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Museum Films’ November film schedule offers a compelling mix of international awards season standouts, exclusive premieres, and rarely seen masterworks. Highlights include Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or–winning political drama It Was Just an Accident, Lynne Ramsay’s raw and darkly comic Die My Love, Venice Best Director winner Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine, and Mary Bronstein’s electrifying If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, starring Silver Bear–winner Rose Byrne. Screening on Saturdays throughout November, “Late Bresson” showcases French master Robert Bresson’s final films (Four Nights of a Dreamer; Lancelot du Lac; The Devil, Probably; and L’Argent) in new 4K restorations, beginning with a special Film Society preview of Four Nights of a Dreamer. Other OKCMOA exclusives include Ira Sachs’s meditative biographical drama Peter Hujar’s Day and Julia Loktev’s epic documentary My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow.
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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FILM SOCIETY PRESENTS: FOUR NIGHTS OF A DREAMER
Thurs., Nov. 6 @ 6:30 pm | Free and exclusive to Film Society Members
Join the OKCMOA Film Society for an exclusive reception followed by a screening and discussion of Robert Bresson’s Four Nights of a Dreamer. This special preview of the new restoration will kick off “Late Bresson,” a month-long retrospective of newly restored and rarely seen movies by the great French filmmaker.
Fri., Nov. 7 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., Nov. 8 @ 2 pm | Sun., Nov. 9 @ 12:30 pm | Sat., Nov. 15 @ 8 pm | Sun., Nov. 16 @ 12:30 pm | Awards Season Preview
Winner of the Palme d’Or for best film at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the riveting, timely, and masterfully constructed new feature from celebrated Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi (No Bears, This Is Not a Film) follows a group of citizens contemplating revenge against a man they believe was their torturer.
Fri., Nov. 7 @ 8 pm | Sat., Nov. 8 @ 8 pm | Sun., Nov. 9 @ 3 pm (on-screen captions) | Thurs., Nov. 13 @ 7:30 pm | Fri., Nov. 14 @ 5:30 pm | Awards Season Preview
Raw and uncompromising, yet darkly comic, Lynne Ramsay’s (You Were Never Really Here) blistering portrait of a young mother consumed by love and madness features stunning performances from Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson.
FOUR NIGHTS OF A DREAMER | Robert Bresson | 1971 | subtitled | 82 minutes | NR
Sat., Nov. 8 @ 5:30 pm | Late Bresson
Rarely seen, Four Nights of a Dreamer is Robert Bresson’s great forgotten masterpiece—a stark yet haunting ode to romantic idealism and the capriciousness of love based on a Dostoevsky short story.
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Fri., Nov. 14 @ 8 pm | Sat., Nov. 15 @ 2 pm | Sun., Nov. 16 @ 3 pm (on-screen captions) | Thurs., Nov. 21 @ 7:30 pm | Sat., Nov. 22 @ 8 pm | Sun., Nov. 23 @ 12:30 pm | Awards Season Preview
Winner of the Silver Lion for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival, acclaimed indie filmmaker Benny Safdie (Good Time, Uncut Gems) makes his solo directorial debut with The Smashing Machine, a gritty and gripping portrait of UFC legend Mark Kerr, featuring a transformative performance by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
LANCELOT DU LAC | Robert Bresson | 1974 | subtitled | 85 minutes | NR
Sat., Nov. 15 @ 5:30 pm | Late Bresson
A stripped-down and profoundly tactile reimagining of the Arthurian legend, Lancelot du Lac is one of Robert Bresson’s most mysterious films—a deeply elliptical, intrinsically musical work that contrasts the most intimate moral and spiritual imperatives with the brutality of war.
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PETER HUJAR’S DAY | Ira Sachs | 2025 | In English | 76 minutes | NR
Fri., Nov. 21 @ 8 pm | Sat., Nov. 22 @ 2 pm | Sun., Nov. 23 @ 3:15 pm
A mesmerizing meditation on art and life, Ira Sachs’s richly textured new feature is based on rediscovered transcripts from a 1974 interview conducted by nonfiction writer Linda Rosenkrantz (played by Rebecca Hall), in which photographer Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw) recounts the events of the previous day in minute detail.
THE DEVIL, PROBABLY | Robert Bresson | 1977 | subtitled | 95 minutes | NR
Sat., Nov. 22 @ 5:30 pm | Late Bresson
A searing send-up of post-’68 France—and perhaps Robert Bresson’s most explicitly political film—The Devil, Probably tells the story of Charles, a young Parisian who tries and fails to find comfort where his contemporaries do: love, religion, activism, consumerism, drug use, and psychoanalysis.
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Fri., Nov. 28 @ 5:30 & 8 pm | Sat., Nov. 29 @ 8 pm | Sun., Nov. 30 @ 3:15 pm (on-screen captions) | Thurs., Dec. 4 @ 7:30 pm | Awards Season Preview
Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Lead Performance at the Berlin Film Festival, Mary Bronstein’s electrifying and darkly funny drama stars a brilliant Rose Byrne as a woman unraveling under the pressure of her daughter’s mysterious illness and a home that’s literally falling apart.
Screening in two sections with a separate ticket required for each section.
Sat., Nov. 29 @ 12:30 pm | CRACKDOWN: Chapters 1-3 (213 minutes including a 15-minute intermission)
Sun., Nov. 30 @ 12:30 pm | FIRST WEEK OF WAR: Chapters 4-5 (125 minutes)
Soviet-born American filmmaker Julia Loktev’s (The Loneliest Planet) extraordinary five-part documentary observes independent journalists in Moscow facing a government crackdown as Russia invades Ukraine, capturing their fight for freedom of expression and the country’s escalating shift toward authoritarianism.
L’ARGENT | Robert Bresson | 1983 | subtitled | 85 minutes | NR
Sat., Nov. 29 @ 5:30 pm | Late Bresson
An adaptation of Tolstoy’s story The Forged Coupon, Robert Bresson’s crystalline final film, L’Argent, tells the story of a counterfeit bill’s passage from hand to hand, and the tragic consequences that result.