Journal

The Metrograph Interview

Susan Seidelman in Conversation with Willow Catelyn Maclay

BY Willow Catelyn Maclay

An intimate conversation with the trailblazing American filmmaker.

The Metrograph Interview

Lee Chang-dong
In Conversation With
Phoebe Chen

BY Phoebe Chen

Traveling through time with the Korean filmmaker.

The Metrograph Interview

Mia Hansen-Løve in conversation with Gabe Klinger

BY Gabe Klinger

An intimate chat about process, finding inspiration, and the need for nuanced characters.

Columns

Futures and Pasts: La Marge

BY Nick Pinkerton

In Futures and Pasts, Metrograph’s Editor-at-Large Nick Pinkerton highlights screenings of particular note taking place at the Metrograph theater.

Columns

Strange Pleasures: Patrick Swayze

BY

Strange Pleasures is a regular Metrograph column in which writer Beatrice Loayza shares unconventional desires found across underground and mainstream cinema alike.

Columns

At Home With… July Picks

BY Metrograph

Friends of Metrograph Avery Trufelman, Phillip Lopate, Caden Mark Gardner, and Mackenzie Lukenbill each share a film they love, streaming on demand on the Metrograph At Home platform.

Essay

The Olympics in Mexico

BY Geoff Dyer

On a particularly artistic depiction of a historic year of Olympic games.

Essay

Run the Jewels

BY Danielle Burgos

A look at the dynamic heist film that embodied the electricity of its filmmaker and star.

Essay

Beijing Watermelon

BY Matt Turner

On Nobuhiko Obayashi’s newly restored, slippery gem of a film.

Interview

Wei Shujun

BY Jordan Cronk

The rising Chinese filmmaker discusses the influences that shaped his intoxicating new neo-noir Only the River Flows.

Interview

Tatsuya Fuji

BY Dora Leu

An interview with the icon of Japanese cinema.

Interview

Bruce Yonemoto

BY Andrew Norman Wilson

An interview with the LA-based video artist about spoofing the soap opera, and Japanese American artists one day getting their moment in the sun.

Excerpt

Making of Val

BY Maya Martinez

A review of Making Of, Mara Mckevitt’s new book of autofiction chronicling the making of her film Val.

Excerpt

Little Yellow-green Bird

BY Lee Chang-dong

Appearing for the first time in English, a new short story from Lee Chang-dong.

Excerpt

Jobe’z World

BY Michael M. Bilandic

On the lifespan of an independent film.