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Stream 2 FRIENDS at home

A 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 VARIETY at home

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.

VARIETY

Bette Gordon | 100 min | 1983

Stream CAPRICE at home

A 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 THIS IS NOT A FILM at home

While 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

DECEMBER ARRIVALS

Stream 12:08 EAST OF BUCHAREST at home

Romanian 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 home

A 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 home

A 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 home

Captured 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 home

An 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 home

Clarke’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 home

Clarke 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 home

A 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 home

Clarke’s first completed short, observing choreographer Daniel Nagrin.

DANCE IN THE SUN

Shirley Clarke | 6 min | 1953

Stream DR. ORLOFF’S MONSTER at home

A 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 home

Inspired 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 home

Jacob’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 home

Lupino’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 home

One 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 home

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 HOMECOMING

Peter Hall | 111 min | 1973

Stream IN PARIS PARKS at home

A 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 home

The 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 home

Mekas’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 home

An 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 home

Based 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 home

Vincent 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 home

Hou’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 home

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 TIDE

Curtis Harrington | 86 min | 1961

Stream OUTFITUMENTARY at home

K8 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 home

Arnold’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 home

Sokurov’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 home

Tarkovsky’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 home

One 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 home

This 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 home

Arguably 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 home

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.

TAXI

Jafar Panahi | 82 min | 2015

Stream THIS IS NOT A FILM at home

While 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 home

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.

VARIETY

Bette Gordon | 100 min | 1983

Stream WALDEN at home

Mekas’s exhilarating, epic portrait of the New York avant-garde arts scene of the 1960s.

WALDEN

Jonas Mekas | 177 min | 1969

FIRST FEATURES

Stream 2 FRIENDS at home

A 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 KINETTA at home

The 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 RED ROAD at home

Arnold’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 MABOROSI at home

An elegantly photographed story of mourning and reawakening from the Japanese master dramatist Kore-eda.

MABOROSI

Hirokazu Kore-eda | 110 min | 1995

Stream NIGHT TIDE at home

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 TIDE

Curtis Harrington | 86 min | 1961

Stream THE GOODTIMESKID at home

Jacob’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 POISON at home

A landmark of New Queer Cinema, Todd Haynes’s first feature is a trio of intercut stories inspired by the patron saint of all queer outlaw art, Jean Genet.

POISON

Todd Haynes | 85 min | 1991

IRANIAN CINEMA IN THE NEW CENTURY

Stream THIS IS NOT A FILM at home

While 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 MANUSCRIPTS DON'T BURN at home

Based 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 TAXI at home

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.

TAXI

Jafar Panahi | 82 min | 2015

Stream 3 FACES at home

A 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 GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT at home

Amirpour’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

THE DIARIES OF JONAS MEKAS

Stream LOST, LOST, LOST at home

Mekas’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 WALDEN at home

Mekas’s exhilarating, epic portrait of the New York avant-garde arts scene of the 1960s.

WALDEN

Jonas Mekas | 177 min | 1969

THE HOLIDAYS AT METROGRAPH

Stream THE SOUTHERNER at home

Arguably 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 12:08 EAST OF BUCHAREST at home

Romanian 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 DR. ORLOFF’S MONSTER at home

A 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 A NOT SO SILENT NIGHT at home

Captured 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 THE HOMECOMING at home

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 HOMECOMING

Peter Hall | 111 min | 1973

JOANNA HOGG X 3

Stream UNRELATED at home

Hogg’s remarkably assured debut feature, and a piercing portrait of a middle-aged crack-up.

UNRELATED

Joanna Hogg | 100 min | 2007

Stream ARCHIPELAGO at home

Edward (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 EXHIBITION at home

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.

EXHIBITION

Joanna Hogg | 104 min | 2013

JEAN-LUC GODARD X 5

Stream THE IMAGE BOOK at home

A labyrinthine personal journey in search of the meaning of images, with Godard, narrating in voice-over, as elusive guide.

THE IMAGE BOOK

Jean-Luc Godard | 88 min | 2019

Stream GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE at home

Godard’s penultimate feature finds him experimenting with the possibilities of digital 3D to plot the disintegration of a couple’s relationship and its images.

GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE

Jean-Luc Godard | 70 min | 2014

Stream FILM SOCIALISME at home

Godard’s essay on Mediterranean culture and history in triptych form, locating a new, scintillating kind of beauty in the digital image.

FILM SOCIALISME

Jean-Luc Godard | 106 min | 2010

Stream LA CHINOISE at home

Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto, and Anne Wiazemsky co-star in Godard’s rouge-tinted, slogan-splattered political comedy.

LA CHINOISE

Jean-Luc Godard | 95 min | 1967

Stream LE GAI SAVOIR at home

A work of didactic filmed theater from Godard, with Jean-Pierre Léaud and Juliet Berto performing on a soundstage lit by a single floodlight.

LE GAI SAVOIR

Jean-Luc Godard | 95 min | 1969

PARK CHAN-WOOK'S VENGEANCE

Stream PARK CHAN-WOOK'S VENGEANCE | TRAILER at home

Elegant 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 SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE at home

A 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 home

An ingeniously plotted thriller, slowly peeling back layers to reach its unnerving final revelation.

LADY VENGEANCE

Park Chan-wook | 115 min | 2005

BILL GUNN'S PERSONAL PROBLEMS

Stream BILL GUNN'S PERSONAL PROBLEMS | TRAILER at home

Bill 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 PERSONAL PROBLEMS: PART ONE at home

Bill Gunn’s two-part “meta-soap opera” is a rough edged ensemble piece exploring Black working-class lives in New York City.

PERSONAL PROBLEMS: PART ONE

Bill Gunn | 165 min | 1980

Stream PERSONAL PROBLEMS: PART TWO at home

Part two of Bill Gunn’s milestone “meta-soap opera” explores Black working-class lives in New York City with candor and emotional intensity.

PERSONAL PROBLEMS: PART TWO

Bill Gunn | 72 min | 1980

METROGRAPH SELECTS

Stream COLLEGE at home

Buster 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 home

Murnau’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 home

Lee 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 home

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 ANIMAL

Jerzy Stuhr | 73 min | 2000

Stream IT FELT LIKE LOVE at home

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 LOVE

Eliza Hittman | 82 min | 2013

Stream HAPPY TIMES at home

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 TIMES

Michael Mayer | 93 min | 2019

Stream ABOUT TAP at home

An 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 home

Ken 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 home

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 GROUND

KATHLEEN COLLINS | 86 min | 1982

AT HOME HIGHLIGHTS

Stream CAPRICE at home

A 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 home

Inspired 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 home

Lupino’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 home

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.

VARIETY

Bette Gordon | 100 min | 1983

Stream THE SACRIFICE at home

Tarkovsky’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 home

Vincent 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 home

A 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 home

An 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 home

Part 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 home

Buñuel’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 home

Lang’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 home

Wellman’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 home

Philosophy 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 home

K8 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 home

Hou’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 home

An 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 home

In 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 home

Clarke’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 home

Clarke 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 home

A 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 home

Clarke’s first completed short, observing choreographer Daniel Nagrin.

DANCE IN THE SUN

Shirley Clarke | 6 min | 1953

Stream HOME MOVIE #20: DANCE TESTS at home

One 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 home

A 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 home

A 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 home

A 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 home

Ken 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 home

Burnett 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 home

This 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 home

One 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 home

Showing 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 home

Facing 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 home

A collection of smaller silent segments made between 1956 and ’63. Selected by Harry Kroessler.

THE WHIRLED

KEN JACOBS | 20 min | 2007

Stream WINDOW at home

Jacobs, 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

Stream A BIGGER SPLASH at home

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 SPLASH

JACK HAZAN | 106 min | 1974

Stream THE COMPETITION at home

This 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 FILMWORKER at home

An 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 THE FRENCH at home

Klein’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 GRACE JONES: BLOODLIGHT AND BAMI at home

A stunning portrait of the powerful and pansexual glam-pop diva.

