Man and machine feel the urge to merge in Tsukamoto’s utterly indescribable midnight movie staple, TETSUO: THE IRON MAN.
🎟️ Playing Saturday night at 11pm.
Brecht’s adaptation of ANTIGONE—concerning the title character’s rebellion against the uncle, King Creon, who has condemned her to death—is performed in its entirety in Straub and Huillet’s final film set in the ancient world.
Plays on 35mm again next Monday at Metrograph.
Sho Miyake made his first NYC visit a little over a year ago, fresh off his Locarno win for TWO SEASONS, TWO STRANGERS, in support of our Shiguéhiko Hasumi carte blanche. A #JAPANCUTS favorite, he's returning next month, now the subject of an extensive retro at @Metrograph!
An alien travelog? The world’s most profound home movie? There’s nothing quite like it in the history of cinema. SANS SOLEIL screens the weekend of Oct. 30th. metrograph.com/film/99990037…
“In the performance that made him momentarily a superstar, he is a self-interested hero—once again at the mercy of a charismatic kook, once again embedded in a plot rife with homosexual subtext.”
—@spunky_hunk on Farley Granger in STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, playing @Metrograph.
For @Metrograph I wrote about what’s on everyone’s mind these days: Farley Granger, noted bisexual and star of classics by Hitchcock, Visconti, and Ray metrograph.com/cracked-actor…
“Taking the greatest limitation of video—the medium’s lack of depth of field—Mr. von Trier turns it into a strength...” —Dave Kehr, The New York Times
Playing this weekend at Metrograph as part of our series, Classical Cinema metrograph.com/film/99990050…
“Their earliest films are interrogations of corrosive male obsession, with Chaplin typically incarnating a threat to the established order.”
Luke Goodsell on Carlos Saura and Geraldine Chaplin’s partnership, playing @Metrograph from Oct 17.