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DECEMBER ARRIVALS

Stream 12:08 EAST OF BUCHAREST at homeRomanian New Wave star Porumboi’s sly comedy about history as farce, involving a local talk show host, an alcoholic professor, and a part-time Santa Claus.

12:08 EAST OF BUCHAREST

Corneliu Porumboiu | 89 min | 2006

Stream 2 FRIENDS at homeA tender, sad, and comic debut from Campion about female friendships, and the forces that pull them apart.

2 FRIENDS

Jane Campion | 76 min | 1986

Stream 3 FACES at homeA touching, playful road movie inquest from Panahi that encounters three actresses at different stages of their career.

3 FACES

Jafar Panahi | 100 min | 2018

Stream A NOT SO SILENT NIGHT at homeCaptured live, the final annual Christmas performance from the McGarrigle Sisters is a stirring, star-studded feast for music lovers.

A NOT SO SILENT NIGHT

Gerard Schmidt | 94 min | 2009

Stream A MOMENT IN LOVE at homeAn ambitious, scene-shifting piece in which Clarke explores the possibilities of avant-garde dance on film.

A MOMENT IN LOVE

Shirley Clarke | 9 min | 1956

Stream BRIDGES GO ROUND at homeClarke’s vividly colored short turns the bridges of New York Harbor into an eerie, swaying jungle of dizzying abstractions.

BRIDGES GO ROUND

Shirley Clarke | 8 min | 1958

Stream BULLFIGHT at homeClarke documents a bravura performance by Anna Sokolow, a choreographed interpretation of the dance between matador and bull.

BULLFIGHT

Shirley Clarke | 9 min | 1955

Stream CAPRICE at homeA 26-year-old Tilda Swinton tumbles through a fashion magazine in Hogg’s rarely screened but self-mythologized mod, ecstatic graduation film.

CAPRICE

Joanna Hogg | 26 min | 1986

Stream DANCE IN THE SUN at homeClarke’s first completed short, observing choreographer Daniel Nagrin.

DANCE IN THE SUN

Shirley Clarke | 6 min | 1953

Stream DR. ORLOFF’S MONSTER at homeA kinky gothic chiller from the maestro, Franco, about an orphan sent to spend the Yuletide holidays in her uncle’s surprise-filled home.

DR. ORLOFF’S MONSTER

Jesús Franco | 90 min | 1964

Stream FIRE AT SEA at homeInspired by the horrors of the European immigration crisis, Rosi’s Golden Bear-winning impressionistic documentary follows a 12-year-old boy living on Lampedusa.

FIRE AT SEA

Gianfranco Rosi | 114 min | 2016

Stream THE GOODTIMESKID at homeJacob’s debut feature is a droll, scrappy, punk-spirited hang-out comedy about two guys both named Rodolfo Cano and living in LA.

THE GOODTIMESKID

Azazel Jacobs | 77 min | 2005

Stream THE HITCH-HIKER at homeLupino’s personal favorite of her directorial efforts, a nerve-wracking, impeccably performed thriller about a vacation gone awry.

THE HITCH-HIKER

Ida Lupino | 71 min | 1953

Stream HOME MOVIE #20: DANCE TESTS at homeOne of several early experimental trial films produced by Clarke that illustrates her long-standing ambition to find new dimensions to dance on screen.

HOME MOVIE #20: DANCE TESTS

Shirley Clarke | 6 min | 1953

Stream THE HOMECOMING at homeA 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 HOMECOMING

Peter Hall | 111 min | 1973

Stream IN PARIS PARKS at homeA study of bodies in motion—specifically, the flow of crowds in and out of the parks of Paris.

IN PARIS PARKS

Shirley Clarke | 14 min | 1954

Stream KINETTA at homeThe beguiling solo directorial debut from Greek Weird Wave star Lanthimos, in which three locals make bizarre videos elaborately re-staging local murders.

KINETTA

Yorgos Lanthimos | 95 min | 2005

Stream LOST, LOST, LOST at homeMekas’s somber, stirring rumination on the immigrant experience and his years as a war-displaced new arrival to the US.

LOST, LOST, LOST

Jonas Mekas | 178 min | 1976

Stream MABOROSI at homeAn elegantly photographed story of mourning and reawakening from the Japanese master dramatist Kore-eda.

MABOROSI

Hirokazu Kore-eda | 110 min | 1995

Stream MANUSCRIPTS DON'T BURN at homeBased on real-life events, Rasoulof’s disturbing, unflinching psychodrama trails two remorseless assassins as they go about their bloody rounds.

MANUSCRIPTS DON'T BURN

Mohammed Rasoulof | 125 min | 2013

Stream THE MEASURE OF A MAN at homeVincent Lindon is subtly overwhelming as unemployed everyman Thierry, who, after losing his factory job, must submit to a series of humiliating ordeals in his search for work.

THE MEASURE OF A MAN

Stéphane Brizé | 91 min | 2015

Stream MILLENNIUM MAMBO at homeHou’s much-misunderstood marvel chronicles an aimless bar hostess drifting away from her blowhard boyfriend towards a suave, sensitive gangster.

MILLENNIUM MAMBO

Hou Hsiao-hsien | 2001

Stream NIGHT TIDE at homeYoung Dennis Hopper stars as a sailor who falls in love with a woman who may or may not be a real-life mermaid.

NIGHT TIDE

Curtis Harrington | 86 min | 1961

Stream OUTFITUMENTARY at homeK8 Hardy’s unique “coming-of-age” film is a diary portrait of an artist through the contents of her closet.

OUTFITUMENTARY

K8 Hardy | 83 min | 2018

Stream RED ROAD at homeArnold’s marvelously controlled feature debut is a tense, voyeuristic revenge tale set on a Glasgow housing estate.

RED ROAD

Andrea Arnold | 113 min | 2006

Stream RUSSIAN ARK at homeSokurov’s epic first feature, a single continuous shot that winds through St. Petersburg’s Winter Palace.

