As part of Metrograph Expanded: Botanical Imprints, a program centered our engagement with the plant world consisting of screenings, installations,…

SAMPLES FROM: ENCOUNTERS OVER SEVERAL PLANTS

An experimental documentary of rare beauty and delicacy, filmmaker, programmer, projectionist, and archivist Listorti’s ruminative second feature is…

HERBARIA Introduced by Leandro Listorti

Live: Sun, Mar 26 • 8:00PM EDT

A seductive submersion into the techno-scored neon nightlife of Taipei, drenched in club lights and a nagging undercurrent of ennui.

MILLENNIUM MAMBO

Hou Hsiao-hsien | 119 min | 2001

A delightfully anarchic autobiographical meta-film exploring the power dynamics underpinning experience, memory, and the manner in which women’s stories are told.

PRIVILEGE

Yvonne Rainer | 103 min | 1990

A 19-year-old Lydia Lunch stars in a terrifying allegory of societal repression.

BLACK BOX

Beth B, Scott B | 21 min | 1978

Rainer’s drolly provocative hybrid essay film follows the break-up of a marriage between a womanizing blowhard Manhattan professor and his artist wife.

THE MAN WHO ENVIED WOMEN

Yvonne Rainer | 125 min | 1985

In I Cannot Now Recall, Kersti Jan Werdal presents a collection of Yvonne Rainer’s dreams, selected by the filmmaker from Rainer’s journals.

I CANNOT NOW RECALL

Kersti Jan Werdal | 15 min | 2023

Roffman’s feature debut follows a straight-and-narrow cat who falls into a seedy underworld of beatnik baddies, led by a young Peter Falk.

THE BLOODY BROOD

Julian Roffman | 80 min | 1959

Eve, a shy young woman working as a maid at a posh Mexico City hotel, pursues a vision of a better life.

THE CHAMBERMAID

Lila Avilés | 102 min | 2019

A one-minute direct assault on the languages of hate and intolerance.

AMNESIA

Beth B | 2 min | 1992

In a backwater coastal village in Brazil, an aimless young woman is jolted out of her ennui by the discovery of a corpse.

AUGUST WINDS

Gabriel Mascaro | 77 min | 2014

A disturbing depiction of violence in our society, co-directed with artist Ida Applebroog.

BELLADONNA

Beth B | 12 min | 1989

A 19-year-old Lydia Lunch stars in a terrifying allegory of societal repression.

BLACK BOX

Beth B, Scott B | 21 min | 1978

A documentary exploring rebirth and the reconciliation process in postwar Vietnam.

BREATHE IN, BREATHE OUT

Beth B | 71 min | 2001

Entitled rich kid Jean gets a crash course in class consciousness when his family drops out of the ranks of Rio de Janeiro’s moneyed elite.

CASA GRANDE

Fellipe Barbosa | 115 min | 2014

Rainer’s landmark second feature tells the story of a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an enormous anger.

FILM ABOUT A WOMAN WHO...

Yvonne Rainer | 90 min | 1974

A viscerally poetic and sonically revelatory portrait of performance artist Evelyn Franti.

GLOWING EVELYN

Beth B | 7 min | 2023

Intimate portraits of gay artists and drag performers talking about gender, identity, and the fine lines that surround them.

HIGH HEEL NIGHTS

Beth B | 11 min | 1994

In I Cannot Now Recall, Kersti Jan Werdal presents a collection of Yvonne Rainer’s dreams, selected by the filmmaker from Rainer’s journals.

I CANNOT NOW RECALL

Kersti Jan Werdal | 15 min | 2023

A delicate, thoughtful, and intimate debut about teenager Aimie, who moves from South Korea to Toronto with her newly divorced mother.

IN BETWEEN DAYS

So Yong Kim | 83 min | 2006

An indigenous Guatemalan girl finds herself torn between traditional society and the modern world.

IXCANUL

Jayro Bustamante | 93 min | 2015

Illuminated by a lead performance from critic Annette Michelson, Rainer’s revelatory fourth feature was inspired by her experiences living in West Berlin in the late ’70s.

JOURNEYS FROM BERLIN / 1971

Yvonne Rainer | 125 min | 1980

A bittersweet and buoyant tale of youth’s adversity and adaptation.

KILLA

Avinash Arun | 107 min | 2014

Rainer’s elegiac, hybrid third features the paradoxical feminine figure of a lovelorn lion tamer named Kristina.

KRISTINA TALKING PICTURES

Yvonne Rainer | 90 min | 1976

Rainer’s debut feature film announced her shift from the world of dance towards avant-garde cinema, and what would become a career-long interest in “women’s stories” and the teasing machinations of melodrama.

LIVES OF PERFORMERS

Yvonne Rainer | 90 min | 1972

Rainer’s last feature is also one of her most personal, inspired by the lows and highs of a breast cancer diagnosis in the early 1990s, and the surprise of a burgeoning lesbian relationship.

