Back to At Home THE METROGRAPH PICTURES LIBRARYExplore the Metrograph Picture Library and more. On demand. At home. Any time. A seductive submersion into the techno-scored neon nightlife of Taipei, drenched in club lights and a nagging undercurrent of ennui.MILLENNIUM MAMBOHou Hsiao-hsien | 119 min | 2001 Banned upon its original release in 1981, Possession is cinematic delirium at its most intoxicating.POSSESSIONANDRZEJ ŻUłAWSKI | 124 min | 1981 Chan’s raw, atmospheric portrait of nihilistic youth and a city on the brink, the first independent film released in post-Handover Hong Kong.MADE IN HONG KONGFRUIT CHAN | 99 min | 1997 Tsai’s minimalist yet multifaceted film in which a soon-to-be-shut-down movie palace, the Fo-Ho—its screening room, projection booth, hallways, bathrooms—becomes a sort of haunted house.GOODBYE, DRAGON INNTSAI MING-LIANG | 82 min | 2003 One of Denis’s most exhilarating films, which charts the travels of a mercenary (Michel Subor) as he journeys from the snowy Alps to Korea to Tahiti in search of a heart transplant and his son.L’INTRUSCLAIRE DENIS | 130 min | 2004 Klein’s stunningly up-close-and-personal sports documentary, set behind the scenes of the 1981 French Open.THE FRENCHWILLIAM KLEIN | 135 min | 1982 A new restoration of the final episode of Rohmer’s “Comedies and Proverbs” series, in which two young women are tempted by each other’s love interests.BOYFRIENDS AND GIRLFRIENDSÉRIC ROHMER | 103 min | 1987 This breezy, witty film tracks the friendship between a savvy Parisian and a naïve painter from the countryside through four connected vignettes.FOUR ADVENTURES OF REINETTE AND MIRABELLEÉRIC ROHMER | 99 min | 1987 The first title in Rohmer’s “Comedies and Proverbs” film cycle is a fleecy farce of romantic overanalysis starring Philippe Marlaud and Marie Rivière.THE AVIATOR’S WIFEÉRIC ROHMER | 106 min | 1981 Hazan’s narrative-nonfiction hybrid focusing on artist David Hockney is a time capsule of hedonistic gay life in the 1970s as well an invaluable portrait of art history in action.A BIGGER SPLASHJACK HAZAN | 106 min | 1974 “What if someone else wrote your autobiography?” That is the question posited by Alexander Olch as he tells the life-story of his former Harvard professor, the filmmaker Richard P. Rogers.THE WINDMILL MOVIEAlexander Olch | 82 min | 2008 A strikingly original, deeply empathetic family drama that sidesteps all clichéd sentimentality on the way to achieving quietly devastating results. ALL IS FORGIVENMIA HANSEN-LøVE | 105 min | 2007 Starring Jean-Michel Basquiat, this street-smart rock-musical fantasy provides a window into a long-lost world of life on the margins that feels especially potent today.DOWNTOWN 81EDO BERTOGLIO | 72 min | 1981 / 2000 A surreal, stunning feature debut and final cinematic testament from the late composer and musician Jóhann Jóhannsson (Sicario, Arrival, Mandy).LAST AND FIRST MENJóHANN JóHANNSSON | 72 min | 2020 Rude Boy follows roughneck Ray Gange as he drops his Soho sex-shop job to roadie for The Clash—the most fiery, revolutionary rock ’n’ roll band of the era.RUDE BOYJACK HAZAN AND DAVID MINGAY | 113 min | 1980 This Wiseman-esque documentary from Claire Simon observes a process that is highly personal, idiosyncratic, and subject to the vagaries of personal prejudice.THE COMPETITIONCLAIRE SIMON | 121 min | 2016 Essayist, novelist, critic, and cinephile, Susan Sontag made only four films as a writer/director, and this one—her first—provides an introduction to a startlingly original filmmaker.DUET FOR CANNIBALSSUSAN SONTAG | 95 min | 1969 Hailed “a masterpiece” by The New York Times when it opened in 1955, this rhapsody of a film centers around life on a Swedish farm in the north of the country.THE GREAT ADVENTUREARNE SUCKSDORFF | 77 min | 1953 A hallucinatory, biting satire of a contemporary Senegal whose post-colonial dreams are faced with erosion by Western materialism.HYENASDJIBRIL DIOP MAMBéTY | 110 min | 1992 Two medium-length films by the Senegalese master that provide a rich social vision, sly humor, and formal ingenuity.LE FRANC & THE LITTLE GIRL WHO SOLD THE SUNDJIBRIL DIOP MAMBéTY | 45 min | 1994/1999 John Hanson and Rob Nilsson collaborated on this remarkable series of documentaries underwritten by the North Dakota Humanities Council.THE PRAIRIE TRILOGYJOHN HANSON AND ROB NILSSON | 90 min | 1978 - 1980 A document of the thin line between science and cultism in the early ’70s and a touching story of female camaraderie.THE RAFTMARCUS LINDEEN | 97 min | 2018
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