PRESS RELEASE: This weekend in Noble Theater at OKCMOA


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This Saturday, our Edith Head Film Series highlights Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s iconic behind-the-scenes drama All About Eve – winner of six Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Costume Design. A Sundance award-winner, a deadCenter highlight, and an early frontrunner for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar, Sugarcane opens this Friday. Screening exclusively at OKCMOA, Shinji Sômai’s exquisitely crafted drama Moving is a rediscovered masterwork of the coming-of-age genre.

Moving

  • Thursday, August 15 | 7:30 pm
  • Friday, August 16 | 8 pm

Making its long-awaited US debut in a luminous 4K restoration, this poignant, funny and profoundly influential modern masterwork from beloved Japanese filmmaker Shinji Sômai (P.P. Rider, Typhoon Club) follows watchful 11-year-old Renko as she navigates life with her newly divorced parents. 

“A noted influence on Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Hirokazu Kore-eda, and Kiyoshi Kurosawa, among many others, Shinji Sōmai was a consummate filmmaker’s filmmaker, and Moving is one of his most remarkable achievements. It follows the gradual, frequently messy untangling of love between a divorced couple in Kyoto as experienced by their 11-year-old daughter Renko (Tomoko Tabata, giving easily one of the greatest child performances in film), but evolves into something altogether stranger and more elemental by its conclusion. What’s so exceptional about Moving is its frank understanding of adolescent feeling and the emotional fluctuations borne out by loss and growing up, rendered in an exquisite color palette and via dexterous long takes. It’s a film that is as genuinely heartbreaking as it is funny and touching.

Museum Films is proud to present this rarely screened gem in a brand-new 4K restoration, which won the Best Restored Film Award at the 2023 Venice Classics. A selection of the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. A Cinema Guild release.” -Film at Lincoln Center

Shinji Sômai | 1993 | In Japanese with English subtitles | 125 minutes | NR | 4K DCP

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Sugarcane

A highlight of the 2024 deadCenter Film Festival, winner of the Sundance Film Festival’s Directing Prize, and an early frontrunner for the 2025 Best Documentary Feature Oscar, this powerful new film from Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie chronicles an investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school in Canada.  

“Filmmakers Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie deliver a multilayered film that invites audiences to confront profound questions about morality and justice, and to bear witness to the lasting intergenerational legacy of trauma from the residential school system — including forced family separation, physical and sexual abuse, and the destruction of Native culture and language. Drawing on their backgrounds in activism and journalism — as well as NoiseCat’s own personal connection to the story and community — the filmmakers deftly weave together multiple strands to form this compelling, heartbreaking narrative. Demonstrating unparalleled humanity, compassion, and grace for the affected Indigenous communities in North America, their powerful documentary operates from a place of pure and total empathy. At the same time, NoiseCat and Kassie recognize the resilience of the survivors and their descendants, and their unflagging determination to seek answers to long-buried secrets. Ultimately, Sugarcane reminds us to respect the humanity in ourselves as well as in others.” -Sundance Film Festival

Julian Brave NoiseCat & Emily Kassie | 2024 | In English, Secwepemctsín and French with English subtitles | 107 minutes | R (for some language) | DCP

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All About Eve – Edith Head Film Series

  • Saturday, August 17 | 2 pm
  • Saturday, August 17 | 5 pm

Nominated for a record-setting 14 Oscars at the 23rd Academy Awards, where Edith Head won two trophies for black-and-white and color costume design, Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s iconic showbiz drama stars Anne Baxter as Eve Harrington, an up-and-coming ingénue who infiltrates the professional and romantic inner circle of aging Broadway star Margo Channing (Bette Davis).

“In Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s devastatingly witty Hollywood classic, backstage is where the real drama plays out. One night, Margo Channing (Bette Davis) entertains a surprise dressing-room visitor: her most adoring fan, the shy, wide-eyed Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter). But as Eve becomes a fixture in Margo’s life, the Broadway legend soon realizes that her supposed admirer intends to use her and everyone in her circle, including George Sanders’s acid-tongued critic, as stepping-stones to stardom. Featuring stiletto-sharp dialogue and direction by Mankiewicz, and an unforgettable Davis in the role that revived her career and came to define it, the multiple-Oscar-winning All About Eve is the most deliciously entertaining film ever made about the ruthlessness of show business. ” -Criterion Collection

Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1950 | In English | 138 minutes | NR | DCP

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