GOT MOVIES?

We have a special preview screening coming up at MOMI. It’s Queen of Earth

With Elisabeth Moss and Director Alex Ross Perry in person on Tuesday, August 25, 7:30 p.m. Starring  Elisabeth Moss, Patrick Fugit, Katherine Waterson. Catherine (played in what Variety calls “an utterly fearless central performance by Elisabeth Moss”) has entered a particularly dark period in her life. Following her father’s death and a bad breakup with her longtime boyfriend, she decides to spend a week recuperating in the lake house of her best friend, Virginia. However, fissures between the two women begin to appear, sending Catherine into a downward spiral of delusion and madness. Tickets: $25 public/$15 Museum members at the Film Lover level or above/Free for Silver Screen members and above.

In fact MOMI is presenting an Alex Perry series August 22-25.  Screenings take place in either the Sumner M. Redstone Theater or the Celeste and Armand Bartos Screening Room . Unless otherwise noted, tickets for MOMI screenings are $12 adults ($9 seniors and students / $6 children 3–12) and free for Museum members at the Film Lover level and above. Advance tickets are available online at http://movingimage.us . Ticket purchase includes same-day admission to the Museum’s galleries.

Impolex
Saturday, August  22, 4:30 P.M.
With Riley O'Bryan, Kate Lyn Sheil, Bruno Meyrick Jones. In his feature debut, Perry was loosely inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. Taking place just after World War II, the film follows the shambling young soldier Tyrone S. as he wanders through the forest looking for German V2 rockets and encounters a number of inexplicably figures, including an eyepatch-wearing Englishman, a garrulous octopus, and the girlfriend he left behind to join the army.

The Color Wheel
Sunday, August  23, 3:00 P.M.
With Carlen Altman, Alex Ross Perry. Having recently broken up with her boyfriend and former professor, aspiring TV weathergirl JR calls on her estranged younger brother Colin to help retrieve her possessions at her ex’s apartment. What follows is one of the most uncomfortable road movies ever, as the two equally despicable characters incessantly pick on, undercut, and attack one another.

Listen Up Philip
 

Sunday August 23, 5:30 P.M.
With Jason Schwartzman, Elisabeth Moss, Jonathan Pryce. Feeling alienated by the pressures of the New York literary world and the girlfriend who financially supports him, the narcissistic and self-involved author Philip Lewis Friedman seeks refuge in the country home of his equally self-obsessed idol, the older, more established writer Ike Zimmerman.