Museum of the Moving Image Announces Full Schedule of Screenings and Special Events for its Grand Re-opening

ASTORIA, NY.- Rochelle Slovin, Director of Museum of the Moving Image, announced the complete schedule for the screenings and programs that will celebrate the grand re-opening of America’s only museum dedicated to film, television, and digital media. The transformed Museum, which will open to the public on January 15, 2011, will include a new 267-seat theater, a 68-seat screening room, new galleries, and multiple screening spaces for video art. The entire six weeks of inaugural programs will be titled Celebrating the Moving Image, in honor of the Museum and of screen culture itself. Highlights of programs during the opening weeks include: • Jacques Tati’s Playtime and Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey presented in restored 70mm prints on the opening weekend, to show off the extraordinary experience of the new main theater • Marcel L’Herbier’s silent epic L’Argent in a rest

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