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This month, Museum Films is excited to showcase cutting edge New York Film Festival highlights from Radu Jude, Lu Zhang and Alice Rohrwacher alongside iconic modern classics by Jean-Pierre Melville, Andrei Tarkovsky and Sergio Leone. Our April schedule also features moving documentary tributes to legendary film composers Ryuichi Sakamoto and Ennio Morricone, poetic voyages through the Italian landscape, a surreal indie comedy starring Tilda Swinton, and the return of OCU’s Wide Open Experimental 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.
Stay tuned for additional films and showtimes!
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DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD | Radu Jude | 2023 | subtitled | 163 minutes | NR
Thurs., April 4 @ 7 pm | Fri., April 5 @ 8 pm | 2024 International Oscar Submission
Romania’s 2024 Best International Feature entry, this bold, timely, profane and darkly hilarious satire from acclaimed writer-director Radu Jude weaves cutting observations on work, life and truth in the social media age through the tale of an overworked film production assistant.
LE SAMOURAÏ | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1967 | subtitled | 105 minutes | NR
Fri., April 5 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., April 6 @ 2 & 8 pm | Sun., April 7 @ 12:30 pm | New 4K Restoration
Returning to theaters in a gleaming 4K restoration, Jean-Pierre Melville’s profoundly influential 1960s crime drama brings coolly impeccable French style to the film noir-inspired story of a methodical hitman (Alain Delon) trapped between his deadly employers and the law.
THE SHADOWLESS TOWER | Lu Zhang | 2023 | subtitled | 144 minutes | NR
Sat., April 6 @ 5 pm | Sun., April 7 @ 3 pm
An acclaimed highlight of the Berlin and New York Film Festivals, Lu Zhang’s sweeping and beautifully crafted Beijing-set drama follows an aimless middle-aged poet-turned-food critic as he bonds with a quirky female coworker and reconnects with his absent father.
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RYUICHI SAKAMOTO | OPUS | Neo Sora | 2023 | subtitled | 103 minutes | NR
Thurs., April 11 @ 7:30 pm | One Night Only
As a final gift to the late musician and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto’s legions of fans, filmmaker Neo Sora (Sakamoto’s son) has constructed a gorgeous elegy starring Sakamoto himself in one of his last performances, an intimate and achingly beautiful one-man show recorded in 2022.
LA CHIMERA | Alice Rohrwacher | 2023 | subtitled | 133 minutes | NR
Fri., April 12 @ 5:30 & 8:30 pm | Sat., April 13 @ 2 & 8 pm | Sun., April 14 @ 3:30 pm | Thurs., April 18 @ 7:30 pm
A dream-like romp through Italy’s archaeological and cinematic past, the romantic and richly textured new film from Alice Rohrwacher follows a rowdy group of tombaroli (tomb raiders), led by a lovelorn Englishman (Josh O’Connor), as they hunt for priceless Etruscan treasures in 1980s Tuscany.
NOSTALGHIA | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1983 | subtitled | 126 minutes | NR
Sat., April 13 @ 5 pm | Sun., April 14 @ 12:30 pm | New 4K Restoration
Winner of Best Director at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival, Andrei Tarkovsky’s first film shot outside Russia is a visionary long-take masterpiece about a melancholy Russian poet who encounters a prophetic madman on a research trip across Italy.
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PROBLEMISTA | Julio Torres | 2023 | In English and subtitled | 104 minutes | R
Fri., April 19 @ 8:15 pm | Sat., April 20 @ 5:30 & 8 pm | Sun., April 21 @ 12:30 pm
An aspiring toy designer from El Salvador takes a job with an imperious art critic (Tilda Swinton) in this whimsical and visually dazzling fable from first-time writer-director-star Julio Torres, producer Emma Stone, and A24.
ENNIO | Giuseppe Tornatore | 2021 | subtitled | 156 minutes | NR
Fri., April 19 @ 5 pm | Sat., April 20 @ 2 pm
From the director of Cinema Paradiso, this inspiring and encyclopedic documentary portrait of influential movie maestro Ennio Morricone offers a definitive look back at the Oscar-winning composer’s extraordinary six-decade career.
ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA | Sergio Leone | 1984 | In English | 228 minutes | R
Sun., April 21 @ 3 pm | 40th Anniversary Screening
Featuring an iconic score by composer Ennio Morricone, Sergio Leone’s final and perhaps greatest film is an intricately constructed, decade-spanning New York crime saga starring Robert De Niro as a guilt-ridden gangster who returns home to confront his past.
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Program 1: Fri., April 26 @ 6 pm | Program 2: Fri., April 26 @ 8 pm | Program 3: Sat., April 27 @ 6 pm | Program 4: Sat., April 27 @ 8 pm | Program 5: Sun., April 28 @ 1 pm
Organized by a group of OCU Film students, WOEFF is a festival inspired by Oklahoma’s wide-open landscape, showcasing experimental films that will open peoples’ eyes to the alternative forms, structures, and styles of film.
