Back to At Home AT HOME WITH...Friends of Metrograph share a film they love, streaming on demand on the Metrograph At Home platform. Straub and Huillet’s rich and lovely tribute to the painter Paul Cézanne.CEZANNE, CONVERSATION WITH JOACHIM GAASQUETJean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 52 min | 1990 Kudlacek’s film provides a penetrating insight into the mind of its legendary subject, artist and filmmaker Maya Deren.IN THE MIRROR OF MAYA DERENMartina Kudlacek | 103 min | 2001 Wertmüller’s battle royale of the sexes/classes, a powder keg of a film that’s lost none of its ability to generate controversy almost 50 years after its release.SWEPT AWAYLina Wertmüller | 114 min | 1974 A brutal, claustrophobic film of escalating desperation that illustrates how an ordinary man can be pushed into acts of extraordinary retaliation.SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCEPark Chan-wook | 129 min | 2002 An intimate portrait of the peripatetic American writer Paul Bowles, shot in New York and his adopted home of Tangier.LET IT COME DOWN: THE LIFE OF PAUL BOWLESJennifer Baichwal | 75 min | 1999 The story of a terse long-distance relationship, charmingly told through a shuffled stack of love letters.HILL OF FREEDOMHong Sangsoo | 66 min | 2014 A panoramic view of contemporary US society, anxious for an uncertain future.THE HOTTEST AUGUSTBrett Story | 94 min | 2019 Wang’s stirring and acutely observed drama of a tragedy-touched family’s inner life.THE GRIEF OF OTHERSPatrick Wang | 103 min | 2015 An essential but lesser-known Claire Denis film, in which she documents the creation of a new dance work by Mathilde Monnier.TOWARDS MATHILDEClaire Denis | 84 min | 2005 Intimate portraits of gay artists and drag performers talking about gender, identity, and the fine lines that surround them.HIGH HEEL NIGHTSBeth B | 11 min | 1994 William Greaves’ riveting documentary record of the 1972 National Black Political Convention, a historic event that gathered Black voices from across the political spectrum.NATIONTIMEWilliam Greaves | 80 min | 1972 Young Dennis Hopper stars as a sailor who falls in love with a woman who may or may not be a real-life mermaid.NIGHT TIDECurtis Harrington | 86 min | 1961 Viv Albertine of the Slits and Liam Gillick star as two married, childless fifty-something artists who share an austere modernist townhouse and a crushing sense of ennui in Hogg’s third feature.EXHIBITIONJoanna Hogg | 104 min | 2013 The pair’s first collaboration, based on a short story by Heinrich Böll.MACHORKA-MUFFJean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 18 min | 1962 Straub and Huillet’s masterpiece tragicomedy follows a Sicilian returning to his native island after a long stay in New York.SICILIA!Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 66 min | 1999 An intimate insight into Costa’s creative process through his dialogue with two of his premiere artistic inspirations, filmmaker duo Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet.WHERE DOES YOUR HIDDEN SMILE LIE?Pedro Costa | 104 min | 2001 Isabelle Huppert plays three variations on the role of a Frenchwoman abroad in Korea in her first venture into Hong’s peculiar, soju-soaked world.IN ANOTHER COUNTRYHong Sangsoo | 89 min | 2012 The last film made by Straub and Huillet is an elegant, elegiac work of oral history.ITINERARY OF JEAN BRICARDJean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 40 min | 2008 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 Panahi directs and stars in this docufiction miracle, which finds him posing as a share taxi driver in Tehran who, rather than cash payment, asks only to hear something about his customers’ lives.TAXIJafar Panahi | 82 min | 2015 István Szabó’s Oscar-winning political drama, a stunning study in moral rot.MEPHISTOItsvan Szabo | 146 min | 1981 A unique and elegiac self-portrait from the titanically talented director/photographer/composer Gordon Parks, looking back on his life.MOMENTS WITHOUT PROPER NAMESGordon Parks | 60 min | 1987 Borsos’s beloved adventure film gives Richard Farnsworth