RUSSIAN ARK

Alexander Sokurov | 99 min | 2002

Stream THE SACRIFICE at homeTarkovsky’s final masterpiece is a haunting vision of a world threatened with nuclear annihilation.

THE SACRIFICE

Andrei Tarkovsky | 149 min | 1986

Stream SAVAGE/LOVE at homeOne man’s quest for love, an intensely emotional short film by Clarke working with playwright Sam Shepard and actor Joseph Chaikin.

SAVAGE/LOVE

Shirley Clarke | 25 min | 1981

Stream SKYSCRAPER at homeThis playful live-action short, nominated for an Academy Award, daringly documents the construction of the Tishman Building high above Fifth Avenue.

SKYSCRAPER

Shirley Clarke | 20 min | 1960

Stream THE SOUTHERNER at homeArguably the greatest of the films that the legendary French director Jean Renoir made in Hollywood, The Southerner is a tough, unvarnished portrait of the hardships of rural life.

THE SOUTHERNER

Jean Renoir | 92 min | 1945

Stream TAXI at homePanahi 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.

TAXI

Jafar Panahi | 82 min | 2015

Stream THIS IS NOT A FILM at homeWhile living under house arrest, Panahi managed to produce this reflective and defiant documentary self-portrait.

THIS IS NOT A FILM

Jafar Panahi | 111 min | 2011

Stream VARIETY at homeOne 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.

VARIETY

Bette Gordon | 100 min | 1983

Stream WALDEN at homeMekas’s exhilarating, epic portrait of the New York avant-garde arts scene of the 1960s.

WALDEN

Jonas Mekas | 177 min | 1969

FIRST FEATURES

IRANIAN CINEMA IN THE NEW CENTURY

THE DIARIES OF JONAS MEKAS

THE HOLIDAYS AT METROGRAPH

JOANNA HOGG X 3

JEAN-LUC GODARD X 5

PARK CHAN-WOOK'S VENGEANCE

BILL GUNN'S PERSONAL PROBLEMS

METROGRAPH SELECTS

Stream COLLEGE at homeBuster Keaton goes to college where he tries to bulk up to impress a beautiful co-ed with predictably hysterical results.

COLLEGE

Buster Keaton | 66 min | 1927

Stream THE LAST LAUGH at homeMurnau’s bold use of a moving camera changed cinema forever in this simple, tragic story of a hotel doorman whose life falls apart after he loses his job.

THE LAST LAUGH

F. W. Murnau | 90 min | 1924

Stream THE ICEMAN COMETH at homeLee Marvin and Jeff Bridges lead Frankenheimer’s definitive take on the habitual tipplers who gather at Harry Hope’s saloon, and their dashed pipe dreams.

THE ICEMAN COMETH

John Frankenheimer | 239 min | 1973

Stream THE BIG ANIMAL at homeAn 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 ANIMAL

Jerzy Stuhr | 73 min | 2000

Stream IT FELT LIKE LOVE at homeNever 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 LOVE

Eliza Hittman | 82 min | 2013

Stream HAPPY TIMES at homeAn 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 TIMES

Michael Mayer | 93 min | 2019

Stream ABOUT TAP at homeAn exuberant and seductive short film that introduces viewers to the unique history of tap dance. Selected by Justice Sanders.

ABOUT TAP

GEORGE T. NIERENBERG | 28 min | 1985

Stream ORCHARD STREET at homeKen Jacobs documents the tradition of eager haggling and bargain hunting that once took place on the Lower East Side commercial thoroughfare of the title. Selected by Harry Kroessler.

ORCHARD STREET

KEN JACOBS | 12 min | 1955

Stream LOSING GROUND at homeA 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 GROUND

KATHLEEN COLLINS | 86 min | 1982

AT HOME HIGHLIGHTS

Stream CAPRICE at homeA 26-year-old Tilda Swinton tumbles through a fashion magazine in Hogg’s rarely screened but self-mythologized mod, ecstatic graduation film.

CAPRICE

Joanna Hogg | 26 min | 1986

Stream FIRE AT SEA at homeInspired by the horrors of the European immigration crisis, Rosi’s Golden Bear-winning impressionistic documentary follows a 12-year-old boy living on Lampedusa.

FIRE AT SEA

Gianfranco Rosi | 114 min | 2016

Stream THE HITCH-HIKER at homeLupino’s personal favorite of her directorial efforts, a nerve-wracking, impeccably performed thriller about a vacation gone awry.

THE HITCH-HIKER

Ida Lupino | 71 min | 1953

Stream VARIETY at homeOne 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.

VARIETY

Bette Gordon | 100 min | 1983

Stream THE SACRIFICE at homeTarkovsky’s final masterpiece is a haunting vision of a world threatened with nuclear annihilation.

THE SACRIFICE

Andrei Tarkovsky | 149 min | 1986

Stream THE MEASURE OF A MAN at homeVincent Lindon is subtly overwhelming as unemployed everyman Thierry, who, after losing his factory job, must submit to a series of humiliating ordeals in his search for work.

THE MEASURE OF A MAN

Stéphane Brizé | 91 min | 2015

Stream DIAMANTINO at homeA heady blend of political satire and sexual anarchy from co-directors Abrantes and Schmidt, about a dimwitted soccer player swept up into a comic conundrum.

DIAMANTINO

Daniel Schmidt and Gabriel Abrantes | 96 min | 2019

Stream LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT at homeAn atmospheric, neon-drenched film noir fever dream from the Chinese poet and filmmaker Bi Gan that follows a young man as he returns home for his father’s funeral, before traveling down a winding road into the past.

LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT

Bi Gan | 138 min | 2019

Stream THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS at homePart game show, part intellectual tug-of-war, Lars von Trier challenges an elder Danish filmmaker to remake his film under strict parameters.

THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS

Lars von Trier | 90 min | 2003

Stream L'AGE D'OR at homeBuñuel’s first feature, a savage surreal satire taking aim at bourgeois morality, the Catholic Church, and society as a whole.

