Museum Films welcomes 2022 with a selection of acclaimed highlights from this fall’s New York Film Festival. Opening on New Year’s Eve, C’mon C’mon stars Academy Award-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix. From A24 – the company behind Oklahoma-made audience favorite Minari – and celebrated director Mike Mills, this poignant, multi-generational road movie may see some awards season accolades of its own this spring. Recently short-listed for the Best International Feature Oscar, sweeping, Haruki Murakami-inspired Japanese drama Drive My Car is the latest from rising auteur Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy) and one of the best reviewed movies of the year.
Another New York Film Festival standout, Flee is a new addition to our January Film schedule. One of the first films in history to contend for the Best Documentary, International Feature and Animated Feature Oscars, Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s extraordinary animated documentary tells the heartrending true story of Amin, who escaped from both Afghanistan and post-Soviet Russia.
An ever-provocative fixture of both NYFF and OKCMOA’s annual French Film Week series, Bruno Dumont (Jeanette) returns with France, an alternately surreal and stinging media satire featuring a career-best performance from Léa Seydoux as fame obsessed TV journalist France de Meurs. An award-winning highlight of both the Berlin and New York Film Festivals, Introduction is the beautifully bittersweet 25th feature from beloved Korean writer-director Hong Sangsoo, and his first as cinematographer. It follows aimless Youngho through a series of awkward encounters, introductions and missed connections.
This month’s lineup also features the breathtakingly gorgeous and sneakily profound French-language nature documentary The Velvet Queen, which follows a writer and photographer deep into the Tibetan mountains in search of the elusive snow leopard. Finally, Federico Fellini’s Oscar-winning masterpiece Nights of Cabiria, starring the director’s partner and muse Giulietta Masina, returns to theaters in a stunning 65th anniversary restoration.
As always, OKCMOA Film Society members (including Friends, Fellows and Sustainers) receive $5 tickets to all Museum Films screenings. Happy New Year!
Click here to download the printable January schedule.
C’MON C’MON | Mike Mills | 2021 | In English | 106 minutes | R | Fri., Dec. 31 @ 2 & 5:30 pm | Sun., Jan. 2 @ 12:30 & 3 pm | Fri., Jan. 7 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., Jan. 8 @ 2 & 8 pm | Sun., Jan. 9 @ 12:30 pm
FRANCE | Bruno Dumont | 2021 | subtitled | 133 minutes | NR | Fri., Jan. 7 @ 8 pm | Sat., Jan. 8 @ 5 pm | Sun., Jan. 9 @ 3 pm
DRIVE MY CAR | Ryûsuke Hamaguchi | 2021 | subtitled | 179 minutes | NR | Fri., Jan. 14 @ 7 pm | Sat., Jan. 15 @ 2 & 8 pm | Sun., Jan. 16 @ 3 pm | Awards Season Preview
NIGHTS OF CABIRIA | Federico Fellini | 1957 | subtitled | 117 minutes | NR | Sat., Jan. 15 @ 5:30 pm | Sun., Jan. 16 @ 12:30 | New 4K restoration!
THE VELVET QUEEN | Marie Amiguet & Vincent Munier | 2021 | subtitled | 92 minutes | NR | Fri., Jan. 21 @ 5:30 & 8 pm | Sat., Jan. 22 @ 2 & 5 pm | Sun., Jan. 23 @ 12:30 & 3 pm
INTRODUCTION | Hong Sangsoo | 2021 | subtitled | 66 minutes | NR | Fri., Jan. 28 @ 8 pm | Sat., Jan. 29 @ 5:30 pm
FLEE | Jonas Poher Rasmussen | 2021 | subtitled | 90 minutes | PG-13 | Fri., Jan. 28 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., Jan. 29 @ 2 & 8 pm | Sun., Jan. 30 @ 12:30 & 3 pm | Awards Season Preview
