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Oasis

Director: Lee Chang-dong

2002 / 133min

Jong-du (Sul Kyung-gu), just out of prison, very little reformed, and shunned by his family, finds an unlikely soulmate in the person of Gong-ju (Moon So-ri), a woman with severe cerebral palsy—and the daughter of the victim of the hit-and-run for which…

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The Ice Storm

Director: Ang Lee

1997 / 112min / 35mm

Discussion after the film with cinematographer Frederick Elmes and production designer Mark Friedberg on Friday, April 19th

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NOCTURAMA

Director: Bertrand Bonello

2016 / 130min / DCP

Bonello’s ingeniously structured terror attack thriller opens with a group of tense, shifty teens prowling the streets and subways of Paris, in the midst, as it happens, of pulling off an intricately planned bombing plot. After the explosions, however,…

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Cries and Whispers

Director: Ingmar Bergman

1972 / 91min / 35mm

Introduction by cinematographer Frederick Elmes on Friday, April 19th

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ASC Presents: Fredrick Elmes - The Night Of

Director: Steven Zaillian

2016 / 95min / DCP

The ASC East Coast Events Committee and Metrograph join forces to present a screening of the final episode of the Emmy Award-winning HBO 2016 miniseries The Night Of, followed by Q&A panel discussion with cinematographer Frederick Elmes, ASC. Recounting…

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Porky Pig Showcase

Director: Multiple Dirs

1950 / 90min / 16mm

The pick of the litter of animated shorts starring Looney Tunes’s/Merrie Melodies’s first breakout star, Porky Pig, created by Friz Freling, first introduced to audiences in 1935, and beloved as a stammering everyman (everypig?) character ever since.…

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River's Edge

Director: Tim Hunter

1986 / 99min / 35mm

Introduction by cinematographer Frederick Elmes on Saturday, April 20th

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opening night

Director: John Cassavetes

1977 / 144min / DCP

Myrtle Gordon (Gena Rowlands), an actress entering her Grand Dame years, is in final rehearsals for a play when a disturbed young fan is killed in front of her. The trauma of the sight drives Gordon off the rails, leading her to declare war on her…

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Diva

Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix

1982 / 117min / 35mm

The quintessential Paris rundown film has postman Frédéric Andréi on the lam from hitmen sicced on him by drug dealers, cops, and Taiwanese music pirates. Beineix’s directorial debut, a beast at the arthouse box office, is an orgy of stunning set…

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Dazed and Confused

Director: Richard Linklater

1993 / 103min / 35mm

Linklater’s shaggy, endlessly quotable comedy, set on the last day of classes—and the hard-partying night that follows—at Lee High School in Austin, Texas, in the bicentennial year of 1976, offers a look at American society through the microcosm of…

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Pierrot le Fou

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

1965 / 110min / DCP

Unhappily married journalist Jean-Paul Belmondo puts a match to his settled bourgeois life and hits the road with ex-girlfriend Anna Karina in Godard’s lividly colored Pop Art romance, which starts with a spark of attraction, as they madly flee from…

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Miracle in Milan

Director: Vittorio De Sica

1951 / 97min / DCP

De Sica banged a sharp turn away from neorealism with this magical realist fable evocative of early cinema, which retains the sense of solidarity with society’s downtrodden of the director’s Bicycle Thieves, but employs a deliberately (and…

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A Brand New Life

Director: Ouni Lecomte

2009 / 92min / DCP

Lecomte’s feature debut, drawing from her own biography, focuses on a nine-year-old girl, Jin-hee (Kim Sae-ron, giving one of the finest performances by a child actor in recent memory), whose father hands her over to a Catholic orphanage in Seoul before…

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Elevator to the Gallows

Director: Louis Malle

1958 / 91min / DCP

A turning point in the careers of both director Malle, making his feature debut, and star Jeanne Moreau, Elevator to the Gallows takes place over the course of one sleepless night in Paris, when Moreau and lover Maurice Ronet’s plot to do away with her…

