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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

1984 / 117min / DCP

Original Japanese language version with English subtitles

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Toni Erdmann

Director: Maren Ade

2016 / 162min / DCP

A mordant neo-screwball about neoliberal corporate culture, father-daughter relationships, and the canyon-like generation gap between idealistic, irresponsible Boomers and their resentful, pragmatic children, Ade’s comedy of mortification observes the…

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Xiao Wu (Pickpocket)

Director: Jia Zhangke

1997 / 108min / DCP

Set in Jia’s hometown of Fenyang, his feature debut—which takes its English-language title, Pickpocket, from that of Robert Bresson’s 1959 film—is a character study of a young petty criminal, Xiao Wu (Wang Hongwai) who finds himself increasingly…

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Suzhou River

Director: Ye Lou

2000 / 83min / DCP

New 4K restoration supervised by Lou Ye himself from the original 16mm A-B negative of the image.

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Herbaria

Director: Leandro Listorti

2022 / 83min / DCP

Q&A with director Leandro Listorti on Friday March 24 at 7pm

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Cisco Pike

Director: Bill Norton

1971 / 95min / 35mm

When a dirty cop (Gene Hackman) busts washed-up rock ’n’ roller-turned-drug dealer Cisco Pike (Kris Kristofferson), he hands his collar an ultimatum: Cisco has one weekend to sell 100 kilos of marijuana… or else he’s going up the river. A downbeat…

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Born to Win

Director: Ivan Passer

1971 / 88min / 35mm

The first film that Czech director Passer made after fleeing to the United States, slapstick tragicomedy Born to Win is a pungent period document of New York City’s lower depths starring George Segal as an ex-hairdresser whose life has been taken over…

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Beijing Bicycle

Director: Xiaoshuai Wang

2001 / 113min / 35mm

When a teenaged bicycle messenger from the countryside working in Beijing discovers that his mode of transportation and source of livelihood has been stolen he begins a seemingly impossible search, scouring the sprawling megacity for his missing property…

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Samples from: Encounters Over Several Plants

Director: Multiple Dirs

2021 / 54min / DCP

Counter-Encounter Collective member Onyeka Igwe in attendance to introduce and moderate a post screening Q&A with Aria Dean

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East Palace, West Palace

Director: Yuan Zhang

1996 / 90min / 35mm

One of the first films from Mainland China to explore queer life, Zhang’s film revolves around a young gay writer who, pinched by police during a night raid in a Beijing park, recounts his troubled childhood, sexual awakening, and ongoing search for…

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ACE presents: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Director: Laura Poitras

2022 / 122min / DCP

Q&A with editor Amy Foote moderated by Joseph Krings, ACE on Saturday, March 25th at 7:30pm

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The Night is Short, Walk on Girl

Director: Masaaki Yuasa

2017 / 93min / DCP

A surreal nocturnal animated odyssey from Yuasa, the mad genius behind Mind Game, rendered in a frenetic, galaxy-brained, endlessly morphing style. The Night is Short, Walk on Girl follows a mysterious high schooler known only as The Girl with Black Hair…

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Y tu mamá también

Director: Alfonso Cuarón

2001 / 106min / 35mm

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Millennium Mambo

Director: Hou Hsiao Hsien

2001 / 107min / DCP

A stylish and seductive submersion into the techno-scored neon nightlife of Taipei, Hou’s much-misunderstood marvel stars Shu Qi (The Assassin) as an aimless bar hostess drifting away from her blowhard boyfriend and towards Jack Kao’s suave, sensitive…

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RoboCop Director's Cut

Director: Paul Verhoeven

1987 / 102min / DCP

For a strange few years, beginning with this runaway hit, the perverse imagination and earthy humor of Verhoeven seemed to sync up perfectly with the desires of the American multiplex-going public. In dystopian Detroit, private sector Omni Consumer…

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Boyfriends and Girlfriends

Director: Éric Rohmer

1987 / 103min / DCP

Rohmer uses the amorous misadventures of two girlfriends in the Paris suburbs to test the old proverb “les amis de mes amis sont mes amis”

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Possession

1981 / 124min / DCP

Żuławski’s one-of-a-kind genre pastiche has spy Sam Neill returning to his Berlin home from a mission abroad to discover that wife Isabelle Adjani wants suddenly to split up. Presented in DCP 4K

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John Early selects: Zhe Zhe Marathon

Director: E.J. O'Hara, Leah Hennessey

2013 / 262min / DCP

John Early returns to Metrograph to introduce a marathon screening of the web series Zhe Zhe, followed by a Q&A with the series creators

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Where the Wild Things Are

Director: Spike Jonze

2009 / 101min / DCP

Too rowdy and rambunctious at home, sensitive eight-year-old Max makes his escape to a place where the play is a little rougher and the playmates a lot bigger and hairier—an island populated by mischievous monsters for whom self-control is a fully…

