Playing In Theater
Titles and series now screening at 7 Ludlow, available on demand for Metrograph Members.
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5 itemsDirected by Mary Stephen
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By the age of 25, the peripatetic Mary Stephen had already circled the globe: born in British Hong Kong, immersed in cinephilia during her studies at Montreal’s Concordia University (then Loyola), Stephen went on to establish herself in the film industry upon relocating to Paris, where she would ...
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Air Doll
Directed by Kore-eda Hirokazu | 116 mins | 2009
A Tokyo waiter’s sex doll (Korean star Bae Doona) comes to life in this bittersweet modern fairy tale from the director of "Shoplifters" and "Nobody Knows." Her wide-eyed wanderings bring out the loneliness of the metropolis—shot by Hou Hsiao-hsien’... -
Mädchen in Uniform
Directed by Géza von Radványi | 91 mins | 1958
Leaving aside the portrayals of royals that had been her breakthrough, Romy Schneider ventured into more risqué territory with this story of Sapphic desire bubbling up in a Potsdam boarding school—the second silver screen adaptation of Christa Winslo... -
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Directed by Cristi Puiu | 147 mins | 2005
Responsible more than any other film for establishing Romanian film as an international force, Puiu’s second feature is a scabrous satire of broken institutions that begins with the ailing elderly Mr. Lazarescu calling an ambulance, then follows him on an... -
Lázaro at Night
Directed by Nicolás Pereda | 76 mins | 2024
Three actors compete for a role in the same low-budget movie and for each other’s amorous attentions in this low-key but formally playful existentialist comedy by Nicolás Pereda. Deftly blending fact, fiction, and fable, the Mexican-Canadian director re... -
Mixed Blood
Directed by Paul Morrissey | 99 mins | 1984
Brazilian diva Marília Pêra, fresh from her international breakthrough in Héctor Babenco’s "Pixote," is the queenly matriarch of a dope-dealing dynasty in Morrissey’s marvelous, grimly funny Alphabet City melodrama, concerning a turf war between rival d... -
4 itemsDirected by Ulrike Ottinger
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Ulrike Ottinger might be New German Cinema’s greatest freak. Proudly renouncing the conventions of both popular and art cinema—including the work of her peers, the Werners among them—the films of the lesbian artist-turned-auteur traffic in the flagrant and flamboyant possibilities of a world beyo...
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Made In New York: Best of NYC Indie Animation
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Just as New York has long been the capital of America’s artistically ambitious “Second Cinema,” a scrappy foil to the Los Angelino industry of streamlined entertainment, it is also home to a counter-tradition of independent animation that has nothing to do with what happens out there in Burbank a...
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Portrait of Jason
Directed by Shirley Clarke | 107 mins | 1967
A distillation of a single 12-hour interview in a room at the Chelsea Hotel with the charismatic Jason Holliday (“real” name Aaron Payne), a gay, African American cabaret dancer, part-time hustler, and full-time raconteur, Portrait of Jason grows from ...
