Museum of the Moving Image

A museum of film and television inside one of thirteen buildings of the old Astoria studio complex, where Paramount made pictures on the East Coast from 1920.

Famous Players-Lasky put the studio up, and hundreds of silent and early sound productions were shot on the site. The Army took it over in 1942 to make training films, renaming it the Signal Corps Photographic Center, and left in 1970.

The buildings fell into disrepair after that. The museum opened in 1988 in a section renovated by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates, which is the part visitors walk into today.

Screenings run in the 267-seat Sumner M. Redstone Theater and the 68-seat Celeste and Armand Bartos Screening Room, so a retrospective and a single showing can go on at the same time.

Upcoming events at Museum of the Moving Image (29)

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Drama

Fri Oct 9 · 6:30 PM

Behemoth!

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Crime

Fri Oct 9 · 9:15 PM

The Only Living Pickpocket in New York

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Fantasy

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Sat Oct 10 · 1:00 PM

The Adventures of Prince Achmed: 100th anniversary screening with live musical accompaniment

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The oldest surviving animated feature gets a centennial screening with live music.

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Horror

Sat Oct 10 · 3:30 PM

In the Mouth of Madness

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Sci-Fi

Sun Oct 11 · 12:30 PM

Southland Tales (with J. Hoberman)

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Horror

Our Pick

Sun Oct 11 · 4:15 PM

Peeping Tom (with J. Hoberman)

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Michael Powell's 1960 film about a killer cameraman nearly ended his career.

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Sun Oct 11 · 6:30 PM

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom

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Drama

Fri Oct 16 · 7:00 PM

A Girl in Black

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Fantasy

Sat Oct 17 · 1:00 PM

Fantasia

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Also plays 1 other date, through Sun Oct 18

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Fantasy

Sat Oct 17 · 3:30 PM

Faust

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Musical

Sat Oct 17 · 6:30 PM

Zorba the Greek

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Fantasy

Sun Oct 18 · 12:30 PM

Fantasia

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Also plays 1 other date, through Sun Oct 18

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Drama

Sun Oct 18 · 3:00 PM

Stella

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Our Pick

Fri Oct 23 · 6:15 PM

Persona: 60th Anniversary Screening (Co-presented with NewFest)

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Bergman's two-women, one-identity puzzle turns 60. Liv Ullmann and Bibi Andersson still make it feel unsafe.

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Film

Fri Oct 23 · 6:30 PM

Music Video Mischief with director Nigel Dick

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Horror

Sat Oct 24 · 12:30 PM

Vampire’s Kiss

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Horror

Sat Oct 24 · 3:00 PM

The Exorcist

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Also plays 1 other date, through Sat Oct 31

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Horror

Sun Oct 25 · 1:00 PM

The Wolf Man

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Horror

Sun Oct 25 · 3:00 PM

Magic

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Comedy

Fri Oct 30 · 6:00 PM

Goodbye, Dragon Inn

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Horror

Our Pick

Fri Oct 30 · 8:00 PM

Nosferatu (with Live Piano Accompaniment)

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Murnau's 1922 vampire film with live piano. The shadow on the staircase still works.

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Horror

Sat Oct 31 · 3:30 PM

The Exorcist

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Also plays 1 other date, through Sat Oct 31

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Thu Nov 5 · 6:00 PM

Visible Humans

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Drama

Our Pick

Sat Nov 7 · 12:30 PM

Testament with Lynne Littman in person

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Lynne Littman's nuclear-apocalypse drama, with the director there. The catastrophe stays mostly offscreen.

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Our Pick

Sat Nov 7 · 3:00 PM

Sloan Showcase: After Yang and Verse with Kogonada in person

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Kogonada's quiet sci-fi about a family repairing an android and noticing what they had stopped noticing about each other.

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Sat Nov 21 · 6:00 PM

Demons

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War

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Sat Nov 21 · 6:00 PM

The Year of Living Dangerously

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Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver in Jakarta as politics, journalism and romance start pushing against each other.

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Mystery

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Sun Dec 6 · 1:00 PM

Desperately Seeking Susan with Susan Seidelman in person

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Seidelman returns to her downtown New York comedy with Madonna, Rosanna Arquette and the city before it cleaned itself up.

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Sat Dec 12 · 2:00 PM

Pictures of Ghosts

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