Back to At Home LEAVING SOONWatch these specially curated limited engagements before they leave Metrograph At Home! Fairly squirming with sexual jealousy, and steeped in the shadows of imported German Expressionism, Asquith’s revenge melodrama follows a barber’s assistant’s fatal attraction to a new co-worker.A COTTAGE ON DARTMOORAnthony Asquith | 88 min | 1929 The Viana do Castelo shipyards, Portugal’s beekeepers, and a magic realist jape about a witch doctor are all fodder for Gomes’s first dizzying volume.ARABIAN NIGHTS VOL. 1: THE RESTLESS ONEMiguel Gomes | 125 min | 2015 Gomes’s spirited yet darkening second chapter, involving a serial killer on the run, an absurdist courtroom drama, and a lonely Maltese poodle.ARABIAN NIGHTS VOL. 2: THE DESOLATE ONEMiguel Gomes | 131 min | 2014 In volume three, we encounter a community of bird trappers engaged in teaching their captives new songs, and Scheherazade, the storyteller of One Thousand and One Nights, herself.ARABIAN NIGHTS VOL. 3: THE ENCHANTED ONEMiguel Gomes | 125 min | 2015 A posthumous collage made up of material Jarman selected before his death, offering glimpses into the life of gay London, as well as myriad moments of everyday enchantment and occult symbolism.GLITTERBUGDerek Jarman | 60 min | 1994 An Israeli-American couple invite family and friends to their tasteless McMansion in the Hollywood Hills for a Sabbath dinner but wind up hosting a massacre instead. Selected by Cece Vargas.HAPPY TIMESMichael Mayer | 93 min | 2019 Never Rarely Sometimes Always director Hittman’s feature debut about a sexually inexperienced south Brooklyn teenager (Gina Piersanti) who’s embarrassed to fess up to everything she doesn’t know about sex. Selected by Kristine Veras.IT FELT LIKE LOVEEliza Hittman | 82 min | 2013 Exploitation pioneer Esper’s zilch-budget roadshow thriller is a down ’n’ dirty little number involving mad scientists, vaudevillians, showgirls, and a cat-farmer named “Goof.”MANIACDwain Esper | 51 min | 1934 Jarman returned to Shakespeare with this painterly work inspired by his love poems—particularly, his 14 sonnets addressed to the unnamed young man scholars refer to as the Fair Youth, read by Judi Dench.THE ANGELIC CONVERSATIONDerek Jarman | 77 min | 1985 An absurdist, Kafka-inspired fable about a bank employee who tasks himself with caring for a fugitive Bactrian camel that has taken up residence in his garden. Selected by Clare Maceda.THE BIG ANIMALJerzy Stuhr | 73 min | 2000 When their leading man is killed during a film shoot, production manager Bela Lugosi and screenwriter David Manners must race against time to collar the culprit.THE DEATH KISSEdwin L. Marin | 75 min | 1932 A dolorous, moving portrait of a nation in its drab twilight, starring Tilda Swinton.THE LAST OF ENGLANDDerek Jarman | 92 min | 1988 Jarman offers a typically idiosyncratic approach to Shakespeare, revivifying the Bard by rescuing him from fusty fidelity.THE TEMPESTDerek Jarman | 95 min | 1979 A dazzlingly complex decoupage of sound and image that moves nimbly between past and present, offering a stark denunciation of militarism, with the figure of the Old Soldier (Laurence Olivier) the silent sentinel that sees all.WAR REQUIEMDerek Jarman | 92 min | 1989
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