Museum Films’ September schedule features acclaimed American indies and award-winning festival favorites, stunning restorations of The Rules of the Game and The Wicker Man, a new French drama starring Juliette Binoche, and a pair of crowd-pleasing short film festivals.
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 September Film Schedule + Calendar.
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THE ADULTS | Dustin Guy Defa | 2023 | In English | 91 minutes | R
Fri., Sept. 1 @ 5:30 & 8 pm | Sat., Sept. 2 @ 5:30 & 8 pm | Sun., Sept. 3 @ 12:30 pm
Eric’s (Michael Cera) plans for a quick trip home are derailed when he finds himself caught between reuniting with his two sisters and chasing victory with his old poker group in this wry and heartfelt indie comedy from award-winning writer-director Dustin Guy Defa.
THE RULES OF THE GAME | Jean Renoir | 1939 | subtitled | 110 minutes | NR
Sat., Sept. 2 @ 2 pm | Sun., Sept. 3 @ 3 pm | New 4K restoration!
Considered one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game wraps a clear-eyed critique of pre-WWII French society in an effervescent comedy of manners that unfolds over one fateful weekend at a marquis’ country château.
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LOVE LIFE | Kôji Fukada | 2022 | subtitled | 124 minutes | NR
Thurs., Sept. 7 @ 7:30 pm | Fri., Sept. 8 @ 8 pm
This captivating drama from award-winning Japanese director Kôji Fukada (Harmonium, A Girl Missing) traces a grieving couple’s journey through their separate romantic pasts.
BETWEEN TWO WORLDS | Emmanuel Carrère | 2021 | subtitled | 106 minutes | NR
Fri., Sept. 8 @ 5:30 | Sat., Sept. 9 @ 2 & 8 pm | Sun., Sept. 10 @ 12:30 pm
Academy Award®-winning actress Juliette Binoche gives a radiant and profoundly committed performance as an undercover journalist who experiences a crisis of conscience while investigating working conditions in Northern France.
THE ETERNAL MEMORY | Maite Alberdi | 2023 | subtitled | 85 minutes | NR
Sat., Sept. 9 @ 5:30 pm | Sun., Sept. 10 @ 3 pm
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema Documentary at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, this deeply moving true love story from Oscar-nominated Chilean director Maite Alberdi follows Augusto and Paulina as they struggle to preserve their shared history in the wake of Augusto’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis.
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CAT VIDEO FEST 2023 | Will Braden (ed.) | 2023 | In English | 74 minutes | NR
Thurs., Sept. 14 @ 7:30 pm | Sat., Sept. 16 @ 2 pm
OKCMOA is proud to be a venue for the world’s #1 cat video festival! Join us in the Noble Theater for a fun, family-friendly movie event that raises money for local cats in need. 10% of all CatVideoFest 2023 ticket sales will be donated to our local partner, the Oklahoma Humane Society.
FREMONT | Babak Jalali | 2023 | In English and subtitled | 91 minutes | NR
Fri., Sept. 15 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., Sept. 16 @ 5:30 pm | Sun., Sept. 17 @ 12:30 pm
Donya, a 20-something Afghan immigrant, searches for peace and connection while working at a San Francisco fortune cookie factory in Babak Jalali’s wry, lyrical, and beautifully crafted Sundance gem.
THE WICKER MAN | Robin Hardy | 1973 | In English | 94 minutes | R
Fri., Sept. 15 @ 8 pm | Sat., Sept. 16 @ 8 pm | Sun., Sept. 17 @ 3 pm | New 50th anniversary restoration!
Returning to theaters in a definitive, director-approved final cut, Robin Hardy’s British folk horror classic follows a devout police detective on a reality-bending search for a missing girl in a Pagan Scottish island village.
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LADY KILLER (GUEULE D’AMOUR) | Jean Grémillon | 1937 | subtitled | 94 minutes | NR
Thurs., Sept. 21 @ 7:30 pm | New 4K restoration!
This smoldering romantic drama from celebrated director Jean Grémillon stars the legendary French actor Jean Gabin as a foreign-legion Casanova – the “lady killer” Lucien Bourrache – who meets his match in a mysterious seductress.
SCRAPPER | Charlotte Regan | 2023 | In English | 84 minutes | NR
Fri., Sept. 22 @ 5:30 pm | Sat., Sept. 23 @ 2 & 5:30 pm | Sun., Sept. 24 @ 12:30 pm
Winner of a 2023 Sundance Grand Jury Prize, this vibrant, imaginative and beautifully acted British comedy-drama follows resourceful 12-year-old Georgie, who is unexpectedly reunited with her absent father (Harris Dickinson; Triangle of Sadness).
THE ORIGIN OF EVIL | Sébastien Marnier | 2022 | subtitled | 125 minutes | R
Fri., Sept. 22 @ 8 pm | Sat., Sept. 23 @ 8 pm | Sun., Sept. 24 @ 3 pm
This wickedly suspenseful French satire stars award-winning actress Laure Calamy as a woman who reconnects with the wealthy father she never knew and becomes ensnared in a vicious estate battle filled with dark secrets and shifting loyalties.
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MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2023 | Various | In English and subtitled | approx. 149 minutes | NR
Thurs., Sept. 28 @ 7 pm | Fri., Sept. 29 @ 5 & 8 pm | Sat., Sept. 30 @ 2, 5, & 8 pm | Sun., Oct. 1 @ 12:30 & 3:30 pm | Thurs., Oct. 5 @ 7 pm | Stay tuned for additional dates and showtimes!
One of our favorite annual traditions, the Manhattan Short Film Festival returns to OKCMOA on September 28! Join more than 100,000 film lovers across the country and around the world as they unite to view, judge and celebrate a new crop of extraordinary short films.
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ADDITIONAL FILMS AND SHOWTIMES COMING SOON!