MURDER AND MURDER

Yvonne Rainer | 113 min | 1997

An intense study of the physical, psychological, and social breakdown of the human condition.

OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND

Beth B | 6 min | 1995

A delightfully anarchic autobiographical meta-film exploring the power dynamics underpinning experience, memory, and the manner in which women’s stories are told.

PRIVILEGE

Yvonne Rainer | 103 min | 1990

An observational doc/portrait of dancer-choreographer and frequent Yvonne Rainer collaborator Brittany Bailey, as she prepares to debut a new work.

PROMENADE

Kersti Jan Werdal | 15 min | 2019

Staged around Manhattan’s Upper West Side, Slow Shapes reveals the nervous oscillation and alienating presence of driving cars and commuting peoples in contrast to dancer dancer and choreographer Brittany Bailey’s slow-moving body.

SLOW SHAPES

Kersti Jan Werdal | 13 min | 2017

Legendary Downtown performance artist/musician Lydia Lunch delivers a warning of inevitable destruction.

THANATOPSIS

Beth B | 11 min | 1991

Roffman’s feature debut follows a straight-and-narrow cat who falls into a seedy underworld of beatnik baddies, led by a young Peter Falk.

THE BLOODY BROOD

Julian Roffman | 80 min | 1959

Eve, a shy young woman working as a maid at a posh Mexico City hotel, pursues a vision of a better life.

THE CHAMBERMAID

Lila Avilés | 102 min | 2019

Beth B’s banned music video for the Arthur Baker–produced New York club hit from synthpop band Dominatrix.

THE DOMINATRIX SLEEPS TONIGHT

Beth B | 4 min | 1983

Rainer’s drolly provocative hybrid essay film follows the break-up of a marriage between a womanizing blowhard Manhattan professor and his artist wife.

THE MAN WHO ENVIED WOMEN

Yvonne Rainer | 125 min | 1985

The Mask isn’t just the first Canadian horror feature and the first Canadian film shot in 3D—it’s also a landmark of psychedelic cinema, dating from a time before most of the world had heard of LSD.

THE MASK

Julian Roffman | 83 min | 1961

Parisian teenager Victor sets out in search of a father figure in Green’s effervescent modern-day reworking of the nativity story, featuring Mathieu Amalric.

THE SON OF JOSEPH

Eugéne Green | 113 min | 2016

Vacationing 22-year-old Nicole wiles away days in her middle-class Québéc neighborhood in Lafleur’s feather-light depiction of quarterlife drift and suburban malaise.

TU DORS NICOLE

Stéphane Lafleur | 93 min | 2014

Caught in a web of imagined powers and fears, perpetrators of violence are revealed through their own words as well as those of their victims.

UNDER LOCK AND KEY

Beth B | 31 min | 1993

A suspenseful culture-clash drama about a young woman’s repression and resilience that packs a considerable emotional punch.

WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY

Iram Haq | 106 min | 2018

A seductive submersion into the techno-scored neon nightlife of Taipei, drenched in club lights and a nagging undercurrent of ennui.

MILLENNIUM MAMBO

Hou Hsiao-hsien | 119 min | 2001

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

POSSESSION

ANDRZEJ ŻUłAWSKI | 124 min | 1981

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“What if someone else wrote your autobiography?” That is the question posited by Alexander Olch as he tells the life-story of his former Harvard professor, the filmmaker Richard P. Rogers.

THE WINDMILL MOVIE

Alexander Olch | 82 min | 2008

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As part of Metrograph Expanded: Botanical Imprints, a program centered our engagement with the plant world consisting of screenings, installations,…

SAMPLES FROM: ENCOUNTERS OVER SEVERAL PLANTS

An experimental documentary of rare beauty and delicacy, filmmaker, programmer, projectionist, and archivist Listorti’s ruminative second feature is…

HERBARIA Introduced by Leandro Listorti

Live: Sun, Mar 26 • 8:00PM EDT

Employing archival images from the United States’ occupation of the Philippines, Seno’s To Pick a Flower explores how the meaning and uses of nature were altered by colonial rule.

TO PICK A FLOWER

Shireen Seno | 18 min | 2021

A speculative and combustive animation starring a chorus line of Kudzu, made by emerging artist Aria Dean.

SUITE!

Aria Dean | 8 min | 2021

Santiago Muñoz’s film compares historical processes and natural landscapes with a focus on the plants of Puerto Rico using mesmeric visuals and caustic wit.

FARMACOPEA

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz | 6 min | 2013

Rainer’s debut feature film announced her shift from the world of dance towards avant-garde cinema, and what would become a career-long interest in “women’s stories” and the teasing machinations of melodrama.

LIVES OF PERFORMERS

Yvonne Rainer | 90 min | 1972

Rainer’s landmark second feature tells the story of a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an enormous anger.

FILM ABOUT A WOMAN WHO...

