Journal
The Metrograph Interview
Lee Chang-dong
In Conversation With
Phoebe Chen
BY Phoebe Chen
Traveling through time with the Korean filmmaker.
The Metrograph Interview
Mia Hansen-Løve in conversation with Gabe Klinger
BY Gabe Klinger
An intimate chat about process, finding inspiration, and the need for nuanced characters.
The Metrograph Interview
Vicky Krieps in conversation with Anna Fitzpatrick
BY Anna Fitzpatrick
The Luxembourgish actor speaks about finding artistic freedom and escaping the Hollywood machine.
Columns
At Home With… May Picks
BY Metrograph
Friends of Metrograph Marlowe Granados, Rayne Fisher-Quann, and Chelsea Spengemann each share a film they love, streaming on demand on the Metrograph At Home platform.
Columns
CRACKED ACTOR: GENA ROWLANDS
BY Christian Lorentzen
A look at personalities, iconic and obscure, who lit up the screen.
Columns
STRANGE PLEASURES: Take Me Somewhere Nice
BY Beatrice Loayza
Strange Pleasures is a regular Metrograph column in which writer Beatrice Loayza shares unconventional desires found across underground and mainstream cinema alike.
Essay
River’s Edge
BY Keva York
Revisiting the teen movie they called “the most frightening horror” of 1986.
Essay
Looking back at Diva, the film that heralded a movement
BY Emerson Rosenthal
On the not-so-subtle transgressions of Jean-Jacques Beineix’s epochal 1982 film.
Essay
Who Makes the Nazis?
BY Nick Pinkerton
On Juraj Herz’s Czechoslovak New Wave landmark The Cremator.
Interview
Jane Schoenbrun
BY Adam Piron
A conversation with the filmmaker on big and small screen nostalgia.
Interview
Liu Jian
BY Eric Kohn
The Chinese animation director discusses the transcendent power of art and cinema.
Excerpt
Little Yellow-green Bird
BY Lee Chang-dong
Appearing for the first time in English, a new short story from Lee Chang-dong.
Excerpt
Who Are You Dorothy Dean?
BY Emily Wells, Rene Ricard, Edie Sedgwick, Taylor Mead
An excerpt from the new bilingual edition of Who Are You Dorothy Dean?, the first book devoted to the late Black writer and actress.
Q&A
Filmcraft: Judy Becker
BY Metrograph
A Q&A with one of the most prolific production designers working today
Q&A
YVONNE RAINER ON PRIVILEGE
BY Metrograph
A Q&A between Yvonne Rainer and Metrograph Programmer Lydia Ogwang at 7 Ludlow.
Video
Alexandria Smith on Her Selects
BY Metrograph
Artist Alexandria Smith curates a selection of favorite films that have influenced her practice for many years, continuing a programmer-in-residence series co-presented with Gagosian in theater and at home.
Video
Emma Myers on It Happens To Us: Abortion in American FIlm
BY Metrograph
Series curator Emma Myers discusses It Happens To Us, a survey of abortion and its representation in American cinema over the past century.
Video
The Roll Call
BY Metrograph
Last week, as part of our ongoing Authentic Selves: The Beauty Within curated by Anthony Roth Costanzo, we welcomed the National Black Theater to 7 Ludlow where they showcased NBT shorts films by Dane Figueroa Edidi, Lavender Freddy, and Ngozi Anyanwu, anchored by the premiere of NBT’s Executive Artistic Director Jonathan McCrory’s The Roll Call: The Roots to Strange Fruit. The screening was followed by an inspiring conversation among McCrory, NBT CEO Sade Lythcott, and activist/author DeRay Mckesson.