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This week at Metrograph: opening weekend of the 30th anniversary restorations of the Maiku Hama Trilogy: The Most Terrible Time in My Life, A Stairway to the Distant Past, and The Trap, the neo-noir detective trilogy that made Kaizo Hayashi a cult sensation with accompanying series After The Case including Inherent Vice on 35mm and Kiss Me Deadly; celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Murray Center for Documentary, featuring award winning shorts from the class of 25‘ and catch a secret screening of a film that just had its world premiere at vanguard doc-film festival True/False, followed by a panel about the future of the form moderated by Murray Center for Documentary Journalism‘s “Filmmaker-in- Chief” Robert Greene; one of cinema‘s most essential living documentarians Sergei Loznitsa joins us in person to present two landmark works of observational documentary: Maidan and The Invasion preceded by the short Paleontology Lesson; second weekend of Boris Barnet, Soviet Poet with two of his masterpieces By Bluest of Seas and Outskirts; and more!