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Miracle in Milan
Director: Vittorio De Sica
1951 / 97min / DCP
De Sica banged a sharp turn away from neorealism with this magical realist fable evocative of early cinema, which retains the sense of solidarity with society’s downtrodden of the director’s Bicycle Thieves, but employs a deliberately (and…
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Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
Friday April 19
2:30pmDirector: 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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Oasis
Director: Lee Chang-dong
2002 / 133min
Jong-du (Sul Kyung-gu), just out of prison, very little reformed, and shunned by his family, finds an unlikely soulmate in the person of Gong-ju (Moon So-ri), a woman with severe cerebral palsy—and the daughter of the victim of the hit-and-run for which…
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Elevator to the Gallows
Friday April 19
4:45pmDirector: Louis Malle
1958 / 91min / DCP
A turning point in the careers of both director Malle, making his feature debut, and star Jeanne Moreau, Elevator to the Gallows takes place over the course of one sleepless night in Paris, when Moreau and lover Maurice Ronet’s plot to do away with her…
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The Ice Storm
Director: Ang Lee
1997 / 112min / 35mm
Discussion after the film with cinematographer Frederick Elmes and production designer Mark Friedberg on Friday, April 19th
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NOCTURAMA
Friday April 19
9:40pmDirector: Bertrand Bonello
2016 / 130min / DCP
Bonello’s ingeniously structured terror attack thriller opens with a group of tense, shifty teens prowling the streets and subways of Paris, in the midst, as it happens, of pulling off an intricately planned bombing plot. After the explosions, however,…
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Cries and Whispers
Friday April 19
10:15pmDirector: Ingmar Bergman
1972 / 91min / 35mm
Introduction by cinematographer Frederick Elmes on Friday, April 19th
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ASC Presents: Fredrick Elmes - The Night Of
Saturday April 20
11:00amDirector: Steven Zaillian
2016 / 95min / DCP
The ASC East Coast Events Committee and Metrograph join forces to present a screening of the final episode of the Emmy Award-winning HBO 2016 miniseries The Night Of, followed by Q&A panel discussion with cinematographer Frederick Elmes, ASC. Recounting…
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Porky Pig Showcase
Saturday April 20
11:15amDirector: Multiple Dirs
1950 / 90min / 16mm
The pick of the litter of animated shorts starring Looney Tunes’s/Merrie Melodies’s first breakout star, Porky Pig, created by Friz Freling, first introduced to audiences in 1935, and beloved as a stammering everyman (everypig?) character ever since.…
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River's Edge
Saturday April 20
4:00pmDirector: Tim Hunter
1986 / 99min / 35mm
Introduction by cinematographer Frederick Elmes on Saturday, April 20th
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opening night
Saturday April 20
4:30pmDirector: John Cassavetes
1977 / 144min / DCP
Myrtle Gordon (Gena Rowlands), an actress entering her Grand Dame years, is in final rehearsals for a play when a disturbed young fan is killed in front of her. The trauma of the sight drives Gordon off the rails, leading her to declare war on her…
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Diva
Saturday April 20
8:20pmDirector: Jean-Jacques Beineix
1982 / 117min / 35mm
The quintessential Paris rundown film has postman Frédéric Andréi on the lam from hitmen sicced on him by drug dealers, cops, and Taiwanese music pirates. Beineix’s directorial debut, a beast at the arthouse box office, is an orgy of stunning set…
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Dazed and Confused
Saturday April 20
10:45pmDirector: Richard Linklater
1993 / 103min / 35mm
Linklater’s shaggy, endlessly quotable comedy, set on the last day of classes—and the hard-partying night that follows—at Lee High School in Austin, Texas, in the bicentennial year of 1976, offers a look at American society through the microcosm of…
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Pierrot le Fou
Sunday April 21
12:15pmDirector: 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, as they madly flee from…
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A Brand New Life
Sunday April 21
2:40pmDirector: Ouni Lecomte
2009 / 92min / DCP
Lecomte’s feature debut, drawing from her own biography, focuses on a nine-year-old girl, Jin-hee (Kim Sae-ron, giving one of the finest performances by a child actor in recent memory), whose father hands her over to a Catholic orphanage in Seoul before…
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Wings of Desire
Monday April 22
6:30pmDirector: Wim Wenders
1987 / 128min / 35mm
