MoMA Film Presents Int'l Fest of Film Preservation & Oct. Showcases

MoMA Film presents:

To Save and Project: The Ninth MoMA International Festival of Film Project: The Ninth MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation

October 14-November 19

To Save and Project, MoMA's international film preservation festival, celebrates its ninth year with gloriously preserved masterworks and rediscoveries of world cinema. This year's festival comprises over 35 films from 14 countries, virtually all of them having their New York premieres, with some shown in versions never before seen in the United States. Guest presenters include Douglas Crimp, Joe Dante, Walter Hill, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Elaine May, Mario Montez, Thelma Schoonmaker, and Martin Scorsese, and highlights include films by Roger Corman, Forugh Farrokhzad, George Kuchar, Claude Lanzmann, Alberto Lattuada, Louis Malle, Agnes Martin, Georges Méliès, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Jean Rouch, Raúl Ruiz, and Seijun Suzuki.

Gaumont Presents: Jean Renoir's French Cancan
October 17

Each year, Gaumont presents a restoration project from its archives in France. This year, Gaumont Chairman Nicolas Seydoux and Chief Executive Officer Sidonie Dumas introduce the New York theatrical premiere of their company's magnificent digital restoration of Jean Renoir's French Cancan (1954).

Modern Mondays
October 17 & 24

MoMA's ongoing showcase for innovation on screen, Modern Mondays allows contemporary filmmakers and moving image artists to present their work directly to audiences. On October 17, in conjunction with Mapping Subjectivity, Part II, Mohamed Soueid (b. Lebanon, 1959) presents his performance/slide lecture Written in the Dust. On October 24, San Francisco-based filmmaker, photographer, and installation artist Bill Basquin presents a selection of works, including one of his most recent films, Horses with Bells in Zugarramurdi (2010).

Mapping Subjectivity: Experimentation in Arab Cinema from the 1960s to Now, Part II
October 5-23

This three-part film exhibition aims to map a largely unknown heritage of personal, artistic, and sometimes experimental cinema from the Arab world. The works selected for this second edition-from Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, Qatar, and the UAE-reflect a diversity and richness of voices and of imaginative visual languages, and many use pre-existing footage-whether found or borrowed from television, cinema, or public or personal archives-to engage critically, sometimes provocatively, with official stories, often giving voice to what might be considered "unmentionable."

An Auteurist History of Film
Ongoing

This ongoing screening cycle explores the evolution of film as a medium by charting the careers of several key directorial figures-not in order to establish a formal canon, but to develop one picture of cinematic history. Upcoming screenings include David Lean's Great Expectations and Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's Black Narcissus (both 1947).

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+Private previews of major films

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Name a Theater Seat
For a contribution of $5,000, your name, or the name of someone you wish to honor or remember, can be placed on a seat in the Museum's Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1. To name a seat or for more information, please contact Lisa Mantone, Director of Development, at (212) 708-9671. Contributions to name theater seats are 100% tax deductible.