GRACE JONES: BLOODLIGHT AND BAMI

Sophie Fiennes | 105 min | 2018

Stream THE PROJECTIONIST at home

Ferrara’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 RECORDER: THE MARION STOKES PROJECT at home

A 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 THE RAFT at home

A 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

CONTEMPORARY CINEMA

Stream ARCHIPELAGO at home

Edward (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 home

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 ANIMAL

Jerzy Stuhr | 73 min | 2000

Stream BACURAU at home

Something 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 home

An 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 home

A 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 home

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.

EXHIBITION

Joanna Hogg | 104 min | 2013

Stream FIRE AT SEA at home

Inspired 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 home

A stunning portrait of the powerful and pansexual glam-pop diva.

GRACE JONES: BLOODLIGHT AND BAMI

Sophie Fiennes | 105 min | 2018

Stream HAPPY TIMES at home

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 TIMES

Michael Mayer | 93 min | 2019

Stream HERMIA & HELENA at home

Matías 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 home

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 LOVE

Eliza Hittman | 82 min | 2013

Stream L’INTRUS at home

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’INTRUS

CLAIRE DENIS | 130 min | 2004

Stream LADY VENGEANCE at home

An 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 home

An 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 home

Hou’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 home

Abel 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 home

Ferrara’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 home

A 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 home

Hogg’s remarkably assured debut feature, and a piercing portrait of a middle-aged crack-up.

UNRELATED

Joanna Hogg | 100 min | 2007

CHARLES BURNETT X 5

Stream KILLER OF SHEEP at home

Burnett’s justly legendary feature debut, a lyrical urban/bucolic portrait of everyday Black working-class life in the Watts neighborhood. Selected by Theaster Gates as part of his series The Trace, presented with Gagosian.

KILLER OF SHEEP

Charles Burnett | 80 min | 1978

Stream QUIET AS KEPT at home

Burnett 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 THE HORSE at home

A 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 SEVERAL FRIENDS at home

Showing 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 home

Facing 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

RECENT FERRARA

Stream TOMMASO at home

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.

TOMMASO

ABEL FERRARA | 115 min | 2019

Stream THE PROJECTIONIST at home

Ferrara’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 PASOLINI at home

Abel 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

THE SHORTS OF KEN JACOBS

Stream BLONDE COBRA at home

In 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 ORCHARD STREET at home

Ken 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 WINDOW at home

Jacobs, 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

Stream THE WHIRLED at home

A collection of smaller silent segments made between 1956 and ’63. Selected by Harry Kroessler.

THE WHIRLED

KEN JACOBS | 20 min | 2007

Stream LITTLE STABS AT HAPPINESS at home

A collection of smaller silent segments made between 1956 and ’63. Selected by Harry Kroessler.

LITTLE STABS AT HAPPINESS

KEN JACOBS | 15 min | 1960

DEREK JARMAN X 9

Stream BLUE at home

A 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 home

A 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 home

Jarman’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 home

A 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 home

The 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 home

Jarman 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 home

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 CONVERSATION

Derek Jarman | 77 min | 1985

Stream GLITTERBUG at home

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.

GLITTERBUG

Derek Jarman | 60 min | 1994

Stream WAR REQUIEM at home

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 REQUIEM

Derek Jarman | 92 min | 1989

MOST WATCHED

Stream POSSESSION at home

Banned 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 home

A 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 home

An ingeniously plotted thriller, slowly peeling back layers to reach its unnerving final revelation.

LADY VENGEANCE

Park Chan-wook | 115 min | 2005

Stream KILLER OF SHEEP at home

Burnett’s justly legendary feature debut, a lyrical urban/bucolic portrait of everyday Black working-class life in the Watts neighborhood. Selected by Theaster Gates as part of his series The Trace, presented with Gagosian.

KILLER OF SHEEP

Charles Burnett | 80 min | 1978

Stream DIAMANTINO at home

A 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 home

Amirpour’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 home

An 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 home

Lee 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 home

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 GIRLFRIENDS

ÉRIC ROHMER | 103 min | 1987

Stream PASOLINI at home

Abel 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 home

Hogg’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 home

A 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 home

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 MIRABELLE

ÉRIC ROHMER | 99 min | 1987

Stream TOMMASO at home

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.

