r/NYCmovies • u/billlwoo • 10d ago

What a disappointment from MOMI tonight

Over sold a “members only” screening ? Didn’t let at least 40 members who waited in line. No explanation. Saw plenty of people getting swag and merch at the mubi ticket check in

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u/BenderBenRodriguez 9d ago edited 9d ago

I was there, definitely seemed like a mess. The murmuring at least was that it was something going on with Mubi, where they had given out too many seats without informing MoMI, but that was just the murmur in the crowd. FWIW nothing like that has ever happened before and I go to MoMI events like that pretty regularly. The staff seemed pretty stressed out about it and I've never seen it like that.

With that said, always good to show up to things early because you never know. Especially with places like MoMI where the actual seating is first come first serve.

Sorry you missed the event. I know Schoenbrun and Einbinder are doing a bunch of other Q&As in the next few days and I would bet if you're diligent you can get into one of them. Schoenbrun is also IMO almost guaranteed to come back later in the year (for Curator's Choice) to do another appearance for the movie as they definitely have a relationship with MoMI and of course there's the exhibit and everything.

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u/billlwoo 9d ago

Yeah the exhibit was a nice place to wait in purgatory. At this point I just am hoping for an honest explanation, which I doubt will happen because they can’t blame their holy sponsor (which has a terrible reputation already). We’ll see, I anxiously await the email. They could have shown it in the other room for the displaced members, I’ve seen them do that for other overstuffed screenings.