FOCUS FEATURES: 10th ANNIVERSARY SALUTE Kicks Off May MoMA Film Screenings Today, 5/3

By: May. 03, 2012
Enter Your Email to Unlock This Article

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe.




Existing user? Just click login.

The Museum of Modern Art has announced its ongoing and upcoming screenings and discussions through the end of May. See details below.

Focus Features: 10th Anniversary Salute
May 3–20
The Museum of Modern Art celebrates the 10th anniversary of Focus Features with an exhibition of 10 significant features from the film company's remarkable first decade. Among the featured films are Roman Polanski's The Pianist, Mike Mills's Beginners, Joel and Ethan Coen's A Serious Man, Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation, Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are All Right, David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises, Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fernando Meirelles's The Constant Gardener, and Gus Van Sant's Milk. On May 3, producer and Focus Features cofounder James Schamus will be on hand for a screening of Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain.

Literature and the Moving Image
May 3–5
PEN World Voices Festival and The Museum of Modern Art present a short series focusing on the relationship between storytelling and the moving image. On May 3, Marjane Satrapi joins New Yorker art editor Francoise Mouly for a screening and a discussion about the development of Satrapi's work. And on May 5, Francine Prose, Michael Cunningham, and Doon Arbus discuss Diane Arbus and present a screening of A Slide Show and Talk by Diane Arbus.

Tracey Moffatt
May 4–13
Tracey Moffatt is an Australian filmmaker, video artist, and photographer whose stylistic experiments draw upon both popular culture and her own background, examining subjects such as Aboriginal subjugation, maternal domination, gender stereotypes, and class division. This retrospective of Moffatt's films and videos offers a comprehensive look at her moving-image oeuvre. On May 5, Moffat will be on hand to discuss a program of her short films.

Mahfouz at the Movies
May 10–21
Naguib Mahfouz, the first Arab author to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature (in 1988), devoted much of his energy to the movies. He began writing screenplays in the late 1940s, eventually completing more than 25 original scripts and collaborating on many others drawn from his own fiction writing. Several of the narratives in this selection of films develop with the political upheaval of the times as a backdrop, an element that resonates today. Mahfouz's ability to move freely between genres and his realistic depictions of his countrymen attracted the attention of many of Egypt's most notable directors—and even inspired two from Mexico.

Kino! 2012: New Films from Germany
Through May 2
The Museum of Modern Art's 34th annual series of new films from Germany includes eight features—six of them debut films—and, as always, the annual Next Generation selection of student films from film academies across Germany. On Sunday, April 29, filmmakers Leo Khasin, Carsten Unger, and Stephan Rick will be on hand for screenings of their respective films.

Modern Mondays
Ongoing
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 April 30, in conjunction with their gallery installation 9 Scripts from a Nation at War, the artists Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes, Ashley Hunt, Katya Sander, and David Thorne join us to discuss the work and their collaborative practice. And on May 7, in conjunction with her current film retrospective, filmmaker, video artist, and photographer Tracey Moffatt discusses her work.

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 Samuel Fuller's The Steel Helmet (1951) and Kenji Mizoguchi's The Life of Oharu (1952).



Videos