Here Comes Tomorrow: Cinema of the Last Century

As MOCA Jacksonville celebrates its 100th anniversary, we look back at the last century of artistic expression in film. With a particular focus on films that imagined the future, this year long series explores decade by decade, the hopes, anxieties, and dreams of filmmakers and audiences from the 1920s till the present day. 

This event takes place during Museum Nights at MOCA and is free with admission. Enjoy concessions from the MOCA Bar and Setlan Coffee Co.! The museum is open extended hours during Museum Nights from 5-9 p.m., so feel free to explore the galleries before or after the films.

SCREENING SCHEDULE

January 17 // Metropolis (1927)

February 21 // Things to Come (1936)

March 20 // Krakatit (1948)

April 17 // Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

May 15 // 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

June 19 // News from Home (1976)

July 17 // Solaris (1972)

August 21 // Brazil (1985)

September 18 // Strange Days (1995)

October 16 // Children of Men (2006)

November 20 // Interstellar (2014)

December 18 // Last and First Men (2020)

JAN 17 // METROPOLIS ( 1927)

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences. 

Directed by Fritz Lang 

Starring Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich 

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FEB 21 // THINGS TO COME (1936)

A landmark collaboration between writer H. G. Wells, producer Alexander Korda, and designer and director William Cameron Menzies, Things to Come is a science fiction film like no other, a prescient political work that predicts a century of turmoil and progress. Skipping through time, Things to Come bears witness to world war, disease, dictatorship, and, finally, utopia. Conceived, written, and overseen by Wells himself as an adaptation of his own work, this megabudget production, the most ambitious ever from Korda’s London Films, is a triumph of imagination and technical audacity. 

Directed by William Cameron Menzies 

Starring Raymond Massey 

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MAR 20 // KRAKATIT (1948)

Based on the 1922 novel of the same name, this Czechoslovak film stars Karel Höger as a chemist who suffers from delirium and regret after inventing a powerful explosive. After an accidental explosion in the lab, the inventor slips in and out of dream-like hallucinations, realizing that he had given the formula to one of his colleagues, who he tries to stop before it is too late. 

Following the invention and use of nuclear devices 3 years prior, the film was a timely warning against the development of ever more destructive weapons.  

Directed by Otakar Vávra  

Starring Karel Höger 

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APR 17 // INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956)

In Santa Mira, California, Dr. Miles Bennell is baffled when all his patients come to him with the same complaint: their loved ones seem to have been replaced by emotionless impostors. Despite others' dismissive denials, they soon discover that the patients' suspicions are true: an alien species of human duplicates is taking over the small town. 

A classic of American Science Fiction, the film has been interpreted as a metaphor for the tyranny of the McCarthy era as well as an expression of the national fear of a on communist invasion.  

Directed by Don Siegel 

Starring Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter 

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