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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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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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The Ice Storm
Saturday April 20
1:45pmDirector: 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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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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Cries and Whispers
Saturday April 20
6:15pmDirector: Ingmar Bergman
1972 / 91min / 35mm
Introduction by cinematographer Frederick Elmes on Friday, April 19th
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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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NOCTURAMA
Saturday April 20
10:15pmDirector: 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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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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Miracle in Milan
Sunday April 21
2:30pmDirector: 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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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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Elevator to the Gallows
Sunday April 21
7:30pmDirector: 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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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
Director: 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
Friday April 26
2:30pmDirector: 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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Poetry
Director: Lee Chang-dong
2010 / 139min
Mija (Yun Jung-hee) has been tasked with raising her troubled teenaged grandson, Jong-wook, while her daughter, Jong-wook’s single mother, works in far-off Busan. When her capacity as a caregiver is threatened by a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s, Mija…
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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
Director: 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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Green Fish
Tuesday April 30
9:10pmDirector: Lee Chang-dong
1997 / 111min
Already established as a novelist and playwright, Lee made the leap to the director’s chair with this spectacularly assured first feagrture, a scourging commentary on South Korean society dressed up in film noir trappings, focused on a freshly demobbed…
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Devi
Wednesday May 1
4:00pmDirector: Satyajit Ray
1960 / 93min
Ray’s baroquely styled depiction of religious fanaticism focuses on a man, Kalikinkar (Chhabi Biswas), who becomes obsessed with the idea that his young daughter-in-law, Doyamoyee (Sharmila Tagore), is the reincarnation of the ferocious goddess Kali.…
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El Topo
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
1970 / 125min / 35mm
Chilean-born mime-turned-filmmaker Jodorowsky plays the title role in this acid Western staple of the midnight movies, strapping on the six-shooter as a lone gunfighter—his name means “The Mole” in Spanish—traveling across a psychedelic desert…
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The Aviator's Wife
Friday May 3
1:45pmDirector: Éric Rohmer
1981 / 106min / DCP
The inaugural film of Rohmer’s “Comedies and Proverbs” cycle, The Aviator’s Wife is a fleecy farce of romantic overanalysis
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Kaili Blues
Director: Bi Gan
2015 / 109min / DCP
Chinese filmmaker Bi Gan’s award-winning directorial debut is an audacious work that announced a major new filmmaking talent. Country doctor Chen Sheng sets out on a train journey to search for his brother’s abandoned child, only to find himself in a…
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The Big Picture
Friday May 3
4:00pmDirector: Christopher Guest
1989 / 100min / 35mm
“The Big Picture is a hysterical, timeless, and spot on satire of the entertainment industry—and a great lesson in staying true to oneself. Absolutely brilliant, I make reference to it often.” —Victoria Ashley, Metrograph Events team …
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Floating Weeds
Friday May 3
6:10pmDirector: Yasujirô Ozu
1959 / 119min / DCP
Ozu’s remake of his own 1934 silent A Story of Floating Weeds adds color, the eye of the brilliant Rashomon and Ugetsu cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa, and of course Kyō, playing the mistress of the head of a kabuki theater troupe who’s embittered to…
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Waking Life
Director: Richard Linklater
2001 / 99min / 35mm
The first fully rotoscoped feature film—that is, a film that animates original live-action footage—Linklater’s Waking Life follows Wiley Wiggens as he embarks on a wending, digressive psychic odyssey through a fluid, ever-changing dreamscape…
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Bound
Friday May 3
8:30pmDirector: Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
1996 / 109min / DCP
Sparks fly when ex-con plumber Corky (Gina Gershon) first locks eyes with Violet (Jennifer Tilly), femme moll to crime kingpin Caesar (Joe Pantoliano). Following this meet-cute, things quickly get nasty, as the lady lovers lay down a plan to run away…
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Messiah of Evil
Friday May 3
10:30pmDirector: Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz
1974 / 90min / DCP
Introduction by Jane Schoenbrun Friday, May 3
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Sexy Beast
Friday May 3
10:45pmDirector: Jonathan Glazer
2000 / 89min / 35mm
Retired gangster Gary “Gal” Dove (Ray Winstone) has put away his safecracker’s tools for an early retirement at the Spanish seaside—or so he thinks, until old associate Don Logan (Ben Kingsley), a snarling, violent lunatic whose career in the…
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Rififi
Saturday May 4
12:30pmDirector: Jules Dassin
1955 / 118min / DCP
Run out of Hollywood by the Blacklist, Dassin landed on his feet in Paris, producing this existential thriller—and international box-office smash—that would become the heist film by which all others are measured, its centerpiece a legendary 30-minute…
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Amour
Saturday May 4
3:00pmDirector: Michael Haneke
2012 / 127min / DCP
