Museum of the Moving Image - Programs - On Cinema at the Cinema at the Cinema

Season 1

Series
On Cinema at the Cinema at the Cinema

November 12–21, 2021

In 2011, comedians Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington set out to lampoon the corporate jingoism of film criticism with a series of haphazard, fumbled-through audio podcast snippets. By 2012, their throwaway gag had metamorphosed into a full-fledged video review series, complete with burgeoning character arcs for Tim, Gregg, and a pitiful motley crew of assistants and co-conspirators. Almost a decade later, On Cinema at the Cinema has matured into a force all its own, a satire of the contemporary popular film criticism wasteland with its own growing fan subculture. Yet film criticism is only the tip of the iceberg here: On Cinema is a sendup of everything—and one of the most inspired comedy experiments of our time. For the first time, seasons 1 through 11 will be presented theatrically in their entirety, in a string of marathon viewing sessions.

Organized by guest curator Max Carpenter.

Series and Nov 12–14 passes are SOLD OUT, Nov 19–21 pass still available ($30).