L'AGE D'OR

Luis Buñuel | 63 min | 1930

Stream METROPOLIS at homeLang’s expressionist epic—the definitive science-fiction bonanza of the 1920s—in which a downtrodden proletariat underclass rise up against their masters.

METROPOLIS

Fritz Lang | 149 min | 1927

Stream A STAR IS BORN at homeWellman’s wrenching Technicolor melodrama of rising and falling stars streaking past one another, in the unsurpassable original version.

A STAR IS BORN

William Wellman | 111 min | 1937

Stream LEGEND OF THE MOUNTAIN at homePhilosophy and action merge as one in wuxia legend King Hu’s atmospheric and hypnotic film, shot in the rugged terrain of South Korea.

LEGEND OF THE MOUNTAIN

King Hu | 192 min | 1979

Stream OUTFITUMENTARY at homeK8 Hardy’s unique “coming-of-age” film is a diary portrait of an artist through the contents of her closet.

OUTFITUMENTARY

K8 Hardy | 83 min | 2018

Stream MILLENNIUM MAMBO at homeHou’s much-misunderstood marvel chronicles an aimless bar hostess drifting away from her blowhard boyfriend towards a suave, sensitive gangster.

MILLENNIUM MAMBO

Hou Hsiao-hsien | 2001

SHORT FILMS

Stream A MOMENT IN LOVE at homeAn ambitious, scene-shifting piece in which Clarke explores the possibilities of avant-garde dance on film.

A MOMENT IN LOVE

Shirley Clarke | 9 min | 1956

Stream BLONDE COBRA at homeIn Blonde Cobra, dubbed “the masterpiece of Baudelairean cinema” by Jonas Mekas, Jacobs turns his camera on fellow underground icon Jack Smith. Selected by Harry Kroessler.

BLONDE COBRA

KEN JACOBS | 33 min | 1963

Stream BRIDGES GO ROUND at homeClarke’s vividly colored short turns the bridges of New York Harbor into an eerie, swaying jungle of dizzying abstractions.

BRIDGES GO ROUND

Shirley Clarke | 8 min | 1958

Stream BULLFIGHT at homeClarke documents a bravura performance by Anna Sokolow, a choreographed interpretation of the dance between matador and bull.

BULLFIGHT

Shirley Clarke | 9 min | 1955

Stream CAPRICE at homeA 26-year-old Tilda Swinton tumbles through a fashion magazine in Hogg’s rarely screened but self-mythologized mod, ecstatic graduation film.

CAPRICE

Joanna Hogg | 26 min | 1986

Stream DANCE IN THE SUN at homeClarke’s first completed short, observing choreographer Daniel Nagrin.

DANCE IN THE SUN

Shirley Clarke | 6 min | 1953

Stream HOME MOVIE #20: DANCE TESTS at homeOne of several early experimental trial films produced by Clarke that illustrates her long-standing ambition to find new dimensions to dance on screen.

HOME MOVIE #20: DANCE TESTS

Shirley Clarke | 6 min | 1953

Stream THE HORSE at homeA young boy holds a tender vigil over a horse that’s reached the end of his life.

THE HORSE

Charles Burnett | 14 min | 1973

Stream IN PARIS PARKS at homeA study of bodies in motion—specifically, the flow of crowds in and out of the parks of Paris.

IN PARIS PARKS

Shirley Clarke | 14 min | 1954

Stream LITTLE STABS AT HAPPINESS at homeA collection of smaller silent segments made between 1956 and ’63. Selected by Harry Kroessler.

LITTLE STABS AT HAPPINESS

KEN JACOBS | 15 min | 1960

Stream ORCHARD STREET at homeKen Jacobs documents the tradition of eager haggling and bargain hunting that once took place on the Lower East Side commercial thoroughfare of the title. Selected by Harry Kroessler.

ORCHARD STREET

KEN JACOBS | 12 min | 1955

Stream QUIET AS KEPT at homeBurnett observes a New Orleans family displaced by Hurricane Katrina in this sweetly comic, lovingly detailed short.

QUIET AS KEPT

Charles Burnett | 6 min | 2007

Stream SKYSCRAPER at homeThis playful live-action short, nominated for an Academy Award, daringly documents the construction of the Tishman Building high above Fifth Avenue.

SKYSCRAPER

Shirley Clarke | 20 min | 1960

Stream SAVAGE/LOVE at homeOne man’s quest for love, an intensely emotional short film by Clarke working with playwright Sam Shepard and actor Joseph Chaikin.

SAVAGE/LOVE

Shirley Clarke | 25 min | 1981

Stream SEVERAL FRIENDS at homeShowing his distinctly American brand of neorealism, Burnett’s first short follows a group of friends filling an empty L.A. day.

SEVERAL FRIENDS

Charles Burnett | 21 min | 1969

Stream WHEN IT RAINS at homeFacing eviction, a desperate mother enlists the help of a jazz musician in Burnett’s playful and deeply empathetic short.

WHEN IT RAINS

Charles Burnett | 14 min | 1995

Stream THE WHIRLED at homeA collection of smaller silent segments made between 1956 and ’63. Selected by Harry Kroessler.

THE WHIRLED

KEN JACOBS | 20 min | 2007

Stream WINDOW at homeJacobs, always interested in experiments in perception, uses his camera to contemplate the frame of a window and the exterior beyond. Selected by Harry Kroessler.

WINDOW

KEN JACOBS | 12 min | 1964

DOCUMENTARIES

CONTEMPORARY CINEMA

Stream ARCHIPELAGO at homeEdward (Tom Hiddleston) is lured into a holiday in Cornwall by his mother and aunt in Hogg’s second feature, an ethnographic study of the atomized English bourgeois in the wild.

ARCHIPELAGO

Joanna Hogg | 114 min | 2010

Stream THE BIG ANIMAL at homeAn 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 ANIMAL

Jerzy Stuhr | 73 min | 2000

Stream BACURAU at homeSomething strange is happening in Bacurau. Under threat from an unknown enemy, the rural Brazilian settlement braces itself for a brutal fight for survival.