TOMMASO

ABEL FERRARA | 115 min | 2019

Stream CARAVAGGIO at home

A 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 home

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 WIFE

ÉRIC ROHMER | 106 min | 1981

Stream COLLEGE at home

Buster 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 home

An 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 home

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.

EXHIBITION

Joanna Hogg | 104 min | 2013

THE METROGRAPH PICTURES LIBRARY

Stream POSSESSION at home

Banned upon its original release in 1981, Possession is cinematic delirium at its most intoxicating.

POSSESSION

ANDRZEJ ŻUłAWSKI | 124 min | 1981

Stream L’INTRUS at home

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’INTRUS

CLAIRE DENIS | 130 min | 2004

Stream THE FRENCH at home

Klein’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 A BIGGER SPLASH at home

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 SPLASH

JACK HAZAN | 106 min | 1974

Stream BOYFRIENDS AND GIRLFRIENDS at home

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 GIRLFRIENDS

ÉRIC ROHMER | 103 min | 1987

Stream THE AVIATOR’S WIFE at home

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 WIFE

ÉRIC ROHMER | 106 min | 1981

Stream FOUR ADVENTURES OF REINETTE AND MIRABELLE at home

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 MIRABELLE

ÉRIC ROHMER | 99 min | 1987

Stream GOODBYE, DRAGON INN at home

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 INN

TSAI MING-LIANG | 82 min | 2003

Stream DOWNTOWN 81 at home

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 81

EDO BERTOGLIO | 72 min | 1981 / 2000

Stream LAST AND FIRST MEN at home

A 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 home

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 BOY

JACK HAZAN AND DAVID MINGAY | 113 min | 1980

Stream ALL IS FORGIVEN at home

A 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 THE COMPETITION at home

This 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 home

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 CANNIBALS

SUSAN SONTAG | 95 min | 1969

Stream THE GREAT ADVENTURE at home

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 ADVENTURE

ARNE SUCKSDORFF | 77 min | 1953

Stream HYENAS at home

A 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 home

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 SUN

DJIBRIL DIOP MAMBéTY‎ | 45 min | 1994/1999

Stream MADE IN HONG KONG at home

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 KONG

FRUIT CHAN | 99 min | 1997

Stream THE PRAIRIE TRILOGY at home

John 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 home

A 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

Stream PORTRAIT OF JASON at home

Shirley Clarke's documentary portrait of Jason Holliday, a gay, African American cabaret dancer, part-time hustler, and full-time raconteur.

PORTRAIT OF JASON

SHIRLEY CLARKE | 95 min | 1967

Stream ORNETTE: MADE IN AMERICA at home

Shirley Clarke reconnected with Ornette Coleman in the early ’80s, shooting his concert at a newly opened arts center in Fort Worth, Texas.

ORNETTE: MADE IN AMERICA

SHIRLEY CLARKE | 77 min | 1985

Stream THE CONNECTION at home

Jack Gelber’s controversial off-Broadway play about a group of addicts—many of them jazz musicians—waiting for a fix.

THE CONNECTION

SHIRLEY CLARKE | 110 min | 1961

PETER GREENAWAY X 10

Stream A ZED & TWO NOUGHTS at home

A queasily comic meditation on sex and death, in which two zoologist widowers become obsessed with decomposition, experimenting on animals and crafting time-lapse films of decaying flesh.

A ZED & TWO NOUGHTS

PETER GREENAWAY | 115 min | 1985

Stream THE DRAUGHTSMAN’S CONTRACT at home

Greenaway’s breakthrough, a 17th-century murder mystery in which an aristocratic wife commissions a young artist to sketch her husband’s seemingly idyllic property while he is away.

THE DRAUGHTSMAN’S CONTRACT

Peter Greenaway | 108 min | 1982

Stream THE FALLS at home

Greenaway’s first feature, an epic mock documentary in 92 parts that catalogs the aftermath of a mysterious “Violent Unknown Event.”

THE FALLS

Peter Greenaway | 195 min | 1980

Stream A WALK THROUGH H at home

An anonymous narrator outlines a bizarre, tongue-in-cheek journey taken through a domain known only as “H,” aided by a series of 92 extraordinary maps.

