Metrograph Selects - Metrograph

Select films, chosen specially by Metrograph staff. For the latest iteration of our recurring series, the Metrograph Events team’s Victoria Ashley shares some of her personal favorites.

“Whenever asked about my favorite film, I always say I don’t have just one but several as there are so many movies I love, across all different genres. These three films—The Big Picture, Purple Noon, and Three Days of the Condor—reflect this: they are completely different in every way but loved equally by me for the story each so magically tells.”—Victoria Ashley, Metrograph Events team

In Theater

The Big Picture

Stream HARD TO BE A GOD at home

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

Stream I KILLED MY MOTHER at home

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

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 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.

IT FELT LIKE LOVE

Eliza Hittman | 82 min | 2013

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

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