Leaving December 1

Avarice and lust have wrought the downfall of many a man, but never so stylishly as in film noir. This selection combines the snaking mysteries and doom-fogged ambiance of the mid-century canon with the bold style and brash sexuality of the post-New Hollywood American cinema, ...

Leaving December 1

Summer is coming on fast, and with it comes Pride Month, a celebration of the LGBTQ+ community that began in the wake of the Stonewall Uprising of 1969 and has continued (and grown) ever since. Metrograph At Home has drummed up a parade of brazenly queer cinema from the likes ...

Leaving December 1

The dearly departed Terence Davies, who left us in 2023, spent a career making incandescent masterpieces such as "Distant Voices, Still Lives" (1988), "The Long Day Closes" (1992), and "The Deep Blue Sea" (2011), films that took his memories of post-war Britain and transformed...

Leaving December 1

Amnesiacs, apocalyptic romances, and arcane scriptures: all the reveries of cinema’s past and future collide at breakneck speed in the films of Guy Maddin, the silver screen’s most singular surrealist and slipperiest stylist. The Canadian cult director’s oeuvre feels beamed in...

Leaving December 1

Frank Ripploh’s attraction to the abject and the outré made him a sui generis deviant in a career which saw him befriend and collaborate with many of New German Cinema’s cynosures, among them Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Magdalena Montezuma, and Ulrike Ottinger. His most notable ...

Leaving December 1

First meeting as first year film school undergraduates at NYU, Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew began to collaborate on highly unconventional narrative shorts following their individual stints in the art world, making singularly of-the-moment films about mediated desire (and ran...

Leaving December 15

The Dakar-born Sylla, who died at age 50 in 2013, packed an extraordinary amount of activity into a tragically truncated life: she was an author of novels and short stories before beginning in earnest her engagement with cinema, an intimate of filmmakers Ousmane Sembène and J...