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Museum Films’ May schedule spans the globe with international festival favorites from celebrated directors like Ken Loach, Bertrand Bonello, and Tsai Ming-liang, screening alongside inventive American indies fresh from Sundance (Love Lies Bleeding) and SXSW (Gasoline Rainbow, Civil War). This month’s lineup also features an immersive documentary portrait of famed American painter John Singer Sargent, a genre-defying Iranian drama, and new 4K restorations of two boldly unconventional musicals: Med Hondo’s West Indies and Francis Ford Coppola’s One from the Heart. OKCMOA Film Society members receive free admission to a 35mm experimental film screening and a 2024 deadCenter Film Festival preview event.
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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WEST INDIES: THE FUGITIVE SLAVES OF LIBERTY | Med Hondo | 1979 | subtitled | 116 minutes | NR
Thurs., May 2 @ 7:30 pm | Fri., May 3 @ 5:30 pm | New 4K Restoration
A distinctly African take on the Hollywood musical and a one-of-a-kind film primed for rediscovery, Med Hondo’s revolutionary 1979 magnum opus traces the history of the West Indies through several centuries of French oppression.
LOVE LIES BLEEDING | Rose Glass | 2024 | In English | 104 minutes | R
Fri., May 3 @ 8 pm | Sat., May 4 @ 5:30 & 8 pm | Sun., May 5 @ 3 pm
Swooning romance and delirious violence collide in Rose Glass’s noir-inflected thriller about a reclusive gym manager (Kristen Stewart) who falls hard for an ambitious bodybuilder (Katy O’Brian).
THE OLD OAK | Ken Loach | 2023 | In English and subtitled | 113 minutes | NR
Sat., May 4 @ 2 pm | Sun., May 5 @ 12:30 pm
The self-proclaimed final film by beloved British writer-director Ken Loach (I, Daniel Blake), this moving and profoundly humanist drama follows a once-vibrant mining town’s response to the arrival of a group of Syrian refugees.
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LAST THINGS | Deborah Stratman | 2023 | In English and subtitled | 50 minutes | NR | 35mm
Thurs., May 9 @ 7:30 pm | Free for OKCMOA Film Society Members!
Screening on a luminous 35mm print, Deborah Stratman’s breathtaking fusion of science fiction and experimental nonfiction looks at evolution and extinction from the perspective of the rocks and minerals that came before humanity and will outlast us. Preceded by Stratman’s short films It Will Die Out In The Mind and Laika.
Fri., May 10 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., May 11 @ 2 & 5 pm | Sun., May 12 @ 12:30 pm
This lushly textured documentary from Exhibition on Screen explores the unique creative process and glittering social world of the late 19th-century American painter John Singer Sargent, an artist whose iconic portraits captured and helped define the spirit of a vibrant and rapidly changing age.
THE BEAST | Bertrand Bonello | 2023 | In English and subtitled | 146 minutes | NR
Fri., May 10 @ 8 pm | Sat., May 11 @ 7:30 pm | Sun., May 12 @ 3 pm
This heady sci-fi examination of yearning, obsession, and existential dread by visionary French auteur Bertrand Bonello stars Léa Seydoux and George MacKay as two lovers connecting and reconnecting across time and space, while catastrophe looms.
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ONE FROM THE HEART: REPRISE | Francis Ford Coppola | 1981 | In English | 93 minutes | R
Thurs., May 16 @ 7:30 pm | Fri., May 17 @ 8 pm | Sat., May 18 @ 2 pm | New 4K Director’s Cut
Produced by Oklahoma film legend Gray Frederickson, Francis Ford Coppola’s eye-popping and profoundly influential update of the classical Hollywood musical follows a bickering Las Vegas couple who split up on the 4th of July and spend the evening exploring other romantic possibilities.
GASOLINE RAINBOW | Bill Ross IV & Turner Ross | 2023 | In English | 108 minutes | NR
Fri., May 17 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., May 18 @ 8 pm | Sun., May 19 @ 3 pm | 2024 SXSW Spotlight
Blurring the lines between wistful coming-of-age comedy and candid documentary snapshot, this exuberant, gorgeously shot road movie from award-winning indie filmmakers Bill and Turner Ross follows a group of recent high school graduates on an adventure to the Oregon Coast.
TERRESTRIAL VERSES | Ali Asgari & Alireza Khatami | 2023 | subtitled | 77 minutes
Sat., May 18 @ 5:30 pm | Sun., May 19 @ 12:30 pm
In a series of meticulously crafted and often darkly funny vignettes, this Cannes highlight details ordinary Iranians’ attempts to navigate the cultural, religious, and institutional constraints imposed on them by social authorities, from schoolteachers to government bureaucrats.
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OKCMOA FILM SOCIETY: 2024 DEADCENTER FILM FESTIVAL PREVIEW | Thurs., May 23 @ 6 pm | Free and exclusive to Film Society Members
Join us in the Noble Theater as deadCenter Director of Programming, Sunrise Tippeconnie, and members of the festival programming team preview highlight films, themes and ways to navigate the 2024 edition of the deadCenter Film Festival lineup! Included in the events will be a visit from one of this year’s selected deadCenter ICONs!
CIVIL WAR | Alex Garland | 2024 | In English | 109 minutes | R
Fri., May 24 @ 5:30 & 8 pm | Sat., May 25 @ 2 pm | Sun., May 26 @ 12:30 & 3 pm | Thurs., May 30 @ 7:30 pm | 2024 SXSW Spotlight
UPDATE: Due to inclement weather predictions, the screening of Civil War scheduled for Saturday, May 25 at 8 pm has been canceled.
Starring Kirsten Dunst, this adrenaline-fueled indie blockbuster from A24 and Oscar-nominated writer-director Alex Garland follows a group of military-embedded journalists on a harrowing odyssey across a dystopian future America.
ABIDING NOWHERE | Tsai Ming-liang | 2024 | No dialogue | 79 minutes | NR | DCP
Thurs., June 27 @ 5:30 pm | One Night Only!
UPDATE: Due to inclement weather predictions, the screening of Abiding Nowhere originally planned for Saturday, May 25 at 5:30 pm has been rescheduled for Thursday, June 27 at 7:30 pm.
Commissioned by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art in honor of its centennial, the tenth film in master Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang’s experimental Walker series features Tsai’s frequent collaborator Lee Kang-sheng (Goodbye, Dragon Inn) as a barefoot, red-robed monk on a meditative journey across Washington, D.C.
