Opens Sunday, August 30 - 8:00pm ET
Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Le Franc (1994) and The Little Girl Who Sold The Sun (1999)
New restorations and digital premieres (Metrograph Pictures releases)
Through September 4
*Digital Exclusive*
Mambéty, whose Touki Bouki (1973) is one of the greatest films of the last half century, and whose Hyenas (1992) Metrograph Pictures was proud to put back into circulation, completed only two feature films in his too-short life. His features tell only part of the story of this creative artist’s enormous accomplishment, however, and two of the ambitious medium-length films that Mambéty completed in his final years, Le Franc and The Little Girl Who Sold The Sun, give us a fuller picture of his rich social vision, his sly humor, and his ingenuity, reminding us of his seismic influence on world cinema, and the legacy he leaves behind.

Opens Tuesday, September 1 - 8:00pm ET
Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Hyenas (1992)
New restoration (A Metrograph Pictures release)
Guest introduction by Boukary Sawadogo, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies, CUNY
Through September 4
*Digital Exclusive*
One of the treasures of African cinema, Senegalese master Djibril Diop Mambéty’s long-delayed follow-up to his canonical Touki Bouki is a hallucinatory comic adaptation of Swiss avant-garde writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s play The Visit, which in Mambéty’s imagining follows a now-rich woman returning to her poor desert hometown to propose a deal to the populace: her fortune, in exchange for the death of the man who years earlier abandoned her and left her with his child. Per its title, Hyenas is a film of sinister, mocking laughter, and a biting satire of a contemporary Senegal whose post-colonial dreams are faced with erosion by western materialism.

Opens Thursday, September 3 - 8:00pm ET
Ulrike Ottinger Retrospective - Freak Orlando (1981)
Series continues through October
*Digital Exclusive*
Ulrike Ottinger’s collision of Hollywood flamboyancy and a particularly dour documentary aesthetic suits this Janus-faced tale of two female lushes from two very different walks of life, alike in many ways, but incapable of recognizing their bond. One is a known bag-lady barfly, the other a socialite oddball who stays aloof from her surroundings, quietly but intently suiciding with booze. Their paired stories play out in a Berlin peopled by punks and New German Cinema icons, including Nina Hagen, Tabea Blumenschein, Magdalena Montezuma, and Eddie Constantine.

Opens Friday, September 4 - 8:00pm ET Éric Rohmer x 3 - Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987)
A Metrograph Pictures release
*Digital Exclusive*
Guest introduction by filmmaker Noah Baumbach - new restoration and digital premiere
Rohmer uses the amorous misadventures of two girlfriends in the Paris suburbs to test the old adage in the final episode of his “Comedies and Proverbs” series. Taking an identifiable stab at a yuppie(ish) set, Rohmer’s witty Shakespearean roundelay involves the buttoned-up Blanche (Emmanuelle Chaulet, in a superb debut) and the free-spirited Lea (Sophie Renoir), and their current amours. The pair are tempted by each other’s love interests, testing both their friendship and their understanding of matters of the heart.

Series continues through September with 4 Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (opening September 11) and The Aviator’s Wife (opening September 18) in new digital restorations.