Official Metrograph Pictures Thread

[MifuneFan]

The Metrograph is wonderful arthouse theater located in New York City. In 2019, they launched Metrograph Pictures to screen, and distribute some their films to theaters across the country, on their streaming service, as well as on Blu-ray. Their Blu-rays (and DVDs) are all distributed by Kino Lorber.

Links

Official Website
The Metrograph on Twitter
The Metrograph on Facebook

A-Z List

Aviator's Wife, The (La femme de l'aviateur) (1981)
Bigger Splash, A (1973)
Boyfriends and Girlfriends (L'Ami de mon amie) (1987)
Competition, The (2016) (DVD-only)
Downtown 81 (2000)
Duet for Cannibals (Duett för kannibaler) (1969)
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (Quatre aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle) (1987)
French, The (1982)
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)
Hyenas (Hyènes) (1992)
Last and First Men (2017)
Le Franc (1994)
Little Girl Who Sold the Sun, The (La Petite Vendeuse de Soleil) (1999)
Made in Hong Kong (1997)
Mario Ruspoli, Prince of the Whales (2011)
Millennium Mambo (2001)
Prairie Trilogy (1978) (DVD-only)
Raft, The (2018) (DVD-only)
Sisters With Transistors (2020) (DVD-only)

Metrograph Pictures on Blu-ray.

(Categorized by Release Date)



Metrograph Pictures on DVD-only

[mclellandj]

These new Rohmer titles will likely show up in a kino lorber sale eventually right?

[filmtech]

Duet for Cannibals is available on blu-ray.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by filmtech

Duet for Cannibals is available on blu-ray.

Thanks, and fixed

[MifuneFan]

Target has all 3 Rohmer titles up for $17.99 each

The Aviator's Wife
Boyfriends and Girlfriends
Four Adventures Of Reinette And Mirabelle

[dr727]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Target has all 3 Rohmer titles up for $17.99 each

The Aviator's Wife
Boyfriends and Girlfriends
Four Adventures Of Reinette And Mirabelle

Very nice!

There’s nothing limited to the first pressing with Metrograph releases, correct?

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by dr727

Very nice!

There’s nothing limited to the first pressing with Metrograph releases, correct?

No, I don't think there is.

[MifuneFan]

Metrograph Pictures (via Kino) will be releasing Tsai Ming-liang's Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003) on Blu-ray on December 12th. This was one I've been wanting for some time now, so I'm glad to finally see it get a BD release.

https://kinolorber.com/product/goodbye-dragon-inn

Extras:

• Audio commentary by film critic Phoebe Chen
• Introduction by film critic Nick Pinkerton
• Re-Release Trailer

Goodbye, Dragon Inn [Official Trailer] - YouTube

Like the Royal Theater in The Last Picture Show and the title movie house in Cinema Paradiso, the Fu-Ho is shutting down for good. The Fu-Ho’s valedictory screening is King Hu’s 1967 wuxia epic Dragon Inn, playing to a motley smattering of spectators. The standard grievances persist: patrons snack noisily and remove their shoes, treating this temple of cinema like their living room. The sense that moviegoing as a communal experience is slipping away takes on a powerful and painful resonance. Yet Tsai Ming-liang’s Goodbye, Dragon Inn is too multifaceted to collapse into a simple valentine to the age of pre-VOD cinephilia. A minimalist where King Hu was a maximalist, preferring long, static shots and sparse use of dialogue, Tsai rises to the narrative challenges he sets for himself and offers the slyest, most delicate of character arcs (the manager, a woman with an iron brace on her leg, embarks on a torturous odyssey to deliver food to the projectionist, played by Lee Kang-sheng). By the time the possibility arises that the theater is haunted, we’ve already identified it as a space outside of time—indeed, two stars of Hu’s original opus, Miao Tien and Shih Chun, watch their younger selves with tears in their eyes, past and present commingling harmoniously and poignantly. 4K Restoration by CINEMATEK, the Royal Film Archive of Belgium.

[MifuneFan]

Metrograph Pictures (via Kino) will be releasing Fruit Chan's Made in Hong Kong (1997) on Blu-ray on December 19th. The film was previously released on BD by Eureka Entertainment in the UK (region B).

https://kinolorber.com/product/made-in-hong-kong

Extras:

• Audio Commentary By Film Critics Sean Gilman And Ryan Swen
• Interviews With Director Fruit Chan, Producer Doris Yang, And Producer Daniel Yu
• Re-release Trailer

MADE IN HONG KONG [OFFICIAL TRAILER] - YouTube

The first independent film released in post-Handover Hong Kong, director Fruit Chan’s atmospheric shoestring-budget character study is a rough-and-ready piece of work shot on grainy leftover 35mm short ends in the city’s overcrowded subsidized housing projects. The result is a tough, pessimistic film, a portrait of a city on the brink that follows the drifting of high school dropout and wannabe Triad tough Autumn Moon (Sam Lee, in a star-making role, opposite a largely nonprofessional cast), who sees little hope for his future or that of his home as a newly created Special Administrative Region within China. A raw, groundbreaking drama and portrait of nihilistic youth in the same vein as Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955), My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant, 1991), and The Doom Generation (Gregg Araki, 1995), the film poses questions that remain burningly relevant as tumult engulfs Hong Kong. The 4K restoration was carried out in the Hong Kong and Bologna headquarters of L’Immagine Ritrovata, made from the original camera negative with the supervision of director Fruit Chan and cinematographer O Sing-Pui.