BACURAU

Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles | 131 min | 2019

Stream FILMWORKER at homeAn intimate look at the life of Leon Vitali, who gave up his dreams of an acting career to dedicate his life to that of Stanley Kubrick’s.

FILMWORKER

Tony Zierra | 94 min | 2018

Stream DIAMANTINO at homeA heady blend of political satire and sexual anarchy from co-directors Abrantes and Schmidt, about a dimwitted soccer player swept up into a comic conundrum.

DIAMANTINO

Daniel Schmidt and Gabriel Abrantes | 96 min | 2019

Stream EXHIBITION at homeViv 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.

EXHIBITION

Joanna Hogg | 104 min | 2013

Stream FIRE AT SEA at homeInspired by the horrors of the European immigration crisis, Rosi’s Golden Bear-winning impressionistic documentary follows a 12-year-old boy living on Lampedusa.

FIRE AT SEA

Gianfranco Rosi | 114 min | 2016

Stream GRACE JONES: BLOODLIGHT AND BAMI at homeA stunning portrait of the powerful and pansexual glam-pop diva.

GRACE JONES: BLOODLIGHT AND BAMI

Sophie Fiennes | 105 min | 2018

Stream HAPPY TIMES at homeAn 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 TIMES

Michael Mayer | 93 min | 2019

Stream HERMIA & HELENA at homeMatías Piñeiro’s beguiling tale of a young Argentine theater director who arrives in New York to mount a new Spanish translation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

HERMIA & HELENA

Matías Piñeiro | 87 min | 2016

Stream IT FELT LIKE LOVE at homeNever 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 LOVE

Eliza Hittman | 82 min | 2013

Stream L’INTRUS at homeOne 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’INTRUS

CLAIRE DENIS | 130 min | 2004

Stream LADY VENGEANCE at homeAn ingeniously plotted thriller, slowly peeling back layers to reach its unnerving final revelation.

LADY VENGEANCE

Park Chan-wook | 115 min | 2005

Stream LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT at homeAn atmospheric, neon-drenched film noir fever dream from the Chinese poet and filmmaker Bi Gan that follows a young man as he returns home for his father’s funeral, before traveling down a winding road into the past.

LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT

Bi Gan | 138 min | 2019

Stream MILLENNIUM MAMBO at homeHou’s much-misunderstood marvel chronicles an aimless bar hostess drifting away from her blowhard boyfriend towards a suave, sensitive gangster.

MILLENNIUM MAMBO

Hou Hsiao-hsien | 2001

Stream PASOLINI at homeAbel Ferrara’s retelling of the final days in the life of the 50-year-old Italian filmmaker, writer, and public intellectual.

PASOLINI

ABEL FERRARA | 84 min | 2014

Stream THE PROJECTIONIST at homeFerrara’s fond, often funny portrait of a NYC independent theater operator, holding out against the corporate chains, in spite of overwhelming odds.

THE PROJECTIONIST

ABEL FERRARA | 81 min | 2019

Stream SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE at homeA brutal, claustrophobic film of escalating desperation that illustrates how an ordinary man can be pushed into acts of extraordinary retaliation.

SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE

Park Chan-wook | 129 min | 2002

Stream UNRELATED at homeHogg’s remarkably assured debut feature, and a piercing portrait of a middle-aged crack-up.

UNRELATED

Joanna Hogg | 100 min | 2007

HOLLYWOOD CLASSICS

Stream A COTTAGE ON DARTMOOR at homeFairly 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 DARTMOOR

Anthony Asquith | 88 min | 1929

Stream A STAR IS BORN at homeWellman’s wrenching Technicolor melodrama of rising and falling stars streaking past one another, in the unsurpassable original version.

A STAR IS BORN

William Wellman | 111 min | 1937

Stream BODY AND SOUL at homeA 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 SOUL

OSCAR MICHEAUX | 102 min | 1925

Stream COLLEGE at homeBuster Keaton goes to college where he tries to bulk up to impress a beautiful co-ed with predictably hysterical results.

COLLEGE

Buster Keaton | 66 min | 1927

Stream THE DEATH KISS at homeWhen 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 KISS

Edwin L. Marin | 75 min | 1932

Stream THE GIRL FROM CHICAGO at homeA federal agent falls for a Mississippi schoolteacher and rescues her from the clutches of a local crime kingpin—but when the pair escape to Harlem, safety still eludes them.

THE GIRL FROM CHICAGO

OSCAR MICHEAUX | 70 min | 1932

Stream THE HITCH-HIKER at homeLupino’s personal favorite of her directorial efforts, a nerve-wracking, impeccably performed thriller about a vacation gone awry.

THE HITCH-HIKER

Ida Lupino | 71 min | 1953

Stream L'AGE D'OR at homeBuñuel’s first feature, a savage surreal satire taking aim at bourgeois morality, the Catholic Church, and society as a whole.

L'AGE D'OR

Luis Buñuel | 63 min | 1930

Stream THE LAST LAUGH at homeMurnau’s bold use of a moving camera changed cinema forever in this simple, tragic story of a hotel doorman whose life falls apart after he loses his job.

THE LAST LAUGH

F. W. Murnau | 90 min | 1924

Stream MANIAC at homeExploitation 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.”

MANIAC

Dwain Esper | 51 min | 1934

Stream METROPOLIS at homeLang’s expressionist epic—the definitive science-fiction bonanza of the 1920s—in which a downtrodden proletariat underclass rise up against their masters.

METROPOLIS

Fritz Lang | 149 min | 1927

Stream NIGHT TIDE at homeYoung Dennis Hopper stars as a sailor who falls in love with a woman who may or may not be a real-life mermaid.

NIGHT TIDE

Curtis Harrington | 86 min | 1961

Stream THE SOUTHERNER at homeArguably the greatest of the films that the legendary French director Jean Renoir made in Hollywood, The Southerner is a tough, unvarnished portrait of the hardships of rural life.

