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This month, Museum Films looks forward to awards season with a pair of dazzling Best Picture hopefuls: Sean Baker’s breathlessly entertaining Palme d’Or winner Anora and Steve McQueen’s sweeping WWII drama Blitz. Our November schedule also features indie festival standouts A Different Man and Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, big screen favorites Psycho and All That Heaven Allows, an inventive tribute to Alfred Hitchcock, a dreamlike nature documentary, and newly restored masterworks by Chantal Akerman and Andrei Tarkovsky.
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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PSYCHO | Alfred Hitchcock | 1960 | In English | 109 minutes | R
Thurs., Oct. 31 @ 7:30 pm | Sat., Nov. 2 @ 5:30 pm | Halloween Screening; New 4K Restoration!
Newly restored and screening in Alfred Hitchcock’s preferred original theatrical cut, this revolutionary horror masterpiece stars Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins in a terrifying tale about a quiet motel and a mysterious killer.
MY NAME IS ALFRED HITCHCOCK | Mark Cousins | 2022 | In English | 120 minutes | NR
Fri., Nov. 1 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., Nov. 2 @ 2 pm | Sun., Nov. 3 @ 12:30 pm
In this engaging and encyclopedic new documentary from esteemed filmmaker and scholar Mark Cousins (The Story of Film), the Master of Suspense (voiced by actor Alistair McGowan) offers playful and illuminating reflections on his creative process, richly illustrated with clips from his entire 50-year career.
A DIFFERENT MAN | Aaron Schimberg | 2024 | In English | 112 minutes | R
Fri., Nov. 1 @ 8 pm | Sat., Nov. 2 @ 8 pm | Sun., Nov. 3 @ 3 pm
Winner of Best Lead Performance at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival, Sebastian Stan stars as Edward, an aspiring actor who undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance in Aaron Schimberg’s bold, perceptive, and darkly funny character study.
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TOUTE UNE NUIT | Chantal Akerman | 1982 | subtitled | 91 minutes | NR
Thurs., Nov. 7 @ 7:30 pm | New Restoration!
A lushly atmospheric meditation on romantic love, longing and loneliness from the great Belgian writer-director Chantal Akerman (Jeanne Dielman…), this graceful experimental drama flits between several different individuals and couples over the course of one summer night in Brussels.
CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLER’S POINT | Tyler Taormina | 2024 | In English | 106 minutes | PG-13
Fri., Nov. 8 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., Nov. 9 @ 2 & 8 pm | Sun., Nov. 10 @ 3:30 pm
An instant-classic entry in the Christmas movie canon, this delirious feast for the senses from celebrated indie filmmaker Tyler Taormina follows the boisterous, multi-generational Balsano family as they celebrate what may be their last holiday season together in their ancestral Long Island home.
THE SACRIFICE | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1986 | subtitled | 149 minutes | PG
Fri., Nov. 8 @ 8 pm | Sat., Nov. 9 @ 5 pm | Sun., Nov. 10 @ 12:30 pm | New 4K Restoration!
Screening in an exquisite new 4K restoration, Andrei Tarkovsky’s final masterpiece is a poetic long-take parable about faith, personal commitment, and the fragility of human existence set in the remote, starkly beautiful islands off Sweden’s southern coast.
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NOCTURNES | Anirban Dutta & Anupama Srinivasan | 2024 | In English and subtitled | 83 minutes | NR
Thurs., Nov. 14 @ 7:30 pm | Sat., Nov. 16 @ 5:30 pm
Awarded a Sundance Special Jury Prize for its stunningly immersive cinematography and sound design, this meditative documentary follows a pair of scientists as they research moths in the lush Eastern Himalayan forests.
ANORA | Sean Baker | 2024 | In English and subtitled | 139 minutes | R
Fri., Nov. 15 @ 5:30 & 8:30 pm | Sat., Nov. 16 @ 2 & 8 pm | Sun., Nov. 17 @ 12:30 & 3:30 pm | Thurs., Nov. 21 @ 7:30 pm | Fri., Nov. 22 @ 8 pm | Sat., Nov. 23 @ 5 pm | Sun., Nov. 24 @ 3 pm | Fri., Nov. 29 @ 8 pm
Winner of the Palme d’Or for Best Film at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Sean Baker’s (The Florida Project) audacious, comedic, and heartfelt variation on a modern-day Cinderella story follows the whirlwind romance between an exotic dancer from Brooklyn and the son of a Russian oligarch.
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BLITZ | Steve McQueen | 2024 | In English | 120 minutes | PG-13
Fri., Nov. 22 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., Nov. 23 @ 2 & 8 pm | Sun., Nov. 24 @ 12:30 pm | Fri., Nov. 29 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., Nov. 30 @ 5:30 & 8 pm | Sun., Dec. 1 @ 12:30 & 3 pm
Featuring a luminous performance by Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird), this visually dazzling tour-de-force from Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) is a moving and expansive tapestry of British life during a decisive moment of the Second World War.
ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS | Douglas Sirk | 1955 | In English | 89 minutes | NR
Sat., Nov. 30 @ 2 pm | Saturday Classics
Both a heartbreaking melodrama and a sharp critique of hypocrisy in 1950s America, Douglas Sirk’s gorgeously stylized Technicolor romance follows the blossoming love between upper-middle-class suburban widow Cary (Jane Wyman) and her handsome, considerably younger gardener, Ron (Rock Hudson).
