ASTORIA, NY.- This November, Museum of the Moving Image launches the major new film series American Woman: Reframing ’70s Cinema; honors the late Robert Redford with three essential films; kicks off the new monthly series Reverse Shot Presents with The Tree of Life (35mm); hosts select screenings of the Queens World Film Festival; presents the beloved Jim Henson holiday special Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas; and welcomes special guests including filmmakers Cherien Dabis (All That’s Left of You, Jordan’s official entry for the Academy Awards), Bernardo Ruiz (El Equipo), Oscar-winning documentarian Barbara Kopple (Harlan County USA), Troma Films founder Lloyd Kaufman (Mr. Melvin), and Ethan Hawke, star of Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon, and more.
Among additional special guests, on November 1, the Museum will present a timely conversation on The State of Film Criticism with Richard Lawson, Michael Phillips, Kelli Weston, and Alissa Wilkinson moderated by Michael Koresky, Senior Curator of Film and Reverse Shot Co-Editor (free with RSVP; part of Open Worlds 2025). As part of the American Woman series, on November 14, critic and author Carrie Courogen introduces A Woman Under the Influence, and on November 15, a screening of Klute will be followed by a career conversation with pioneering film critic and author Molly Haskell; on November 16, critic Hannah Strong, author of the new book Colors of Wes Anderson, will appear with a screening of The Grand Budapest Hotel and participate in a conversation with critic Charles Bramesco, followed by a book signing in the Museum Shop.
On Sunday, November 2, the Museum presents its annual free community celebration of Day of the Dead, featuring live performances and festivities, a public ofrenda, and related media-making activities, as part of the ongoing Open Worlds 2025 programming.
In honor of the centenary of the Italian visual effects master Carlo Rambaldi, the Museum will add a figure of E.T., on loan from the family of Rambaldi, to its core exhibition Behind the Screen, beginning November 20. Visitors can also catch a screening of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial at the Museum on November 22 (with additional showtimes to be added in December).
Starting November 28, on the Herbert S. Schlosser Media Well, the first in a series of five new artist commissions, presented in partnership with the Tezos Foundation, opens with Contingent, a collaborative work by contemporary artist James Bloom and the pioneer of generative photography, Gottfried Jäger.
The Thanksgiving Weekend screenings of Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas is part of a 70th-anniversary celebration of Jim Henson's career and will feature a book signing for The Sam and Friends Script Book with author Craig Shemin, President of The Jim Henson Legacy and Jim Henson’s World series programmer.
Unless noted, all programs take place at Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave, Astoria, NY 11106. Screenings are presented in the Sumner M. Redstone Theater and/or the Celeste and Armand Bartos Screening Room. Schedule and tickets are available at movingimage.org. (See all November events.)