Yvonne Rainer | 90 min | 1974

Rainer’s elegiac, hybrid third features the paradoxical feminine figure of a lovelorn lion tamer named Kristina.

KRISTINA TALKING PICTURES

Yvonne Rainer | 90 min | 1976

Illuminated by a lead performance from critic Annette Michelson, Rainer’s revelatory fourth feature was inspired by her experiences living in West Berlin in the late ’70s.

JOURNEYS FROM BERLIN / 1971

Yvonne Rainer | 125 min | 1980

Rainer’s drolly provocative hybrid essay film follows the break-up of a marriage between a womanizing blowhard Manhattan professor and his artist wife.

THE MAN WHO ENVIED WOMEN

Yvonne Rainer | 125 min | 1985

A delightfully anarchic autobiographical meta-film exploring the power dynamics underpinning experience, memory, and the manner in which women’s stories are told.

PRIVILEGE

Yvonne Rainer | 103 min | 1990

Rainer’s last feature is also one of her most personal, inspired by the lows and highs of a breast cancer diagnosis in the early 1990s, and the surprise of a burgeoning lesbian relationship.

MURDER AND MURDER

Yvonne Rainer | 113 min | 1997

A 19-year-old Lydia Lunch stars in a terrifying allegory of societal repression.

BLACK BOX

Beth B, Scott B | 21 min | 1978

Intimate portraits of gay artists and drag performers talking about gender, identity, and the fine lines that surround them.

HIGH HEEL NIGHTS

Beth B | 11 min | 1994

A one-minute direct assault on the languages of hate and intolerance.

AMNESIA

Beth B | 2 min | 1992

Beth B’s banned music video for the Arthur Baker–produced New York club hit from synthpop band Dominatrix.

THE DOMINATRIX SLEEPS TONIGHT

Beth B | 4 min | 1983

An intense study of the physical, psychological, and social breakdown of the human condition.

OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND

Beth B | 6 min | 1995

Caught in a web of imagined powers and fears, perpetrators of violence are revealed through their own words as well as those of their victims.

UNDER LOCK AND KEY

Beth B | 31 min | 1993

A disturbing depiction of violence in our society, co-directed with artist Ida Applebroog.

BELLADONNA

Beth B | 12 min | 1989

A viscerally poetic and sonically revelatory portrait of performance artist Evelyn Franti.

GLOWING EVELYN

Beth B | 7 min | 2023

A documentary exploring rebirth and the reconciliation process in postwar Vietnam.

BREATHE IN, BREATHE OUT

Beth B | 71 min | 2001

Legendary Downtown performance artist/musician Lydia Lunch delivers a warning of inevitable destruction.

THANATOPSIS

Beth B | 11 min | 1991

In I Cannot Now Recall, Kersti Jan Werdal presents a collection of Yvonne Rainer’s dreams, selected by the filmmaker from Rainer’s journals.

I CANNOT NOW RECALL

Kersti Jan Werdal | 15 min | 2023

An observational doc/portrait of dancer-choreographer and frequent Yvonne Rainer collaborator Brittany Bailey, as she prepares to debut a new work.

PROMENADE

Kersti Jan Werdal | 15 min | 2019

Staged around Manhattan’s Upper West Side, Slow Shapes reveals the nervous oscillation and alienating presence of driving cars and commuting peoples in contrast to dancer dancer and choreographer Brittany Bailey’s slow-moving body.

SLOW SHAPES

Kersti Jan Werdal | 13 min | 2017

In a backwater coastal village in Brazil, an aimless young woman is jolted out of her ennui by the discovery of a corpse.

AUGUST WINDS

Gabriel Mascaro | 77 min | 2014

Entitled rich kid Jean gets a crash course in class consciousness when his family drops out of the ranks of Rio de Janeiro’s moneyed elite.

CASA GRANDE

Fellipe Barbosa | 115 min | 2014

A delicate, thoughtful, and intimate debut about teenager Aimie, who moves from South Korea to Toronto with her newly divorced mother.

IN BETWEEN DAYS

So Yong Kim | 83 min | 2006

An indigenous Guatemalan girl finds herself torn between traditional society and the modern world.

IXCANUL

Jayro Bustamante | 93 min | 2015

A bittersweet and buoyant tale of youth’s adversity and adaptation.

KILLA

Avinash Arun | 107 min | 2014

Eve, a shy young woman working as a maid at a posh Mexico City hotel, pursues a vision of a better life.

THE CHAMBERMAID

Lila Avilés | 102 min | 2019

Parisian teenager Victor sets out in search of a father figure in Green’s effervescent modern-day reworking of the nativity story, featuring Mathieu Amalric.

THE SON OF JOSEPH

Eugéne Green | 113 min | 2016

Vacationing 22-year-old Nicole wiles away days in her middle-class Québéc neighborhood in Lafleur’s feather-light depiction of quarterlife drift and suburban malaise.

TU DORS NICOLE

Stéphane Lafleur | 93 min | 2014

A suspenseful culture-clash drama about a young woman’s repression and resilience that packs a considerable emotional punch.

WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY

Iram Haq | 106 min | 2018

The Mask isn’t just the first Canadian horror feature and the first Canadian film shot in 3D—it’s also a landmark of psychedelic cinema, dating from a time before most of the world had heard of LSD.

THE MASK

Julian Roffman | 83 min | 1961

Roffman’s feature debut follows a straight-and-narrow cat who falls into a seedy underworld of beatnik baddies, led by a young Peter Falk.

THE BLOODY BROOD

Julian Roffman | 80 min | 1959

Introduced by cinematographer and filmmaker Bradford Young, ASC.

BABYLON

Franco Rosso | 95 min | 1980

A singular document of Thatcher-era South London immigrant life, Rosso’s cult sound-system drama is hard-nosed, indignant, and utterly compelling.

BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTS

Billy Woodberry | 80 min | 1983

Writer-director-star Charles Lane’s contemporary update of Chaplin’s The Kid, shot in beautiful black and white in downtown New York.

SIDEWALK STORIES

Charles Lane | 97 min | 1989

The work of self-taught African American evangelists, this surreal featurette is a campy episodic catalog of iniquity set on the titular choo-choo.

HELLBOUND TRAIN

James and Eloyce Gist | 50 min | 1930

The first film in Hùng’s acclaimed Vietnam Trilogy is a beautifully detailed, sublimely sensitive romance, which observes life within two different Saigon families.

THE SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA

Tran Anh Hung | 104 min | 1993

Sixties “It” Girl Marianne Faithfull leads the mod-styled erotic delirium as a Harley-riding free spirit rendezvousing with both her lover, played by Alain Delon, and her husband.

THE GIRL ON A MOTORCYCLE

Jack Cardiff | 91 min | 1968

Stéphane Brizé’s deceptively minor-key film about the developing romance between a married man and his son’s homeroom teacher, starring a standout Vincent Lindon.

MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON

Stéphane Brizé | 101 min | 2009

Ernst Lubitsch’s silent satirical fantasy, in which a playboy Lieutenant sent to a remote alpine outpost loses his head over two women.

THE WILDCAT

Ernst Lubitsch | 79 min | 1921

A lonely teenage boarder falls for her teacher in Leontine Sagan’s pioneering all-female cast lesbian romance.

MÄDCHEN IN UNIFORM

Leontine Sagan | 87 min | 1931

A young Mumbai native falls for a punkish artist and has to dream up ways to keep himself in the US in David Rathod’s charming ’80s romantic comedy.

WEST IS WEST

David Rathod | 80 min | 1989

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

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

Tarkovsky’s penultimate, semi-autobiographical film follows a homesick Russian musicologist in Italy, with the Tuscan countryside rendered a melancholy dreamscape.

NOSTALGHIA

Andrei Tarkovsky | 125 min | 1983

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

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

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

UNRELATED

Joanna Hogg | 100 min | 2007

Isabelle Huppert plays three variations on the role of a Frenchwoman abroad in Korea in her first venture into Hong’s peculiar, soju-soaked world.

IN ANOTHER COUNTRY

Hong Sang-soo | 89 min | 2012

Lixin Fan’s moving documentary traces the mass phenomenon that is the annual homecoming journeys of Chinese migrant workers to celebrate Lunar New Year.

LAST TRAIN HOME

Lixin Fan | 85 min | 2009

A simple love triangle unfolds into an epoch-spanning triptych, describing the past, present, and future of three characters, in Jia Zhangke’s bold, elegiac drama.

MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART

Jia Zhangke | 126 min | 2015

Jia Zhangke’s jarringly to-the-moment wuxia film focuses on four individuals in four provinces, each pushed towards violence by rampant injustice.

A TOUCH OF SIN

Jia Zhangke | 130 min | 2013

A woman begins to suspect that her businessman husband may be a spy for the United States in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s deftly constructed domestic WWII-set drama.

WIFE OF A SPY

Kiyoshi Kurosawa | 115 min | 2020

Elia Suleiman’s nearly dialogue-free depiction of Palestinian life under Israeli occupation finds bleak, bitter humor in the tensions and taboos of a divided society.

DIVINE INTERVENTION

Elia Suleiman | 92 min | 2002

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

Canadian enfant terrible Xavier Dolan’s directorial debut, a raw, raucous coming-of-age comedy-drama starring Dolan himself.

I KILLED MY MOTHER

Xavier Dolan | 96 min | 2009

Working-class family man Ricky is struggling with debt after the 2008 financial crisis in Ken Loach’s deeply empathetic drama exploring the dark side of the gig economy.

SORRY WE MISSED YOU

Ken Loach | 101 min | 2019

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

GRACE JONES: BLOODLIGHT AND BAMI

Sophie Fiennes | 105 min | 2018

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

Russian giant Aleksei German’s widely lauded final film transforms a science-fiction classic into a visceral, headlong wallow in medieval muck.

