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This month, Museum Films highlights visually stunning awards season standouts – including Norway’s official Oscar selection Songs of Earth and Best Animated Feature nominee Robot Dreams – and inventive American indies, like the delightfully lo-fi comedy Free Time and Jane Schoenbrun’s mesmerizing horror-inflected coming-of-age tale I Saw The TV Glow. Our June lineup also includes acclaimed new features from Hong Sangsoo, Tsai Ming-liang, and Marco Bellocchio; a program of restored silent shorts from avant-garde pioneer Man Ray; the first film in our Edith Head series (Preston Sturges’ sparkling screwball comedy The Lady Eve); 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
*Discount not applicable to deadCenter Film Festival screenings and events.
Visit the bar inside OKCMOA’s Museum Store x Ganache for a variety of beverages to enjoy during film screenings.
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MAN RAY: RETURN TO REASON | Man Ray | 1923-1929 | silent | 70 minutes | NR
Thurs., May 30 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., June 1 @ 5:30 pm | New 4K Restoration
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Man Ray’s Return to Reason, four of the surrealist pioneer’s kaleidoscopic avant-garde short films return to theaters in luminous 4K restorations, with a newly recorded soundtrack from Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan’s drone-rock band SQÜRL.
CIVIL WAR | Alex Garland | 2024 | In English | 109 minutes | R
Thurs., May 30 @ 7:30 pm | 2024 SXSW Spotlight
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.
SONGS OF EARTH | Margreth Olin | 2023 | subtitled | 90 minutes | NR
Fri., May 31 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., June 1 @ 2 pm | Sun., June 2 @ 12:30 pm | 2024 Oscar Submission
Norway’s official selection for the Academy Awards, Margreth Olin’s breathtaking documentary allows viewers to experience a lyrical four-season journey through mountains, glaciers, and fjords, guided by her 84-year-old father, Jørgen.
FREE TIME | Ryan Martin Brown | 2023 | In English | 78 minutes | NR
Fri., May 31 @ 7:30 pm | Sat., June 1 @ 8 pm | Sun., June 2 @ 3 pm
A highlight of independent film festivals across the country, Ryan Martin Brown’s timely and hilarious micro-budget debut follows Drew, a 20-something New Yorker, who finds himself personally and professionally adrift after impetuously quitting his office job.
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2024 DEADCENTER FILM FESTIVAL AT OKCMOA | June 6-9
OKCMOA is proud to be a venue for the 24th 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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I SAW THE TV GLOW | Jane Schoenbrun | 2024 | In English | 100 minutes | PG-13
Thurs., June 13 @ 7:30 pm | Fri., June 14 @ 8 pm | Sat., June 15 @ 2 & 8 pm | Sun., June 16 @ 3 pm | Celebrating Pride Month
A highlight of this year’s Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals, this mesmerizing instant cult classic from A24 and acclaimed writer-director Jane Schoenbrun follows two suburban teenagers who become obsessed with a supernatural TV show that hints at a mysterious alternate reality.
IN OUR DAY | Hong Sangsoo | 2023 | subtitled | 83 minutes | NR
Fri., June 14 @ 5:30 pm | Sat. June 15 @ 5:30 pm | Sun., June 16 @ 12:30 pm
A gentle inquiry into the purpose of art, the nature of friendship, and the meaning of life, Hong Sangsoo’s 30th feature finds revealing parallels in the experiences of a former actress (Kim Minhee) and an aging poet (Ki Joo-bong) over the course of an ordinary day.
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PLAY: “A CONVERSATION WITH EDITH HEAD” | June 21-23
Susan Claassen stars as Edith Head to bring you an intimate portrait of the famed Hollywood costume designer’s ambition, wit, and, above all, glamour. Tickets to this live theatrical performance in OKCMOA’s Noble Theater are $15 for members; $30 for non-members.
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ABIDING NOWHERE | Tsai Ming-liang | 2024 | No dialogue | 79 minutes | NR
Thurs., June 27 @ 7:30 pm | Art-House Expanded
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.
ROBOT DREAMS | Pablo Berger | 2023 | No dialogue | 102 minutes | NR
Fri., June 28 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., June 29 @ 8 pm | Sun., June 30 @ 12:30 & 3 pm | 2024 Oscar-Nominated Feature
A 2024 Oscar nominee for Best Animated Feature, Pablo Berger’s hand-drawn, dialogue-free marvel is an enthralling, richly textured tale about the miracle of true friendship between a dog and a robot in 1980s New York.
KIDNAPPED: THE ABDUCTION OF EDGARDO MORTARA | Marco Bellocchio | 2023 | subtitled | 134 minutes | NR
Fri., June 28 @ 8 pm | Sat., June 29 @ 5 pm
Set in mid-19th century Bologna, this Cannes standout from legendary Italian director Marco Bellocchio (Fists in the Pocket) is a grand historical fresco depicting the scandalous true story of a young Jewish child who was abducted from his family under the Pope’s orders.
THE LADY EVE | Preston Sturges | 1941 | In English | 94 minutes | NR
Sat., June 29 @ 2 pm | Edith Head Film Series
A glamorous con-woman (Barbara Stanwyck) targets the socially awkward heir to a brewery fortune (Henry Fonda), only to find herself falling for him in this sparkling screwball classic from writer-director Preston Sturges.