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L'intrus

Director: Claire Denis

2004 / 130min / DCP

One of Denis’s most ambitious, complicated, and exhilaratingly daring films charts an itinerary traveling from the snowy Alps to Korea to Tahiti

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Beau Travail

Director: Claire Denis

1999 / 92min / DCP

Intro and Q&A with Agnès Godard Sunday, April 2

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On the Beach at Night Alone

Director: Hong Sang-soo

2017 / 101min / DCP

Another chapter in one of the most exciting bodies of work in the making today, On the Beach at Night Alone combines simplicity of expression and complexity of design in the effortless manner that has endeared the South Korean auteur to audiences around…

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The Line

Director: Ursula Meier

2022 / 102min / DCP

Intro from Ursula Meier & a post-screening Q&A with Meier and Agnès Godard 6:15pm Friday, March 31 & Sunday, Aprl 2

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The Goat and her Three Kids

Director: Victor Canache

2022 / 83min / DCP

Adapted from Ion Creangă’s story of the same name, one of the best known of Romanian fables, stuntman-turned-director Canache’s 19th-century set period piece draws out the tragic and terrible aspects of the popular bedtime story in telling the tale…

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Sister

Director: Ursula Meier

2012 / 97min / DCP

Intro from Ursula Meier & a post-screening Q&A with Meier and Kacey Mottet Klein Friday, March 31

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Saturday Afternoon Cartoons: Are You Fooled?

Director: Multiple Dirs

2023 / 60min / 16mm

Saturday Afternoon Cartoons is New York City’s prime theatrical showcase of early and classic animated cartoons, shown in vintage 16mm film prints.

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Home

Director: Ursula Meier

2009 / 98min / 35mm

Intro from Ursula Meier & a post-screening Q&A with Meier and Kacey Mottet Klein Saturday, April 1

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Nénette et Boni

Director: Claire Denis

1996 / 103min / 35mm

Alice Houri and Grégoire Colin’s characters, an estranged sister and brother from a broken home, provide the title of Denis’s exceptionally tender, radiantly lit drama: 15 and pregnant, Nénette shows up on the doorstep of her brother, a terminally…

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Immaculate

Director: Monica Stan

2021 / 114min / DCP

Director Monica Stan in attendance for Q&A on Saturday, April 1st at 8:20pm

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Shepard & Dark

Director: Treva Wurmfeld

2012 / 92min / DCP

With director / author Treva Wurmfeld in person for an introduction and post-screening book signing to launch her new book Tangents: From the Making of Shepard & Dark

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Sunshine

Director: Danny Boyle

2007 / 107min / 35mm

“Sunshine is the film that almost broke Danny Boyle, though it might also be the pinnacle of his ambitious, wide-ranging career, a sci-fi adventure that squeezes every dollar of its robust budget but is told with the indie fiendishness that had put him…

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Au Hasard Balthazar

Director: Robert Bresson

1966 / 95min / 35mm

Jean-Luc Godard, never one to mince words, called it “the world in an hour and a half.” Even in a filmography as singularly perfect as Bresson’s, Au Hasard Balthazar, the story of a donkey passing through the hands of a number of (mostly malicious)…

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Icarus XB-1

Director: Jindrich Polák

1963 / 88min / DCP

Adapted from a novel by Solaris author Stanisław Lem, this enthralling work of Czechoslovak sci-fi—surmised to have been a key influence on Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey—sets its scene in the year 2163, when a multinational team of astronauts set…

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Meadowland

Director: Reed Morano

2015 / 105min / DCP

Q&A with director and cinematographer Reed Morano on Friday, April 7th at 6:30pm

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Trouble Every Day

Director: Claire Denis

2001 / 102min / 35mm

Unflinchingly gory and pitch dark, Trouble Every Day shocked audiences at its 2001 Cannes Film Festival debut with its graphic depiction of carnal hunger as a cannibalistic disease. American newlyweds Shane and June Brown (Vincent Gallo and Tricia Vessey)…

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Paris, Texas

Director: Wim Wenders

1984 / 142min / DCP

Introduction from Reed Morano on Friday, April 7th at 9:15pm

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Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

Director: Robert Altman

1982 / 109min / 35mm

One day in 1975, at a Woolworth’s in small town McCarthy, Texas, the six members of the Disciples of James Dean reconvene 20 years after they first formed the club in the wake of the actor’s death. Shifting between “present day” scenes and…

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Jacquot de Nantes

Director: Agnès Varda

1991 / 118min / DCP

As tender a tribute as one filmmaker has ever paid to another, Jacquot de Nantes was completed only a year after the death of its subject, Varda’s husband Jacques Demy, and a sense of their profound bond, and what has been lost with Demy’s passing,…

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Mona Simpson pres.: One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

