Chun Hei Cheung

Can usually be found in dark rooms watching movies 👀

[Museum of the Moving Image @MovingImageNYC]

One of this weekend's most exciting and essential screenings!

[Museum of the Moving Image @MovingImageNYC]

June 14: One of the greatest of all silent films, King Vidor’s thrilling masterpiece, THE CROWD, features some of the most remarkable camerawork committed to celluloid.

Presented in rare 35mm with live piano accompaniment by Makia Matsumura.

🎟️: https://t.co/ypFbHRpnSU

[℠ (🇵🇸) (FUCK 🧊) @dimension__tide]

LA friends, you'll have a rare chance to catch Julius-Amédée Laou's two features (with special prerecorded intros) at @2220Arts on June 24th. A collaboration between Black Revivalist, @LosAngFilmforum and Caribbean Lens Film Festival https://t.co/ACPxSOOOHM

[Greenwich @Greenwich_Films]

An ambitious work of independent anime drawn solely by debut filmmaker Ryuya Suzuki, JINSEI is an expertly-crafted existential epic. Now Playing NYC at @IFCcenter; nationwide June 12!
https://t.co/kFpFhswFPp

[Le Cinéma Club @lecinemaclub]

This week: DEBUT, OR, OBJECTS OF THE FIELD OF DEBRIS AS CURRENTLY CATALOGUED a film by JULIAN CASTRONOVO. 2025. 78 min.

An aspiring filmmaker uncovers a mystery involving a Chinese art forger in this ingenious techno-noir.

For one week on https://t.co/ze1aiGlY0x.

[Dylan Cheung @Futurhythm]

I wrote about Ringo Lam and his seminal On Fire trilogy for @Metrograph. Their Ringo Lam series starts today, and includes both Prison on Fire and Full Contact on 35mm. https://t.co/6O6BzVKpal

[R. Emmet Sweeney / robert-emmet.bsky.social @r_emmet]

For Old New I interviewed @MoMAFilm curator @dave_kehr about the Universal Westerns series that opens today (and Edward L. Cahn). Link in reply.

[鈴木竜也 @habanero1203]

そして明日からNY先行公開。4館を皮切りに、順次80館、と思いきや今サイト見たら普通に100館こえてて目が飛び出てどっかいった。あはは。
https://t.co/CFyGEWl3vF

[Tara Bennett @TaraDBennett]

Coming to NY theaters on June 5 & going wide in the US on June 12 is director Ryuya Suzuki's (@habanero1203 ) first animated feature film, #Jinsei. For @cartoonbrew, I spoke with Suzuki-san about animating this unique film spanning 100-years of one life.

https://t.co/Va5GXflwie

[Chun Hei Cheung @ch_cheung]

Went to see BACKROOMS at AMC 34th St 14 and saw workers already tossing out promotional cardboards for movies that opened last week into the backroom 🚮

[Devan Scott @SadHillDevan]

If you're in NYC.... go see this. The new restoration of my favourite of Lubitsch's silent works! And it's got a fascinating story behind it!

[Vermette @exovedate_ltd]

Levers in Chicago, see you there ❤️

[Joshua Minsoo Kim @misterminsoo]

Tone Glow Film Festival starts tonight!!

Program 1 at 6:00PM // Shadow Stepping: The Films of Isao Kota
Program 2 at 8:00PM // Rhayne Vermette's LEVERS

See y'all there :+)

[Catsuka @catsuka]

"Nezumikozo Jirokichi" animated short film by Rintaro & Studio M2 is now online.
Character designs : Katsuhiro Otomo, Yoshinori Kanemori.
Dedicated to jidaigeki filmmaker Sadao Yamanaka (1909-1938).
>> https://t.co/7XFt2AcQlo

[Makia Matsumura @unpianistique]

June shows 📽️🎞️🎹

June 14 @ 3pm - THE CROWD (1927) @MovingImageNYC
https://t.co/9h5WxxIZDF…

June 16 @ 5pm - HELL BENT (1918)
@MoMAFilm
https://t.co/mosr89gLGF

June 16 @ 7pm - STRAIGHT SHOOTING (1917)
@MoMAFilm
https://t.co/KwCbYg1EXG

#silentfilm #livemusic #momi #moma

[Makia Matsumura @unpianistique]

The final show of May 2026 is coming up this Sunday – the premiere of a new project with shakuhachi player Marco Burmester! 🪈🎹

16th Annual Comp-Play-Comp Marathon – “Comedy”@CompCord

#newmusic #improvisationalmusic
#improvisation #gamepiecemusic

https://t.co/YLPs20hvpz

[Makia Matsumura @unpianistique]

MoMA’s annual Silent Movie Week has just been announced! Honored to be serving as one of the accompanists alongside @silentfilmmusic – I’ll accompany 3 screenings:

7/31: https://t.co/vAWmfDrswW

8/1: https://t.co/fKdCINg9Xk

8/4: https://t.co/v9IhhohTg7

#silentfilm #livemusic

[Japan Society Film @js_film_nyc]

BITTERNESS OF YOUTH is a 70s variation of George Steven’s A PLACE IN THE SUN (1951), set at the waning of Japan’s student movements. Ranked No. 17 by “Kinema Junpo” in their list of Greatest Japanese Films of All Time.

This Sat. 5/16 on 16mm: https://t.co/3L2m47im9G

[Japan Society Film @js_film_nyc]

A peek at the rare imported 16mm scope print of BITTERNESS OF YOUTH c/o @JF_NewYork screening tomorrow!

[Bilge Ebiri @BilgeEbiri]

I interviewed Tony Leung. https://t.co/b1SUpSz8i7