“Schrader had a specific working-class hero in mind when he started writing the film in 1979, then just a draft with the working title “Born in the USA.” To his disappointment, Bruce Springsteen turned down the role.” —Arielle Gordon @reallygordon on Paul Schrader’s LIGHT OF DAY
New York's @Metrograph presents DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS this month as part of their "Hotel Europa" series. Tickets now available for select showtimes June 19 - 27. Don't miss our 4K restoration on the big screen! https://t.co/VbRsTnWZnU
“Animation is world-building. Everything you see on screen is a decision. You have to decide to focus on dust, to draw the contours of a world.”
Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki talk to Roisin Tapponi @roisintapponi about their film BOUCHRA, playing at Metrograph from June 26.
John “Lypsinka” Epperson is introducing Hitchcock’s MARNIE this Saturday at @Metrograph as part of the Maddie’s Secret inspo series. You would be a fool to miss… https://t.co/iG169eDfXP
NAKED director Mike Leigh's biopic of English romantic painter MR. TURNER plays this weekend at Metrograph as part of ongoing series "The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters"
“At the center of KEEP THE LIGHTS ON is what it was to be gay, and to come out, for me, in the ’70s. So THE MAN I LOVE is a transition film for me, because the work that I made before was driven by what was hidden.”—Ira Sachs to @MarkAschParody on his intimate domestic dramas.
"Gianfranco Rosi: Firmament of the Real" opens with the master documentarian in-person Friday with his latest wonder POMPEII: BELOW THE CLOUDS and Saturday with his 2016 masterpiece FIRE AT SEA
ATLANTIC CITY, starring both Burt Lancaster and Susan Sarandon, plays this weekend as part of our spotlight on the American chapter of Louis Malle's career.
Interview: Shunji Iwai on Rewriting Cinematic Language with "Love Letter," kicking off the retrospective series "The World at Full Volume" this week @Metrograph https://t.co/0rQWg864SQ
Shunji Iwai's achingly bittersweet epistolary debut LOVE LETTER evokes an intoxicating romanticism of lost love, recollection & grief—all amid a picturesque setting in the blanche wintertide of Otaru.
Iwai's classic opens @Metrograph today c/o @Film_Movement in its new 4K resto!
Dylan Cheung (@Futurhythm) on how Ringo Lam’s inflamed, scorchingly impassioned “On Fire” trilogy returned Hong Kong cinema to its mean streets.
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Vincente Minnelli's Van Gogh biopic, with a simpering and petulant Kirk Douglas as the artist, LUST FOR LIFE plays in 35mm this Saturday at Metrograph on our biggest screen. There will be colors you have only dreamed of. Not to be missed.
Christopher Small considers Karel Kachyňa and Jan Procházka’s LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC! (1965), a slippery, beguiling vision of war seen through the eyes of a 12-year-old boy.
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