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  • We Heart Herzog

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    A titan of New German Cinema whose adventures in filmmaking now span six decades, Werner Herzog has always been voracious in his quest for “ecstatic truth.” He has ventured deep into the Amazon, traversed the Sahara, and scaled active volcanoes—prepared to risk life and limb (his own and sometime...

  • Bad Romance

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    “Love is the drug / And I need to score,” averred Bryan Ferry on what would become Roxy Music’s most popular song—maybe because the central conceit is such a powerfully relatable one. The pursuit of intimacy becomes an obsession in each of the torrid and tumultuous films in this collection, which...

  • Celebrating Black History

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    Celebrate Black artists and artistry this and every month on Metrograph At Home, with titles from celebrated and emerging filmmakers including Kathleen Collins, Julie Dash, RaMell Ross, Djibril Diop Mambéty, Rungano Nyoni, and more streaming on demand!

  • Variety
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    Directed by Bette Gordon | 100 mins | 1983
    A young woman lands a job as a cashier at a downtown porno theater, and soon finds herself inexorably drawn towards what’s happening onscreen—as well as other troubling fantasies. One of the great independent films of the ’80s, featuring a who’s who of t...

  • Hale County This Morning, This Evening

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    Directed by RaMell Ross | 76 mins | 2018
    The results of five years of living among African American families in rural Hale County, Alabama—also the setting of Walker Evans and James Agee’s photo-essay Let Us Now Praise Famous Men—Ross’s debut feature documentary is a lyrical and loving treatment ...

  • David

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    Directed by Dean Fleischer-Camp | 26 mins | 2016
    In this short, directed Dean Fleischer-Camp, a woman tells David (Nathan Fielder) he has five weeks to live.

  • Physician, Heal Thyself

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    Directed by Asher Penn | 78 mins | 2023
    "Physician, Heal Thyself" offers a searingly intimate portrait of the celebrated expert on addiction, stress, and trauma, Gabor Maté. The documentary follows Gabor’s life’s journey, from his start as a young contrarian to a contemporary icon still strugglin...

  • Parkland of Decay and Fantasy

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    Directed by Chenliang Zhu | 104 mins | 2022
    Technology and spirituality are parallel forces in an abandoned and possibly haunted Chinese amusement park once taken over by outsider artists. If it is true that at the moment of death, consciousness sends out its last waves of thought into the univer...