[hainesdogg]

Both of these releases make me very happy. Worth double dipping for me.

[klapro]

Where is the looooong awaited The Intruder by Claire Denis?

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by klapro

Where is the looooong awaited The Intruder by Claire Denis?

Their releases seem to be coming out at a faster rate now, so I'm sure that's coming by next year., which would be the 20th anniversary of the film too.

[MifuneFan]

I wasn't sure where to mention this, but I noticed Metrograph has a 40% discount off their annual membership with code THANKS2023 dropping it down to $30 a year. Great for those that are in NYC, but for those elsewhere in the US, they also have a pretty nice streaming service with all of their acquired films, plus a great rotating selection of others as well. Well worth the $2.50/month price in my opinion. The offer ends November 27th.



https://metrograph.com/membership/

Check out their streaming selection here:

https://metrograph.com/at-home/

[fatboyslim142]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Metrograph Pictures (via Kino) will be releasing Tsai Ming-liang's Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003) on Blu-ray on December 12th. This was one I've been wanting for some time now, so I'm glad to finally see it get a BD release.

https://kinolorber.com/product/goodbye-dragon-inn






Goodbye, Dragon Inn [Official Trailer] - YouTube

Second Run released this in the UK & it includes the director's 2009 short film Madame Butterfly among the extras.

[MifuneFan]

The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun + Le Franc: Two Films by Djibril Diop Mambety comng March 26th.

https://www.amazon.com/Little-Girl-W...5504313&sr=8-1

Djibril Diop Mambéty, a towering figure in world cinema, is best known for his two features, Touki Bouki (1973) and Hyenas (1992, re-released in a new restoration by Metrograph Pictures in 2019). Yet these two extraordinary films tell only part of the story of the director’s enormous accomplishments in his too-brief life. The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun (1999) and Le Franc (1994) are masterpieces of the medium-length form, completed by Mambéty in his final years. They provide us a fuller picture of the elements that define his small, but perfect, filmography—a rich social vision, sly humor, and formal ingenuity. Mambéty initially meant for these films to lead off a trilogy to be titled “Tales of Ordinary People,” but sadly lived only to complete Le Franc and The Little Girl Who Sold The Sun.

Both films were restored in 2K by Waka Films in 2019 with the support of the Institut français – Cinémathèque Afrique and the CNC at Éclair Laboratories from the original negative.

Special Features:

• Audio Commentaries for The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun and Le Franc by Film Scholar Boukary Sawadogo, Ph.D.
• Cinema is Magic (2022, a documentary about Djibril Diop Mambety by Silvia Voser)
• Trailers

[CelestialAgent]

Metrograph are pivoting to releasing 10 contemporary “independent, international, and documentary” festival titles a year, beginning at the Berlinale, with ex-A24/Oscilloscope execs.

https://www.screendaily.com/news/met...190246.article

[MifuneFan]

The French (1982) coming to Blu-ray from Metrograph on May 28th.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CXGDXLWX

William Klein, the legendary American photographer and filmmaker, has put together a body of work as thrillingly eclectic as any living artist. In his 1969 film Muhammad Ali, the Greatest, Klein found a subject that combined his interest in sport and social criticism, and much the same combination can be seen at work, in a very different cultural context, in The French. Klein was the first person to be granted full, exclusive access to the tournament in its 90-year history, and using that doorway into locker rooms, TV studios, and players’ boxes, he shot the ultimate behind-the-scenes look at the 1981 French Open—a crucial moment in a crucial year in the history of a game, and its iconic players Björn Borg, John McEnroe, Chris Evert, Yannick Noah, and Ivan Lendl. With Klein’s customary eagle eye and whirlwind energy, The French captures the noisy bedlam that accompanies any major sporting event, while also revealing a level of candor from his subjects that is impossible to imagine in today’s secretive media-trained world.

Special Features:
• Re-Release Trailer

Wes Anderson and Metrograph Present: William Klein's THE FRENCH [Official Trailer] - YouTube

[dex14]

Has there been any talk about them releasing (via Kino) Possesion on UHD?
I haven't imported the Umbrella release yet.