New York Stories
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6 itemsThe Short Films of Ken Jacobs
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This selection of Ken Jacob's early works, filmed on the Lower East Side not far from Metrograph's location at 7 Ludlow Street, offers a glimpse into the burgeoning American Underground of the 1960s, featuring characters including Jack Smith, and into the mind one of the most wildly creative and ...
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3 itemsThree by Shirley Clarke
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Dance was Shirley Clarke’s first creative outlet of choice, and even after she discovered a new vocation in cinema she would continue to think in terms of the expressive possibilities of rhythm, choreography, and free movement. A standout in the overwhelmingly male New American Cinema Group that ...
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2 itemsBill Gunn's Personal Problems
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Bill Gunn, actor, screenwriter, novelist, and the director of art-horror classic Ganja & Hess (1973), teamed with writer Ishmael Reed and producer Steve Cannon to produce what Reed has called a “meta-soap opera,” an exceptional, rough-edged ensemble piece exploring Black working-class lives in Ne...
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The Projectionist
Directed by Abel Ferrara | 81 mins | 2019
Ferrara’s fond, often funny portrait of Nicolas “Nick” Nicolaou, a Cypriot immigrant who got his start in movie houses working in the Times Square porno theaters in the 1970s and has held on into the 21st century as an independent exhibitor in spite of ov... -
Downtown 81
Directed by Edo Bertoglio | 72 mins | 2000
In 1980, writer and Warhol associate Glenn O’Brien, Swiss photographer Edo Bertoglio, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, a graffiti innovator and noise music artist who’d just begun to exhibit his paintings, hit the streets of lower Manhattan to make a movie abou... -
Variety
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...
