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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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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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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 & 3pm Sunday, Aprl 2

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Home

Director: Ursula Meier

2009 / 98min / 35mm

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

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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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Nénette et Boni

Director: Claire Denis

1996 / 103min / 35mm

Intro and Q&A with Agnès Godard on Sunday, April 2nd at 5:45pm

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Beau Travail

Director: Claire Denis

1999 / 92min / DCP

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

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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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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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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

1984 / 117min / DCP

Original Japanese language version with English subtitles

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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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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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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

Introduction by Producer Amy Robinson on Sunday, April 9th at 3:45pm

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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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Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle

Director: Éric Rohmer

1987 / 99min / DCP

Shot quickly in and around Paris during a production break on Rohmer’s Le Rayon Vert, this breezy, witty film traces the exploits of two young women

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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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Querelle

2018 / 108min

Fassbinder’s posthumously released final film is an English-language work set in a sumptuous soundstage imagination of a French port town cruised by Brad Davis’s hunky, deadly sailor.

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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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Goodbye, Dragon Inn

Director: Tsai Ming-liang

2003 / 82min / DCP

The Fu-Ho Grand, a movie palace in Taipei, is closing its doors. Its valedictory screening: King …

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Pierrot le Fou

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

1965 / 110min / DCP

Unhappily married journalist Jean-Paul Belmondo puts a match to his settled bourgeois life and hits the road with ex-girlfriend Anna Karina in Godard’s lividly colored Pop Art romance, which starts with a spark of attraction and ends with a very big…

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The Bad News Bears

Director: Michael Ritchie

1976 / 102min / 35mm

An alcoholic former minor league ballplayer who now makes his beer money by cleaning swimming pools, Morris Buttermaker (a wonderfully dyspeptic Walter Matthau) takes a gig coaching the least talented youth baseball team in California, the Bears, to avoid…

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The King of Wuxia

Director: Lin Jing-Jie

2022 / 216min / DCP

“Even a 3.5-hour documentary about King Hu is not long enough. Hu, who appeared in 1966 with Come Drink with Me, revolutionized wuxia filmmaking, action choreography, editing, and storytelling. The seven movies he made between 1966-’79 are classics…

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Donkey Skin

Director: Jaques Demy

1970 / 91min / DCP

While many of Demy’s movies feel like enchanted fables, with Donkey Skin he first explored the possibilities of the filmed fairy tale, adapting Charles Perrault’s 17th-century favorite into this shimmering semi-satirical pageant of particolored…

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The Big Bird Cage

Director: Jack Hill

1972 / 88min / DCP

Reunited with Hill, whose 1971 The Big Doll House had made her a star, Grier made a triumphant return to the “women in prison” subgenre in The Big Bird Cage as Blossom, plotting with Sid Haig’s guerilla leader to liberate the ladies of a women’s…

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Vengeance of the Phoenix Sisters

Director: Chen Hung-min

1968 / 88min / DCP

“A black-and-white tornado that feels like the French New Wave doing wuxia, the opening half hour of editor-cum-director Chen Hung-min’s debut feature will leave you gasping for breath. With muscular handheld camerawork, savage swish pans, kinetic…

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The Home and the World

Director: Satyajit Ray

1984 / 140min / 35mm

Ray finally realized his long-standing ambition to adapt Bengali novelist Rabindranath Tagore’s 1916 novel of the same name in this late-career triumph. In turn-of-the-last-century Bengal, a progressive nobleman (Victor Banerjee) and his…

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The Swordsman of All Swordsmen

Director: Joseph Kuo

1968 / 86min / DCP

“Before Taiwan’s Joseph Kuo dominated the ’70s kung fu movie, he made sword-slinging wuxia, and they’re some of the best in the genre. Newly digitally restored, The Swordsman of All Swordsmen—the centerpiece of this retrospective—begins with…

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The Ghost Hill

Director: Ting Shan-hsi

1971 / 92min / DCP

“The final installment in The Swordsman of All Swordsmen trilogy, no familiarity with the two earlier movies is required to have a blast. Polly Shang-kuan reprises her Flying Swallow character alongside Tien Peng’s Tsai Ying-jie; this time, they…

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The Valiant Ones

Director: King Hu

1975 / 102min / DCP

“As Corrupt Ming officials have taken bribes and allowed a band of Japanese pirates to terrorize the South China coast, the government dispatches a small band of fighters, anchored by a husband-and-wife team, to take care of them. Outnumbered, they must…