a career-best role as a former stagecoach robber who emerges from prison after 33 years to find a changed world—then goes right back to his old ways, planning a daring train robbery.THE GREY FOXPhillip Borsos | 92 min | 1982 Lang’s expressionist epic—the definitive science-fiction bonanza of the 1920s—in which a downtrodden proletariat underclass rise up against their masters.METROPOLISFritz Lang | 149 min | 1927 A revealing examination of the Swedish painter and mystic Hilma af Klint.BEYOND THE VISIBLE: HILMA AF KLINTHalina Dyrschka | 94 min | 2019 A brilliantly claustrophobic adaptation of Harold Pinter’s play about a young man who returns to the hornet’s nest of his estranged family’s London home for the holidays.THE HOMECOMINGPeter Hall | 111 min | 1973 The controversial, absurd, and uproarious film that made director Lina Wertmüller the talk of film culture, and garnered her the first Best Director Academy Award nomination for a woman.SEVEN BEAUTIESLina Wertmüller | 106 min | 1975 A lonely teenage boarder falls for her teacher in Leontine Sagan’s pioneering all-female cast lesbian romance.MÄDCHEN IN UNIFORMLeontine Sagan | 87 min | 1931 Puiu’s landmark scabrous satire follows the ailing elderly Mr. Lazarescu on an infernal journey through the Romanian public health system.THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCUCristi Puiu | 153 min | 2005 The first film in Hùng’s acclaimed Vietnam Trilogy is a beautifully detailed, sublimely sensitive romance, which observes life within two different Saigon families.THE SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYATran Anh Hung | 104 min | 1993 A landmark of American independent cinema, which follows the marriage between a Black philosophy professor (Seret Scott) and her painter husband (Bill Gunn), both at a crossroads in their lives.LOSING GROUNDKATHLEEN COLLINS | 86 min | 1982 Introduced by cinematographer and filmmaker Bradford Young, ASC.BABYLONFranco Rosso | 95 min | 1980 A warts-and-all semi-self-portrait of an ex-alcoholic artist in exile, starring Willem Dafoe as an American acting coach living in Rome with his wife and child.TOMMASOABEL FERRARA | 115 min | 2019 Rainer’s elegiac, hybrid third features the paradoxical feminine figure of a lovelorn lion tamer named Kristina.KRISTINA TALKING PICTURESYvonne Rainer | 90 min | 1976 Arnold’s marvelously controlled feature debut is a tense, voyeuristic revenge tale set on a Glasgow housing estate.RED ROADAndrea Arnold | 113 min | 2006 Introduced by Charles Burnett.MY BROTHER’S WEDDINGCharles Burnett | 115 min | 1983 Sokurov’s epic first feature, a single continuous shot that winds through St. Petersburg’s Winter Palace.RUSSIAN ARKAlexander Sokurov | 99 min | 2002 Orson Welles’s oft unfairly overlooked third feature, a baroque thriller about a war crimes investigator looking for a Nazi fugitive in small-town Connecticut, with Welles starring as the prime suspect.THE STRANGEROrson Welles | 95 min | 1946 A study of bodies in motion—specifically, the flow of crowds in and out of the parks of Paris.IN PARIS PARKSShirley Clarke | 14 min | 1954 Tarkovsky’s penultimate, semi-autobiographical film follows a homesick Russian musicologist in Italy, with the Tuscan countryside rendered a melancholy dreamscape.NOSTALGHIAAndrei Tarkovsky | 125 min | 1983 One of the great independent films of the ’80s, in which a woman lands a job at a downtown porno theater and finds herself drawn towards what’s happening onscreen—as well as other troubling fantasies.VARIETYBette Gordon | 100 min | 1983 A sensitive portrait of an African American left-wing activist who was also a tireless media watchdog.RECORDER: THE MARION STOKES PROJECTMatt Wolf | 87 min | 2019 An ingeniously plotted thriller, slowly peeling back layers to reach its unnerving final revelation.LADY VENGEANCEPark Chan-wook | 115 min | 2005 A stunning portrait of the powerful and pansexual glam-pop diva.GRACE JONES: BLOODLIGHT AND BAMISophie Fiennes | 105 min | 2018 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
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