May 29, 2025

Museum Films in June 2025

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This month, in conjunction with OKCMOA’s landmark photography exhibition Discovering Ansel Adams, Museum Films highlights cinematic explorations of America’s geographic, historical and cultural landscape like Roberto Minervini’s immersive Civil War drama The Damned, Alexander Horwath’s sweeping historical essay Henry Fonda for President, and John Ford’s Oscar-winning dustbowl saga The Grapes of Wrath. Our June lineup also features new 4K restorations of Akira Kurosawa’s Ran and the rediscovered Iranian masterwork The Sealed Soil, American indie festival favorites The Life of Chuck and Friendship, a David Lynch-themed Film Society event, and the 2025 deadCenter Film Festival.

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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Sun., June 1 @ 12:30 pm

Raised to fear the elusive Ochi species, a young girl from a remote island village rescues a wounded baby Ochi and embarks on a life-changing quest to bring it home in this exquisitely crafted fantasy adventure from writer-director Isaiah Saxon and A24.

Sun., June 1 @ 3 pm | Spotlight on Contemporary Chinese Cinema

A transformative exploration of two decades of his cinema and a valentine to his wife and collaborator Zhao Tao, the latest masterpiece from pioneering Sixth Generation director Jia Zhang-ke (Ash is Purest White) offers a moving meditation on the passage of time and a dynamic portrait of contemporary China.

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Thurs., June 5 @ 7 pm | Sat., June 7 @ 2 & 7:30 pm | Sun. June 8 @ 2:30 pm | New 4K Restoration!

Returning in a stunning 40th-anniversary 4K restoration, Akira Kurosawa’s monumental, Academy Award-winning adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear considers the disastrous consequences of Lord Hidetora Ichimonji’s (Tatsuya Nakadai) decision to abdicate and divide his kingdom among his three sons.

Fri., June 6 @ 8 pm | Sat., June 7 @ 5:30 pm | Sun., June 8 @ 12:30 pm | Art House Expanded

Winner of Best Director in the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section, Roberto Minervini’s lyrical and richly textured historical drama follows a group of volunteer Civil War soldiers on the western frontier.

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2025 DEADCENTER FILM FESTIVAL AT OKCMOA | June 12-15 

OKCMOA is proud to be a venue for the 25th Annual deadCenter Film Festival! To learn more about deadCenter, view the full schedule and purchase a pass, visit: https://dcff.eventive.org/welcome 

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Thurs., June 19 @ 6:30 pm | Art House Expanded; One Night Only!

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.

Fri., June 20 @ 8 pm | Sat., June 21 @ 5:30 pm | Sun., June 22 @ 3 pm | Fri., June 27 @ 8 pm

Tim Robinson (I Think You Should Leave) portrays a suburban dad obsessively pursuing camaraderie with his charismatic new neighbor (Paul Rudd) in this cringe-comic tale of adult male friendship gone horribly, hilariously wrong.

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.

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FILM SOCIETY SELECTS: DAVID LYNCH

Thurs., June 26 @ 6:30 pm | Free and exclusive to Film Society Members

Join us for a special reception followed by a surprise screening and discussion of a David Lynch film chosen by OKCMOA Film Society Members.

Sat., June 28 @ 2 pm | Saturday Classics

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.

Sat., June 28 @ 5:30 pm | Sun., June 29 @ 3 pm | Art House Expanded; New 4K Restoration!

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.

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