A WALK THROUGH H

PETER GREENAWAY | 41 min | 1979

Stream VERTICAL FEATURES REMAKE at home

A parodic featurette, in which a fictional institute attempt to shape raw footage of the English landscape into a short film in accordance with structuralist film theory.

VERTICAL FEATURES REMAKE

PETER GREENAWAY | 44 min | 1978

Stream FIVE SHORT FILMS BY PETER GREENAWAY at home

A selection of five of Greenaway’s most playful, outlandish, and inventive early shorts.

FIVE SHORT FILMS BY PETER GREENAWAY

PETER GREENAWAY | 47 min | 1969-1978

ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET X 5

Stream THE IMMORTAL ONE at home

Shot in Turkey, Robbe-Grillet’s ethereal, erotic film depicts a death-haunted affair between two French nationals abroad in alien Istanbul.

THE IMMORTAL ONE

ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET | 101 min | 1963

Stream EDEN AND AFTER at home

A work of noose-tight construction, foreboding, surreal, and brimming with blighted sensuality.

EDEN AND AFTER

ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET | 93 min | 1970

Stream THE MAN WHO LIES at home

Drawing attention to the sleights of film grammar, The Man Who Lies is a narrative labyrinth that’s a pleasure to get lost in.

THE MAN WHO LIES

ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET | 95 min | 1968

Stream SUCCESSIVE SLIDINGS OF PLEASURE at home

Successive Slidings of Pleasure finds Alain Robbe-Grillet blending sadomasochism, sacrilege, and psychedelia to delirious effect.

SUCCESSIVE SLIDINGS OF PLEASURE

ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET | 105 min | 1974

Stream TRANS-EUROP-EXPRESS at home

A pulp pastiche laid out with cool, mathematical symmetry, featuring Jean-Louis Trintignant at his most theatrical.

TRANS-EUROP-EXPRESS

ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET | 95 min | 1966

MIGUEL GOMES'S ARABIAN NIGHTS

Stream MIGUEL GOMES' ARABIAN NIGHTS | TRAILER at home

Touching 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 ARABIAN NIGHTS VOL. 1: THE RESTLESS ONE at home

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 ONE

Miguel Gomes | 125 min | 2015

Stream ARABIAN NIGHTS VOL. 2: THE DESOLATE ONE at home

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 ONE

Miguel Gomes | 131 min | 2014

Stream ARABIAN NIGHTS VOL. 3: THE ENCHANTED ONE at home

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 ONE

Miguel Gomes | 125 min | 2015

MIKLÓS JANCSÓ X 6

Stream THE ROUND-UP at home

A harrowing study of psychological warfare and the wielding of authoritarian power.

THE ROUND-UP

MIKLOS JANCSó | 90 min | 1966

Stream THE RED AND THE WHITE at home

Jancsó’s anti-heroic epic, long banned in the USSR, follows a troop of Hungarian volunteers narrowly escaping slaughter in the Russian Civil War circa 1919.

THE RED AND THE WHITE

MIKLOS JANCSó | 90 min | 1967

Stream THE CONFRONTATION at home

Jancsó delivers a sympathetic-yet-stern address to the radicals of his generation, which doubles as an interrogation of the obstreperous New Left.

THE CONFRONTATION

MIKLOS JANCSó | 80 min | 1969

Stream WINTER WIND at home

A sprawling historical drama told with only thirteen remarkable sustained shots.

WINTER WIND

MIKLOS JANCSó | 80 min | 1969

Stream RED PSALM at home

A passion play with a distinctly socialist bent, Red Psalm recalls the harvesting strikes that brought rural Hungary to a standstill in the 1890s.

RED PSALM

MIKLOS JANCSó | 87 min | 1972

Stream ELEKTRA, MY LOVE at home

Jancsó’s radically original, downright hypnotic retelling of the Ancient Greek myth of Elektra.

