Not every neighborhood, town, or city has an independent movie theater, the mecca of all cinephiles, providing a safe refuge from all the blockbusters du jour. Some of us aren’t so lucky, and don’t have a place to see the latest international and arthouse films, or retrospectives of obscure oldies or all-time classics. We don’t all live in New York City, after all. But Metrograph At Home brings New York City to you, featuring many of the films screened at the actual Metrograph Theater at 7 Ludlow Street. It’s an affordable, high-class streaming option to see the kinds of films you can only find at an independent theater in New York.

Highlights from the November slate of new arrivals to Metrograph At Home include the streaming premiere of Last Things, artist and experimental essayist Deborah Stratman’s scintillating look at evolution and extinction from the perspective of the rocks and minerals that pre-date humanity. A Woman, A Part, award-winning visual artist and filmmaker Elisabeth Subrin’s acclaimed feature debut, which arrives on the occasion of Subrin’s forthcoming show at the not-for-profit art space PARTICIPANT INC opening on Nov. 17.

Plus, on the heels of her appearance at the theater, lauded documentarian Penny Lane’s feature debut Our Nixon, a cinematic collage of Nixon’s years in office compiled through a mix of archival sources, joins the Metrograph At Home Library with a special extended introduction from the director. Finally, Metrograph At Home will have a limited streaming run of Wang Bing’s Youth (Spring), arriving ahead of the final two entries in his monumentally epic Youth Trilogy — Youth (Hard Times) and Youth (Homecoming) — opening at Metrograph In Theater. It’s some of the most important filmmaking being done today. Check out what other collections and films are coming to Metrograph At Home below:

Three Films by Alice Diop
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A Senegalese French child of the Paris suburbs that figure so prominently in her work, filmmaker Alice Diop has, in her documentaries—included in this series—and 2022 narrative fiction debut Saint Omer, striven to “oppose the dominant image of France that denies a part of the population.” An essential aspect of Diop’s creative mission is her “La Cinémathèque idéale des banlieues du monde” (“the ideal cinematheque for the world’s suburbs”) project, founded in 2021 with the assistance of the Centre Pompidou and the Ateliers Médicis, its stated mission to “welcome, protect, and work on films that come from all the peripheries of the world.”

Danton’s Death (2011) On Call (2016) Towards Tenderness (2016)

All three titles —Danton’s Death, On Call, and Towards Tenderness— show In Theater next month as part of Alice Diop: Traces of the Margins, running November 16 – November 17, alongside a carte blanche program of films selected by Diop, who will be in attendance.

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Retro-Futurism: The Films of Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn
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A duo since day dot, Kalman and Horn began making films together in 2003, when they were still in college. Dedicated to working with celluloid, together they have forged a singular, vibes-forward aesthetic—a fusion of pastiche and sincerity that is both playful and sharp, silly and analytical, maximalist and joyously, inventively lo-fi. So armed, they have taken cinematic trips to the 1890s and the 1990s alike, period film territory braved by few shoestring-budget practitioners.

Blondes in the Jungle (2009) Fun’s Over (2006) Jazz Christmas (2007) L for Leisure (2014) Two Plains & a Fancy (2018)

Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn’s feature films —Blondes in the Jungle, L for Leisure, and Two Plains & a Fancy— screen In Theater as part of Retro-Futurism: The Films of Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn, in addition to the duo’s latest, Dream Team, which opens at Metrograph on November 15 for an exclusive one-week NY theatrical run, with the directors in attendance for select showings.

Short Films by Jérémy Clapin
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French animator Jérémy Clapin struck a chord with his unheimlich debut feature, the Cannes Critics Week-awarded, Oscar-nominated I Lost My Body (2019), before swerving into live-action with his follow-up, the intimate sci-fi Meanwhile on Earth (2024). This series brings together three of the shorts that first marked Clapin as one to watch, his warped and melancholic absurdism suffusing every image in these tales of misfits seeking solace.

Backbone Tale (2004) Palmipedarium (2012) Skhizein (2008)

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Three by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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A conjurer of works as spellbinding as they are somnolent, his oeuvre one without pretense or parallel, Weerasethakul is undoubtedly one of the greatest filmmakers to have emerged in the twenty-first century. This series brings together two of the independent Thai auteur’s most feted films: in both the Palme d’Or-anointed Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives and Cemetery of Splendor, earthly matters and desires commingle tantalizingly with mystical realms.

Cemetery of Splendour (2015) Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) Tropical Malady (2004)

Movies in Theaters at Metrograph in November
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If you are in New York, Metrograph is screening a variety of classic films and modern masterpieces as part of their multiple film series. You can check out the full calendar here. The first series, My Crazy Uncle (Or Aunt), has arguably the best films of the bunch — Mon Oncle, Harvey, Shadow of a Doubt, Uncle Buck, Arsenic and Old Lace, Napoleon Dynamite, Auntie Mame, Practical Magic, Addams Family Values. Although the excellent Insomnia series features some masterpieces, such as Light Sleeper, Taxi Driver, Hour of the Wolf, The Machinist, and, of course, Insomnia (Christopher Nolan’s 2002 version, not the perfect original).

There’s the Do It Again series, which features films that the same director remade (Irma Vep, Funny Games, Rio Bravo, El Dorado, Heat, and The Beaver Trilogy), and then three by Kaouther Ben Hamia — Four Daughters, Beauty and the Dogs, and The Man Who Sold His Skin. There’s Crush the Strong, Help the Weak, a series of Asian films about underdogs and black sheep, including Kung Fu Hustle, A Brighter Summer Day, The Good, the Bad, the Weird, and Lady Vengeance. Four of Nicolas Cage’s best films, with Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Adaptation, Wild at Heart, and National Treasure.

There are films about or related to plays with The World Is a Stage series, including the movies Annette, The Last Metro, Throne of Blood, A New Old Play, The Travelling Players, and Under the Pavement Lies the Strand. Finally, a couple of modern Indian films picked by the great director Mira Nair (Stolen, The World Is Family), four movies based on the writing of Lillian Lee (Farewell My Concubine, Rouge, Three… Extremes, A Terra-Cotta Warrior), and the great documentaries F for Fake and Man on Wire round out Metrograph’s theatrical calendar.