NEWS FROM HOME (Chantal Akerman, 1976).

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. metrograph.com/film/99990041…

“I saved Latin! What did you ever do?"

“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.

AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON (Ozu, 1962).

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.

SANS SOLEIL (Chris Marker, 1983). 🍂

"I had no thoughts at all. Only an overwhelming desire not to feel anything ever again." BRIEF ENCOUNTER (David Lean, 1945).

“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.

MEDEA (Lars Von Trier, 1988).

“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.

STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (Hitchcock, 1951) plays on 35mm this weekend and next.

New 4K DCP restoration of Kim Jee-woon's A BITTERSWEET LIFE this weekend at Metrograph

“This is how I experience being a woman on a train. You’re going from place to place and it’s an in-between time. Your mind drifts, but sometimes there is something that surprises you.” —Genevieve Yue ahead of her series Trains: Local Routes playing @Metrograph from Oct 9.