ELEKTRA, MY LOVE

MIKLÓS JANCSÓ | 70 min | 1974

OSCAR MICHEAUX X 8

Stream THE GIRL FROM CHICAGO at home

A 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 home

An 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 home

The 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 home

Light-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 home

Micheaux’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 home

Returning 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 home

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 SOUL

OSCAR MICHEAUX | 102 min | 1925

Stream TEN MINUTES TO LIVE at home

A 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

Stream THE AVIATOR’S WIFE at home

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 WIFE

ÉRIC ROHMER | 106 min | 1981

Stream BOYFRIENDS AND GIRLFRIENDS at home

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 GIRLFRIENDS

ÉRIC ROHMER | 103 min | 1987

Stream FOUR ADVENTURES OF REINETTE AND MIRABELLE at home

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 MIRABELLE

ÉRIC ROHMER | 99 min | 1987

JOAQUIM PEDRO DE ANDRADE X 6

Stream CONJUGAL WARFARE at home

In his fourth feature, Andrade distills 16 short stories by Dalton Trevisan, a specialist in tales of working and middle-class life in the southern city of Curitiba.

CONJUGAL WARFARE

JOAQUIM PEDRO DE ANDRADE | 93 min | 1974

Stream MACUNAÍMA at home

Macunaíma follows its shapeshifting protagonist through a series of adventures that take them from the Amazon jungle to the city of São Paulo.

MACUNAÍMA

JOAQUIM PEDRO DE ANDRADE | 95 min | 1969

Stream BRAZILWOOD MAN at home

Brazilwood Man presents its protagonist as portrayed simultaneously by male- and female-presenting performers, set out upon a cannibalistic collision course.

BRAZILWOOD MAN

JOAQUIM PEDRO DE ANDRADE | 106 min | 1982

Stream THE PRIEST AND THE GIRL at home

The Priest and The Girl touches on smalltown life, hidebound parochial morality and, implicitly, a broader critique of Brazilian society.

THE PRIEST AND THE GIRL

JOAQUIM PEDRO DE ANDRADE | 90 min | 1966

Stream THE CONSPIRATORS at home

Filmed under the heel of military dictatorship, The Conspirators suggests a clear parallel between the struggles of yesterday and today.

THE CONSPIRATORS

JOAQUIM PEDRO DE ANDRADE | 100 min | 1972

Stream GARRINCHA: HERO OF THE JUNGLE at home

Andrade’s essay film portrait of Brazilian footballer Manuel Francisco dos Santos, brings together socio-political insights with a pure love of the poetry of the pitch.

GARRINCHA: HERO OF THE JUNGLE

JOAQUIM PEDRO DE ANDRADE | 60 min | 1963

LIONEL ROGOSIN X 6

Stream ON THE BOWERY at home

Rogosin's anecdotal tale of drunks and day-laborers progresses in a wavering amble, starring nonprofessionals who lived the parts that they played.

ON THE BOWERY

LIONEL ROGOSIN | 65 min | 1956

Stream COME BACK, AFRICA at home

With Come Back, Africa, Rogosin took the docufiction style of On the Bowery to c. 1959 Johannesburg.

COME BACK, AFRICA

LIONEL ROGOSIN | 92 min | 1960

Stream GOOD TIMES, WONDERFUL TIMES at home

Rogosin self-distributed his plea for pacifism in hopes of encouraging young men to resist the draft and the war.

GOOD TIMES, WONDERFUL TIMES

LIONEL ROGOSIN | 70 min | 1966

Stream BLACK ROOTS at home

The first in Rogosin’s trilogy of films on American race relations, followed by Black Fantasy and Woodcutters of the Deep South.

BLACK ROOTS

LIONEL ROGOSIN | 63 min | 1970

Stream ARAB-ISRAELI DIALOGUE at home

Rogosin’s final film comprises a spirited debate between the Palestinian poet Rashed Hussein and Israeli intellectual Amos Kenan.

ARAB-ISRAELI DIALOGUE

LIONEL ROGOSIN | 40 min | 1974

Stream WOODCUTTERS OF THE DEEP SOUTH at home

Woodcutters of the Deep South describes the inhuman working conditions of lumberjacks in Mississippi and Alabama.

WOODCUTTERS OF THE DEEP SOUTH

LIONEL ROGOSIN | 85 min | 1973

SOVIET SILENTS

Stream EARTH at home

Widely regarded as Dovzhenko’s masterpiece, a work of poetic grandeur that pulses with a connection to the cycles of nature, the rural landscape of present-day Ukraine, and the people who work its soil.

