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Austrian film scholar Alexander Horwath crafts a sweeping cultural history of the United States viewed through the lens of Hollywood everyman Henry Fonda’s life and roles, taking us on a cinematic journey from 1651 to the Reagan era. Henry Fonda for President screens one night only as part of Museum Films’ Art House Expanded series.
Winner of the Toronto Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award, this unforgettable, genre-bending tale from beloved author Stephen King and acclaimed director Mike Flanagan celebrates the life of Charles 'Chuck' Krantz (Tom Hiddleston) as he experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained in all of us.
Henry Fonda stars in John Ford’s Oscar-winning adaptation of John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about an Oklahoma family who migrates west during the Great Depression after losing their farm. Celebrating its 85th anniversary this year, The Grapes of Wrath screens as part of Museum Films' ongoing Saturday Classics series.
The earliest complete surviving feature film directed by an Iranian woman, Marva Nabili’s striking minimalist masterwork chronicles a young woman’s resistance to her forced marriage, a rebellion quickly misinterpreted by her family as demonic possession. The Sealed Soil screens in a new 4K restoration as part of Museum Films’ Art House Expanded series.
A prismatic portrait of the iconic 90s indie band, Alex Ross Perry's enthralling meta-documentary shows Pavement preparing for their sold-out 2022 reunion tour while simultaneously tracking the preparations for a musical based on their songs, a museum devoted to their history and a big-budget Hollywood biopic inspired by their saga as the most important band of a generation.
One of the great overlooked gems of the French New Wave, Jacques Rozier’s bold yet playful feature debut satirizes early-60s French culture while tracing the love triangle that develops between three friends on vacation in Corsica. Adieu Philippine screens in a new digital restoration as part of Museum Films' French Film in July retrospective series Jacques Rozier: Chronicler of Summer.
Perfectly capturing both the liberating promise and the melancholic effervescence of summer holidays, Jacques Rozier's sunsoaked sophomore feature is a minor masterpiece of the post–New Wave era and a beautiful meditation on the fleeting nature of youth, love, and time. Near Orouët screens in a new 4K restoration as part of Museum Films' French Film in July retrospective series Jacques Rozier: Chronicler of Summer.
Winner of the Prix Jean Vigo in 1986, Jacques Rozier’s penultimate film is a lighthearted, shaggy-dog story that traverses cultural, linguistic, and class divides by land, by sea, and by air. Maine-Océan Express screens in a new 4K restoration as part of Museum Films' French Film in July retrospective series Jacques Rozier: Chronicler of Summer.