HARD TO BE A GOD

Aleksei German | 177 min | 2013

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

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

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

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

LADY VENGEANCE

Park Chan-wook | 115 min | 2005

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

Stéphane Brizé’s deceptively minor-key film about the developing romance between a married man and his son’s homeroom teacher, starring a standout Vincent Lindon.

MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON

Stéphane Brizé | 101 min | 2009

A seductive submersion into the techno-scored neon nightlife of Taipei, drenched in club lights and a nagging undercurrent of ennui.

MILLENNIUM MAMBO

Hou Hsiao-hsien | 119 min | 2001

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

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

An unsettlingly weird tale from Whispering Corridors director Park Ki-hyung, in which a childless couple face a series of increasingly nightmarish, inexplicable occurrences.

ROOT OF EVIL

Ki-hyeong Park | 103 min | 2003

Laz Diaz’s Golden Lion-winning epic transposes Tolstoy’s tale of a released prisoner hell-bent on revenge to the Philippines in the late 1990s.

THE WOMAN WHO LEFT

Lav Diaz | 216 min | 2016

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

Master of melodrama Borzage adapts Hemingway’s 1929 novel of love and war, with Gary Cooper as the American serving in the Italian ambulance brigade in WWI.

A FAREWELL TO ARMS

Frank Borzage | 80 min | 1932

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

A singular document of Thatcher-era South London immigrant life, Rosso’s cult sound-system drama is hard-nosed, indignant, and utterly compelling.

BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTS

Billy Woodberry | 80 min | 1983

The film that first paired Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich, launching one of the greatest actress-director collaborations in cinema history.

THE BLUE ANGEL

Josef von Sternberg | 104 min | 1930

A four-part anthology comedy exploring love and the liberated woman in contemporary Italy, featuring contributions by some of the country’s greatest working filmmakers.

BOCCACCIO '70

Vittorrio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli, Luchino Visconti | 205 min | 1962

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

Arthur Ripley’s nightmare-logic thriller propels a penniless, PTSD-haunted WWII vet into a job behind the wheel for a Miami mobster.

THE CHASE

Arthur Ripley | 86 min | 1946

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

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

A group of soldiers embark on a surreal journey to escape from behind enemy lines in Kubrick’s genius debut feature.

FEAR AND DESIRE

Stanley Kubrick | 62 min | 1952

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

Sixties “It” Girl Marianne Faithfull leads the mod-styled erotic delirium as a Harley-riding free spirit rendezvousing with both her lover, played by Alain Delon, and her husband.

THE GIRL ON A MOTORCYCLE

Jack Cardiff | 91 min | 1968

The work of self-taught African American evangelists, this surreal featurette is a campy episodic catalog of iniquity set on the titular choo-choo.

HELLBOUND TRAIN

James and Eloyce Gist | 50 min | 1930

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

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

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

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

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

A lonely teenage boarder falls for her teacher in Leontine Sagan’s pioneering all-female cast lesbian romance.

MÄDCHEN IN UNIFORM

Leontine Sagan | 87 min | 1931

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

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

Introduced by Charles Burnett.

MY BROTHER’S WEDDING

Charles Burnett | 115 min | 1983

A beautiful young dancer is suddenly crippled by polio in Ida Lupino’s hard-eyed, semi-autobiographical melodrama.

NEVER FEAR

Ida Lupino | 82 min | 1950

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

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

Orson Welles’s oft unfairly overlooked third feature, a baroque thriller about a war crimes investigator looking for a Nazi fugitive in small-town Connecticut, with Welles starring as the prime suspect.

THE STRANGER

Orson Welles | 95 min | 1946

In the elite class of Lang’s American films, this seamy, gut-twisting noir about a painter looking for love in all the wrong places is one of the most thoroughly devastating films ever produced in Hollywood.

SCARLET STREET

Fritz Lang | 102 min | 1945

Writer-director-star Charles Lane’s contemporary update of Chaplin’s The Kid, shot in beautiful black and white in downtown New York.

SIDEWALK STORIES

Charles Lane | 97 min | 1989

The magisterial final collaboration between Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, and director Vittoria De Sica.

SUNFLOWER

Vittorrio De Sica | 107 min | 1970

Alberto Cavalcanti’s direction lends a palpable sense of mounting dread to this sterling specimen of the spiv film.

THEY MADE ME A FUGITIVE

Alberto Cavalcanti | 78 min | 1947

Ernst Lubitsch’s silent satirical fantasy, in which a playboy Lieutenant sent to a remote alpine outpost loses his head over two women.

THE WILDCAT

Ernst Lubitsch | 79 min | 1921

The holy trinity of Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, and De Sica reunite in this triptych buoyant boudoir comedy.

YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW

Vittorrio De Sica | 119 min | 1964

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

A vital record of activist art, following The Free Theater Associates, including performers Donald Sutherland and Jane Fonda, on their anti-Vietnam roadshow.

