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Pink Narcissus
On the broken bedroom visions of the ’70s gay cult classic.
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Love Hotel
On the generation-defining Shinji Sōmai’s singular foray into Roman Porno.
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That Most Important Thing: Love
On the Polish auteur’s transgressive melodrama.
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Bye Bye Love
On Fujisawa Isao’s recently rediscovered gender-bending crime caper.
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Forever Searching for Paris, Texas
On watching and re-watching Paris, Texas.
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The Making Of The Beaver Trilogy, Or How Gary Got His Groove Back
The story behind Trent Harris’s tragicomic cult favorite triptych, starring a young Sean Penn and Crispin Glover.
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A Dive into The Black Sea
How Crystal Moselle and Derrick B. Harden’s new film came to be.
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Alice Diop’s Looking Glass Subjects
On subversive intimacy in the debut feature from the French Senegalese filmmaker.
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The Legend of Suram Fortress
On the chimerical Transcaucasian adaptation of a Georgian folktale.
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Passage
Coming of Age in a Disorienting World, a series created in collaboration with MacDowell and curated by 2024 MacDowell Fellow Yao Xiao, opens at Metrograph on Friday, October 11.
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All About Lily Chou-Chou
On Shunji Iwai’s chronicle of life under the spell of the early internet.
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The African Gaze
How rebellious mobility in African cinema upends colonial ways of seeing.