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Museum Films settles into fall with a curated slate of festival favorites, acclaimed indies, restored classics, and exclusive hidden gems—including long-awaited new releases and early career highlights from stop-motion masters the Brothers Quay and beloved indie writer-director Hal Hartley. Mike Figgis’ revelatory behind-the-scenes documentary Megadoc screens alongside Francis Ford Coppola’s epic passion project Megalopolis.
Our October lineup also features Kelly Reichardt’s elegant art-heist drama The Mastermind, the sci-fi-inflected Japanese coming-of-age tale Happyend, Harris Dickinson’s striking debut feature Urchin, Raoul Peck’s bold and timely documentary Orwell: 2+2=5, and recent restorations of Alfred Hitchcock’s masterful murder mystery Rope, Leos Carax’s dazzling romance The Lovers on the Bridge.
Plus, get in the Halloween spirit with special anniversary screenings of gothic horror masterworks The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Phantom of the Opera (presented with live piano accompaniment), and Strange Journey, a delightful documentary tribute to the groundbreaking cult sensation Rocky Horror.
As always, OKCMOA Film Society Members (including Fellow, Friend, and Sustainer members) receive $5 tickets to Museum Films screenings. To learn more about joining the Film Society, visit: https://www.okcmoa.com/filmsociety
Visit the bar inside OKCMOA’s Museum Store x Ganache for a variety of beverages to enjoy during film screenings.
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Thurs., Oct. 2 @ 7:30 pm | Fri., Oct. 3 @ 8 pm | Sat., Oct. 4 @ 5 pm | New 4K Restoration!
This audacious, breathlessly romantic, Jean Vigo-inspired drama from French writer-director Leos Carax (Holy Motors) traces the relationship between a young painter with failing eyesight (Juliette Binoche) and a troubled street performer (Denis Lavant) living on Paris’s Pont-Neuf bridge.
Fri., Oct. 3 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., Oct. 4 @ 8 pm | Sun., Oct. 5 @ 3:30 pm | Bonus Short Film!
The Quay Brothers return to the work of Polish writer Bruno Schulz—the inspiration for their early animated masterwork Street of Crocodiles—blending stop-motion puppetry and live action in a haunting and dreamlike tale about a young man on a ghostly train ride toward a sanatorium that may exist outside time and space.
Sat., Oct. 4 @ 2 pm | Sun., Oct. 5 @ 12:30 pm
One of our favorite annual traditions, the Manhattan Short Film Festival returns to OKCMOA! Join more than 100,000 film lovers across the country and around the world as they unite to view, judge, and celebrate a new crop of extraordinary short films.
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SIMPLE MEN | Hal Hartley | 1992 | In English | 105 minutes | R (language)
Thurs., Oct. 9 @ 7:30 pm | Two by Hal Hartley
A highlight of the 1992 Cannes competition, Hal Hartley’s witty, stylish, and formally inventive third feature follows two mismatched brothers (Bill Sage and Robert John Burke) as they search for their renegade father and confront their expectations of each other, themselves, and their attitudes towards women.
Fri., Oct. 10 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., Oct. 11 @ 2 & 8 pm | Sun., Oct. 12 @ 12:30 (on-screen captions) & 3 pm
This boldly compelling new documentary from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro) takes a hypnotic deep dive into the writing of George Orwell (1984) to explore its potent relevancy to our times.
WHERE TO LAND | Hal Hartley | 2025 | In English | 75 minutes | NR
Fri., Oct. 10 @ 8 pm | Sat., Oct. 11 @ 5:30 pm | Two by Hal Hartley
The long-awaited new feature from acclaimed independent writer-director Hal Hartley (Trust, Fay Grim) is a captivating and gently philosophical farce about a successful director of romantic comedies (Bill Sage), whose family and friends mistakenly believe he’s dying.