F.T.A.

Francine Parker | 103 min | 1972

A unique and elegiac self-portrait from the titanically talented director/photographer/composer Gordon Parks, looking back on his life.

MOMENTS WITHOUT PROPER NAMES

Gordon Parks | 60 min | 1987

William Greaves’ riveting documentary record of the 1972 National Black Political Convention, a historic event that gathered Black voices from across the political spectrum.

NATIONTIME

William Greaves | 80 min | 1972

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

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

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

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

GRACE JONES: BLOODLIGHT AND BAMI

Sophie Fiennes | 105 min | 2018

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

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

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

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

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

Lixin Fan’s moving documentary traces the mass phenomenon that is the annual homecoming journeys of Chinese migrant workers to celebrate Lunar New Year.

LAST TRAIN HOME

Lixin Fan | 85 min | 2009

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

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

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

Tarkovsky’s penultimate, semi-autobiographical film follows a homesick Russian musicologist in Italy, with the Tuscan countryside rendered a melancholy dreamscape.

NOSTALGHIA

Andrei Tarkovsky | 125 min | 1983

Tarkovsky’s final masterpiece is a haunting vision of a world threatened with nuclear annihilation.

THE SACRIFICE

Andrei Tarkovsky | 149 min | 1986

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Russian giant Aleksei German’s widely lauded final film transforms a science-fiction classic into a visceral, headlong wallow in medieval muck.

HARD TO BE A GOD

Aleksei German | 177 min | 2013

Canadian enfant terrible Xavier Dolan’s directorial debut, a raw, raucous coming-of-age comedy-drama starring Dolan himself.

I KILLED MY MOTHER

Xavier Dolan | 96 min | 2009

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A seductive submersion into the techno-scored neon nightlife of Taipei, drenched in club lights and a nagging undercurrent of ennui.

MILLENNIUM MAMBO

Hou Hsiao-hsien | 119 min | 2001

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

POSSESSION

ANDRZEJ ŻUłAWSKI | 124 min | 1981

Introduced by cinematographer and filmmaker Bradford Young, ASC.

BABYLON

Franco Rosso | 95 min | 1980

Canadian enfant terrible Xavier Dolan’s directorial debut, a raw, raucous coming-of-age comedy-drama starring Dolan himself.

I KILLED MY MOTHER

Xavier Dolan | 96 min | 2009

A four-part anthology comedy exploring love and the liberated woman in contemporary Italy, featuring contributions by some of the country’s greatest working filmmakers.

BOCCACCIO '70

Vittorrio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli, Luchino Visconti | 205 min | 1962

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

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

LADY VENGEANCE

Park Chan-wook | 115 min | 2005

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

UNRELATED

Joanna Hogg | 100 min | 2007

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Clarke documents a bravura performance by Anna Sokolow, a choreographed interpretation of the dance between matador and bull.

BULLFIGHT

Shirley Clarke | 9 min | 1955

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

DANCE IN THE SUN

Shirley Clarke | 6 min | 1953

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

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

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

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

LITTLE STABS AT HAPPINESS

KEN JACOBS | 15 min | 1960

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

THE WHIRLED

KEN JACOBS | 20 min | 2007

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

Cinematographer Ed Lachman discusses his work on Todd Haynes' film Carol with writer Christopher Bourne.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: ED LACHMAN ON "CAROL"

Metrograph | 26 min | 2023

Filmmaker K8 Hardy discusses her film Outfitumentary following a screening at Metrograph.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: K8 HARDY ON "OUTFITUMENTARY"

Metrograph | 24 min | 2022

King Crimson bassist Tony Levin discusses the new documentary, In the Court of the Crimson King with Steve Smith (Culture & Arts Editor, Gothamist)

FROM 7 LUDLOW: TONY LEVIN ON "IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING"

Metrograph | 43 min | 2023

Filmmaker Alex Winter discusses his 2022 documentary Zappa, about the groundbreaking musician and songwiter.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: ALEX WINTER ON "ZAPPA"

Metrograph | 32 min | 2023

Editor Tim Squyers discusses his work on Ang Lee's 1997 film The Ice Storm.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: TIM SQUYERS ON "THE ICE STORM"

Metrograph | 25 min | 2023

Post-pop group YACHT discusses their creative use of artificial intelligence while making The Computer Accent.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: YACHT ON "THE COMPUTER ACCENT"

Metrograph | 44 min | 2022

Legendary experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs joins Metrograph for a Q&A following a screening of his short films.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: Q&A WITH KEN JACOBS

Metrograph | 17 min | 2022

Cinematographer Derek Howard discusses his work on Aquarela, showing as part of The Trace: Theaster Gates Selects, co-presented with Gagosian

FROM 7 LUDLOW: DEREK HOWARD ON "AQUARELA"

Metrograph | 16 min | 2023

Producer Walter Saxer discusses Sepa, his empathetic portrait of Peruvian inmate life.

