Back to At Home AT HOME WITH...Friends of Metrograph share a film they love, streaming on demand on the Metrograph At Home platform. István Szabó’s Oscar-winning political drama, a stunning study in moral rot.MEPHISTOItsvan Szabo | 146 min | 1981 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 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 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 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 Something strange is happening in Bacurau. Under threat from an unknown enemy, the rural Brazilian settlement braces itself for a brutal fight for survival.BACURAUKleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles | 131 min | 2019 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 A full-blooded melodrama in which Paul Robeson, in his film debut, plays a double role as an escaped prisoner and his long-lost twin brother.BODY AND SOULOSCAR MICHEAUX | 102 min | 1925 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 Wellman’s wrenching Technicolor melodrama of rising and falling stars streaking past one another, in the unsurpassable original version.A STAR IS BORNWilliam Wellman | 111 min | 1937
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