Director: Milos Forman

1975 / 133min / DCP

Mona Simpson, esteemed author and publisher of The Paris Review, comes to Metrograph on Saturday, April 8 to celebrate the publication of Commitment, her anticipated seventh novel. …

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I Think We're Alone Now

Director: Reed Morano

2018 / 99min / DCP

Q&A with director and cinematographer Reed Morano on Saturday, April 8th at 6:30pm

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For Love of the Game

Director: Sam Raimi

1999 / 137min / DCP

A decade after Field of Dreams, Kevin Costner returned to the diamond to play Billy Chapel, a slumping 40-year-old pitcher for the Detroit Tigers who learns he’s going to be traded away from the team he’s played his entire career with on the eve of a…

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The Shining

Director: Stanley Kubrick

1980 / 146min / 35mm

Introduction from Reed Morano on Saturday, April 8th at 9:00pm

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Director: Milos Forman

1975 / 133min / DCP

Ken Kesey’s 1962 cult novel of the same name found its ideal interpreters in Forman and his star Jack Nicholson, deliciously devilish in the role of Randle “Mac” McMurphy, a rowdy Irish-American reprobate who worms his way out of hard labor in the…

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Little Birds

Director: Elgin James

2011 / 94min / DCP

Two teenaged best friends living in a grotty, economically depressed small town near California’s Salton Sea, the reckless Lily and the more responsible Alison (Juno Temple and Kay Panabaker), take off together to sample life in Los Angeles, lured by a…

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Fish Tank

Director: Andrea Arnold

2005 / 123min / 35mm

Living in an East London council estate flat with her mother and her precocious younger sister, hot-headed, socially isolated 15-year-old Mia (Katie Jarvis)—whose only outlet for her frustrations is solo hip-hop dancing—thinks she’s finally found…

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Major League

Director: David S. Ward

1989 / 107min / DCP

When a former Vegas showgirl (Margaret Whitton) inherits the cursed Cleveland Indians from her deceased billionaire husband, she plots a scheme to move the team to Miami by bottoming out fan attendance, re-stocking the roster with rookies and broken-down…

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A League of Their Own

Director: Penny Marshall

1992 / 128min / DCP

Geena Davis, Madonna, Rosie O’Donnell, Lori Petty are the star players of the Georgia Peaches, coached by crusty misogynist Tom Hanks, in Marshall’s feel-good chick-flick, a critically adored comedy about a World War II-era all-girls baseball…

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Shrek

Director: Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson

2001 / 90min / DCP

Shrek!, a 1990 picture book by long-time New Yorker cartoonist William Steig, became a cultural phenomenon thanks to DreamWorks’s irreverent CGI-animated riff on Steig’s fractured fairy tale. A malodorous, antisocial ogre, Shrek (voiced by Mike…

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Human Flowers of Flesh

Director: Helena Wittmann

2022 / 86min / DCP

An enigmatic, questing, quicksilver film that invents an original cinematic language to describe interior enigmas, everyday rituals, and elemental forces, Human Flowers of Flesh contains more than a handful of bravura moments—including a dizzying,…

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Family Plot

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

1976 / 120min / 35mm

For his 53rd and final feature, Hitchcock turned out a work combining serene, lighthearted mastery and pitch black comedy. Barbara Harris and Bruce Dern star as a sham psychic and a penny-ante con artist/cab driver who run afoul of professional kidnappers…

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Ugetsu

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi

1953 / 96min / 35mm

Star Machiko Kyō is quite literally out of this world—that is, belonging to the realm of the spirits—in Mizoguchi’s adaptation of the 18th century ghost stories of Ueda Akinari. In war-torn feudal Japan, a potter defies his wife’s wishes and…

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Nashville

Director: Robert Altman

1975 / 159min / DCP

Both loved and loathed in the city it’s named for, Altman’s teeming panorama film, depicting a few very busy days in the Country Music Capital, is a dense tapestry of music biz insider jokes; a jamboree (with original tunes authored largely by members…

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Between the Lines

Director: Joan Micklin Silver

1977 / 101min / DCP

With a corporate buyout in the offing, the staff of a Boston-based counter-culture rag Back Bay Mainline must face an identity crisis and possible unemployment in Silver’s fond, perceptive, and slyly funny look at the bygone world of the “alternative…

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Helena Wittmann Shorts + Lecture Performance

Director: Helena Wittmann

2013 / 90min / DCP

A collection of four of Wittmann’s shorts, works that show all of the cinematographic audacity, mysterious allure, and alertness to atmospheric details of her feature works, followed by Conjurations, an in-theater hybrid-lecture performance from…

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Drift

Director: Helena Wittmann

2017 / 97min / DCP

Wittmann’s lulling, trance-like, seductive first feature is a film of journeys, discoveries, and meditative moments that serve to re-enchant the natural world they survey, in particular the eternal mysteries of the oceans. First picking up with two…

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