MORE MOMA MOVIES AND MUSINGS. I've got some MOMA movie highlights to share, but first I want to air another gripe about the museum. (As you might recall, back in December I criticized the bathroom sinks for being too darn wet.)

This time I want to complain about MOMA's printed movie calendars. In advance of each screening period, members get little booklets that list movie dates, but the easy-to-scan single-sheet movie calendars are more useful. Suitable for wall-mounting like other repertory calendars, these schedules ought to be available before the first date on each schedule, but lately they've shown up at MOMA on or later than the first date! They're also not mailed to members, which means that moviegoers have to go to the museum to pick them up. MOMA movie schedules are also available online, but not in a format as user-friendly as the easy-to-scan single-sheet schedules. One way or another, those schedules should be easier to get.

Now, as for the movie calendar for the rest of January, one highlight is Béla Tarr's Sátántangó, which is a whopping 7.5 hours long. I haven't seen it myself, but it's supposed to be very good. Even MovieMartyr.com ("suffering for your cinema") deems it a masterpiece. And here's Manohla Dargis weighing in at The New York Times.

Sátántangó screenings are as follows:

Part 1 Wednesday, January 11, 5:00 pm (4 hours)
Part 2 Thursday, January 12, 5:00 pm (3.5 hours)
Complete with Two Intermissions Friday, January 13, 4:30 pm
Complete with Two Intermissions Saturday, Janaury 14, 3:00 pm
Complete with Two Intermissions Sunday, January 15, 1:00 pm
Complete with Two Intermissions Monday, January 16, 1:00 pm

Also at MOMA this month is the great Citizen Kane, which is best appreciated on a big screen.

Citizen Kane Thursday, January 19, 8:30 pm
Citizen Kane Saturday, January 28, 6:00 pm

Finally, there's free family fare on Friday nights!

Toy Story 2 Friday, January 13, 8:30 pm
Monsters, Inc. Friday, January 20, 8:30 pm
Finding Nemo Friday, January 27, 8:30 pm

Photo: David Marc Fischer