Invisible trenchcoated guardian angels watch over beleaguered Berliners from on high in Wenders’s soaring city symphony, which follows one of them, Daniel (Bruno Ganz), as he sacrifices his immortality for a chance at love with lonesome trapeze artist…
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Peppermint Candy
Monday April 22
9:00pmDirector: Lee Chang-dong
1999 / 129min
Opening on a shocking scene of implied suicide, Lee’s sophomore feature proceeds to move backward in time, its reverse chronology following its protagonist’s unhappiness to its source, following him from the end of the ’70s to the close of the…
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Wild at Heart
Tuesday April 23
4:00pmDirector: David Lynch
1990 / 125min / 35mm
Introduction and Q&A with cinematographer Fred Elmes Saturday, April 13, 5:30pm
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Burning
Tuesday April 23
9:00pmDirector: Lee Chang-dong
2018 / 148min / DCP
After an eight-year hiatus, Lee returns with this smoldering adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s short story “Barn Burning,” in which sinister overtones gradually color a triangular relationship. In Seoul, broke aspiring writer Jong-su (Yoo Ah-in)…
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Apocalypse Now: Final Cut
Thursday April 25
8:45pmDirector: Francis Ford Coppola
1979 / 183min / DCP
Introduction by Ena Sendijarević on Friday, April 12th
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A Girl At My Door
Friday April 26
2:30pmDirector: July Jung
2014 / 119min / DCP
Produced by Lee Chang-dong, Jung’s debut feature kicked up a swirl of controversy for its frank depiction of budding same-sex attraction and scathing indictment of the bigotry of provincial South Korean society. Assuming the post of precinct chief in a…
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Blue Velvet
Director: David Lynch
1986 / 120min
The chance discovery of a severed human ear lying in a field inspires Kyle MacLachlan’s wholesome, all-American protagonist to try his hand at amateur sleuthing, and sets him off on a journey that will introduce him to bruised beauty Isabella Rossellini…
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Art College 1994
Director: Liu Jian
2023 / 118min / DCP
Based on its director’s own experiences on the campus of the Chinese Southern Academy of Arts in the mid-1990s, Art College 1994, which returns to the meticulous hand-drawn 2D animation style of predecessor Have a Nice Day, is Liu’s affectionate,…
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Members Only Screening: I Saw the TV Glow
Friday April 26
10:20pmDirector: Jane Schoenbrun
2024 / 100min / DCP
Introduction from writer-director Jane Schoenbrun on Friday, April 26th
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Have a Nice Day
Friday April 26
10:30pmDirector: Liu Jian
2017 / 77min / DCP
Liu’s second animated feature, the result of three diligent years at the drawing board, is a head-first dive into gangland lowlife that follows Xiao Zhang (voiced by Changlong Zhu), a construction worker who, while taking occasional courier jobs for a…
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Garrett Bradley Shorts Program
Saturday April 27
3:00pmDirector: Garrett Bradley
2017 / 70min / DCP
Introduction by director Garrett Bradley on Saturday, April 27th
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Night on Earth
Saturday April 27
7:45pmDirector: Jim Jarmusch
1991 / 129min / 35mm
Introduction by cinematographer Frederick Elmes on Saturday, April 27th
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Delicatessen
Saturday April 27
10:45pmDirector: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
1991 / 99min / DCP
The first feature by Jeunet and Caro, who had only completed a handful of shorts when they stunned the world with this antic, stylish debut—a skewed, funhouse mirror vision informed by comic strips, gonzo animation, and silent comedy. In a…
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Dog Day Afternoon
Sunday April 28
12:00pmDirector: Sidney Lumet
1975 / 125min / 35mm
Al Pacino, in as close as he gets to a career-defining role, plays Sonny Wortzik, a small-time crook who makes big-time headlines while maintaining a volatile hostage situation with itchy trigger-fingered partner Cazale at First Brooklyn Saving…
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Devi + Conversation with Garrett Bradley & Friends
Sunday April 28
2:30pmDirector: Satyajit Ray
1960 / 93min / DCP
Pre-screening panel discussion with Garrett Bradley, Sky Hopinka, Linda Goode Bryant, Alexandra Bell, Samora Pinderhughes and Dessane Lopez Cassell on Sunday, April 28
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The Short List: Films from Metrograph's Staff
Monday April 29
7:00pmDirector: Multiple Dirs
2024 / 82min / Digital
For the latest iteration of THE SHORT LIST, Metrograph has invited our talented staff members to present their own short films. Works will be shown from Sarah Abney, Julian Clark, Jeffrey P. Crowley, Donna Dimitrova, Sabrina Kissack, Matthew Maffei, Emma…
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