Cabaret Cinema
These screenings of classic films from around the world explore themes featured in the museum's galleries. Each film is introduced by a notable guest to provide context. Past presenters have included Sam Shepard, Liv Ullmann, Brian Cox, Joel Grey, Tyne Daly, Marina Abramovic, DJ Spooky, Francine duPlessix Gray, Doug Aitken, Jonathan Lethem, and Alan Cumming.
Fridays at 9:30 p.m. (unless otherwise noted)
Free with a $7 bar minimum
Upcoming Series: You Must Remember This (Begins February 3 thru April 27, 2012)
Feature films that reflect themes from the Brainwave series which focuses on memory in it's fifth season. Films include: Casablanca, Gigi, The Great Dictator, An Affair to Remember, and Tommy!
Members may reserve Cabaret Cinema tickets in advance by calling 212.620.5000 x344. Tickets will be held no later than 9:30 PM.
Members at the Sustaining level and above may reserve cabaret tables in advance.
She Done Him Wrong
Friday February 10, 2012 @ 9:30 PM
1933, US, Lowell Sherman, 66 min.
Starring Mae West, Cary Grant & Owen Moore
Introduced by actress Claudia Shear, author and star of Broadway's Dirty Blonde.
"Listen, when women go wrong, men go right after them."
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Gigi
Friday February 17, 2012 @ 9:30 PM
1958, US, Vincente Minnelli, 119 min.
Starring Leslie Caron, Louis Jordan, Maurice Chevalier & Hermione Gringold
Introduced by Fashion Executive Fern Mallis.
"Ah, yes, I remember it well..."
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Paris, Texas
Friday February 24, 2012 @ 9:30 PM
1984, West Germany/France/UK/US, Wim Wenders, 147 min.
Starring Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski & Dean Stockwell
Winner of the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and Kurt Cobain’s favorite movie.
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Friday March 2, 2012 @ 9:30 PM
2004, US, Michel Gondry, 109 min.
Starring Jim Carey, Kate Winslet & Tom Wilkinson
Introduced by neurophilosopher Dr. S. Matthew Liao
Memory erasure surgery: it's been done on mice, why not on humans?
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Becket
Friday March 9, 2012 @ 9:30 PM
1964, Peter Glenville, U.S.,148 min.
Starring Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole & John Gielgud
"One must never drive one's enemy to despair; it makes him strong. Gentleness is better politics, it saps virility. A good occupational force must never crush. It must corrupt."
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The Lady Vanishes
Friday March 16, 2012 @ 9:30 PM
1938, UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 97 min.
Starring Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave,
Paul Lukas & Dame May Whitty
"I've no regrets. I've been everywhere and done everything. I've eaten caviar at Cannes, sausage rolls at the dogs. I've played baccarat at Biarritz and darts with the rural dean. What is there left for me but marriage?"
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The Bad Sleep Well
Friday March 23, 2012 @ 9:30 PM
1960, Japan, Akira Kurosawa, 151 min.
Starring Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori & Kyoko Kagawa
Introduced by Novelist Belinda McKeon.
Japanese film noir meets Shakespeare’s Hamlet exposing the corrupt boardrooms of postwar corporate Japan.
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Citizen Kane
Friday March 30, 2012 @ 9:30 PM
1941, US, Orson Welles, 119 min.
Starring Orson Welles, Dorothy Comingore & Joseph Cotten
Introduced by journalist Rula Jebreal.
Only the greatest picture of all time, as voted by AFI, Film Comment, and of course, the Rubin Museum of Art.
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An Affair to Remember
Friday April 6, 2012 @ 9:30 PM
1957, US, Leo McCarey, 119 min.
Introduced by Musician and Composer Earl Rose
Starring Cary Grant & Deborah Kerr
"Winter must be very cold for those who have no memories to keep them warm, and we have already missed the spring."
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The Great Dictator
Friday April 13, 2012 @ 9:30 PM
1940, US, Charlie Chaplin & Wheeler Dryden, 124 min.
Starring Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Godard & Jackie Oakie
Introduced by The New Inquiry
It marked the last time Chaplin would wear the Little Tramp's 'stache on screen.
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The 39 Steps
Friday April 20, 2012 @ 9:30 PM
1935, UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 86 min.
Starring Robert Donat, Madeleine Caroll
& Lucie Mannheim
Introduced by writer James Gleick
Hailed by The New York Times as "the most original, literate and entertaining melodrama of 1935."
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Tommy
Friday April 27, 2012 @ 9:30 PM
1975, UK, Ken Russell, 111 min.
Starring Roger Daltrey, Ann-Margret & Oliver Reed
Featuring Tina Turner, Elton John, Eric Clapton & Jack Nicholson with an unforgettable soundtrack by The Who.
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