If families need a break from the heat this summer, then they can get out of the sun and into the Chicago History Museum for the first annual Summer Movies for Kids film series. Screenings will be held on select Wednesdays at 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.

MoMA presents a weeklong run of the feature documentary Nollywood Babylon, which focuses on the brash, inventive, and wildly popular contemporary films being made in Nigeria today by enterprising filmmakers who make movies with low production values and shoestring budgets. Nollywood Babylon will be shown in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters from July 3 through 9, 2009.

The Museum of Modern Art celebrates The New York Film Critics Circle’s (NYFCC) 75th anniversary with a 12-week series of award-winning films, from July 3 to September 23, 2009, in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters.

It has become almost axiomatic that the mid-1960s were a high-water mark in British cinema history. While giving due acknowledgment to native British directors, such as Lindsay Anderson, John Boorman, Peter Brook, Clive Donner, David Lean, Ronald Neame, Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson, and John Schlesinger, this exhibition is intended to highlight the substantial role played by Americans who, for varying reasons, were drawn to British shores during the era.

Chicagoans are invited to take in the sights of the city on the big screen during the Chicago History Museum’s Movies in the Park film series, presented in conjunction with the Chicago Park District.

Food writer Michael Ruhlman set to appear with the new documentary, Food Fight; Goran Bregovic films coincide with VIVA! & Gala performance.

A 100 acre extension to Pinewood Studios would enable permanent film lots including a permanent Venice canal, a Parisian square and New York apartments.

Opera North, England will screen a film named 'New Babylon' on Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 May, at 8pm.

The richness and diversity of contemporary Indian cinema is explored in The New India, a two-week, 16-film exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, from June 5 through 18, 2009. The exhibition presents feature and short films, including eight New York premieres, that capture the range of fiction and documentary genres and styles in Indian cinema today.

Cruel And Unusual series coming to Museum Of Modern Art, New York examines how silent-era slapstick comedy treats social, cultural, and political topics that continue to be central concerns in America today. Rude forms of comedy have long used incendiary subjects like industrialization, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, violence, and substance abuse as vital source material-and enjoyed great success with mass audiences.

The Museum of Modern Art presents Kim Longinotto, a two-week exhibition showcasing 14 documentaries made over a 30-year span by one of today‘s preeminent documentary filmmakers, from May 7 through 23, 2009.

The Museum of Modern Art presents The West: Myth, Character, and Reinvention by Andy Warhol, from May 6 through June 26, 2009, in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters. The exhibition brings together eleven films by Andy Warhol that either reference or are set in the American West, including Harlot (1964), Horse (1965), and Lonesome Cowboys (1967-68) among others.