Cracked Actor
Farley Granger
On the queer star who defied mid-century Hollywood archetypes.
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Futures and Pasts: Socrates
Rossellini’s one-of-a-kind approach to the costume drama, and his 1970 film on the last years of the Athenian truth-seeker.
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Futures and Pasts: Don’t Play with Fire
Foul times in the Fragrant Harbor, in Tsui Hark’s newly restored third feature.
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Mississippi Mermaid
On Yves Saint Laurent’s striking costumes in François Truffaut’s subversive neo-noir.
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Cracked Actor: David Gulpilil
Looking back at the inimitable Indigenous icon.
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Futures and Pasts: The Lost World(s) of Otar Iosseliani
On the wry eye and deadpan drollery of a Georgian national treasure.
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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.
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.