MoMA The Museum of Modern Art (Venue Partner)
11 W 53rd St
212.708.9400
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Jan 18, 2009 – Jan 31, 2009
Daily (schedule)
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$10
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Thanks to Illinois' backroom politics, Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington — in which a crooked governor handpicks idealistic, straight-arrow James Stewart for a vacant Senate seat — comes with a new life-imitates-art context. The Capra-corn classic joins nine other politically minded films for MoMA's salute to both President-Elect Obama's Inauguration Day and MLK Day. Besides odes to Lincoln from American film forefathers D.W. Griffith and John Ford, there's the original All the King's Men; Sidney Lumet and Joseph Mankiewicz's compulsive King: A Film Record, Montgomery to Memphis; and Robert Drew's documentary Primary, which enlists Richard Leacock, Albert Maysles, and D.A. Pennebaker to shoot Wisconsin's 1960 Democratic primary between JFK and phonic delight Hubert Humphrey.