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

24 min

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

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

Señorita director Isabel Sandoval discusses her debut film with Metrograph programmer Lydia Ogwang.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: "SEÑORITA" DIRECTOR ISABEL SANDOVAL

Various | 36 min | 2022

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

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

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

Filmmaker David Gordon Green discusses his 2000 film George Washington.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: DAVID GORDON GREEN ON "GEORGE WASHINGTON"

Metrograph | 38 min | 2022

BADBADNOTGOOD discuss their new studio album "Talk Memory" in conversation with Brandon Jenkins.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: BADBADNOTGOOD ON “TALK MEMORY”

METROGRAPH | 16 min | 2021

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

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

Writer Mayukh Sen on Ousmane Sembène's Black Girl.

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

VARIOUS | 18 min | 2021

Girlfight director Karyn Kusama and moderator Lisa Duva in conversation.

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

METROGRAPH | 30 min | 2021

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

Tim Heidecker and Rick Alverson discuss their 2012 film The Comedy.

FROM 7 LUDLOW: TIM HEIDECKER AND RICK ALVERSON

METROGRAPH | 39 min | 2022

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

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

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

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

A four-part anthology comedy exploring love and the liberated woman in contemporary Italy, featuring contributions by some of the country’s greatest working filmmakers.

BOCCACCIO '70

Vittorrio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli, Luchino Visconti | 205 min | 1962

The magisterial final collaboration between Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, and director Vittoria De Sica.

SUNFLOWER

Vittorrio De Sica | 107 min | 1970

The holy trinity of Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, and De Sica reunite in this triptych buoyant boudoir comedy.

YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW

Vittorrio De Sica | 119 min | 1964

Vittoria De Sica’s unexpectedly moving farce, charting the 22-year relationship between Marcello Mastroianni’s caddish businessman and Sophia Loren’s street-smart sex worker.

MARRIAGE ITALIAN STYLE

Vittorrio De Sica | 102 min | 1964

Juliette Binoche gives one of the performances of her career, depicting three days in the life of celebrated sculptor Camille Claudel.

CAMILLE CLAUDEL 1915

Bruno Dumont | 95 min | 2013

Director Bruno Dumont announced himself as a talented satirist with this critically revered murder mystery spoof, set in a seaside town in Pas-de-Calais.

L’IL QUINQUIN

Bruno Dumont | 206 min | 2014

When L’il Quinquin—now Coincoin—and his pal Fatso discover a curious magma, Captain Van der Weyden and Carpentier return to investigate!

COINCOIN AND THE EXTRA-HUMANS EPISODE ONE: BLACK BE BLACK

Bruno Dumont | 213 min | 2019

Faced with the irrational, Van der Weyden and Carpentier try to understand. Are they in the presence of extraterrestrials, clones, or an all-out invasion?!

COINCOIN AND THE EXTRA-HUMANS EPISODE TWO: THE EXTRA-HUMANS

Bruno Dumont | 55 min | 2019

As confusion mounts on the Opale Coast, it seems the end of the world is nigh. In this apocalyptic atmosphere, Coincoin’s amorous adventures are in full swing.

COINCOIN AND THE EXTRA-HUMANS EPISODE THREE: GUNK, GUNK, GUNK!!!

Bruno Dumont | 56 min | 2019

In the giddy, goofy finale, Coincoin and his gang find themselves hesitating between fear and exaltation as the breakdown of any sense of order sees even the dead start rising from the grave!

COINCOIN AND THE EXTRA-HUMANS EPISODE FOUR: THE APOCALYPSE

Bruno Dumont | 51 min | 2019

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Introduced by Charles Burnett.

MY BROTHER’S WEDDING

Charles Burnett | 115 min | 1983

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A group of soldiers embark on a surreal journey to escape from behind enemy lines in Kubrick’s genius debut feature.

FEAR AND DESIRE

Stanley Kubrick | 62 min | 1952

Italian master Michael Antonioni’s feature debut sees a pair of lovers become co-conspirators in murder.

STORY OF A LOVE AFFAIR

Michelangelo Antonioni | 98 min | 1950

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

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

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

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

MABOROSI

Hirokazu Kore-eda | 110 min | 1995

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

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

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

Sokurov’s epic first feature, a single continuous shot that winds through St. Petersburg’s Winter Palace.

RUSSIAN ARK

Alexander Sokurov | 99 min | 2002

For our latest iteration of THE SHORT LIST, Metrograph has curated a night of short films from New York area film students, including: …

THE SHORT LIST: NYC FILM SCHOOL SHOWCASE

Various | 2022

A Brooklyn teenager reunites with her Guyanese cousin for the funeral of a relative.

COUSINS

Mandy Marcus | 14 min | 2021

In search of healing, a young woman returns home, to Nigeria, the country of her birth.

EGÚNGÚN (MASQUERADE)

Olive Nwosu | 15 min | 2021

A filmic collage portrait of Jacob Riis Park, a historic queer beach, through a conversation on belonging that spans generations.