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Wings of Desire

Director: Wim Wenders

1987 / 128min / 35mm

Invisible trenchcoated guardian angels watch over beleaguered Berliners from on high in Wenders’s soaring city symphony, which follows one of them, Daniel (Bruno Ganz), as he sacrifices his immortality for a chance at love with lonesome trapeze artist…

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Peppermint Candy

Director: Lee Chang-dong

1999 / 129min

Opening on a shocking scene of implied suicide, Lee’s sophomore feature proceeds to move backward in time, its reverse chronology following its protagonist’s unhappiness to its source, following him from the end of the ’70s to the close of the…

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Wild at Heart

Director: David Lynch

1990 / 125min / 35mm

Introduction and Q&A with cinematographer Fred Elmes Saturday, April 13, 5:30pm

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Burning

Director: Lee Chang-dong

2018 / 148min / DCP

After an eight-year hiatus, Lee returns with this smoldering adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s short story “Barn Burning,” in which sinister overtones gradually color a triangular relationship. In Seoul, broke aspiring writer Jong-su (Yoo Ah-in)…

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Apocalypse Now: Final Cut

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

1979 / 183min / DCP

Introduction by Ena Sendijarević on Friday, April 12th

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A Girl At My Door

Director: July Jung

2014 / 119min / DCP

Produced by Lee Chang-dong, Jung’s debut feature kicked up a swirl of controversy for its frank depiction of budding same-sex attraction and scathing indictment of the bigotry of provincial South Korean society. Assuming the post of precinct chief in a…

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Blue Velvet

Director: David Lynch

1986 / 120min

The chance discovery of a severed human ear lying in a field inspires Kyle MacLachlan’s wholesome, all-American protagonist to try his hand at amateur sleuthing, and sets him off on a journey that will introduce him to bruised beauty Isabella Rossellini…

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Poetry

Director: Lee Chang-dong

2010 / 139min

Mija (Yun Jung-hee) has been tasked with raising her troubled teenaged grandson, Jong-wook, while her daughter, Jong-wook’s single mother, works in far-off Busan. When her capacity as a caregiver is threatened by a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s, Mija…

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Art College 1994

Director: Liu Jian

2023 / 118min / DCP

Based on its director’s own experiences on the campus of the Chinese Southern Academy of Arts in the mid-1990s, Art College 1994, which returns to the meticulous hand-drawn 2D animation style of predecessor Have a Nice Day, is Liu’s affectionate,…

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Members Only Screening: I Saw the TV Glow

Director: Jane Schoenbrun

2024 / 100min / DCP

Introduction from writer-director Jane Schoenbrun on Friday, April 26th

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Have a Nice Day

Director: Liu Jian

2017 / 77min / DCP

Liu’s second animated feature, the result of three diligent years at the drawing board, is a head-first dive into gangland lowlife that follows Xiao Zhang (voiced by Changlong Zhu), a construction worker who, while taking occasional courier jobs for a…

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Garrett Bradley Shorts Program

Director: Garrett Bradley

2017 / 70min / DCP

Introduction by director Garrett Bradley on Saturday, April 27th

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Time

Director: Garrett Bradley

2020 / 80min / DCP

Introduction by director Garrett Bradley on Saturday, April 27th

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Night on Earth

Director: Jim Jarmusch

1991 / 129min / 35mm

Introduction by cinematographer Frederick Elmes on Saturday, April 27th

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Delicatessen

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro

1991 / 99min / DCP

The first feature by Jeunet and Caro, who had only completed a handful of shorts when they stunned the world with this antic, stylish debut—a skewed, funhouse mirror vision informed by comic strips, gonzo animation, and silent comedy. In a…

