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The Museum’s annual survey of some of our favorite films of the year returns with another rich harvest of cinema—and television—at its best. Curators’ Choice focuses on shows and films that either debuted for broadcast or premiered theatrically during the calendar year 2022. While journalists, industry insiders, market analysts, and armchair speculators endlessly debated the fate of fickle moviegoing and streaming subscriptions, these selections suggest an alternative narrative for the moving image in 2022, one defined by evolving processes and forms, the instability and anxieties over how we encounter the work perhaps freeing artists to let the work become whatever it may. It’s also a year in which numerous filmmakers told their own stories, and in so doing made some of their best work. The survey comprises festival standouts (Dos Estaciones, Murina), Hollywood’s finest (Nope, The Fabelmans), awards season staples (All That Breathes, The Territory, Aftersun), overlooked gems (Benediction, Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood), vanguard innovations in form and genre (We Met in Virtual Reality, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Expedition Content, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair), and two of the most audacious documentaries in recent memory (The Rehearsal, Jackass Forever). Uniting them all is our desire to watch and appreciate these exemplars of the moving image on the big screen, which we’ll do every weekend from early December 2022 through mid-January 2023.
Organized by Curator of Film Eric Hynes and Associate Curator of Film Edo Choi.