For their study of an elderly couple—played by icons of French cinema Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva, both superlative—facing final separation by cruel death, Haneke and cinematographer Darius Khondji created a litany of framings that feel…
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Deep Cover
Saturday May 4
7:45pmDirector: Bill Duke
1992 / 107min / DCP
Laurence Fishburne gives a matchless performance as a cop still burdened by the childhood memory of his father’s crippling addiction whose straight-arrow life is derailed when he’s recruited into undercover work investigating the Los Angeles cocaine…
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The Return of the Living Dead
Saturday May 4
10:30pmDirector: Dan O'Bannon
1981 / 91min / DCP
Introduction by Jane Schoenbrun on Saturday, May 4th
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Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Sunday May 5
11:00amDirector: 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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The Master
Friday May 10
2:00pmDirector: Paul Thomas Anderson
2012 / 138min / 35mm
Anderson’s aching, ambitious, and deeply ambiguous psychodrama pairs alcoholic ex-serviceman Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) and messianic flimflam man Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman) in a cage match bromance that doubles as a meditation on the…
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Mommy
Friday May 10
2:10pmDirector: Xavier Dolan
2014 / 139min / DCP
Québécois enfant terrible Dolan was 25 years old when he took home the Jury Prize at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival for his anguished, ardent Monreal-set melodrama, shot in a distinctive, smartphone-style 1:1 aspect ratio, about a vivacious widow (Anne…
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Dreams
Friday May 10
4:45pmDirector: Akira Kurosawa
1990 / 119min / 35mm
Fresh off two late-career megaproductions (Kagemusha and Ran), Kurosawa made an unexpected turn to short-form with his omnibus film Dreams. The director’s stock of recurring dreams became the raw material for the eight magical realist vignettes…
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Three Crowns of the Sailor
Friday May 10
4:50pmDirector: Raúl Ruiz
1983 / 117min / DCP
A callow student, scared stiff of the consequences of the murder he has just committed, allows himself to be dragged to a dance hall by a squiffed sailor who insists on making the shaken youth a captive audience to the recounting of his life story, a…
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First Comes Love
Friday May 10
7:15pmDirector: Nina Davenport
2013 / 105min / DCP
Introduction + Q&A with filmmaker Nina Davenport on Friday, May 10th.
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Batman Returns
Friday May 10
7:15pmDirector: Tim Burton
1996 / 126min / 35mm
Burton and star Michael Keaton’s first Caped Crusader film was a pop culture phenomenon; their second was no slouch at the box office itself, but an altogether spicier dish to serve to unsuspecting multiplex audiences: an unremittingly grim, gloomily…
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Following
Friday May 10
9:45pmDirector: Christopher Nolan
1998 / 69min / DCP
For the opening act of his world-conquering career, Nolan summoned up all the precision and intelligence of his later work on a shoestring budget, crafting this taut, hard-edged black-and-white neo-noir—shot on 16mm, with Nolan himself acting as…
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AGGRO DR1FT
Friday May 10
9:50pmDirector: Harmony Korine
2024 / 80min / DCP
The first indefinable object to emerge from Korine’s shrouded-in-mystery EDGLRD collective, the simmeringly psychedelic AGGRO DR1FT—entirely shot in infrared, through thermal lenses—is a vibe-soaked odyssey following a supremely gifted-but-tormented…
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Shoplifters
Saturday May 11
12:00pmDirector: Hirokazu Kore-eda
2018 / 121min / DCP
Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, Kore-eda’s wise and deeply humane domestic drama centers on a makeshift family—men and women cast off by society, living off of petty theft and con jobs on the outskirts of Tokyo—whose…
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The Kids are All Right
Saturday May 11
12:30pmDirector: Lisa Cholodenko
2010 / 106min / DCP
Longtime lesbian couple Nic and Jules (Annette Bening and Julianne Moore), parents of two teenagers fathered by the same anonymous sperm donor, have their slightly stagnant relationship shaken up when their 16-year-old son asks for information about his…
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3 Women
Saturday May 11
2:45pmDirector: Robert Altman
1977 / 124min / DCP
Alongside his more touted multi-character panoramas, Altman also had a fondness for small-scale dramas investigating the complexities of female psychology, and of these none is greater than the ineffable 3 Women, which finds Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek,…
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River of Grass
Saturday May 11
5:15pmDirector: Kelly Reichardt
1994 / 76min / DCP
Q&A with filmmaker Kelly Reichardt on Saturday, May 11th
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Cape Fear
Saturday May 11
5:30pmDirector: Martin Scorsese
1991 / 128min / 35mm
Scorsese’s baroque remake of J. Lee Thompson’s 1962 potboiler of the same name about a defense lawyer terrorized by a former client improves on its inspiration in almost every regard, not least in replacing Gregory Peck as the original’s upstanding…
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Danger: Diabolik
Saturday May 11
10:45pmDirector: Mario Bava
1968 / 105min / DCP
Better known for his excursions in the horror genre, Bava’s excursion into the crime caper—and his lone trip to Hollywood—produced this eye-popping pop art curio, an adaptation of an Italian comic book series underwritten by producer Dino De…
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Volver
Sunday May 12
11:30amDirector: Pedro Almodóvar
2006 / 121min / 35mm
Penélope Cruz leads a remarkable ensemble cast—the six main actresses shared a Best Actress award at Cannes in 2006—in Almodóvar’s comic drama, set in the Madrid suburbs and in the filmmaker’s native La Mancha region. Cruz’s Raimunda is a…
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Wendy and Lucy
Sunday May 12
3:15pmDirector: Kelly Reichardt
2008 / 80min / DCP
Described by Reichardt as a post-Katrina movie, Wendy and Lucy is an unsentimental portrayal of life on the fringes in the United States, following down-on-her-luck Wendy (a sublimely stoic Michelle Williams, often carrying the film alone), her pet dog,…
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