Performance

King Kong

0 upcoming performances in New York

John Guillermin’s 1976 *King Kong* revisits the familiar story of a giant ape taken from its habitat and brought to New York as a spectacle, where the city becomes both stage and trap. The film is also a document of its era, leaning on mechanical creature work and performance-driven effects that helped redefine blockbuster craft in the mid-1970s. At MoMA, it plays less as pure monster cinema than as a study in how NYC absorbs mythology and turns it into commerce.