in Queens, the Museum of the Moving Image is one of the top curators of cinematic history in the country. Now looking back at the film and TV of the past year is MoMI’s Curators’ Choice 2023. Running December 26 through January 28, the program features 31 titles (with possible additions) and includes some of the most critically acclaimed films of 2023, such as Oppenheimer, Anatomy of a Fall, Fallen Leaves, Killers of the Flower Moon, May December, The Boy and the Heron, Ferrari, The Holdovers, and Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros, along with cult hits suchs as R.M.N., Beau Is Afraid, Pacifiction, Godland, Scarlet, Dry Ground Burning, and more.

The series will include special screenings and events such as Oppenheimer, presented in both DCP and 70mm (Dec. 26–Jan. 4); Beau Is Afraid with director Ari Aster in person (Jan. 3); Succession, Season 4, Episode 3: “Connor’s Wedding” with director Mark Mylod in person (Jan. 7); The Holdovers with director Alexander Payne in person (Jan. 10); Passages with director Ira Sachs in person (Jan. 12); The Eternal Memory with director Maite Alberti in person (Jan. 13); Nothing Lasts Forever with director Jason Kohn in person (Jan. 13); Unrest, featuring a video introduction by director Cyril Schäublin (Jan. 20); Todd Haynes’s May December in 35mm (Jan. 20); Showing Up with director Kelly Reichardt in person (Jan. 26); De Humani Corporis Fabrica with directors Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel in person (Jan. 27); and Dry Ground Burning with director Joana Pimenta in person (Jan. 27). MoMI will announce additional special appearances as they are confirmed.

For the culinarily inclined, on January 14 Frederick Wiseman’s documentary Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros will be paired with Tran Anh Hung’s period drama The Taste of Things. The series also includes two dramas set in Parisian hospitals, Claire Simon’s Our Body and Castaing-Taylor and Paravel’s De Humani Corporis Fabrica. This is a cinematic buffet that’s not to be missed.

To learn more, go to: https://movingimage.org/series/curators-choice-2023/

Museum of the Moving Image Curators’ Choice 2023
December 26, 2023 - January 28, 2024

Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35th Ave.
Queens, NY 11106

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