THE SOUTHERNER

Jean Renoir | 92 min | 1945

CHARLES BURNETT X 5

RECENT FERRARA

THE SHORTS OF KEN JACOBS

DEREK JARMAN X 9

Stream BLUE at homeA vibrant work of courage and clarity in which voices read a poetic text by Jarman—who was dying of AIDS, and would be gone within a year— over an unceasing, monochromatic blue frame.

BLUE

Derek Jarman | 79 min | 1993

Stream CARAVAGGIO at homeA brazenly anachronistic and sensual imagining of the life of Renaissance renegade Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, and one of the finest British films of the 1980s.

CARAVAGGIO

Derek Jarman | 93 min | 1986

Stream SEBASTIANE at homeJarman’s feature debut revels in the male form while recounting the biblical story of the martyrdom by arrows of St. Sebastian, a tale of repressed desire turned to sadism.

SEBASTIANE

Derek Jarman | 86 min | 1976

Stream THE LAST OF ENGLAND at homeA dolorous, moving portrait of a nation in its drab twilight, starring Tilda Swinton.

THE LAST OF ENGLAND

Derek Jarman | 92 min | 1988

Stream WITTGENSTEIN at homeThe tormented life of Viennese philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein is played—in a brilliantly counterintuitive decision—as a comedy in Jarman’s heady experimental biopic, starring Karl Johnson and Jarman favorite Tilda Swinton.

WITTGENSTEIN

Derek Jarman | 72 min | 1993

Stream THE TEMPEST at homeJarman offers a typically idiosyncratic approach to Shakespeare, revivifying the Bard by rescuing him from fusty fidelity.

THE TEMPEST

Derek Jarman | 95 min | 1979

Stream THE ANGELIC CONVERSATION at homeJarman 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 CONVERSATION

Derek Jarman | 77 min | 1985

Stream GLITTERBUG at homeA 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.

GLITTERBUG

Derek Jarman | 60 min | 1994

Stream WAR REQUIEM at homeA 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 REQUIEM

Derek Jarman | 92 min | 1989

MOST WATCHED

Stream POSSESSION at homeBanned upon its original release in 1981, Possession is cinematic delirium at its most intoxicating.

POSSESSION

ANDRZEJ ŻUłAWSKI | 124 min | 1981

Stream SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE at homeA brutal, claustrophobic film of escalating desperation that illustrates how an ordinary man can be pushed into acts of extraordinary retaliation.

SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE

Park Chan-wook | 129 min | 2002

Stream LADY VENGEANCE at homeAn ingeniously plotted thriller, slowly peeling back layers to reach its unnerving final revelation.

LADY VENGEANCE

Park Chan-wook | 115 min | 2005

Stream DIAMANTINO at homeA heady blend of political satire and sexual anarchy from co-directors Abrantes and Schmidt, about a dimwitted soccer player swept up into a comic conundrum.

DIAMANTINO

Daniel Schmidt and Gabriel Abrantes | 96 min | 2019

Stream A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT at homeAmirpour’s entirely original thriller about a mysterious, chador-clad female bloodsucker in the dilapidated Iranian ghost town of Bad City.

A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT

Ana Lily Amarpour | 101 min | 2014

Stream LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT at homeAn atmospheric, neon-drenched film noir fever dream from the Chinese poet and filmmaker Bi Gan that follows a young man as he returns home for his father’s funeral, before traveling down a winding road into the past.

LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT

Bi Gan | 138 min | 2019

Stream THE ICEMAN COMETH at homeLee Marvin and Jeff Bridges lead Frankenheimer’s definitive take on the habitual tipplers who gather at Harry Hope’s saloon, and their dashed pipe dreams.

THE ICEMAN COMETH

John Frankenheimer | 239 min | 1973

Stream BOYFRIENDS AND GIRLFRIENDS at homeA 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 GIRLFRIENDS

ÉRIC ROHMER | 103 min | 1987

Stream PASOLINI at homeAbel Ferrara’s retelling of the final days in the life of the 50-year-old Italian filmmaker, writer, and public intellectual.

PASOLINI

ABEL FERRARA | 84 min | 2014

Stream UNRELATED at homeHogg’s remarkably assured debut feature, and a piercing portrait of a middle-aged crack-up.

UNRELATED

Joanna Hogg | 100 min | 2007

Stream RECORDER: THE MARION STOKES PROJECT at homeA sensitive portrait of an African American left-wing activist who was also a tireless media watchdog.

RECORDER: THE MARION STOKES PROJECT

Matt Wolf | 87 min | 2019

Stream FOUR ADVENTURES OF REINETTE AND MIRABELLE at homeThis 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 MIRABELLE

ÉRIC ROHMER | 99 min | 1987

Stream TOMMASO at homeA 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.

TOMMASO

ABEL FERRARA | 115 min | 2019

Stream CARAVAGGIO at homeA brazenly anachronistic and sensual imagining of the life of Renaissance renegade Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, and one of the finest British films of the 1980s.

CARAVAGGIO

Derek Jarman | 93 min | 1986

Stream THE AVIATOR’S WIFE at homeThe 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 WIFE

ÉRIC ROHMER | 106 min | 1981

Stream COLLEGE at homeBuster Keaton goes to college where he tries to bulk up to impress a beautiful co-ed with predictably hysterical results.

COLLEGE

Buster Keaton | 66 min | 1927

Stream FILMWORKER at homeAn intimate look at the life of Leon Vitali, who gave up his dreams of an acting career to dedicate his life to that of Stanley Kubrick’s.

FILMWORKER

Tony Zierra | 94 min | 2018

Stream EXHIBITION at homeViv 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.

