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Curators’ Choice 2021
December 19January 16, 2022The Museum’s annual survey of some of our favorite films of the year returns with another rich harvest of cinema—and television—at its best. The first iteration since 2019, following a pandemic-dictated hiatus, Curators’ Choice 2021 evidences a year of stunning ambition, excellence, experimentation, irreverence, liberation, and fury. While 2021 was a challenging year for the movies, with Hollywood and audiences gradually returning to theaters, it’s been a wildly exciting time for international, independent, and festival-oriented films. From idiosyncratic musicals (Annette) to revisionist westerns (The Power of the Dog); from feminist noirs (Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time and Nina Wu) to deluded male melodramas (Red Rocket); and from exuberant family fare (The Mitchells vs. the Machines) to masterful achievements in serial storytelling (The Underground Railroad), this year’s Curators’ Choice offers a wide-eyed, peripheral view of the current state of the cinematic arts.
Organized by Curator of Film Eric Hynes and Assistant Curator of Film Edo Choi.

The American Sector
Sunday, December 19, 4:00 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Bartos Screening Room

Terra Femme
Sunday, December 19, 6:00 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Bartos Screening Room

What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
Sunday, December 26, 1:00 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Bartos Screening Room

The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Sunday, December 26, 4:00 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theater

Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period …
Sunday, December 26, 4:15 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Bartos Screening Room

The Underground Railroad: Chapters 1–5
Friday, December 31, 12:30 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Bartos Screening Room
Benedetta
Friday, December 31, 4:00 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theater

The Underground Railroad: Chapters 6–10
Saturday, January 1, 12:30 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Bartos Screening Room

Bergman Island
Saturday, January 1, 1:00 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theater

The Souvenir
Saturday, January 1, 3:30 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theater

The Souvenir Part II
Saturday, January 1, 6:00 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theater

The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Sunday, January 2, 12:30 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Bartos Screening Room

Undine
Sunday, January 2, 1:00 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theater
Benedetta
Sunday, January 2, 3:00 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theater
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All About My Sisters
Sunday, January 2, 3:15 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Bartos Screening Room

Days
Sunday, January 2, 6:00 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theater

The French Dispatch
Friday, January 7, 4:00 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theater

The French Dispatch
Friday, January 7, 7:00 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theater

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
Friday, January 7, 7:15 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Bartos Screening Room

This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection
Saturday, January 8, 3:00 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Bartos Screening Room

Annette
Saturday, January 8, 4:00 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theater

Nina Wu
Saturday, January 8, 6:00 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Bartos Screening Room

The Power of the Dog
Saturday, January 8, 7:00 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theater

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
Sunday, January 9, 1:00 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theater

Downstream to Kinshasa
Sunday, January 9, 3:00 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Bartos Screening Room

Drive My Car
Sunday, January 9, 3:30 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theater

The Tragedy of Macbeth
Sunday, January 9, 7:30 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theater

Notturno
Saturday, January 15, 2:00 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Bartos Screening Room

Ascension
Saturday, January 15, 4:30 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theater

Test Pattern
Saturday, January 15, 5:00 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could N…
Saturday, January 15, 7:00 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theater

The Viewing Booth
Sunday, January 16, 2:00 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Bartos Screening Room

Red Rocket
Sunday, January 16, 3:00 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theater

Anne at 13,000 Ft.
Sunday, January 16, 4:30 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Bartos Screening Room

Compartment No. 6
Sunday, January 16, 6:00 p.m. Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theater