THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY is a rare foray into comedy (albeit of the black variety) for Hitchcock, with Shirley MacLaine, Mildred Natwick, and Jerry “The Beaver” Mathers perfectly embodying a bevy of smalltown American “types.”
This Halloween weekend. https://t.co/w0qzrK8qoR
Haley Lu Richardson and Michelle Mao forge a Hong Kong connection in the U.S. trailer for Kogonada's 'zi,' which opens on November 6: https://t.co/cf5tdjGrXY
“Its queerness is arguably incidental but also deeply consequential to the film’s plot, not unlike Barbra Streisand’s 1983 period drama YENTL.”
— Caden Mark Gardner, on the rediscovery of Virgina (1991), a lost film tackling the complexities of gender expression in the Balkans.
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. https://t.co/B5ZCIZ2Gre
“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.