ON THE PEOPLE'S BEACH

AG Crist | 16 min | 2022

A boy returns home and a cashier obsessively rewatches CCTV footage of him when she is unable to sleep.

PIN PIN

Jaime Levinas | 25 min | 2021

An aging hermit frees herself from the caretaking of her ailing mother when a strange and wounded dog appears in her home, demanding all of her attention.

TROPICALIA

Rod Llaverias | 21 min | 2022

Though she started making experimental films with a Super 8 camera borrowed from mentor Derek Jarman when she was barely 20, Joanna Hogg was 47 years old when she directed her first feature, 2007’s Unrelated. Her late start may account somewhat for…

JOANNA HOGG X 3 | TRAILER

Metrograph | 1 min | 2022

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

UNRELATED

Joanna Hogg | 100 min | 2007

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

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

It might seem like a contradiction to say that one of the most influential artists of the last 60+ years was also one of the most inimitable, but Godard, whose death this year marked the end of a cinematic era, was nothing if not a figure steeped in…

FIVE FROM JEAN-LUC GODARD | TRAILER

Metrograph | 1 min | 2022

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LADY VENGEANCE

Park Chan-wook | 115 min | 2005

When Jonas Mekas died in 2019 in his longtime adoptive home of New York, cinema lost one of its most tireless, pugnacious champions—but there is some comfort in the fact that few beings left behind such a rich chronicle of their time spent on the…

THE DIARIES OF JONAS MEKAS | TRAILER

Metrograph | 1 min | 2022

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

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

WALDEN

Jonas Mekas | 177 min | 1969

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The first nonfiction film to win the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion, Sacro GRA is a city symphony of the Roman outer suburbs.

SACRO GRA

Gianfranco Rosi | 95 min | 2013

Rosi’s second feature respectfully observes the outcasts and drop-outs living hardscrabble lives in California’s desolate desert flatlands.

BELOW SEA LEVEL

Gianfranco Rosi | 110 min | 2008

Rosi’s deceptively simple feature debut journeys down India’s Ganges river.

BOATMAN

Gianfranco Rosi | 55 min | 1993

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

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

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

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

THE WHIRLED

KEN JACOBS | 20 min | 2007

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

LITTLE STABS AT HAPPINESS

KEN JACOBS | 15 min | 1960

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

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

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

A dolorous, moving portrait of a nation in its drab twilight, starring Tilda Swinton.

THE LAST OF ENGLAND

Derek Jarman | 92 min | 1988

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

Jarman offers a typically idiosyncratic approach to Shakespeare, revivifying the Bard by rescuing him from fusty fidelity.

THE TEMPEST

Derek Jarman | 95 min | 1979

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Clarke documents a bravura performance by Anna Sokolow, a choreographed interpretation of the dance between matador and bull.

BULLFIGHT

Shirley Clarke | 9 min | 1955

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

DANCE IN THE SUN

Shirley Clarke | 6 min | 1953

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

EDEN AND AFTER

ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET | 93 min | 1970

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

THE ROUND-UP

MIKLOS JANCSó | 90 min | 1966

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

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

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

WINTER WIND

MIKLOS JANCSó | 80 min | 1969

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

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

ELEKTRA, MY LOVE

MIKLÓS JANCSÓ | 70 min | 1974

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CHESS FEVER

VSELVOLOD PUDOVKIN | 28 min | 1925

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

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

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

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

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

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

Enormously empathetic, deeply moving, and entirely free of sentimental cheats, Sister offers an intimate depiction of destitution amidst decadence, so vivid that you can almost feel the slushy chill.

SISTER

Ursula Meier | 98 min | 2012

A deceptively simple story starring Isabelle Huppert, which, as lensed by the great Agnès Godard, takes on the enchanted air of a modern-day fable.

HOME

Ursula Meier | 94 min | 2009

Meier’s elegantly executed short moves from a deceptively simple set-up to exhume a city’s bloody buried history.

QUIET MUJO

Ursula Meier | 11 min | 2014

Meier’s documentary short draws on footage shot over eight years to follow its adolescent subject, Klein—who appeared for Meier in both Home and Sister—in his evolution before the camera.

KACEY MOTTET KLEIN, BIRTH OF AN ACTOR

Ursula Meier | 15 min | 2015

The second title in the Swordsman of All Swordsmen trilogy, the focus this time is on Polly Shang-kuan, who must avenge the murder of her father.

THE BRAVEST REVENGE

Lung Chien | 91 min | 1970

A group of feisty rebels take on the Jin invaders, led by the Iron Mistress herself (a luminous Han Hsiang-chin).

IRON MISTRESS

Tsun-Shou Sung | 88 min | 1969

Essential viewing for fans of Hong Kong action heroine Josephine Siao Fong-fong.

THE DARING GANG OF NINETEEN FROM VERDUN CITY

Tu Kuang-Chi | 82 min | 1960