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A City Called Dragon

Director: Tu Chung-hsun

1970 / 97min / DCP

“After Hsu Feng debuted in a small part in King Hu’s Dragon Inn, Hu tapped her almost immediately to star in A Touch of Zen alongside Shih Chun. But as the production of Hu’s film seemed to drag on forever, so during the downtime Hsu, Shih, and most…

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Do the Right Thing

1989 / 120min / DCP

Has any movie better captured the atmosphere of those dog days when you can actually feel the suffocating weight of summertime in NYC? Production designer Wynn Thomas’s blazing red touch-ups on the shops and homes of Lexington Avenue and DP Ernest…

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Drive My Car

Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

2021 / 179min / DCP

Winner of the Oscar for best International feature, Hamaguchi’s intimate, restrained, shatteringly emotional epic, inspired by a Haruki Murakami short story, centers on theater actor-director Yûsuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima) and his complicated…

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Moonlight

Director: Barry Jenkins

2016 / 111min / DCP

The three sections of Jenkins’s Miami-set triptych show scenes from the childhood, adolescent awakening, and young adulthood of Chiron (played respectively by Alex Hibbert, Ashton Sanders, and Trevante Rhodes), a child of Black Liberty City, through the…

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The Grand Passion

Director: Yang Shih-ching

1970 / 85min / DCP

“Like A City Called Dragon, The Grand Passion was made during the downtime of King Hu’s A Touch of Zen, a massive, much delayed production, when Hu’s production manager Yang Shih-ching picked up a camera and tapped Hu’s other major female…

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Legend of the Sacred Stone

Director: Chris Huang

2000 / 90min / DCP

“In 1984, the wuxia series Pili debuted in Taiwan, and soon became one of the most popular TV shows of the ’80s. In 2000, the series spun off into The Legend of the Sacred Stone, a feature film rarely available to watch overseas in its full, original…

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The Bingo Long Traveling All-stars & Motor Kings

Director: John Badham

1976 / 110min / 35mm

Extended introduction from John DeMarsico, New York Mets TV Director for SNY, on Saturday, April 29th at 1:30pm

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The Fate of Lee Khan

Director: King Hu

1973 / 105min / DCP

“Hu Chin, Helen Ma, Angela Mao, Hsu Feng, and Li Li-hua—five actresses throwing flying fists. The first half sees rebels, spies, and government officials in disguise descend on a remote inn looking for a pivotal McGuffin (a battle map). The second…

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Weeds on Fire

Director: Chan Chi-fat

2016 / 95min / DCP

The true story of the Shatin Martins, the first Hong Kong youth baseball team to win a league championship back in 1982, provides the loose basis for Chan’s sleeper hit crowd-pleaser, nominated for seven Hong Kong Film Awards. At Kei Kok College, an…

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The Assassin

Director: Hou Hsiao Hsien

2015 / 105min / DCP

Defined by a delicious tension between spectacular subject matter and a distanced, elliptical directorial approach, by short bursts of action and long expanses of stillness, The Assassin is the first foray into wuxia territory by Taiwanese master Hou.

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Boyz n the Hood

Director: John Singleton

1991 / 112min / DCP

Singleton’s debut, released when the director was only 23 and based on his first-hand experience of growing up in South Central Los Angeles, is a portrait of a community little-depicted from the insider’s perspective, with Cuba Gooding Jr. as…

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The Babadook

Director: Jennifer Kent

2014 / 94min / DCP

Amelia, a young widow, lives alone with her seven-year-old son Samuel, whose increasingly erratic behavior has become a source of terror to his classmates and, increasingly, Amelia herself. The simplest explanation is that Samuel’s acting out is tied to…

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A Touch of Zen

Director: King Hu

1971 / 180min / DCP

The first wuxia movie to attract international prestige—belatedly awarded a Technical Grand Prize at Cannes in 1975, and the key influence on Ang Lee’s 2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon—Hu’s ripping yarn of chivalry and intrigue, set in Ming…

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The Last Black Man in San Francisco

Director: Joe Talbot

2019 / 121min / DCP

An elegiac, melancholy, and frequently ravishing tribute to the rapidly gentrifying hometown of lead actor and story co-writer Jimmie Fails, based in part on his own life experience, Talbot’s assured debut follows the everyday travails of Jimmie and his…

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The Night Orchid

Director: Chang Peng-yi

1983 / 93min / DCP

“A star-studded hothouse flower, based on a zeitgeist-changing hit TV series, written by the great wuxia novelist Gu Long himself, with Brigitte Lin, one of Taiwan’s biggest actresses who was soon to find fame in Hong Kong movies, starring alongside…

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