Museum Films in January 2024

Museum Films welcomes 2024 with an exciting lineup of acclaimed new releases and esteemed modern classics. Our January schedule features New York Film Festival favorites Ferrari and All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, Cannes award-winner Monster, an epic culinary odyssey from groundbreaking documentarian Frederick Wiseman, a newly restored landmark of 1960s Brazilian cinema, the final short film by Jean-Luc Godard, and a trio of soaring animated masterworks from Hayao Miyazaki — including his dazzling new feature, The Boy and the Heron.  

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 January Film Schedule + Calendar.

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FERRARI | Michael Mann | 2023 | in English | 130 minutes | R 

Thurs., Jan. 4 @ 7:30 pm | Fri., Jan. 5 @ 8 | Sat., Jan. 6 @ 5 pm | Sun., Jan. 7 @ 3 pm  

This sleek, beautifully acted biopic from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Michael Mann (Heat) follows automotive mogul Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver) as his company prepares to enter the 1957 Mille Miglia, a 1000-mile, open-road motorsport race.  

ALL DIRT ROADS TASTE OF SALT | Raven Jackson | 2023 | in English | 97 minutes | PG 

Fri., Jan. 5 @ 5:30 | Sat., Jan. 6 @ 8 pm | Sun., Jan. 7 @ 12:30 pm 

A 2024 Independent Spirit Award nominee for Best First Film and Best Cinematography, this exquisitely crafted drama from award-winning poet and photographer Raven Jackson is a lyrical, decades-spanning exploration of a woman’s life in Mississippi. 

HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE | Hayao Miyazaki | 2004 | subtitled | 119 minutes | PG 

Sat., Jan. 6 @ 2 pm | Miyazaki Holiday Film Series 

When a jealous witch traps a shy teenager in the body of a 90-year-old woman, she turns to a mysterious wizard to help her break the spell in this Oscar-nominated fantasy adventure. 

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MONSTER | Hirokazu Kore-eda | 2023 | subtitled | 126 minutes | PG-13 

Thurs., Jan. 11 @ 7:30 pm | Fri., Jan. 12 @ 5:30 & 8:15 | Sat., Jan. 13 @ 5 & 8 pm  

Winner of Best Screenplay at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, this profoundly moving drama from celebrated Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda (Shoplifters, Broker) offers a multi-faceted, Rashomon-style exploration of family dynamics, school bullying, and childhood friendship. 

THE WIND RISES | Hayao Miyazaki | 2013 | subtitled | 126 minutes | PG-13 

Sat., Jan. 13 @ 2 pm | Miyazaki Holiday Film Series 

Inspired by the stories of Jiro Horikoshi, visionary designer of one the most beautiful airplanes in history — the famed Zero fighter — and the writer Tatsuo Hori, this breathtaking epic is a passionate tribute to Hayao Miyazaki’s lifelong love of aviation. 

MENUS-PLAISIRS LES TROISGROS | Frederick Wiseman | 2023 | subtitled | 240 minutes | NR 

Sun., Jan. 14 @ 1 pm 

Voted the best nonfiction film of 2023 by the New York and Los Angeles Film Critics associations, the latest from esteemed documentarian Frederick Wiseman is a food-lover’s heaven — a four-hour, behind-the-scenes excursion into one of France’s most venerable restaurants, La Maison Troisgros, which has held three Michelin stars for more than five decades. 

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BLACK GOD, WHITE DEVIL | Glauber Rocha | 1964 | subtitled | 120 minutes | NR 

Thurs., Jan. 18 @ 7:30 pm | New 4K restoration!  

A 1960s landmark of the Brazilian Cinema Novo movement, Glauber Rocha’s electrifying second feature follows a young ranch hand who goes on the run after killing his dishonest boss and finds himself caught between opposing religious and political forces. 

THE BOY AND THE HERON | Hayao Miyazaki | 2023 | in English & subtitled | 124 minutes | PG-13  

Dubbed: Fri., Jan. 19 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., Jan. 20 @ 2 pm | Sun., Jan. 21 @ 12:30 pm | Fri., Jan. 26 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., Jan. 27 @ 2 pm | Sun., Jan. 28 @ 12:30 pm 

Subtitled: Fri., Jan. 19 @ 8:15 pm | Sat., Jan. 20 @ 5 pm & 8 pm | Sun., Jan. 21 @ 3:15 pm | Fri., Jan. 26 @ 8:15 pm | Sat., Jan. 27 @ 8 pm | Sun., Jan. 28 @ 3:15 pm 

Set during WWII, Hayao Miyazaki’s profoundly personal and visually dazzling new animated masterpiece follows young Mahito, who moves to the countryside and encounters a fantastic realm inside an ancient tower. 

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FILM SOCIETY: OSCAR NOMINATION CELEBRATION  

Thurs., Jan. 25 @ 6 pm | Free and exclusive to Film Society members 

Join us as we kick off awards season with an exclusive reception and surprise screening of a 2024 Oscar-nominated film. 

GODARD CINEMA + TRAILER OF A FILM THAT WILL NEVER EXIST: PHONY WARS | Cyril Leuthy & Jean-Luc Godard | 2022 & 2023 | subtitled | approx. 120 minutes | NR | DCP 

Sat., Jan. 27 @ 5 pm | One Night Only!   

An essential exploration of the French New Wave pioneer’s revolutionary body of work, the acclaimed documentary Godard Cinema will be followed by Jean-Luc Godard’s enigmatic final short film, Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars, an intricate collage of notes, images, clips and music from the director’s own archive.