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Dog Day Afternoon

Director: Sidney Lumet

1975 / 125min / 35mm

Al Pacino, in as close as he gets to a career-defining role, plays Sonny Wortzik, a small-time crook who makes big-time headlines while maintaining a volatile hostage situation with itchy trigger-fingered partner Cazale at First Brooklyn Saving…

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Devi + Conversation with Garrett Bradley & Friends

Director: Satyajit Ray

1960 / 93min / DCP

Pre-screening panel discussion with Garrett Bradley, Sky Hopinka, Linda Goode Bryant, Alexandra Bell, Samora Pinderhughes and Dessane Lopez Cassell on Sunday, April 28

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The Short List: Films from Metrograph's Staff

Director: Multiple Dirs

2024 / 82min / Digital

For the latest iteration of THE SHORT LIST, Metrograph has invited our talented staff members to present their own short films. Works will be shown from Sarah Abney, Julian Clark, Jeffrey P. Crowley, Donna Dimitrova, Sabrina Kissack, Matthew Maffei, Emma…

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Green Fish

Director: Lee Chang-dong

1997 / 111min

Already established as a novelist and playwright, Lee made the leap to the director’s chair with this spectacularly assured first feagrture, a scourging commentary on South Korean society dressed up in film noir trappings, focused on a freshly demobbed…

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Devi

Director: Satyajit Ray

1960 / 93min

Ray’s baroquely styled depiction of religious fanaticism focuses on a man, Kalikinkar (Chhabi Biswas), who becomes obsessed with the idea that his young daughter-in-law, Doyamoyee (Sharmila Tagore), is the reincarnation of the ferocious goddess Kali.…

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El Topo

Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky

1970 / 125min / 35mm

Chilean-born mime-turned-filmmaker Jodorowsky plays the title role in this acid Western staple of the midnight movies, strapping on the six-shooter as a lone gunfighter—his name means “The Mole” in Spanish—traveling across a psychedelic desert…

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The Aviator's Wife

Director: Éric Rohmer

1981 / 106min / DCP

The inaugural film of Rohmer’s “Comedies and Proverbs” cycle, The Aviator’s Wife is a fleecy farce of romantic overanalysis

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Kaili Blues

Director: Bi Gan

2015 / 109min / DCP

Chinese filmmaker Bi Gan’s award-winning directorial debut is an audacious work that announced a major new filmmaking talent. Country doctor Chen Sheng sets out on a train journey to search for his brother’s abandoned child, only to find himself in a…

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The Big Picture

Director: Christopher Guest

1989 / 100min / 35mm

“The Big Picture is a hysterical, timeless, and spot on satire of the entertainment industry—and a great lesson in staying true to oneself. Absolutely brilliant, I make reference to it often.” —Victoria Ashley, Metrograph Events team …

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Floating Weeds

Director: Yasujirô Ozu

1959 / 119min / DCP

Ozu’s remake of his own 1934 silent A Story of Floating Weeds adds color, the eye of the brilliant Rashomon and Ugetsu cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa, and of course Kyō, playing the mistress of the head of a kabuki theater troupe who’s embittered to…

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Fantastic Mr. Fox

Director: Wes Anderson

2016 / 87min / DCP

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Waking Life

Director: Richard Linklater

2001 / 99min / 35mm

The first fully rotoscoped feature film—that is, a film that animates original live-action footage—Linklater’s Waking Life follows Wiley Wiggens as he embarks on a wending, digressive psychic odyssey through a fluid, ever-changing dreamscape…

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Bound

Director: Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski

1996 / 109min / DCP

Sparks fly when ex-con plumber Corky (Gina Gershon) first locks eyes with Violet (Jennifer Tilly), femme moll to crime kingpin Caesar (Joe Pantoliano). Following this meet-cute, things quickly get nasty, as the lady lovers lay down a plan to run away…

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Messiah of Evil

Director: Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz

1974 / 90min / DCP

One of the most sui generis American horror films of the 1970s, Huyck and Katz’s baroque chiller follows a young woman named Arletty (Marianna Hill) who, in response to a series of mysterious missives from her estranged painter father, heads to the…

