UPCOMING PROGRAM: SUNDAY, JULY 27

Ragtag and Desire with Giuseppe Boccassini in person and discussion including Tom Gunning (by video) (July 27, Museum of the Moving Image)

RECENT PROGRAMMING

A Theater Near You (June 12-July 11, Museum of Modern Art)

Ballpark Blockbuster: An Evening with NY Mets Game Director John DeMarsico (July 17, Museum of the Moving Image)

Tom Gunning and the Attractions of Cinema (April 26 & 27, Museum of the Moving Image)

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, with Embeth Davidtz in person (June 24, Museum of the Moving Image)

NEWLY ADDED WRITING:

Jafar Panahi’s Offside

A Theater Near You, my series at MoMA

Cannes 2025: Dispatch from the 78th Festival de Cannes

Callie Hernandez and Courtney Stephens, writer/directors of Invention

Durga Chew-Bose, writer/director of Bonjour Tristesse

Lina Vdovîi and Radu Ciorniciuc’s Tata

Michelangelo Antonioni’s Le Amiche

Frederick Wiseman’s Primate

Frederick Wiseman’s Essene

David Schwartz is a New York-based film curator and critic. He is curator-at-large for Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI), where he worked for many years as Chief Curator. In 2019, Schwartz received a Career Achievement Award from the New York Film Critics Circle for his tenure at MoMI. Schwartz is the Director of Film Programming at the Barrymore Film Center in Fort Lee, hosts the Emelin Theatre Film Club in Mamaroneck, and programs for other venues, including the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington, and he has upcoming programs at the Museum of Modern Art and Film Forum in New York. He programmed and managed the Paris Theater in Manhattan, for Netflix, and has programmed for DocFilms in Chicago, Mezzanine in Los Angeles, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, NY, and Metrograph,and the Quad in Manhattan. He writes about film for Screen Slate, Reverse Shot, Filmmaker Magazine, MUBI Notebook, and Film Comment, edited the book David Cronenberg: Interviews, and taught film history at Purchase College and New York University. He is on the Board of Directors for The Film-makers’ Cooperative.