Ennio Morricone
February 1–7

In a career spanning forty-five years, the incomparable Ennio Morricone (Italian, b. 1928) has composed over four hundred film and television scores, ranging from music for the mournful and violent features of Sergio Leone (Once Upon a Time in the West; Once Upon a Time in America) to memorable pieces for Roland
Joffé's The Mission. MoMA’s salute to Morricone celebrates his first concert at Radio City Music Hall on February 3. In addition, this year Morricone will be presented with an honorary Academy Award “for his magnificent and multifaceted contributions to the art of film music.” The exhibition also includes films by Don Siegel (Two Mules for Sister Sara), Oliver Stone (U Turn), and Gillo Pontecorvo (The Battle of Algiers).

Documentary Fortnight Expanded: MoMA’s Annual Festival of Nonfiction Film
February 2–March 2

MoMA's annual documentary showcase celebrates contemporary nonfiction film and video. This sixth installment in the series presents sixty new works that reflect the international upswing in entertaining and enlightening documentary productions. This year's program features numerous premieres from several countries and includes Heddy Honigmann’s Forever, about the rejuvenating effects of the Parisian cemetery Père-Lachaise on its visitors. Many of the filmmakers have traveled from afar to introduce and discuss their films.

MediaScope 2007: An Evening with Naoyuki Tsuji
February 5

Dedicated to experimentation with cinematic form and content, MediaScope presents emerging and recognized artists who discuss their work with the audience. In 1992 Japanese artist Naoyuki Tsuji made his first animated film based on the idea of the afterimage left when a drawing is not only erased, but drawn over. Tsuji draws an image, photographs it, erases some of it, draws over the erasure, and photographs the new image. Movement and metamorphosis are simply, starkly, and gracefully conveyed. On February 5, Naoyuki presents and discusses Wake Up; For Almost Forgotten Stories; Feathers Gazing into the Darkness; and a selection of new work.

Louis Malle's My Dinner with Andre and Gordon Parks's Shaft
February 8

An encore presentation of My Dinner with Andre and Shaft, both recently featured in MoMA’s Made in NY exhibition (September 23–December 31, 2006).

Global Lens, 2007
Through January 28

The films presented in this annual collaboration are part of the touring film exhibition Global Lens, a project conceived by the Global Film Initiative (GFI) to encourage filmmaking in countries with developing film communities. The selection of ten programs represents a concise survey of contemporary filmmaking from areas where local economic realities make such expensive and technology-driven endeavors a challenge. Upcoming screenings include Arsen Anton Ostojic's A Wonderful Night in Split, Dalibor Mataniç’s Fine Dead Girls, Hugo Grosso's On Each Side, and Sol de Carvalho's Another Man's Garden.

Feedback: The Video Data Bank, Video Art, and Artist Interviews
Through January 31

This exhibition offers screenings of video art and interviews with women in the arts drawn from the Chicago-based Video Data Bank. The Video Data Bank (VDB) was started in 1976 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a collection of student productions and interviews with visiting artists. Around the same time, VDB codirectors Lyn Blumenthal and Kate Horsfield began conducting their own interviews with women artists who were underrepresented critically in the art world; these interviews soon became part of the archive. Upcoming screenings include interviews with Guerrilla Girls, Martha Rosler, and Coco Fusco, and short films by Yvonne Rainer, Sadie Benning, and many others.

Recent Acquisitions: Universal Pictures
Through January 31

In August 2006, Universal Pictures generously donated twelve 35mm prints of films from their studio catalog to the Department of Film. This diverse group of contemporary films illustrates the current range of high-quality commercial filmmaking. Upcoming screenings include Taylor Hackford’s Ray and Ron Howard’s A Beautiful Mind.

Eija-Liisa Ahtila's Love Is a Treasure
Through February 1

In Love Is a Treasure, Ahtila portrays the marvelous intersection of fantasy and reality in the lives of five women who slip in and out of the here and now. The film is screened on February 1 as part of the Eija-Liisa Ahtila exhibition in MoMA’s second-floor Media Gallery.

Films for Out of Time: A Contemporary View
Through April 30

In conjunction with the current rotation of the second-floor Contemporary Galleries, the Department of Film presents a theatrical exhibition of films and videos that deal with the flexible nature of time. On February 1, MoMA presents a program of short films by Stan Brakhage that reflect upon the passage of time.

Still Moving
Ongoing

In conjunction with the publication of Still Moving: The Film and Media Collections of The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA presents a regular series derived exclusively from its film and media collections, featuring works that have been acquired and preserved by the Museum over the last seven decades. Upcoming screenings include Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation and Cecil B. DeMille's The Squaw Man.