“Animation is world-building. Everything you see on screen is a decision. You have to decide to focus on dust, to draw the contours of a world.”
Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki talk to Roisin Tapponi @roisintapponi about their film BOUCHRA, playing at Metrograph from June 26.
John “Lypsinka” Epperson is introducing Hitchcock’s MARNIE this Saturday at @Metrograph as part of the Maddie’s Secret inspo series. You would be a fool to miss… metrograph.com/film/?vista_f…
NAKED director Mike Leigh's biopic of English romantic painter MR. TURNER plays this weekend at Metrograph as part of ongoing series "The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters"
“At the center of KEEP THE LIGHTS ON is what it was to be gay, and to come out, for me, in the ’70s. So THE MAN I LOVE is a transition film for me, because the work that I made before was driven by what was hidden.”—Ira Sachs to @MarkAschParody on his intimate domestic dramas.
"Gianfranco Rosi: Firmament of the Real" opens with the master documentarian in-person Friday with his latest wonder POMPEII: BELOW THE CLOUDS and Saturday with his 2016 masterpiece FIRE AT SEA
ATLANTIC CITY, starring both Burt Lancaster and Susan Sarandon, plays this weekend as part of our spotlight on the American chapter of Louis Malle's career.
Interview: Shunji Iwai on Rewriting Cinematic Language with "Love Letter," kicking off the retrospective series "The World at Full Volume" this week @Metrographmoveablefest.com/shunji-iwai…
Shunji Iwai's achingly bittersweet epistolary debut LOVE LETTER evokes an intoxicating romanticism of lost love, recollection & grief—all amid a picturesque setting in the blanche wintertide of Otaru.
Iwai's classic opens @Metrograph today c/o @Film_Movement in its new 4K resto!
Dylan Cheung (@Futurhythm) on how Ringo Lam’s inflamed, scorchingly impassioned “On Fire” trilogy returned Hong Kong cinema to its mean streets.
📖: metrograph.com/ringo-lam-on-…
Vincente Minnelli's Van Gogh biopic, with a simpering and petulant Kirk Douglas as the artist, LUST FOR LIFE plays in 35mm this Saturday at Metrograph on our biggest screen. There will be colors you have only dreamed of. Not to be missed.
Christopher Small considers Karel Kachyňa and Jan Procházka’s LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC! (1965), a slippery, beguiling vision of war seen through the eyes of a 12-year-old boy.
📖: metrograph.com/long-live-the…
Attn @Metrograph Members in NYC 🍎 Don't miss a special sneak preview screening of Ryuya Suzuki's anime marvel JINSEI tomorrow night!
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“Director Kamal Aljafari has created a film that centers on community and family, finding strength in this communion despite all the horrors that must be endured,” writes @oldfilmsflicker about WITH HASAN IN GAZA. rogerebert.com/reviews/with-…
Honored to be moderating a conversation with filmmaker Kamal Aljafari on Saturday afternoon after a screening of his incredible film WITH HASAN IN GAZA at @Metrograph. I hope you will join us.
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Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari rediscovered 2001 footage of a road trip through Gaza with a guide named Hasan. He has compiled the material into the haunting historical testimony WITH HASAN IN GAZA, opening today. @simplylovia reviews:
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