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Futures and Pasts: Éric Rohmer’s Élisabeth
On the French New Wave legend’s life before cinema, and his newly translated first and only novel.
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Cracked Actor
Arnold Schwarzenegger
How the heavyweight star became America’s favorite father figure.
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Listen Up! Light of Day
Metrograph’s Listen Up! column continues with a look at Paul Schrader’s love letter to Cleveland, family, and rock ’n’ roll.
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Futures and Pasts: Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel
On Kromanov’s rug-pulling amalgam of whodunnit and science fiction, an enduring cult item and one of Estonian cinema’s towering peaks.
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Futures and Pasts: Pirosmani
On Giorgi Shengelaia’s tender and altogether sublime biopic of the Georgian painter.
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Futures and Pasts: We’ll Always Have Paris, aka Radley Metzger Goes Hardcore
On the sophisticatedly salacious pleasures of three newly restored, ’70s XXX classics-in-waiting.
Cracked Actor
Gong Li
On the enduring eloquence of the timeless actress.
Cracked Actor
Juliette Binoche
On the eloquent hunger of the iconic French actress.
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Listen Up! Mihály Víg & Béla Tarr
Metrograph’s Listen Up! column, in which we revisit movie scores and soundtracks of note, continues with a look at Mihály Víg’s haunting collaborations with Béla Tarr.
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Futures and Pasts: Running on Empty
On Sidney Lumet’s tale of morally compromised counterculture veterans trying to keep a family together.
Cracked Actor
Diahann Carroll
On the layered performances charted by the regal Hollywood icon.
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Metrograph Journal 10 Best Reads of 2025
For your reading pleasure, 10 of the best pieces published this year in the Metrograph Journal.