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Museum Films’ spotlight on the 2024 Academy Awards continues this month in the Noble Theater! Our March schedule offers a chance to catch up with a diverse and visually dazzling slate of nominees (Perfect Days, Io Capitano, The Zone of Interest), shortlist contenders (Tótem), and official submissions (About Dry Grasses, Pictures of Ghosts, The Peasants) for the Best International Feature Oscar, and see all 15 of this year’s Oscar-Nominated Short Films before the awards ceremony on March 10. This month’s lineup also features the Oklahoma premiere of the exquisite Belgian drama Here and a stunning new restoration of the silent masterwork Pandora’s Box, starring Louise Brooks.
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 OKCMOA’s Museum Store x Ganache during regular Museum hours for a variety of beverages to enjoy during film screenings.
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2024 OSCAR®-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS | February 16-March 9
Once again, OKCMOA is excited to host the Oscar-Nominated Short Films! This is your annual chance to watch all 15 nominees on the big screen and predict the winners.
ANIMATION | Various | 2023 | 80 minutes | In English and subtitled | PG-13/R
Fri., March 1 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., March 2 @ 2 pm | Sat., March 9 @ 5:30 pm
DOCUMENTARY | Various | 2023 | 141 minutes | In English and subtitled | PG/PG-13
Sat., March 2 @ 8 pm | Thurs., March 7 @ 7:30 pm
LIVE ACTION | Various | 2023 | 140 minutes | In English and subtitled | R
Sun., March 3 @ 12:30 pm | Fri., March 8 @ 8 pm | Sat., March 9 @ 2 pm
PERFECT DAYS | Wim Wenders | 2023 | subtitled | 124 minutes | PG
Fri., March 1 @ 8 pm | Sat., March 2 @ 5 pm | Sun., March 3 @ 3:30 pm | Fri., March 15 @ 8 pm (encore screening) | 2024 Oscar-Nominated Feature
Nominated for the 2024 Best International Feature Oscar, Wim Wenders’ poetic character study follows Hirayama (Cannes Best Actor winner Kôji Yakusho), a solitary middle-aged toilet cleaner in Tokyo whose quiet life revolves around books, cassette tapes, and the search for beauty.
THE ZONE OF INTEREST | Jonathan Glazer | 2023 | subtitled | 105 minutes | PG-13
Fri., March 8 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., March 9 @ 8 pm | Sun., March 10 @ 2 pm | Thurs., March 14 @ 7:30 pm | Fri., March 15 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., March 16 @ 2 & 4:30 pm | Sun., March 17 @ 12:30 pm | 2024 Oscar-Nominated Feature
Nominated for five Oscars, including Best Picture, Jonathan Glazer’s haunting, formally rigorous adaptation of Martin Amis’ novel observes the commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig (Anatomy of a Fall‘s Sandra Hüller), as they strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
ABOUT DRY GRASSES | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | 2023 | subtitled | 197 minutes | NR
Sat., March 16 @ 7 pm | Sun., March 17 @ 3 pm | 2024 International Oscar Submission
Winner of Best Actress at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, this sweeping, richly textured character study from award-winning filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan (The Wild Pear Tree) centers on a disillusioned art teacher struggling through life and work in Turkey’s remote East Anatolia region.
HERE | Bas Devos | 2023 | subtitled | 83 minutes | NR
Thurs., March 21 @ 7:30 pm | Fri., March 22 @ 5:30 pm
Winner of Best Film in the 2023 Berlin Film Festival’s Encounters competition, this luminous and lightly romantic drama from writer-director Bas Devos (Ghost Tropic) traces the tentative connection between a Romanian construction worker and a Chinese-Belgian doctoral student in Brussels.
IO CAPITANO | Matteo Garrone | 2023 | subtitled | 121 minutes | NR
Fri., March 22 @ 8 pm | Sat., March 23 @ 2 & 8 pm | Sun., March 24 @ 12:30 pm | 2024 Oscar-Nominated Feature
Nominated for the 2024 Best International Feature Oscar and winner of Best Director at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, this riveting epic from acclaimed Italian director Matteo Garrone (Gomorrah) chronicles the arduous journey of two teenage boys, Seydou and Moussa, from Senegal to Europe.
PANDORA’S BOX | G. W. Pabst | 1929 | silent | 141 minutes | NR
Sat., March 23 @ 5 pm | Sun., March 24 @ 3 pm | New 4K Restoration!
Returning to theaters in a dazzling 4K restoration, G. W. Pabst’s immortal 1929 adaptation of Frank Wedekind’s plays stars silent screen icon Louise Brooks as Lulu, a brash yet naive showgirl whose incandescent sensuality wreaks havoc in Weimar-era Berlin.
PICTURES OF GHOSTS | Kleber Mendonça Filho | 2023 | subtitled | 93 minutes | NR
Thurs., March 28 @ 7:30 pm | 2024 International Oscar Submission
Brazil’s official entry for the 2024 Best International Feature Oscar, this deeply personal new documentary from Kleber Mendonça Filho (Bacurau) is a vibrant, joyous, and irresistible celebration of cinema and the filmmaker’s home city of Recife, Brazil.
THE PEASANTS | DK & Hugh Welchman | 2023 | subtitled | 114 minutes | R
Fri., March 29 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., March 30 @ 2 & 8 pm | Sun., March 31 @ 3 pm | 2024 International Oscar Submission
From the directors of Loving Vincent, this breathtaking, hand-painted animated epic centers on a 19th-century Polish village where a beautiful maiden marries a widowed landowner while nursing a burning love for his son.
TÓTEM | Lila Avilés | 2023 | subtitled | 95 minutes | NR
Fri., March 29 @ 8 pm | Sat., March 30 @ 5:30 pm | Sun., March 31 @ 12:30 pm | 2024 International Oscar Submission
Shortlisted for the 2024 Best International Feature Oscar, this exquisitely crafted drama from award-winning Mexican director Lila Avilés (The Chambermaid) follows 7-year-old Sol as she gradually comes to understand the life-changing significance of the birthday party for which her entire family is preparing.