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Sexy Beast

Director: Jonathan Glazer

2000 / 89min / 35mm

Retired gangster Gary “Gal” Dove (Ray Winstone) has put away his safecracker’s tools for an early retirement at the Spanish seaside—or so he thinks, until old associate Don Logan (Ben Kingsley), a snarling, violent lunatic whose career in the…

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Rififi

Director: Jules Dassin

1955 / 118min / DCP

Run out of Hollywood by the Blacklist, Dassin landed on his feet in Paris, producing this existential thriller—and international box-office smash—that would become the heist film by which all others are measured, its centerpiece a legendary 30-minute…

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Amour

Director: Michael Haneke

2012 / 127min / DCP

For their study of an elderly couple—played by icons of French cinema Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva, both superlative—facing final separation by cruel death, Haneke and cinematographer Darius Khondji created a litany of framings that feel…

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Deep Cover

Director: Bill Duke

1992 / 107min / DCP

Laurence Fishburne gives a matchless performance as a cop still burdened by the childhood memory of his father’s crippling addiction whose straight-arrow life is derailed when he’s recruited into undercover work investigating the Los Angeles cocaine…

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The Return of the Living Dead

Director: Dan O'Bannon

1981 / 91min / DCP

Introduction by Jane Schoenbrun on Saturday, May 4th

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Goodbye, Dragon Inn

Director: Tsai Ming-liang

2003 / 82min / DCP

The Fu-Ho Grand, a movie palace in Taipei, is closing its doors. Its valedictory screening: King …

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The Master

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

2012 / 138min / 35mm

Anderson’s aching, ambitious, and deeply ambiguous psychodrama pairs alcoholic ex-serviceman Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) and messianic flimflam man Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman) in a cage match bromance that doubles as a meditation on the…

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Mommy

Director: Xavier Dolan

2014 / 139min / DCP

Québécois enfant terrible Dolan was 25 years old when he took home the Jury Prize at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival for his anguished, ardent Monreal-set melodrama, shot in a distinctive, smartphone-style 1:1 aspect ratio, about a vivacious widow (Anne…

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Dreams

Director: Akira Kurosawa

1990 / 119min / 35mm

Fresh off two late-career megaproductions (Kagemusha and Ran), Kurosawa made an unexpected turn to short-form with his omnibus film Dreams. The director’s stock of recurring dreams became the raw material for the eight magical realist vignettes…

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Three Crowns of the Sailor

Director: Raúl Ruiz

1983 / 117min / DCP

A callow student, scared stiff of the consequences of the murder he has just committed, allows himself to be dragged to a dance hall by a squiffed sailor who insists on making the shaken youth a captive audience to the recounting of his life story, a…

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First Comes Love

Director: Nina Davenport

2013 / 105min / DCP

Introduction + Q&A with filmmaker Nina Davenport on Friday, May 10th.

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Batman Returns

Director: Tim Burton

1996 / 126min / 35mm

Burton and star Michael Keaton’s first Caped Crusader film was a pop culture phenomenon; their second was no slouch at the box office itself, but an altogether spicier dish to serve to unsuspecting multiplex audiences: an unremittingly grim, gloomily…

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Following

Director: Christopher Nolan

1998 / 69min / DCP

For the opening act of his world-conquering career, Nolan summoned up all the precision and intelligence of his later work on a shoestring budget, crafting this taut, hard-edged black-and-white neo-noir—shot on 16mm, with Nolan himself acting as…

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AGGRO DR1FT

Director: Harmony Korine

2024 / 80min / DCP

The first indefinable object to emerge from Korine’s shrouded-in-mystery EDGLRD collective, the simmeringly psychedelic AGGRO DR1FT—entirely shot in infrared, through thermal lenses—is a vibe-soaked odyssey following a supremely gifted-but-tormented…

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