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MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Thursday Oct 8, 2009 (8pm)
Sunday Oct 11, 2009 (4pm)
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Free with museum admission. Film-only tickets: adults $10; seniors $8; members and children under 16 are free; member friends $5. Please visit our website for more details.
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Part of the Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years film exhibition
The Thursday, October 8 screening is followed by a conversation between exhibition curator Joshua Siegel and Spike Jonze.
Spike Jonze had been friends with Maurice Sendak for more than five years before he and Dave Eggers began working on their adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are, recognizing in Sendak a passionate, daring, truthful, and wildly imaginative artist and a fellow imp of the perverse. In these short films, made while Wild Things was in production, a sometimes melancholy but always wickedly funny Sendak reflects on his Depression-era childhood in the Brooklyn shtetl, a joyous day at the World’s Fair, the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby, his books In The Night Kitchen and Higgledy Piggledy Pop!, his two beloved Hermans (Melville, and his German shepherd namesake), and a long-buried secret.
Films shown:
Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak. 2009. USA. Directed by Lance Bangs, Spike Jonze. Produced by Perry Moore, Hunter Hill, Allison Sarofim, and Vincent Landay. 40 min.
Maurice at the World’s Fair. 2009. USA. Directed by Spike Jonze, Lance Bangs. With Spike Jonze, Catherine Keener, Bob Stephenson. 4 min.
Where the Wild Things Are [clip]. 2009. USA. Directed by Spike Jonze. 5 min.
More information about Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years and the full film schedule
