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CLAIRE DENIS — L’INTRUS

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The debut screening on Metrograph Digital’s Live Screening platform is Claire Denis’ daring, elliptical L’INTRUS, starring Michel Subor, Béatrice Dalle, Grégoire Colin, Yekaterina “Katia” Golubeva, and Bambou.

The feature is preceded by Bruce Baillie’s ALL MY LIFE (1966, 3 min), courtesy of Canyon Cinema. See link below for details.

L’INTRUS

Friday, July 24.

5 pm on the West Coast; 8 pm East Coast.

Available on demand through July 27.

Claire Denis, L’Intrus (2004), from top: Béatrice Dalle; Michel Subor; Katia Golubeva; Subor. Images courtesy and © the filmmaker, the actors, the photographers, and Metrograph Pictures.

SUSAN SONTAG — FROM THE ARCHIVE

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We felt that this was very exciting. That this film could be something very new. But we couldn’t judge. Because the script didn’t say so much. —Agneta Ekmanner, actor in Duet for Cannibals*

On Friday, two UCLA institutions—the Film and Television Archive and the Library Special Collections—will screen the 2K restoration of Susan Sontag’s directorial debut DUET FOR CANNIBALS and present a selection of the Susan Sontag Papers.

DUET FOR CANNIBALS

Friday, February 7, at 7:30 pm.

Billy Wilder Theater—Hammer Museum

10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles.

*Agneta Ekmanner, author’s interview in Benjamin Moser, Sontag: Her Life and Work (New York: Ecco, 2019), 313.

See “Benjamin Moser’s Pulitzer Prize for Biography is a Travesty,” by Nádia Gotlib, Lisa Paddock, Carl Rollyson, and Magdalena Edwards.

From top: Susan Sontag, photograph by Jill Krementz, 1974; Sontag, Duet for Cannibals (1969) (4). Images courtesy and © Jill Krementz, the filmmakers, actors, producers, stills photographers, and Metrograph Pictures.

SUSAN SONTAG — DUET FOR CANNIBALS

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I don’t feel this film is necessary. This film exists because I always wanted to make films. — Susan Sontag, to Jonas Mekas

In 1968—after her trip to Hanoi and a year before the publication of her second essay collection, Styles of Radical Will—Sontag went to Sweden to make her first film. DUET FOR CANNIBALS, which premiered at the 1969 New York Film Festival, has been restored by Metrograph Pictures and is playing at its Manhattan cinema.

The film is in Swedish—with subtitles by its director—and stars Adriana Asti, Lars Ekborg, Gösta Ekman, and Agneta Ekmanner.

DUET FOR CANNIBALS

Through November 28.

Metrograph

7 Ludlow Street, New York City.

From top: Susan Sontag on the set of her film Duett för kannibaler (Duet for Cannibals, 1969), courtesy and © Grove Press / Photofest; Gost Ekman (left) and Agneta Ekmanner; cover of the Noonday publication of the screenplay, courtesy and © the publisher; Swedish film poster; Adriana Asti and Ekman (2). Images courtesy and © the artists, their estates, Evergreen Film, and Metrograph Pictures.

DAVID HOCKNEY — A BIGGER SPLASH

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Through the end of the month, Metrograph has invited a number of writers and artists—as well as director Jack Hazan—to present screenings of the 4K restoration of A BIGGER SPLASH, Hazan’s time capsule of David Hockney and Peter Schlesinger’s London and New York life in the early 1970s.

Hazan will participate in a post-screening Q & A on Saturday, June 22, after the 7 pm show, and Ryan McNamara will introduce the 7:15 pm screening on Sunday, June 23.

Jeremy O. Harris will introduce the 9:30 pm screening on Friday, June 28, and on Saturday, June 29, at 5:30, there will be a Q & A and book signing with Catherine Cusset, author of Life of David Hockney: A Novel.

On Sunday, June 30, filmmaker Matt Wolf will introduce the 6:15 pm show.

A BIGGER SPLASH

Through June 30.

Metrograph

7 Ludlow Street, New York City.

See Peter Schlesinger, Checkered Past: A Visual Diary of the ’60s and ’70s (New York: Vendome Press, 2003).

A Bigger Splash, directed by Jack Hazan, from top: David Hockney in London painting Peter Schlesinger in the Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures); photographs used in composition of the painting; scenes from A Bigger Splash (6), including Schlesinger leaning on sliding glass door. Images courtesy Metrograph Pictures.