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Movies, candles and bread pudding What were last year’s best movies? Let’s ask the experts! The Museum of the Moving Image Curators’ Choice 2025 continues. Overall, the series will share 27 films that premiered theatrically during the previous calendar year as selected by MoMI Senior Curator of Film Michael Koresky, Associate Director of Special Programs Sarah Luciano, and Film and Public Pro g rams Mana g er Emily Greenberg. The lineup features everything from foreign films to art pieces to documentaries. Plus, directors, editors, producers, writers, and actors attend some of the events. “Marty Supreme” Jan. 23 at 6:30 p.m. Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Fran Drescher and Sandra Bernhard star in Josh Safdie’s 150-minute feature, which is set in post–World War II NYC. A cocky Jewish ping-pong whiz schemes his way from one unimaginable predicament to the next, and angers just about everyone he meets. “Videoheaven” with director Alex Ross Perry and editor Clyde Folley in person Jan. 24 at 1:30 p.m. This 173-minute cine-essay looks at the video store’s legacy and its representation on film and television. Audiences will remember wandering the aisles of the neighborhood video store, deciding what to rent, bonding with fellow cinephiles, and sparring with irascible clerks. “The Naked Gun” Jan. 24 at 4 p.m. Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson star in Akiva Schaffer’s 85-minute remake of a 1980s comedy about bumbling LAPD lieutenant Frank Drebin. While investigating a software engineer’s apparent suicide, he deals with the victim’s crime novelist sister and a megalomaniacal tech bro who might be behind the death. Free with RSVP. “One Battle After Another” Jan. 24 at 6:30 p.m. and Jan. 25 at 5:30 p.m. Paul Thomas Anderson’s 161-minute comedy’s all-star cast includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Teyana Taylor, Benicio del Toro and Regina Hall. After
Courtesy MoMI.Misericordia (Janus Films)
‘Misericordia’ is one of the several movies being shown through The Museum of the Moving Image Curators’ Choice 2025 series. going into witness protection for 16 years, a former revolutionary activist is thrust back into action when his teenage daughter becomes the target of a relentless military colonel with a personal grudge. “Misericordia” Jan. 25 at 1 p.m. French director Alain Guiraudie’s 104-minute queer thriller is set in the forests of Occitanie, where he grew up. After an unemployed baker returns to home for the funeral for his former mentor, he attaches himself to the dead man’s family, leading to violent and erotic events. Aesthetics. Ambiance. Aroma. There are many reasons why humans love candles. See it and believe it during Candlelight Tours at the Onderdonk House in Ridgewood that return on Feb. 7 and March 7 from 6 to 8 p.m. Volunteers will provide details about the naturally illuminated landmark while local resident Carlos Pavan plays modern classic guitar favorites. Mulled
Cider and other refreshments will be available, too. General admission is a $20 suggested donation. There’s a lot to see at this venue, which is for mally known as the “Vander-Ende Onderdonk House.” Located at 1820 Flushing Ave., it’s the oldest Dutch colonial stone house in New York City. In 1661, Hendrick Barents Smidt built the original structure, which Paulus Vander-Ende enlarged in 1709. Then, Adrian Onderdonk added a wooden wing when his family purchased the property in the early 1800s. With federal, state, and city landmark status, the dwelling’s features include heavy fieldstone walls, a wooden-shingle gambrel roof, large brick chimneys, double Dutch doors, and shuttered windows. After her daughter, Valentina, was born in 2022, Tiffany Campos planned to take maternity leave and then return to her 10-year-plus hospitality career. Watching Valentina grow had
South Ozone Park resident thinking about a bread pudding recipe that her Puerto Rican abuela, Luz, had passed on to her mother and aunt. People love it, she thought, so why not put it in a beautiful package with an eye-catching logo and sell it? An online search led her to the Entrepreneur Space, a commercial kitchen in Long Island City. In November 2024, Tiffany launched Heritage Bread Pudding, and she’s been busy ever since, working more than 30 events in the first year. She was the first Puerto Rican baker featured in Macy’s. She sold out at the Grand Central holiday market. She won a spot as a Made in NYC vendor. And she even got her product in Key Foods. –Jeffrey Bessen