EXHIBITION

Joanna Hogg | 104 min | 2013

THE METROGRAPH PICTURES LIBRARY

Stream GOODBYE, DRAGON INN at homeTsai’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 INN

TSAI MING-LIANG | 82 min | 2003

Stream L’INTRUS at homeOne 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’INTRUS

CLAIRE DENIS | 130 min | 2004

Stream THE FRENCH at homeKlein’s stunningly up-close-and-personal sports documentary, set behind the scenes of the 1981 French Open.

THE FRENCH

WILLIAM KLEIN | 135 min | 1982

Stream MILLENNIUM MAMBO at homeHou’s much-misunderstood marvel chronicles an aimless bar hostess drifting away from her blowhard boyfriend towards a suave, sensitive gangster.

MILLENNIUM MAMBO

Hou Hsiao-hsien | 2001

Stream A BIGGER SPLASH at homeHazan’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 SPLASH

JACK HAZAN | 106 min | 1974

Stream ALL IS FORGIVEN at homeA strikingly original, deeply empathetic family drama that sidesteps all clichéd sentimentality on the way to achieving quietly devastating results. 

ALL IS FORGIVEN

MIA HANSEN-LøVE | 105 min | 2007

Stream BOYFRIENDS AND GIRLFRIENDS at homeA 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 GIRLFRIENDS

ÉRIC ROHMER | 103 min | 1987

Stream THE AVIATOR’S WIFE at homeThe 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 WIFE

ÉRIC ROHMER | 106 min | 1981

Stream FOUR ADVENTURES OF REINETTE AND MIRABELLE at homeThis 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 MIRABELLE

ÉRIC ROHMER | 99 min | 1987

Stream DOWNTOWN 81 at homeStarring 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 81

EDO BERTOGLIO | 72 min | 1981 / 2000

Stream LAST AND FIRST MEN at homeA surreal, stunning feature debut and final cinematic testament from the late composer and musician Jóhann Jóhannsson (Sicario, Arrival, Mandy).

LAST AND FIRST MEN

JóHANN JóHANNSSON | 72 min | 2020

Stream RUDE BOY at homeRude 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 BOY

JACK HAZAN AND DAVID MINGAY | 113 min | 1980

Stream POSSESSION at homeBanned upon its original release in 1981, Possession is cinematic delirium at its most intoxicating.

POSSESSION

ANDRZEJ ŻUłAWSKI | 124 min | 1981

Stream THE COMPETITION at homeThis Wiseman-esque documentary from Claire Simon observes a process that is highly personal, idiosyncratic, and subject to the vagaries of personal prejudice.

THE COMPETITION

CLAIRE SIMON | 121 min | 2016

Stream DUET FOR CANNIBALS at homeEssayist, 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 CANNIBALS

SUSAN SONTAG | 95 min | 1969

Stream THE GREAT ADVENTURE at homeHailed “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 ADVENTURE

ARNE SUCKSDORFF | 77 min | 1953

Stream HYENAS at homeA hallucinatory, biting satire of a contemporary Senegal whose post-colonial dreams are faced with erosion by Western materialism.

HYENAS

DJIBRIL DIOP MAMBéTY‎ | 110 min | 1992

Stream LE FRANC & THE LITTLE GIRL WHO SOLD THE SUN at homeTwo 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 SUN

DJIBRIL DIOP MAMBéTY‎ | 45 min | 1994/1999

Stream MADE IN HONG KONG at homeChan’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 KONG

FRUIT CHAN | 99 min | 1997

Stream THE PRAIRIE TRILOGY at homeJohn Hanson and Rob Nilsson collaborated on this remarkable series of documentaries underwritten by the North Dakota Humanities Council.

THE PRAIRIE TRILOGY

JOHN HANSON AND ROB NILSSON | 90 min | 1978 - 1980

Stream THE RAFT at homeA document of the thin line between science and cultism in the early ’70s and a touching story of female camaraderie.

THE RAFT

MARCUS LINDEEN | 97 min | 2018

THE FILMS OF SHIRLEY CLARKE

PETER GREENAWAY X 10

ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET X 5

MIGUEL GOMES'S ARABIAN NIGHTS

MIKLÓS JANCSÓ X 6

OSCAR MICHEAUX X 8

Stream THE GIRL FROM CHICAGO at homeA federal agent falls for a Mississippi schoolteacher and rescues her from the clutches of a local crime kingpin—but when the pair escape to Harlem, safety still eludes them.

THE GIRL FROM CHICAGO

OSCAR MICHEAUX | 70 min | 1932

Stream WITHIN OUR GATES at homeAn educated Black woman dedicates herself to helping a school for impoverished youths in the rural Deep South. A landmark picture, and the oldest known surviving film made by an African American director.

WITHIN OUR GATES

OSCAR MICHEAUX | 79 min | 1920

Stream THE EXILE at homeThe first African American–directed sound film, and a rousing romance/thriller that draws upon the years Micheaux spent as the lone Black cattle rancher on the South Dakota prairie.

THE EXILE

OSCAR MICHEAUX | 93 min | 1931

Stream THE SYMBOL OF THE UNCONQUERED at homeLight-skinned Eve inherits a plot of land in the Northwest, where she finds friendships and fights off Klansmen, in this response, of sorts, to D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation.

THE SYMBOL OF THE UNCONQUERED

OSCAR MICHEAUX | 54 min | 1920

Stream VEILED ARISTOCRATS at homeMicheaux’s attempt to make a Hollywood-style melodrama for Black audiences, in which a woman attempts to keep her daughter from marrying a dark-skinned man she considers unworthy of her affection.

VEILED ARISTOCRATS

OSCAR MICHEAUX | 48 min | 1932

Stream BIRTHRIGHT at homeReturning to his hometown with aspirations of founding a Tuskegee Institute-style university, a Black Harvard graduate faces stern opposition from locals—as well as the lure of urban nightlife, in splashy musical numbers.

BIRTHRIGHT

OSCAR MICHEAUX | 100 min | 1939

Stream BODY AND SOUL at homeA 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 SOUL

OSCAR MICHEAUX | 102 min | 1925

Stream TEN MINUTES TO LIVE at homeA pleasurably off-kilter gangster musical shot on location, featuring a nightclub singer and a deaf murderer in hot pursuit.

