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Playing at Metrograph starting September 2nd, Tickets Here🎟️

The late Chantal Akerman was only 24 years old when she and her nearly all-female crew made this, her 1975 masterpiece, proclaimed the greatest film ever made in the 2022 Sight & Sound poll. Over the course of three days—distilled into three entrancing hours of cinema—the life of a woman (Delphine Seyrig) is not just captured but articulated, not with big dramatic turns but with the repetitive, near-tedious, yet hypnotically compelling natural rhythms…

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The psychedelic carpets lining our hotel hallways, casinos, and convention centers can be traced to one town: Dalton, Georgia, the “Carpet Capital of the World.” In this bastion of American manufacturing, we find an interwoven set of locals who are the unsung creators and developers behind the majority of the country’s carpets, always looking at the ground for their next big break.

Among them is Roderick James, a Scottish expat and freelance textile designer…

HAPPY TIMES WILL COME SOON.
Screening from August 4th at Metrograph.
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Comodin’s singularly audacious film is a timeline-skipping reverie in triptych form: in its first chapter, two young men, Arturo and Tomasso, escape the battlefields of World War II to enjoy a rustic idyll in the golden Aosta Valley of northwestern Italy; in the second, a folk tale involving a wolf’s abduction of a young Frenchwoman, Ariane, is first recounted, then visualized in modern dress; in the third,…

ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND will be screening at Metrograph, starting August 11th. Tickets Here🎟️

Ex-lovers Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet individually decide to undergo an experimental procedure that will expunge their painful memories of one another from their brains in Gondry’s high-concept science-fiction heartbreaker from a script by Charlie Kaufman, featuring a plaintive Jon Brion score and images of faded loveliness courtesy DP Ellen Kuras. “Cerebral, formally and conceptually complicated, dense with literary allusions and as unabashedly romantic as any movie you’ll ever see.”—The New York Times

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Typical Kaufman (atypical Anyone Else), so: 

Simultaneously dripping with cynicism and glowing with hope, the cold steel skeleton of high-concept sci-fi fleshed up with the warm fuzziness of human oddity. It aches, it flutters, it looks and feels like nothing else on Earth and yet it pins down more or less exactly how it feels to love and feel on Earth

Past Lives

Past Lives

★★★★

the last ten minutes of this movie are genuinely so gut-wrenching i could talk about how this movie makes me feel for HOURS

Dick

Dick

★★★★

we need a movie like this for every president. i want kirsten dunst and michelle williams to intervene in all 46 presidencies.

Thief

Thief

★★★★½

Fuck having a boss fr