Playing In Theater
Titles and series now screening at 7 Ludlow, available on demand for Metrograph Members.
-
4 itemsStarring Moon So-ri
4 items
While the renaissance in South Korean cinema that picked up speed through the 1990s is often discussed in terms of directors, it’s impossible to imagine without thespians of the caliber of Moon So-ri, whose career choices speak of an unusual daring and curatorial intelligence. Making her debut in...
-
All About Lily Chou-Chou
Directed by Shunji Iwai | 146 mins | 2001
Incredibly prescient in its understanding of how a still-young internet would fundamentally alter youth culture, Shunji’s film introduces Yuichi (Hayato Ichihara) in an ice field, the landscape gradually obscured by accreting chat room messages. Alienated... -
The Aviator's Wife
Directed by Éric Rohmer | 106 mins | 1981
The inaugural film of Éric Rohmer’s “Comedies and Proverbs” cycle, The Aviator’s Wife is a fleecy farce of romantic overanalysis that finds the director exploring the possibilities of handheld camerawork in following a narrative expression of the opening... -
Made in Hong Kong
Directed by Fruit Chan | 109 mins | 1997
The first independent film released in post-Handover Hong Kong, Chan’s atmospheric shoestring-budget character study is a rough-and-ready piece of work shot on grainy leftover 35mm short ends in the city’s overcrowded subsidized housing projects. The resu...
