Happy New Year from Museum Films! We’re excited to start off 2025 with a set of acclaimed awards season contenders, including 2025 Golden Globe nominees All We Imagine as Light (Best Director and International Feature), Flow (Best Animated Feature), Queer (Best Actor in a Drama) and Babygirl (Best Actress in a Drama), and Oscar shortlisted documentary Porcelain War. Our Powell and Pressburger Holiday Series concludes this month with the duo’s dazzling ballet drama The Red Shoes and the illuminating documentary Made In England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger, narrated by Martin Scorsese. Our January lineup also features formally inventive new films from Paul Schrader and Steven Soderbergh, a rediscovered masterwork of Filipino cinema, and the Best Picture-winning screwball romance It Happened One Night, screening in a 90th anniversary restoration as part of our Saturday Classics series.
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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PORCELAIN WAR | Brendan Bellomo & Slava Leontyev | 2024 | subtitled | 87 minutes | R
Thurs., Jan. 2 @ 7:30 pm | Fri., Jan. 3 @ 8 pm | Sat., Jan. 4 @ 5:30 pm | Sun., Jan. 5 @ 12:30 pm | Thurs., Jan. 9 @ 7:30 pm | Awards Season Preview
Winner of the 2024 Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Best U.S. Documentary, this stunning meditation on hope and resilience follows three Ukrainian artists as they defend their war-ravaged homeland and search for beauty amid destruction. A filmmaker zoom Q&A will follow the 7:30 pm screening on Thursday, January 2.
ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT | Payal Kapadia | 2024 | subtitled | 118 minutes | NR
Fri., Jan. 3 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., Jan. 4 @ 8 pm | Sun., Jan. 5 @ 3 pm | Awards Season Preview
Moving from urban bustle to seaside idyll, this exquisitely beautiful and heartfelt fiction feature debut from Payal Kapadia, a two-time Golden Globe nominee and winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes 2024, follows two nurses experiencing personal turning points tinged with the possibility of romance.
THE RED SHOES | Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger | 1948 | In English | 135 minutes | NR
Sat., Jan. 4 @ 2 pm | Powell and Pressburger Holiday Film Series
Voted one of the greatest films of all time in the most recent Sight and Sound poll, Powell and Pressburger’s breathtakingly cinematic backstage drama tells the story of a young ballerina torn between artistic passion and romantic love.
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OH, CANADA | Paul Schrader | 2024 | In English | 95 minutes | NR
Fri., Jan. 10 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., Jan. 11 @ 8 pm | Sun., Jan. 12 @ 3 pm
Writer-director Paul Schrader reunites with American Gigolo star Richard Gere in this compelling and self-reflective drama about an ailing filmmaker and draft dodger who agrees to recount his life for a documentary.
FLOW | Gints Zilbalodis | 2024 | No dialogue | 85 minutes | PG
Fri., Jan. 10 @ 8 pm | Sat., Jan. 11 @ 5:30 pm | Sun., Jan. 12 @ 12:30 pm | Fri., Jan. 17 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., Jan. 18 @ 2 pm | Sun., Jan. 19 @ 12:30 pm | Awards Season Preview
A 2025 Golden Globe winner for Best Animated Feature, this wonderfully immersive wordless adventure from celebrated Latvian animator Gints Zilbalodis follows a solitary cat who must team up with other animals in the wake of a great flood.
Sat., Jan. 11 @ 2 pm | Powell and Pressburger Holiday Film Series
In this captivating documentary, legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese takes us on a personal journey through the films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, the visionary British duo behind classics such as The Red Shoes and Black Narcissus.
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BONA | Lino Brocka | 1980 | subtitled | 88 minutes | NR
Thurs., Jan. 16 @ 7:30 pm | New 4K Restoration!
Newly available and exquisitely restored in 4K, this essential Filipino film from 1980 soars on the dynamic collaboration between visionary filmmaker Lino Brocka and superstar Nora Aunor, while serving as both a feminist social critique and a cautionary tale about the perils of blind devotion.
QUEER | Luca Guadagnino | 2024 | In English and subtitled | 135 minutes | R
Fri., Jan.17 @ 8 pm | Sat., Jan. 18 @ 5 & 8 pm | Sun., Jan. 19 @ 3 pm | Awards Season Preview
A Golden Globe nominee for Best Actor in a Drama, Daniel Craig gives a magnetic lead performance in Luca Guadagnino’s lush, hypnotic adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ cult classic novel about a gay American expat seeking connection in 1950s Mexico City.
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BABYGIRL | Halina Reijn | 2024 | In English | 114 minutes | R
Fri., Jan. 24 @ 8 pm | Sat., Jan. 25 @ 8 pm | Sun., Jan. 26 @ 3 pm | Awards Season Preview
Nicole Kidman earned a Golden Globe nomination and the Venice Film Festival’s Best Actress prize for her fearless performance as a high-powered CEO who puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern (Harris Dickinson, Triangle of Sadness) in Halina Reijn’s daring and stylish reinvention of the erotic thriller.
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT | Frank Capra | 1934 | In English | 105 minutes | NR
Sat., Jan. 25 @ 2 pm | Saturday Classics
The first film to sweep all five major Oscar categories (Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay), Frank Capra’s elegantly effervescent screwball road-trip romance stars Claudette Colbert as a runaway socialite who finds herself stranded with a roguish reporter (Clark Gable).
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PRESENCE | Steven Soderbergh | 2024 | In English | 85 minutes | R
Opens Fri., Jan. 31. Showtimes coming soon!
Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh breathes new life into the haunted house genre by adopting the visual point of view of a ghost observing a newly arrived family in this eerie and elegantly crafted thriller.
Additional films and showtimes coming soon!
