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March 30, 2012 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions, Film

Cindy Sherman on the Films in Carte Blanche: Cindy Sherman

Posted by Lucy Gallun, Assistant Curator, Department of Photography

In conjunction with MoMA’s current Cindy Sherman retrospective (on view through June 11), the artist selected films that have informed her artistic practice for a special </i>Carte Blanche: Cindy Sherman</a> film series (which runs April 2–10 in MoMA’s theaters). Below are Cindy Sherman’s comments on the films, as told to Lucy Gallun.</small>

March 22, 2012 | Behind the Scenes, Film

Make It Giant: MoMA FILM!

Posted by Brigitta Bungard, Assistant Creative Director, Department of Advertising and Graphic Design

Most of my friends are seasoned New Yorkers who know their way around the city—where to find the best restaurants, sample sales, and live music—but whenever I invite them to see a film at MoMA with me, I hear, “Oh, MoMA shows film? I had no idea! What, like black-and-white art flicks?”

March 20, 2012 | Film

New Directors/New Films: All in a Good Year’s Work

Posted by Sean Egan, Producer, Film Exhibitions and Projects, Department of Film

New Directors/New Films 2012 opens on March 21 with the New York premiere of Nadine Labaki’s Where Do We Go Now?, and continues through April 1 with screenings of 28 more feature films from around the world.

March 15, 2012 | Artists, Behind the Scenes, Film

A Corner in Wheat

Posted by Anne Morra, Associate Curator, Department of Film

D. W. Griffith. A Corner in Wheat. 1909. USA. Film: 35mm, black-and-white, silent, approx. 15 min. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Actinograph Corp. Preserved with funding from The Lillian Gish Trust for Film Preservation

Ripped from the headlines! Based on a true story!

Oftentimes the story on which a film is based derives from real life events. Inspiration from actual historic or contemporaneous incidents is not a new phenomenon in the cinema.

March 2, 2012 | Events & Programs, Family & Kids

Create Ability Participants Take A Trip to the Moon

Posted by Kirsten Schroeder, Coordinator, Community and Access Programs

Next week, staff from MoMA’s Department of Education will attend a workshop organized by the Museum Access Consortium that will focus on museum programs for visitors who are on the autism spectrum.

December 8, 2011 | Film

Temple Drake: Was She Ever Lost?

Posted by Anne Morra, Associate Curator, Department of Film

The Story of Temple Drake. 1933. USA. Directed by Stephen Roberts

As part of The Museum of Modern Art’s multiyear institutional collaboration with the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, I was invited to curate a film series that would give filmgoers in Atlanta an opportunity to view historic and contemporary cinematic treasures from MoMA’s Department of Film collection.

November 17, 2011 | Events & Programs, Film, Videos

Celebrating Pedro Almodóvar

Posted by Rajendra Roy, The Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film

Each year, for four years now, The Museum of Modern Art honors a filmmaker of singular importance and influence at a benefit event in support of MoMA’s Department of Film and its exhibition and collection activities. This year we looked for a cinema artist who has been a part of MoMA’s family for long stretches of their career. Pedro Almodóvar fit this description perfectly.

September 27, 2011 | An Auteurist History of Film

A Brief Auteurist History Hiatus

Posted by Jason Persse, Editorial Manager, Marketing and Communications

Duel in the Sun. 1946. USA. Directed by King Vidor

As you’ve probably noticed, it has been a few weeks since the last An Auteurist History of Film post. The column’s author, curator Charles Silver, is currently taking a brief hiatus, but his weekly musings on film history and auteur theory will resume shortly.

September 22, 2011 | Film

Yeonghwa: Korean Film Today

Posted by Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator, Department of Film

Passerby #3 (Rainbow). 2009. South Korea. Written and directed by Shin Su-won

One learns, I think, a fair amount about a national culture through its cinema, particularly if the culture is as homogenous as is Korea’s, with its rituals, social practices, communal aspirations, tortured history, and earthy cuisine. What is quite special to me is, unlike many other cinemas, that Korean films are made first and foremost for Koreans, because, after all, it is they and not anybody else who speak the language in which the films are made, and, unlike films manufactured by and for the Hollywood studios, they are not made with the export market foremost in mind.

September 9, 2011 | Film

“Laugh at the Devil”: The “Satan” Films of Roman Polanski

Posted by Jason Persse, Editorial Manager, Marketing and Communications

Rosemary's Baby. 1968. USA. Directed by Roman Polanski. Image courtesy Photofest

Trying to figure out which of Roman Polanski’s films are or are not “horror films” is a maddening and, in the end, fruitless exercise.

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