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Select films chosen specially by Metrograph staff. For the latest iteration of our recurring series Metrograph Marketing Coordinator Graham Carter picks some of his personal favorites In Theater and on Metrograph At Home. .
“Of course all the films I chose are special to me but two in particular changed my life—Eagle Pennell’s The Whole Shootin’ Match and Andrew Bujalski’s Beeswax. Truly independent films from Austin. The star and co-author of Shootin’ Match Sonny Carl Davis would later star in my first feature film and Bujalski would become my professor at University of Texas at Austin. I hope New Yorkers like them too.”—Graham Carter
‘Tis the season for traditions and this year we’ve got plenty of cinematic goodies under the tree for the discerning moviegoer as our established canon of seasonal classics (Carol Eyes Wide Shut Phantom Thread) return alongside festive chestnuts by Billy Wilder Éric Rohmer and Wong Kar-wai.
With the Capulet and Montague kids rendered in high ’90s pop style by Baz Luhrmann an absurdist look at coupling in a dystopic near-future from Yorgos Lanthimos and two lush ravishing romances from Wong Kar-wai—the amour fou of Happy Together and the muted longing of In the Mood for Love—we’ve got just about every kind of star-crossed affair you could ask for lined up for Valentine’s Day at Metrograph. A perfect date for a special someone someones or just your own special self with the intimate confines of the Commissary and a cozy date with cocktails just a few steps away once the movie’s over.
A leading figure of the New German Cinema who stands far outside of any “movement”; a master in both documentary and fiction; a narrator with a unique voice and far-out perspective… Werner Herzog is among the most iconic living filmmakers a mad maestro who has never fully disappeared from the public eye since first appearing on the scene. The “consummate poet of doom ” per The New York Times the Munich-born director/producer/writer of over 60 features made his first short work at age 19 and is still fearlessly forging ahead at 79 with a drive as intense as that of the many obsessive characters he’s brought to the screen. In conjunction with Metrograph’s run of the stunning Sepa: Our Lord of Miracles the lone film directed by Herzog’s longtime producer Walter Saxer we present some of Herzog’s most celebrated and awe-inspiring films. “He is a pure artist and maniac and there will never be another one like Herzog.”—Harmony Korine