EARTH

ALEKSANDR DOVZHENKO | 75 min | 1930

Stream CHESS FEVER at home

Pudovkin and Shpikovsky’s delirious silent comedy about the 1925 chess tournament in Moscow.

CHESS FEVER

VSELVOLOD PUDOVKIN | 28 min | 1925

Stream THE END OF ST. PETERSBURG at home

A peasant boy newly arrived in the Russian capital illustrates the Bolsheviks’ rise to power in Pudovkin and Doller’s film, a mastery of montage.

THE END OF ST. PETERSBURG

VSEVOLOD PUDOVKIN | 85 min | 1927

FANTÔMAS PARTS 1 - 5

Stream FANTÔMAS PART ONE : IN THE SHADOWS OF THE GUILLOTINE at home

A mysterious criminal genius has Paris in a panic following a daring robbery, and it’s up to Juve and Fandor to end his reign.

FANTÔMAS PART ONE : IN THE SHADOWS OF THE GUILLOTINE

LOUIS FEUILLADE | 54 min | 1913

Stream FANTÔMAS PART TWO: THE MAN IN BLACK at home

A woman’s disfigured body is discovered in the home of one Dr. Chaleck., Juve and Fandor suspect Fantômas is at work again.

FANTÔMAS PART TWO: THE MAN IN BLACK

LOUIS FEUILLADE | 61 min | 1913

Stream FANTÔMAS PART THREE: THE DEAD MAN WHO KILLED at home

Fandor continues the hunt for Fantômas alone, picking up the trail when a corpse disappears from inside a prison.

FANTÔMAS PART THREE: THE DEAD MAN WHO KILLED

LOUIS FEUILLADE | 90 min | 1913

Stream FANTÔMAS PART FOUR: FANTÔMAS VS. FANTÔMAS at home

A princess is relieved of a priceless pearl necklace and Fantômas is again the prime suspect.

FANTÔMAS PART FOUR: FANTÔMAS VS. FANTÔMAS

LOUIS FEUILLADE | 59 min | 1913

Stream FANTÔMAS PART FIVE: THE FALSE MAGISTRATE at home

Fantômas’s gang continue their criminal activity unabated, leading Juve to propose that the arch-fiend should be released and tailed.

FANTÔMAS PART FIVE: THE FALSE MAGISTRATE

LOUIS FEUILLADE | 70 min | 1913

HOLLYWOOD CLASSICS

Stream A COTTAGE ON DARTMOOR 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 DARTMOOR

Anthony Asquith | 88 min | 1929

Stream A STAR IS BORN at home

Wellman’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 home

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 SOUL

OSCAR MICHEAUX | 102 min | 1925

Stream COLLEGE at home

Buster 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 home

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 KISS

Edwin L. Marin | 75 min | 1932

Stream THE GIRL FROM CHICAGO at home

A 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 home

Lupino’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 home

Buñuel’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 home

Murnau’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 home

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.”

MANIAC

Dwain Esper | 51 min | 1934

Stream METROPOLIS at home

Lang’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 home

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 TIDE

Curtis Harrington | 86 min | 1961

Stream THE SOUTHERNER at home

Arguably 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

FROM 7 LUDLOW: CONVERSATIONS AT METROGRAPH

Stream FROM 7 LUDLOW: WALTER AND MICAELA SAXER ON 'SEPA' at home

Producer 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 home

Murina 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 home

Documentarian 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 home

Señorita 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 home

Caught 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 home

Filmmaker 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 home

Author 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 home

BADBADNOTGOOD 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 home

Critic 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 home

Guest 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 home

Writer 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 home

Girlfight 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 home

Director 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 home

Tim 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 home

Will 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 home

The 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 home

Filmmaker 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 home

Project 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 home

Elegant 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 home

Bill 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 home

As 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 home

Touching 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 home

Jack 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 home

Mia 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 home

The 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 home

Downtown 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 home

Susan 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 home

Klein'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 home

Released 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 home

Senegalese 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 home

One 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 home

A 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 home

Two 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 home

The 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 home

Banned 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 home

A 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 home

A 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 home

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, 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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