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Museum Films’ May schedule celebrates cinema at every scale, from audacious epics to elegantly crafted genre films and intimate dramas. The month opens with Michael Almereyda’s Nadja, a luminous, Lynch‑produced reinvention of vampire myth, and continues with sharp new works from major filmmakers including Steven Soderbergh’s witty art‑world drama The Christophers, Radu Jude’s slyly satirical Kontinental ’25, Ildikó Enyedi’s century‑spanning Silent Friend, and Sho Miyake’s Locarno‑winning Two Seasons, Two Strangers. A centerpiece Béla Tarr retrospective—Damnation, Sátántangó, Werckmeister Harmonies, and The Turin Horse—offers a rare chance to experience these monumental long‑take masterworks in new 4K restorations, while a special double feature of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Chime and Serpent’s Path showcases the director’s trademark blend of stylistic prescision and free-floating unease. Rounding out the program, lyrical film‑festival discoveries like Blue Heron, Omaha, and The Last One for the Road offer poignant meditations on family, place, and memory, alongside event screenings including National Theatre Live’s All My Sons and Baz Luhrmann’s electrifying archival documentary EPIC: Elvis Presley in Concert, which center mesmerizing live performances.
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., April 30 @ 7:30 pm | Fri., May 1 @ 8 pm | New 4K Director’s Cut!
Fusing shimmering black-and-white 35mm with hallucinatory Pixelvision video, Michael Almereyda’s (Tesla) dreamlike 1994 reimagining of the Dracula story follows young vampire Nadja (Elina Löwensohn) as she returns to New York City to avenge her father’s death at the hands of Dr. Van Helsing (Peter Fonda). Executive produced by David Lynch.
THE CHRISTOPHERS | Steven Soderbergh | 2025 | In English | 100 minutes | R (language)
Fri., May 1 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., May 2 @ 2 & 8 pm | Sun., May 3 @ 12:30 pm (on-screen captions) | Thurs., May 7 @ 7:30 pm
This witty, elegantly crafted tale of art and artifice from Oscar‑winning director Steven Soderbergh (Traffic) showcases a duet of brilliant performances from Ian McKellan as a fading artist and Michaela Coel as an art forger hired to secretly complete his unfinished work.
Sat., May 2 @ 5 pm | Sun., May 3 @ 3 pm
Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Secrets & Lies) star in a triumphantly acclaimed new production of Arthur Miller’s classic play, from visionary director Ivo Van Hove (A View from the Bridge).
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KONTINENTAL ‘25 | Radu Jude | 2025 | Subtitled | 109 minutes | R (language and mature themes)
Fri., May 8 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., May 9 @ 8 pm | Sun., May 10 @ 3 pm
In this boldly absurdist satire from award-winning Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude (Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World), a bureaucrat’s duty collides with her conscience after she displaces a homeless man to make way for a boutique hotel development.
BLUE HERON | Sophy Romvari | 2025 | In English and Subtitled | 90 minutes | NR
Fri., May 8 @ 8 pm | Sat., May 9 @ 2 pm | Sun., May 10 @ 12:30 pm
Winner of the Locarno Film Festival’s Best First Feature Award and one of the best-reviewed movies of the year, Sophy Romvari’s semi-autobiographical debut gracefully blends fiction and memory in a lyrical portrait of a Hungarian-Canadian family navigating a crisis in the wake of a move to a new home.
DAMNATION | Béla Tarr | 1988 | Subtitled | 120 minutes | NR
Sat., May 9 @ 5 pm | Remembering Béla Tarr
Screening in a silvery 4K restoration, the first of Béla Tarr’s six legendary collaborations with novelist László Krasznahorkai is a rigorously stylized black‑and‑white film noir, tracing a taciturn loner’s doomed attempt to steal a lounge singer away from her debt‑addled husband.
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Thurs., May 14 @ 7 pm | Fri., May 15 @ 7:30 pm | Sun., May 17 @ 12:30 pm | Thurs., May 21 @ 7 pm | Double Feature; New 4K Restoration!
Two masterworks from Japanese horror virtuoso Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure, Pulse) make their American theatrical debuts in a special double feature: Chime, a mesmerizing experiment in minimalist horror, and Serpent’s Path, a darkly riveting long-take revenge thriller.
OMAHA | Cole Webley | 2025 | In English | 83 minutes | PG-13 (thematic material)
Fri., May 15 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., May 16 @ 12:30 pm | Sun., May 17 @ 3:30 pm (on-screen captions)
A luminous and deeply moving family drama, this Sundance standout features a quietly revelatory performance from John Magaro (Past Lives) as a grieving father of two who conceals the truth behind his family’s seemingly spontaneous road trip across the American West.
SÁTÁNTANGÓ | Béla Tarr | 1994 | Subtitled | 439 minutes (plus two intermissions) | NR
Sat., May 16 @ 2:30 pm | Remembering Béla Tarr
A 7.5-hour epic structured in twelve interlocking chapters, Béla Tarr’s darkly funny, visually staggering international breakthrough follows the collapse of a rural collective and the seductive promises of a returning prophet.
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Fri., May 22 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., May 23 @ 8 pm | Sun., May 24 @ 3 pm
Two middle‑aged friends—who swear each drink is their last—take a shy architecture student under their wing on a free‑flowing odyssey through the Italian countryside in Francesco Sossai’s warm, wistful hangout comedy.
Fri., May 22 @ 8 pm | Sat., May 23 @ 2 pm | Sun., May 24 @ 12:30 pm | Thurs., May 28 @ 7:30 pm
Featuring long‑lost footage from Elvis Presley’s legendary 1970s Las Vegas residency, Baz Luhrmann’s extraordinary archival documentary is a dazzling big‑screen experience and an intimate portrait of a rock icon at work.
WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES | Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky | 2000 | Subtitled | 145 minutes | NR
Sat., May 23 @ 5 pm | Remembering Béla Tarr
Voted one of the best films of the 2000s by Film Comment magazine, Tarr’s towering long-take masterpiece observes the unsettling changes that take hold in a small Hungarian village after the arrival of a mysterious traveling circus.
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TWO SEASONS, TWO STRANGERS | Sho Miyake | 2025 | Subtitled | 89 minutes | NR
Fri., May 29 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., May 30 @ 8:15 pm | Sun., May 31 @ 12:30 pm
Winner of the Golden Leopard (top prize) at the 2025 Locarno Film Festival, Sho Miyake’s quietly enchanting two-part drama follows a screenwriter on a winter vacation, where a tentative new friendship recalls the summer fling at the heart of her most recent film.
SILENT FRIEND | Ildikó Enyedi | 2025 | Subtitled | 147 minutes | NR (brief nudity) | DCP
Fri., May 29 @ 7:30 pm | Sat., May 30 @ 2 pm | Sun., May 31 @ 2:30 pm
A ginkgo tree bears witness to three lives across generations as they are quietly transformed by the mysterious power of nature in Ildikó Enyedi’s visually dazzling, century‑spanning drama starring Tony Leung Chiu‑wai and Léa Seydoux.
THE TURIN HORSE | Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky | 2011 | Subtitled | 155 minutes | NR
Sat., May 30 @ 5 pm | Remembering Béla Tarr
Composed in rigorously measured long takes and photographed in stark black-and-white, Béla Tarr’s elemental final feature draws inspiration from an incident in the life of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to create a meditation on existence stripped to its barest essentials.
