The Birds

About this event

Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. 1963, 119 mins. U.S. 4K DCP. With Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Veronica Cartwright. Especially experienced on the big screen, Hitchcock’s boldly music-free master class in mounting and inexplicable dread feels properly apocalyptic, a film that begins as a romcom and ends as an unending screech from the void. Tippi Hedren’s cursed Melanie Daniels (swathed in an iconic pale green coat and skirt ensemble from Edith Head) is the glamorous centerpiece to Hitchcock’s existential horror classic, her brilliantly placid performance as eerily frightening as the squawking gulls that engulf her one horrible weekend in Bodega Bay. Tickets: $17.50 / $12 senior and students / $10 youth / free for MoMI members. There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases. The cost of admission may be applied toward a same-day purchase of a membership. Purchase tickets for September 20 at 3:00 p.m. (Redstone theater) Purchase tickets for September 26 at 4:30 p.m. (Bartos theater) Please pick up tickets at the Museum’s admissions desk upon arrival. All seating is general admission.