Playing In Theater

Playing In Theater

Titles and series now screening at 7 Ludlow, available on demand for Metrograph Members.

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  • Delphine Seyrig, Rebel Muse

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    Born in Beirut to a French Alsatian father and Swiss mother, raised for a time in New York City, and trained as an actress in France, the born-cosmopolitan Delphine Seyrig would be launched to international arthouse celebrity via her role in Alain Resnais’s 1961 "Last Year at Marienbad". In the y...

  • An Alternate Cinema: Four Films from the Deutsche Kinematek Archives

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    Bringing together such works as Pia Frankenberg's tongue-in-cheek charmer "Ain't Nothin' Without You" (1985), Michael Brynntrup’s punky avant-garde Super 8 Biblical epic "Jesus – Der Film" (1985), and Christoph Schlingensief’s splatterhouse reunification era satire "The German Chainsaw Massacre" ...

  • Animalia

    Directed by Sofia Alaoui | 91 mins | 2023
    Alaoui’s atmospheric and entrancing debut feature stars a superb Oumaïma Barid as Itto, a newly married and heavily pregnant woman from a rural Berber background who is separated from her husband (Mehdi Dehbi) and his upper-class family when extraterrestr...

  • Felicité

    Directed by Alain Gomis | 124 mins | 2017
    Gomis’s vibrant, tumultuous fourth feature follows Félicité, a free-willed nightclub singer in the heart of Kinshasa, whose life is thrown into turmoil when her 14-year-old son gets into a terrible car accident. To raise the money to save him, she embarks...

  • Ain't Nothin' Without You

    Directed by Pia Frankenberg | 91 mins | 1985
    A screwball comedy shrewdly observing the manners, mating habits, and class hang-ups of upwardly mobile 1980s West Germany, "Ain’t Nothin’ Without You" stars director Frankenberg as Martha, a filmmaker and single mother wracked with guilt over her back...

  • The Endless Night

    Directed by Will Tremper | 82 mins | 1963
    A dense fog has grounded all flights out of West Berlin’s Tempelhof airport in Tremper’s episodic naturalist melodrama, which tracks the chance encounters between the handful of passengers stranded overnight in the terminal’s central hall, including an Af...

  • The German Chainsaw Massacre

    Directed by Christoph Schlingensief | 63 mins | 1990
    Called “one of the greatest artists who ever lived” by Austrian novelist and playwright Elfriede Jelinek, Schlingensief—who died in 2010 at age 49—was a multihyphenate whirling dervish of chaotic creative energy and relentless provocation, the ...

  • Jesus – Der Film

    Directed by Michael Brynntrup | 128 mins | 1985
    A punky black-and-white Super 8 telling of the life and afterlife of the Nazarene, this iconoclastic underground epic stars project initiator Brynntrup in the title role, seen in 35 episodes taken from the New Testament interpreted by 22 different f...

  • Scum Manifesto

    Directed by Carole Roussopoulos and Delphine Seyrig | 29 mins | 1976
    A crucial piece of early feminist video art from the Les Insoumuses collective that documents a staged reading of would-be Andy Warhol assassin Valerie Solanas’s notorious misandrist call-to-arms of the same name—the acronym sta...

  • Be Pretty and Shut Up

    Directed by Delphine Seyrig | 112 mins | 1981
    In Hollywood and Paris, Seyrig sits down to talk to some of the most famous actresses in the world—including Juliet Berto, Ellen Burstyn, Jane Fonda, Shirley MacLaine, Jill Clayburgh, Louise Fletcher, Maria Schneider, Barbara Steele, Viva, Anne Wiazem...

  • Maso and Miso Go Boating

    Directed by Nadja Ringart, Ioana Wieder, Carole Roussopoulos, and Delphine Seyrig | 55 mins | 1975
    1975 has been declared Year of the Woman by the United Nations, prompting popular television Bernard Pivot to host then-Secretary of State for the Condition of Women Françoise Giroud on his program,...