This month, Museum Films welcomes illuminating artist documentaries, visionary American indies, award-winning art films from Europe and Latin America, a 35mm Film Society screening, and the return of the 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 OKCMOA’s Museum Store x Ganache during regular Museum hours for a variety of beverages to enjoy during film screenings.
Click here to view the printable June Film Schedule + Calendar.
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Thurs., June 1 @ 7:30 pm | Art-house Expanded
Shot in several French hospitals with a specially designed camera, this acclaimed experimental documentary is an unprecedented cinematic immersion into the human body.
BEAU IS AFRAID | Ari Aster | 2023 | In English | 179 minutes | R (viewer discretion is advised)
Fri., June 2 @ 7:30 pm | Sat., June 3 @ 7:30 pm | Sun., June 4 @ 2:30 pm
A paranoid man embarks on an epic odyssey to get home to his mother in this bold and ingeniously depraved new film from Ari Aster (Hereditary), Oscar-winner Joaquin Phoenix, and A24.
VERMEER: THE GREATEST EXHIBITION | David Bickerstaff | 2023 | In English | 90 minutes | NR
Fri., June 2 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., June 3 @ 2 & 5 pm | Sun., June 4 @ 12:30 pm
This acclaimed new documentary from Exhibition on Screen offers exclusive, behind-the-scenes access to the largest Vermeer exhibition in history.
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2023 DEADCENTER FILM FESTIVAL AT OKCMOA | June 8-11
OKCMOA is proud to be a venue for the 23rd 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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DRYLONGSO | Cauleen Smith | 1998 | in English | 86 minutes | NR
Thursday, June 15 @ 7:30 pm | New 4K restoration!
A poetic landmark of 1990s independent cinema, Cauleen Smith’s award-winning debut feature follows an art student in Oakland as she begins photographing the young black men of her neighborhood in order to document and preserve their existence.
SANCTUARY | Zachary Wigon | 2022 | In English | 96 minutes | R
Fri., June 16 @ 8 pm | Sat., June 17 @ 5:30 & 8 pm | Sun., June 18 @ 3:30 pm
This wickedly inventive dark comedy follows the escalating battle of wits and wills between the heir to a hotel empire (Christopher Abbott) and the dominatrix who primed him for success (Margaret Qualley).
Sat., June 17 @ 2 pm | Sun., June 18 @ 12:30 pm
Set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, this beautifully crafted drama traces the profound, complex bond that evolves over four decades between childhood friends Pietro and Bruno.
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TRENQUE LAUQUEN | Laura Citarella | 2022 | subtitled | 262 minutes (15 min. intermission) | NR
Thursday, June 22 @ 6 pm | Art-house Expanded
Told in twelve chapters, this dazzling and wildly entertaining epic chronicles mysterious appearances and disappearances in and around the Argentinean city of Trenque Lauquen (“Round Lake”).
YOU HURT MY FEELINGS | Nicole Holofcener | 2023 | In English | 93 minutes | R
Fri., June 23 @ 5:30 & 8 pm | Sat., June 24 @ 2 & 8 pm | Sun., June 25 @ 12:30 & 3 pm
Julia Louis-Dreyfus stars in this sharply observed comedy about a novelist whose long-term marriage is upended when she overhears her husband’s honest reaction to her latest book.
UNREST | Cyril Schäublin | 2022 | subtitled | 93 minutes | NR
Saturday, June 24 @ 5:30 pm | Art-house Expanded
Berlin Film Festival award winner Unrest is an unconventional and richly textured tale of love, anarchism, and watchmaking set in the Swiss Jura Mountains during the 1870s.
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FILM SOCIETY SELECTS: NEW CLASSICS EDITION
Thursday, June 29 @ 5:30 pm | Free and Exclusive to OKCMOA Film Society Members
Join the OKCMOA Film Society for a special screening and discussion of Edward Yang’s sweeping modern masterpiece Yi Yi, the winning film in our Film Society Selects “New Classics” poll.
BLUE JEAN | Georgia Oakley | 2022 | In English | 97 minutes | NR (viewer discretion is advised)
Friday, June 30 @ 8 pm | Saturday, July 1 @ 2 pm | Sunday, July 2 @ 3 pm
Featuring an award-winning lead performance from Rosy McEwen, Georgia Oakley’s stunning directorial debut follows Jean, a closeted gym teacher forced to live a double life in late-80s Britain.
LYNCH/OZ | Alexandre O. Philippe | 2022 | In English | 108 minutes | NR
Friday, June 30 @ 5:30 pm | Saturday, July 1 @ 5 pm | Sunday, July 2 @ 12:30 pm
Featuring illuminating analysis from filmmakers and critics, this six-chapter cinematic essay traces the influence of Victor Fleming’s iconic Technicolor fantasy The Wizard of Oz on the surreal and singular work of American independent film legend David Lynch.
WILD AT HEART | David Lynch | 1990 | In English | 125 minutes | R
Saturday, July 1 @ 8 pm | One night only!
Star-crossed lovers Sailor Ripley (Nicholas Cage) and Lula Fortune (Laura Dern) go on the run when Lula’s mother (Diane Ladd) hires a hitman to keep them apart forever in David Lynch’s darkly romantic, Wizard of Oz-inspired Palme d’Or winner.
