Metrograph

3 films on Best Blurays

Based in United StatesFounded 2019watch.metrograph.com ↗

Metrograph is a repertory cinema on Manhattan's Lower East Side that opened in 2016 and runs the Metrograph At Home streaming service. Its distribution arm, Metrograph Pictures, launched in 2019 to put new films and restorations into US theaters and online. It has also issued a few Blu-rays of 4K restorations, including Hou Hsiao-hsien's Millennium Mambo and Tsai Ming-liang's Goodbye, Dragon Inn in 2023.

Aliases: metrograph

Millennium Mambo (2001)

Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Metrograph Blu-ray

Best Video:

France Spectrum 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

2002 TF1 Vidéo France DVD

Audio Notes:

France 4K Blu-ray audio is in the wrong pitch, plus the new 5.1 mix is worse than DVD's

Additional Info:

The version screened at the Cannes International Film Festival ran 119 minutes. Hsiao-Hsien Hou then re-cut the movie following its Cannes premiere and reduced the running time to 105 minutes, this is the only version available on home video. Most of the deleted footage came from the "Vicky in Japan" sequences and is included as an extra on some releases.

3.8

Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)

Director: Tsai Ming-liang

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber/Metrograph Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber/Metrograph Blu-ray better

4.0

Light (2018)

Director: Tsai Ming-liang

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Available in Kino Lorber/Metrograph Goodbye, Dragon Inn Blu-ray as extra

3.4

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