TEN MINUTES TO LIVE

OSCAR MICHEAUX | 58 min | 1932

ÉRIC ROHMER X 3

JOAQUIM PEDRO DE ANDRADE X 6

LIONEL ROGOSIN X 6

SOVIET SILENTS

FANTÔMAS PARTS 1 - 5

FROM 7 LUDLOW: CONVERSATIONS AT METROGRAPH

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: WALTER AND MICAELA SAXER ON 'SEPA' at homeProducer Walter Saxer discusses Sepa, his empathetic portrait of Peruvian inmate life.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: WALTER AND MICAELA SAXER ON "SEPA"

24 min

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: 'MURINA' DIRECTOR ANTONETA ALAMAT KUSIJANOVIĆ at homeMurina director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović discusses her film with critic and author Alissa Wilkinson.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: "MURINA" DIRECTOR ANTONETA ALAMAT KUSIJANOVIĆ

Various | 28 min | 2022

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: BARBARA KOPPLE ON 'HARLAN COUNTY, USA' at homeDocumentarian Barbara Kopple discusses her groundbreaking 1975 film Harlan County, USA with programmer Nellie Killian and author Meagan Duggar.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: BARBARA KOPPLE ON "HARLAN COUNTY, USA"

Various | 38 min | 2022

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: 'SEÑORITA' DIRECTOR ISABEL SANDOVAL at homeSeñorita director Isabel Sandoval discusses her debut film with Metrograph programmer Lydia Ogwang.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: "SEÑORITA" DIRECTOR ISABEL SANDOVAL

Various | 36 min | 2022

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: 'CAUGHT' CINEMATOGRAPHER MICHAEL BARLOW at homeCaught cinematographer Michael Barlow discusses his work on Robert M. Young's 1996 film.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: "CAUGHT" CINEMATOGRAPHER MICHAEL BARLOW

Various | 32 min | 2022

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: 'RUBY IN PARADISE' DIRECTOR VICTOR NUNEZ at homeFilmmaker Victor Nunez and critic Gina Telaroli discuss Nunez's 1993 film Ruby in Paradise.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: "RUBY IN PARADISE" DIRECTOR VICTOR NUNEZ

Various | 33 min | 2022

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: THE SHORT LIST Q&A WITH BRONTEZ PURNELL & DIS at homeAuthor Brontez Purnell joins DIS ART for a conversation about their Short List program.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: THE SHORT LIST Q&A WITH BRONTEZ PURNELL & DIS

METROGRAPH | 22 min | 2022

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: BADBADNOTGOOD ON “TALK MEMORY” at homeBADBADNOTGOOD discuss their new studio album "Talk Memory" in conversation with Brandon Jenkins.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: BADBADNOTGOOD ON “TALK MEMORY”

METROGRAPH | 16 min | 2021

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: NICK PINKERTON ON “GOODBYE, DRAGON INN” at homeCritic and author Nick Pinkerton expands on his book about Tsai Ming-liang's 2003 film Goodbye, Dragon Inn.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: NICK PINKERTON ON “GOODBYE, DRAGON INN”

METROGRAPH | 7 min | 2021

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: EMMA MYERS ON ABORTION IN AMERICAN FILM at homeGuest curator Emma Meyers discusses the films in her series "It Happens to Us: Abortion in American Film."

FROM 7 LUDLOW: EMMA MYERS ON ABORTION IN AMERICAN FILM

METROGRAPH | 8 min | 2022

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: MAYUKH SEN ON OUSMANE SEMBÈNE’S “BLACK GIRL” at homeWriter Mayukh Sen on Ousmane Sembène's Black Girl.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: MAYUKH SEN ON OUSMANE SEMBÈNE’S “BLACK GIRL”

VARIOUS | 18 min | 2021

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: “GIRLFIGHT” DIRECTOR KARYN KUSAMA AND LISA DUVA at homeGirlfight director Karyn Kusama and moderator Lisa Duva in conversation.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: “GIRLFIGHT” DIRECTOR KARYN KUSAMA AND LISA DUVA

METROGRAPH | 30 min | 2021

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: “BULLETPROOF” DIRECTOR TODD CHANDLER AND PRODUCER DANIELLE VARGA at homeDirector Todd Chandler and producer Danielle Varga discuss their film Bulletproof.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: “BULLETPROOF” DIRECTOR TODD CHANDLER AND PRODUCER DANIELLE VARGA

METROGRAPH | 43 min | 2021

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: TIM HEIDECKER AND RICK ALVERSON at homeTim Heidecker and Rick Alverson discuss their 2012 film The Comedy.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: TIM HEIDECKER AND RICK ALVERSON

METROGRAPH | 39 min | 2022

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: WILL MENAKER AND TRUE ANON at homeWill Menaker and the hosts of the True Anon podcast discuss The Parallax View.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: WILL MENAKER AND TRUE ANON

METROGRAPH | 37 min | 2021

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: LYNNE SACHS, LIZZIE OLEKSER, & SILVIA FEDERICI at homeThe Washing Society filmmakers Lynne Sachs and Lizzie Olesker in conversation with Silvia Federici, moderated by Emily Apter.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: LYNNE SACHS, LIZZIE OLEKSER, & SILVIA FEDERICI

METROGRAPH | 52 min | 2021

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: PATRICIA ROZEMA AND ARTIST LAURIE ANDERSON at homeFilmmaker Patricia Rozema and artist Laurie Anderson discuss Rozema's film I've Heard the Mermaids Singing.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: PATRICIA ROZEMA AND ARTIST LAURIE ANDERSON

METROGRAPH | 31 min | 2022

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: JONATHAN DANIEL BROWN AND MICHAEL M. BILANDIC at homeProject X star Jonathan Daniel Brown and filmmaker Michael M. Bilandic in conversation.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: JONATHAN DANIEL BROWN AND MICHAEL M. BILANDIC

METROGRAPH | 25 min | 2021

TRAILERS

Stream PARK CHAN-WOOK'S VENGEANCE | TRAILER at homeElegant and ferocious in equal measure, these are howls of cinematic rage are not soon to be forgotten.