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ROPE | Alfred Hitchcock | 1948 | In English | 80 minutes | NR
Thurs., Oct. 16 @ 7:30 pm | Sat., Oct. 18 @ 2 pm
A gripping and formally audacious thriller about two young men (Farley Granger and John Dall) convinced they’ve committed the perfect murder, Alfred Hitchcock’s first color film plays out as a single continuous shot, achieved through cleverly disguised cuts.
Fri., Oct. 17 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., Oct. 18 @ 8 pm | Sun., Oct. 19 @ 12:30 (on-screen captions) & 3 pm
A 2025 Cannes Critics’ Prize winner, the mesmerizing debut feature from acclaimed actor Harris Dickinson (Triangle of Sadness) follows Mike (Un Certain Regard Best Actor-winner Frank Dillane), a young addict living on the streets of London, as he struggles to break free from a cycle of self-destruction.
HAPPYEND | Neo Sora | 2024 | subtitled | 113 minutes | NR
Fri., Oct. 17 @ 8 pm | Sat., Oct. 18 @ 5:30 pm
The beautifully crafted first fiction feature from award-winning Japanese filmmaker Neo Sora (Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus) follows a group of rebellious high school students in near-future Tokyo as they navigate a society dangerously close to total surveillance.
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Thurs., Oct. 23 @ 7 pm | One night only!
Pivoting between political drama, philosophical science fiction, and star-crossed romance, legendary writer-director Francis Ford Coppola’s (The Godfather) visually dazzling passion project stars Adam Driver as a visionary architect whose utopian ambitions clash with the more earthbound demands of a modern city.
THE MASTERMIND | Kelly Reichardt | 2025 | In English | 110 minutes | R (some language)
Fri., Oct. 24 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., Oct. 25 @ 2 & 8 pm | Sun., Oct. 26 @ 12:30 (on-screen captions) & 3 pm | Sat., Nov. 1 @ 5:30 pm | Sun., Nov. 2 @ 12:30 pm
In a sedate corner of Massachusetts circa 1970, an unemployed family man (Josh O’Connor) makes the rash, inscrutable decision to orchestrate a heist at the local art museum in this elegant and wryly funny anti-thriller from celebrated independent filmmaker Kelly Reichardt (Showing Up, First Cow).
MEGADOC | Mike Figgis | 2025 | In English | 107 minutes | NR
Fri., Oct. 24 @ 8 pm | Sat., Oct. 25 @ 5:30 pm
Weaving together archival material, unfiltered cast interviews, and intimate on-set footage, this enthralling fly-on-the-wall documentary from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mike Figgis charts Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-long journey in creating his self-financed epic, Megalopolis.
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THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE | Tobe Hooper | 1974 | In English | 84 minutes | R
Thurs., Oct. 30 @ 7:30 pm | Fri., Oct. 31 @ 8 pm | 50th anniversary 4K restoration!
A defining film of the 1970s American independent horror renaissance, Tobe Hooper’s gruesomely atmospheric low-budget classic follows a group of road-tripping teenagers who encounter a family of cannibals, including the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface.
STRANGE JOURNEY: THE STORY OF ROCKY HORROR | Linus O’Brien | 2025 | In English | 89 minutes | NR
Fri., Oct. 31 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., Nov. 1 @ 8 pm | Sun., Nov. 2 @ 3 pm
Directed by Linus O’Brien (son of Rocky Horror creator Richard O’Brien) this joyful new documentary traces the evolution of The Rocky Horror Show from a hit stage play to a midnight movie sensation to a groundbreaking cult phenomenon that continues to inspire new generations of devoted fans.
Sat., Nov. 1 @ 2 pm | Saturday Classics
Screening in a dazzling 100th anniversary restoration with hand-colored sequences and live piano accompaniment by Bill Rowland, this expressionistic, visually opulent silent adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s 1910 gothic horror novel features an iconic performance from Lon Chaney as a disfigured composer who becomes dangerously obsessed with a young opera singer.
