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Live Screening
Woman Is the Future of Man
DIRECTED BY Hong Sang-soo
Writer Kristen Yoonsoo Kim introduces one of Hong Sang-soo’s most beloved earlier works, which tells the story of two long-time friends who decide to meet up with the woman they once both had an affair with...
PRE-SHOW BEGINS 10 MINUTES PRIOR TO SHOWTIME.
Mon, Nov 30 • 8:00PM ETAVAILABLE ON DEMAND
Dec 1-2
Ticketed Screening
Coded Bias
DIRECTED BY Shalini Kantayya
When MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers that most facial-recognition software does not accurately ID darker-skinned faces and the faces of women, she delves into an investigation of widespread bias in algorithms.
Book TicketsPLAYING THRU Dec 3
$8/Members, $12/Non-Members
Ticketed Screening
Six in Paris
DIRECTED BY Claude Chabrol, Jean Douchet, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Éric Rohmer & Jean Rouch
A sextet of piquant tales set in the City of Light, each from a director either central, influential, or adjacent to the Nouvelle Vague, then in full swing.
Book TicketsPLAYING THRU Dec 3
$8/Members, $12/Non-Members
Ticketed Screening
Made in Hong Kong
DIRECTED BY Fruit Chan
Chan’s raw, atmospheric portrait of nihilistic youth and a city on the brink, following a high-school dropout who sees little hope for his future, was the first independent film released in post-Handover Hong Kong.
Newly restored!
PLAYING THRU Dec 3
$8/Members, $12/Non-Members
Ticketed Screening
With Drawn Arms
DIRECTED BY Glenn Kaino & Afshin Shahidi
At the 1968 Olympics, athletes Tommie Smith & John Carlos raised their fists from the podium at the medal ceremony as the American anthem played, a gesture that threw Smith’s life into disarray. This film allow the gold medalist to tell his story.
Book TicketsPLAYING Dec 4 THRU Dec 10
$8/Members, $12/Non-Members
Ticketed Screening
Bright Future
DIRECTED BY Kiyoshi Kurosawa
This quietly apocalyptic tale of alienated twentysomethings follows a man entrusted with the care of an imprisoned friend’s jellyfish—which one day slips through his fingers into a nearby canal, where it begins reproducing in massive numbers, menacing the entire city.
Book TicketsPLAYING Dec 4 THRU Dec 10
$8/Members, $12/Non-Members
Ticketed Screening
To the Ends of the Earth
DIRECTED BY Kiyoshi Kurosawa
In this new work by Kurosawa, a brilliant mix of black comedy, travelogue, drama, and adventure-imbued showbiz satire, a young travel reality show host finds herself adrift and alone in Tashkent, on a journey from displacement to self-discovery.
Book TicketsPLAYING Dec 11 THRU Dec 17
$8/Members, $12/Non-Members
On Demand
Nan Goldin Selects:
The Blood of a Poet
DIRECTED BY Jean Cocteau
Goldin presents a new 4K restoration of the film debut of essential 20th-century artist/poet Cocteau, an early-sound masterpiece and benchmark of cinematic surrealism.
WATCH NOWAVAILABLE THROUGH Dec 1
Live Screening
Tale of Cinema
DIRECTED BY Hong Sang-soo
Playfully using the film-within-a-film format, Hong tells the story both of two young depressives who form a suicide pact and a filmmaker who sees a movie that he believes was based on his life. Introduced by writer Kristen Yoonsoo Kim.
Thu, Dec 3 • 8:00PM ETAVAILABLE ON DEMAND
Dec 4-5
Live Screening
Nan Goldin Selects:
S.C.U.M. Manifesto 1967 + Born in Flames
DIRECTED BY Carole Roussopoulos &
Delphine Seyrig / Lizzie Borden
For her latest program, guest curator Nan Goldin introduces a pairing of two powerhouse films promoting female empowerment.
Sat, Dec 5 • 8:00PM ETAVAILABLE ON DEMAND
Dec 6-11
Journal
Interview
BY METROGRAPH
Prior to a run of Jarman’s little-seen masterpiece The Garden
at Metrograph theater last year, we uncovered this rare interview
with the director from 1990 in the movie’s original
press materials.
Essay
BY DAVID FRESKO
With fellow travelers or on his own, the maverick filmmaker traversed national and formal boundaries to bring his radical politics to the screen.
Essay
BY ACKBAR ABBAS
In Fruit Chan’s Made in Hong Kong, disaffected youngsters embody historical promises unkept.
Essay
BY TSAI MING-LIANG
The director of Goodbye, Dragon Inn recalls his relationship to cinema, on screen and off, in a piece that first appeared in Metrograph theater’s inaugural printed program in 2016.
Coming Soon
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who made his name with Cure and Charisma, returned to his J-horror roots with this twisty film.
DIGITAL RUN OPENS DECEMBER 4
In Tsai Ming-liang’s nearly wordless wonder, a soon-to-be-shut-down movie theater becomes a sort of haunted house.
EXCLUSIVE RUN OPENS DECEMBER 18
