MoMA Announces January Film Lineup

MoMA has announced their January lineup in their MoMA film series, including THE CONTENDERS, FASHIONABLY LATE, A PIONEER COWBOY, and BERT WILLIAMS & COMPANY. Check out details below!

The Contenders 2015
Through January 15

For this annual series, the Department of Film combs through major studio releases and the top film festivals in the world, selecting influential, innovative films made in the past 12 months that we believe will stand the test of time. Whether bound for awards glory or destined to become a cult classic, each of these films is a contender for lasting historical significance, and any true cinephile will want to catch them on the big screen. Upcoming screenings include Jia Zhangke's Mountains May Depart, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's The Revenant, Deniz Gamze Ergüven's Mustang, John Crowley's Brooklyn (post-screening conversation with Saoirse Ronan), and many more.

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Modern "Matinees": Fashionably Late
January 1-17

Since our regular Modern Matinees screenings take place on weekday afternoons, we'd like to offer this "redux" presentation for audiences that have been unable to attend. Now's your chance to spend an evening with Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, and more, and say thank you to Iris Barry for having the foresight to build one of the most inclusive film collections in the world.

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Modern Matinees: A Pioneer Cowboy
January 6-February 26

William S. Hart (1864-1946) had a face-craggy, world weary, and parched-made for the movies, and embodied the archetypal Western ethos of honest work, belief in a higher being, and a well-defined moral code. This series, drawn entirely from MoMA's collection, features Hart the hard-bitten, down-to-earth screen cowboy, playing conflicted men pushed to the limits of patience in the Wild West.

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Bert Williams and Company
January 13-19

MoMA's celebrated restoration of Lime Kiln Club Field Day returns in a newly titled and tinted 35mm print. In the fall of 1913, a pioneering cast of African American performers gathered to make a series of movies, but after shooting over 80 minutes of film, the project was abandoned by its white producers. Found in MoMA's Biograph Studio collection, the untitled and unassembled footage represents the earliest known surviving feature with a cast of black actors.

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Originally founded in 1935 as the Film Library, the film collection is recognized as the strongest in the U.S., with more than 30,000 international films from all periods and genres. MoMA's Department of Film celebrates 80 years of preservation initiatives dedicated to safeguarding film's history and future, and an ambitious schedule of film series, premieres, festivals, and retrospectives.