Journal
Essays
Essay
The Intellectual and Sociopolitical Exploitations of Yasuzô Masumura
BY Jonathan Rosenbaum
A look at the films of iconoclastic Japanese director Yasuzô Masumura.
Essay
I Did It My Way
BY Vikram Murthi
Looking back at Repo Man, an evergreen middle-finger to all the ordinary fuckin’ people out there.
Interviews
Interview
Welcome Back to the Metrograph Bookstore
BY Metrograph
The Metrograph Bookstore has re-opened doors, under the loving care and curatorship of Matt Folden and Nick Pinkerton.
Interview
A teenager with some chalk
BY Nick Pinkerton
An interview with Radu Jude about his 2020 film Uppercase Print.
Q&As
Q&A
Jim Jarmusch
BY Metrograph
Following a screening of The Dead Don’t Die at Metrograph in June 2019, the director discussed the origins of the film, teenagers, environmentalism, and working with actors.
Q&A
On Chulas Fronteras & Del Mero Corazón
BY Metrograph
Editor Maureen Gosling, a co-director of Del Mero Corazón and a longtime collaborator of Les Blank, and Harrod Blank, who oversaw the restoration of the films, joined Argot Pictures’s Jim Browne for an in-theater chat in June 2019.
Q&A
Barbara Hammer in Conversation with Carmel Curtis
BY Carmel Curtis
The pioneering experimental filmmaker joined Metrograph in late 2017 for an extensive Q&A.
Videos
Video
The Werewolf of Washington
BY Metrograph
Critics Simon Abrams and Sheila O’Malley discuss their shared love for the film.
Video
The Aviator’s Wife Q&A
BY Metrograph
Director Matías Piñeiro, actress Marie Rivière, and frequent Éric Rohmer editor Mary Stephen joined Metrograph last fall for a discussion about Rohmer’s film.
Excerpts
Excerpt
Is It a Breakthrough? (The Modernists of Japanese Film)
BY Nagisa Ōshima
Nagisa Ōshima’s 1958 assessment of the rebellious crop of filmmakers then-emerging in Japan—including one Yasuzô Masumura.
Excerpt
Cinema 16
BY Metrograph
a sampling of Cinema 16 membership applications signed by certain noteworthies, some perhaps predictable (Sontag), some unexpected (William F. Buckley, Jr.?)
Excerpt
Making a Monster
BY Daniel Bird, Serge Toubiana, and Pascal Bonitzer
An excerpt from an interview with Anderzej Żuławski published in Cahiers du Cinema in may of 1981.