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Lee Chang-dong: Three Restoration Premieres
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Filmmaker, playwright, and novelist, Lee has been a vital force in South Korean culture since the publication of his first novel, "Chonri," in 1983. After breaking into the film industry as the screenwriter (and assistant director) of Park Kwang-su’s 1993 "To the Starry Island," Lee matriculated ...
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6 itemsDirected by Hong Sangsoo
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Quietly funny, subtly sad, structurally and formally audacious, soaked in soju and scenes of mortifying embarrassment—the name of South Korean auteur “Hong Sangsoo” suggests an extremely specific cinematic experience, one that more and more viewers are finding irresistibly addictive. (Luckily, Ho...
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8 itemsRoger Corman: The King of Cult
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Roger Corman, the director, producer, and all-around force of nature who died last May at the age of 98, was not only a crackerjack filmmaker in his own right, but could boast, more than any other single individual, of having been the incubator of New Hollywood, opening the door for the “movie br...
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2 itemsTwo by Dario Argento
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One of cinema’s great, dark dreamweavers, Argento orchestrates labyrinths of terror that push into the realm of unnerving beauty with their vibrant colors and flamboyant intricacy. Merging giallo and horror in unholy hybrids, his films center on people who watch the boundaries fall away between l...
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2 itemsTwo by Stephanie Rothman
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The rare woman director working in second-wave exploitation, Stephanie Rothman (b. 1936) directed seven successful feature films, served as the vice president of an independent film company, and was the first woman to win the Directors Guild of America’s student filmmaking prize. Despite these ca...
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4 itemsShort Films by Johanna Makabi
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Inspired by what she calls “the interplay between the big story and the little story,” the Paris-born filmmaker of Senegalese Congolese heritage centers her insightful portraits of women and girls on their achievements and aspirations. Her elegantly wrought shorts, both fiction and nonfiction, br...
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A4 Presents: Asian Counterfutures
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“Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) is pleased to partner with Metrograph on a special screening around the topic of Asian Counterfutures. A critical component of our mission is to challenge traditional depictions of Asians and Asian Americans in American cinema as either wholly absent, derogatory...
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MoviePlastic
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Directed by Daisuke Miyazaki | 104 mins | 2023
Miyazaki’s tender, colorful, terribly charming tribute to headstrong youthful romance and the transcendent power of pop is inspired (and soundtracked) by musician Kensuke Ide’s eclectic, electrifying 2020 concept album—a record framed as being the wo... -
The Wolf House
Directed by Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña | 73 mins | 2018
One of the most stunning animated debuts of the past decade, this cracked fairy tale follows a young woman fleeing a cult and settling into a transmogrifying house inhabited by two pigs. Shot frame by frame and melding painted animati... -
Time of the Wolf
Directed by Michael Haneke | 108 mins | 2003
A family flees to the countryside because of an unexplained crisis in the world and finds that societal breakdown is well underway. Haneke’s lacerating, under-seen portrayal of civilization collapse was a bellwether for the cinema’s all-consuming 21st-... -
A Laundry Day
Directed by Johanna Makabi | 4 mins | 2022
Serendipity strikes at a Harlem laundromat where Fatou, a French African woman, meets a handsome stranger, in this homage to the French New Wave tinged with political meditations on American society. -
Caged Heat
Directed by Jonathan Demme | 80 mins | 1974
Among Corman’s hall-of-fame stable of writers and directors was Demme, who offers a more humorous (but still titillating) take on the women-in-prison genre here in his directorial debut. The inmates fend off the abuses by the warden (Barbara Steele) and... -
Claire's Camera
Directed by Hong Sangsoo | 68 mins | 2017
Isabelle Huppert re-teams with the Korean master for a light-footed comedy about a Polaroid-wielding schoolteacher visits Cannes and befriends a newly jobless woman (Kim Minhee). Their quick friendship sheds light on the meddlesome reasons for her firing,... -
Creature From The Haunted Sea
Directed by Roger Corman | 74 mins | 1961
Billed as a monster movie, Corman’s horror comedy actually begins as a spy caper, starring future Chinatown scribe Robert Towne as Agent XK150. Riffing on Castro’s then-recent revolution in Cuba, the bonkers story reels in a cutthroat mobster (Antony Carb... -
Galaxy of Terror
Directed by Bruce D. Clark | 81 mins | 1981
The Corman tradition of riffing on genre trends rode strong into the 1980s with this cross between "Alien" and "Solaris" that anticipates "Nightmare on Elm Street". Rescuers sent to the planet Morganthus soon discover that their worst fears are taking p... -
Green Fish
Directed by Lee Chang-dong | 111 mins | 1997
Already established as a novelist and playwright, Lee made the leap to the director’s chair with this spectacularly assured first feature, a scourging commentary on South Korean society dressed up in film noir trappings, focused on a freshly demobbed y... -
Hahaha
Directed by Hong Sangsoo | 115 mins | 2010
Two friends in a bar trade stories about their romantic exploits at a beach, which we come to realize involve the same people (including a restaurant owner played by Oscar-winner Youn Yuh-jung). Through adroit layering, Hong brings a wry sympathy to the ... -
In Another Country
Directed by Hong Sangsoo | 89 mins | 2012
Isabelle Huppert plays three variations on the role of a Frenchwoman abroad in Korea in her first venture into Hong’s peculiar, soju-soaked world, and is the connecting link between the elements of this triptych of glancing, awkward romantic encounters wh... -
Inferno
Directed by Dario Argento | 106 mins | 1980
Showing Argento’s doubling down on visual logic of dreams, this mystical yarn of alchemy and witchcraft unfolds as a series of lurid setpieces and cryptic clue-drops, largely in a New York apartment building. Resisting explication, the story erupts with... -
Introduction
Directed by Hong Sangsoo | 66 mins | 2021
This devilishly deft portrait of missed and near-missed connections orbits a young man (Shin Seok-ho) adrift, sketching out his romantic and familial relationships in three parts (and a mere 66 minutes). Shooting his own feature for the first time, in bla... -
La Visiteuse
Leaving November 1
Directed by Marit Liang | 4 mins | 2021
"The Visitor" follows Danielus’ journey as the young man makes a new life for himself in a foreign land where he does not speak the language and doesn’t know anyone. As Danielus, an unworldly wanderer, tries to connect with the locals, t... -
Night and Day
Directed by Hong Sangsoo | 145 mins | 2008
Fortysomething Korean painter Sungnam (Kim Yeong-ho) seeks refuge in Paris and takes up with a series of fellow expats, despite a wife back home. In this classic from the 2010s, Hong casts an amused and amusing eye on the clueless Sungnam, expertly daisy... -
Notre mémoire
Directed by Johanna Makabi | 12 mins | 2021
Mbissine Thérèse Diop, the underrecognized star of Ousmane Sembene’s masterpiece "Black Girl," reflects on the challenges and realities of her role in an epochal moment in cinema, at home in her Paris apartment.
