Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) has announced its slate of three major screening series for the summer, linked by the theme of big-screen moviegoing.
From late June through August, MoMI will present the 22-film retrospective Tom Cruise, Above and Beyond, which captures the full range of his charismatic star performances from the 1980s to present; its annual See It Big: 70mm! summer festival, with Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey as its centerpiece; and the weekly Summer Saturdays with Dolby Atmos, featuring a wide-ranging selection of films, from science fiction to musicals, to demonstrate the spectacular audio and visual upgrades to its Sumner M. Redstone Theater.
Tom Cruise, who is both producer and star of the Mission: Impossible films, is also a main attraction in the Museum’s exhibition Mission: Impossible – Story and Spectacle. The exhibition explores how the series combines technical ingenuity, personal discipline and artistic commitment, all in service of storytelling, character development, and performance – with a focus on practical stunts.
It was announced on Tuesday that Cruise will receive an Oscar at The Governors Awards in November.
Watch as he opens the 2002 Oscars as only this ultimate actor can.
SUMMER 2025 SCREENING SERIES AT MOMI:
Screenings take place at the Sumner M. Redstone Theater and/or the Celeste and Armand Bartos Screening Room at Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave, Astoria, NY 11106. Schedule and tickets are available at https://movingimage.org/
Tom Cruise, Above and Beyond
June 20–August 17
Tom Cruise has been so central to our conception of Hollywood for so many decades that he’s more than a movie star—he encourages us to ask: what is it that makes a movie star? He was instilled with an undaunted charisma and confidence that became the metatext of his early star-making 1980s roles (from Risky Business and Top Gun to The Color of Money and Cocktail). Then, at the end of that decade, Cruise began to select parts that deftly subverted his golden-boy image, from his galvanizing, Oscar nominated role in Born on the Fourth of July to the homoerotic horror of Interview with the Vampire and the end-of-the-millennium one-two punch of Eyes Wide Shut and Magnolia—all movies that still drift through the cultural consciousness. He has long been a mainstay of elegantly constructed crowd-pleasers working with major directors (A Few Good Men, The Firm, Jerry Maguire, Minority Report), while in the 21st century Cruise has become increasingly dedicated to the physical spectacle of action cinema, producing and performing his own stunts in the Mission: Impossible films and beyond. Cruise’s entire captivating career speaks to his legacy as a singular movie star, and all the contradictions—of mystery and emotional transparency, of relatability and untouchability, of strength and vulnerability—that entails.
His appearance at the 2024 Olympics was AMAZING!
https://movingimage.org/series/tom-cruise-above-and-beyond
Films: Risky Business (Dir. Paul Brickman. 1983, 35mm), The Outsiders (Dir. Francis Ford Coppola. 1983, 35mm), The Color of Money (Dir. Martin Scorsese. 1986, 35mm), Legend (Dir. Ridley Scott. 1985), Cocktail (Dir. Ronald Donaldson. 1988, 35mm), Born on the Fourth of July (Dir. Oliver Stone. 1989), A Few Good Men (Dir. Rob Reiner. 1992), Rain Man (Dir. Barry Levinson. 1988), Jerry Maguire (Dir. Cameron Crowe. 1996), Edge of Tomorrow (Dir. Doug Liman. 2014), The Firm (Dir. Sydney Pollack. 1993, 35mm), Interview with the Vampire (Dir. Neil Jordan. 1994, 35mm), Eyes Wide Shut (Dir. Stanley Kubrick. 1999, 35mm), Magnolia (Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson. 1999, 35mm), Minority Report (Dir. Steven Spielberg. 2002, 35mm), Collateral (Dir. Michael Mann. 2004, 35mm), War of the Worlds (Dir. Steven Spielberg. 2005, 35mm), Top Gun (Dir. Tony Scott. 1986, 70mm), Top Gun Maverick (Dir. Joseph Kosinski. 2022), Days of Thunder (Dir. Tony Scott. 1990, 70mm), Tropic Thunder (Dir. Ben Stiller. 2008), Jack Reacher (Dir. Christopher Mc Quarrie. 2012).
Summer Saturdays with Dolby Atmos
June 28–August 30
In May 2025, Museum of the Moving Image’s Sumner M. Redstone Theater unveiled a major, newly renovated audio system, featuring Dolby Atmos surround sound capability, and a new laser projector. With 63 output channels, featuring Dolby speakers and amplification, the Redstone is now an even more spectacular place to watch and hear movies, giving films an unprecedented level of aural detail, creating a spatial atmosphere of immersive realism. Put simply: everything looks and sounds better with these upgrades. To celebrate and demonstrate the theater at its best, the Museum will present a summer series of movies mixed or re-released in Dolby Atmos – every Saturday this summer from June 28 to August 30. Prepare to be overwhelmed by a science-fiction blockbuster or a rousing musical or a psychological drama with brilliantly layered sound design or even a reconstituted classic!
Films: Blade Runner 2049 (Dir. Denis Villeneuve. 2017), Titanic (Dir. James Cameron. 1997), Edge of Tomorrow (Dir. Doug Liman. 2014), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (3D) (Dirs. Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman. 2018), West Side Story (Dir. Steven Spielberg. 2021), Top Gun Maverick (Dir. Joseph Kosinski. 2022), A Star Is Born (Dir. Bradley Cooper. 2018), Uncut Gems (Dirs. Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie. 2019), The Wizard of Oz (Dir. Victor Fleming. 1939), Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (Dir. Quentin Tarantino. 2019)
See It Big: 70mm! (2025)
Presented by MUBI
July 31–August 24
MoMI’s annual summer tradition returns with a thrilling selection of films screening in 70mm prints. With a larger frame size that captures more detail and light, 70mm offers the biggest, brightest image—the ideal film format for ambitious cinematic spectacle. The centerpiece remains 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), and there’s nowhere better in New York to watch Stanley Kubrick’s monolithic masterpiece than in the Sumner M. Redstone Theater, which was designed with an eye towards its space-age aesthetic. The series also includes Tom Cruise classics that feel the need for speed (and size), Top Gun (1986) and Days of Thunder (1990), and Alfred Hitchcock’s grand-scale suspense thriller North by Northwest (1959), a work of genius best experienced large and loud. And this year, with the Redstone Theater’s new major upgrade to Dolby Atmos sound, these spectacular films will also sound better than ever. Additional title to be announced.
