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Metrograph, the hippest new movie theatre in New York City, has announced The Metrograph, a classy new biannual print publication designed by Matt Willey at Pentagram The first issue will be 152 pages long and feature 88 contributors, including filmmakers, comic artists, novelists, and critics, including Steve Martin, horror director Ari Aster, and acclaimed Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi[...]

It was nowhere as seedy as the grindhouse movies of New York City or Los Angeles in their heydays, but it was the closest that London and the UK had to that scene. SCALA!!! Is now streaming on Metrograph It will be available on Blu-Ray in the Autumn with extra interviews and material from Severin Films. [...]

Family Portrait, a mysterious indie drama from director Lucy Kerr, is premiering at the Metrograph in New York City on June 28th It follows a sprawling family on a morning when they have planned a group picture After the mother disappears and one of the daughters becomes increasingly anxious to find her and take the[...]

John Alan Simon and Elizabeth Karr had restored the movie to 35mm prints in 2010 and then a 4K digital restoration when the film prints began to wear down. "Out of the Blue" Metrograph poster, courtesy of Discovery Pictures. "Don Barnes (Dennis Hopper) is a truck driver in prison for drunkenly smashing his rig into a school[...]

Out Of The Blue, the third movie Dennis Hopper directed, which only got a limited US theatrical release in 1982, is finally getting a release of the 4K restored print on its 40th Anniversary in New York City at the Metrograph in November 2021 The movie featured the late Linda Manz as a teenager trapped[...]

Extraordinary." Today, celebrity fans of "Out of the Blue" include Jack Nicholson, Natasha Lyonne and Chlöe Sevigny, Warren Beatty, Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater.  Neil Young contributed the title theme song that inspired the movie to the UK band Primal Scream, who incorporated Linda Manz's famous opening ham radio dialogue into their song "Kill all Hippies". When[...]