PARK CHAN-WOOK'S VENGEANCE | TRAILER

Metrograph | 1 min | 2022

Stream BILL GUNN'S PERSONAL PROBLEMS | TRAILER at homeBill Gunn’s milestone “meta-soap opera” explores Black working-class lives in New York City with candor and emotional intensity.

BILL GUNN'S PERSONAL PROBLEMS | TRAILER

Bill Gunn | 3 min | 1980

Stream GAGOSIAN: ADRIANA VAREJÃO SELECTS | TRAILER at homeAs part of Metrograph’s ongoing collaboration with Gagosian, Brazilian artist Adriana Varejão selects films that are essential to her practice.

GAGOSIAN: ADRIANA VAREJÃO SELECTS | TRAILER

Metrograph | 1 min | 2022

Stream MIGUEL GOMES' ARABIAN NIGHTS | TRAILER at homeTouching and often terribly funny, Gomes’s trilogy is glorious proof of cinema's ability to show the world as it is.

MIGUEL GOMES' ARABIAN NIGHTS | TRAILER

Metrograph | 3 min | 2015

Stream A BIGGER SPLASH | TRAILER at homeJack Hazan’s intimate and innovative film about English-born, often California-based artist David Hockney and his work honors its subject through creative risk-taking. A Metrograph Pictures release.

A BIGGER SPLASH | TRAILER

Jack Hazan | 2 min | 1973

Stream ALL IS FORGIVEN | TRAILER at homeMia Hansen-Løve was only twenty-five when she directed one of the most striking and auspicious first features in 21st century French cinema.

ALL IS FORGIVEN | TRAILER

Mia Hansen-Løve | 2 min | 2007

Stream THE COMPETITION | TRAILER at homeThe Competition offers a unique opportunity to see the inner workings of an institution at the very heart of the French film industry.

THE COMPETITION | TRAILER

Claire Simon | 2 min | 2016

Stream DOWNTOWN 81 | TRAILER at homeDowntown 81 follows Jean-Michel Basquiat, a naturally compelling screen presence, as he tries to hawk a painting (one of the artist’s own first works) while hustling for a place to sleep.

DOWNTOWN 81 | TRAILER

Edo Bertiglio | 2 min | 1981

Stream DUET FOR CANNIBALS | TRAILER at homeSusan Sontag's debut film is both an illustrative companion to her criticism and an introduction to a startlingly original filmmaker.

DUET FOR CANNIBALS | TRAILER

Susan Sontag | 1 min | 1969

Stream THE FRENCH | TRAILER at homeKlein's documentary captures the noisy bedlam that accompanies any major sporting event with a level of candor that is impossible to imagine in today’s secretive media-trained world.

THE FRENCH | TRAILER

William Klein | 2 min | 1982

Stream GOODBYE, DRAGON INN | TRAILER at homeReleased nearly two decades ago by the internationally acclaimed Tsai Ming-liang, Goodbye Dragon Inn is too multifaceted to collapse into a simple valentine to the age of pre-VOD cinephilia

GOODBYE, DRAGON INN | TRAILER

Tsai Ming-Liang | 2 min | 2003

Stream HYENAS | TRAILER at homeSenegalese master Mambéty's hallucinatory comic adaptation of Swiss avant-garde writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s play "The Visit."

HYENAS | TRAILER

Djibril Diop Mambéty | 2 min | 1992

Stream L'INTRUS | TRAILER at homeOne of Claire Denis’s most ambitious, complicated, and exhilaratingly daring films charts an itinerary traveling from the snowy Alps to Korea to Tahiti.

L'INTRUS | TRAILER

Claire Denis | 2 min | 2004

Stream LAST AND FIRST MEN | TRAILER at homeA stunning feature debut and final cinematic testament from the late composer and musician Jóhann Jóhannsson conjures a world of surreal and phantasmagorical monuments.

LAST AND FIRST MEN | TRAILER

Jóhann Jóhannsson | 2 min | 2020

Stream LE FRANC & THE LITTLE GIRL WHO SOLD THE SUN | TRAILER at homeTwo of Mambéty's masterpieces of the medium-length form completed in his final years provide us a fuller picture of the elements that define his small, but perfect, filmography.

LE FRANC & THE LITTLE GIRL WHO SOLD THE SUN | TRAILER

Djibril Diop Mambéty | 1 min | 1994-1999

Stream MADE IN HONG KONG | TRAILER at homeThe first independent film released in post-Handover Hong Kong, Chan’s atmospheric shoestring-budget character study is a rough-and-ready piece of work.

MADE IN HONG KONG | TRAILER

Fruit Chan | 2 min | 1997

Stream POSSESSION | TRAILER at homeBanned upon its original release in 1981, Andrzej Żuławski’s stunningly choreographed nightmare of a marriage unraveling is an experience unlike any other.

POSSESSION | TRAILER

Andrzej Żuławski | 2 min | 1981

Stream THE PRAIRIE TRILOGY | TRAILER at homeA gorgeously shot work of documentary-as-historical corrective, which finds hope for the future through excavating a radical past.

THE PRAIRIE TRILOGY | TRAILER

John Hanson and Rob Nilsson | 1 min | 1979-1980

Stream THE RAFT | TRAILER at homeA document of the thin line between science and cultism in the early ’70s, a touching story of female camaraderie and an unforgettable portrait of oblivious, toxic masculinity.

THE RAFT | TRAILER

Marcus Lindeen | 2 min | 2018

Stream RUDE BOY | TRAILER at homeRude 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, seen in this film at the dizzying peak of their powers.

RUDE BOY | TRAILER

Jack Hazan and David Mingay | 1 min | 1980

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