New Directors/New Films ends this Sunday! Remember that there are 30 $7.50 Rush Tickets available for every screening (except closing night). For day-of screenings at MoMA, please go straight to the Film Desk to buy your tickets.
Don’t miss these incredible remaining selections:
I Am Love
In modern-day Milan, the Recchi textile dynasty inhabits a world of sumptuous elegance, but after power shifts, the company scion’s wife (Tilda Swinton) feels a growing sense of living in a gilded cage—until she is unexpectedly stirred by desire. Read more…
Fri Apr 2: 6:15 (FSLC)
Sun Apr 4: 1:00 (MoMA)
Frontier Blues
With a cinematic style that is a study in elegant simplicity, Frontier Blues is a sweet, slightly absurdist snapshot of desperate men, absent women, and waiting for whatever the future may hold. Filmmaker Babak Jalali presents an assortment of hometown stories from Iraq’s northern border. Read more…
Fri Apr 2: 6:15 (MoMA)
Sun Apr 4: 5:30 (FSLC)
Amer
A dreamy pastiche tour de force of 1970s Italian giallo horror movies that plays out a delirious, enigmatic death-dance of fear and desire. The film’s three parts, each in a different style, correspond to the childhood, adolescence, and adulthood of its female protagonist—and that’s all you need to know. Read more…
Fri Apr 2: 9:15 (FSLC)
Sat Apr 3: 2:00 (MOMA)
Beautiful Darling: The Life and Times of Candy Darling, Andy Warhol Superstar
Born James Slattery in Massapequa, Long Island, in 1944, Candy Darling transformed herself into a stunning blonde actress and became an active player in New York’s “downtown” scene in the Sixties. Read more…
Fri Apr 2: 9:15 (MoMA)
Sat Apr 3: 6:00 (FSLC)
Last Train Home
Each year a jaw-dropping migration happens over New Year’s in China, when city workers leave en masse for their hometowns in the countryside. Lixin Fan’s wondrous documentary follows one couple (out of one hundred and thirty million travelers!): the Zhangs, who are making the long and crowded journey to their rural village, trying to reunite with their rebellious teenage daughter. Read more…
Sat Apr 3: 12:00 (FSLC)
Hunting & Sons
In this sharp and trenchant portrait of the pitfalls of happiness, newlyweds and childhood sweethearts Tako and Sandra lead a sweet suburban life. But when Sandra gets pregnant, the good news starts a crack in the adorable façade that grows as Tako gets panicked about the future. Read more…
Thu Apr 1: 9:00 (MoMA)
Sat Apr 3: 3:00 (FSLC)
How I Ended This Summer
Set in the frozen wilds of the Russian Arctic, here’s a thriller infused with equal parts psychological trauma and physical endurance. Young Pavel (Grigory Dobrygin) arrives at a remote research station for a summer of adventure under the tutelage of the wise and crusty Sergei (Sergei Puskepalis), but things go awry… Read more…
Sat Apr 3: 5:00 (MoMA)
Sun Apr 4: 12:00 (FSLC)
The Red Chapel
Here’s a documentary that has to be seen to be believed, situated somewhere between Michael Moore and Borat. Filmmaker Mads Brügger travels to Pyongyang, North Korea, on a “mission of cultural exchange,” bringing a camera crew—and the Danish-Korean slapstick-comedy team Red Chapel. Read more…
Sat Apr 3: 8:00 (MoMA)
Sun Apr 4: 3:00 (FSLC)
La Pivellina
In this engaging unsentimental tale of human decency and solidarity, the little orphan finds home and family with circus folks in a trailer park on the outskirts of Rome. Drawing on their background in documentary, filmmakers Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel naturally depict the easygoing rapport among generations in a small community where everybody depends on one another. Read more…
Sat Apr 3: 9:00 (FSLC)
Sun Apr 4: 4:00 (MoMA)
I Killed My Mother (J’ai tué ma mère)
In this cri de coeur exposé of the limits of love, the director himself plays the lead character, Hubert—a fiery creature full of lust and venom whose burgeoning (homo)sexuality is intensely at odds with his mutually parasitic maternal relationship. Read more…
Sun Apr 4: 7:00 (MoMA)
