{"title": "The Enchanted Desna", "start": "2026-11-03T20:10:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://t.metrograph.com/Ticketing/visSelectTickets.aspx?cinemacode=9999&txtSessionId=31323", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/fantasy"], "description": "The Enchanted Desna is Yulia Solntseva's film from 1964, an intimate epic in the magic-realist vein made from a script by her late husband and creative collaborator. It draws on his memories of his childhood on the banks of the Desna River in Chernihiv Oblast, moving freely between pre-revolutionary bucolic idyll, the horrors of World War II, and contemporary-set scenes. The film won a Special Jury Prize at the San Sebastián Film Festival and was Jean-Luc Godard's favorite film of 1965; critic Jonathan Rosenbaum calls it \"among the most ravishingly beautiful and poetic spectacles ever made.\"", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-enchanted-desna-56689/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005029-the-enchanted-desna/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/869e5be9e5a7a4277376dd2a22eab7093ac796bafafaf556fa13f5d8c2dd6794-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-03T20:10:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Poem of the Sea", "start": "2026-11-03T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://t.metrograph.com/Ticketing/visSelectTickets.aspx?cinemacode=9999&txtSessionId=31321", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "Poem of the Sea is a 1958 film directed by Yulia Solntseva, based on a script left behind by Dovzhenko at his death and filmed by his widow, who aimed to work wholly in accordance with his artistic conception. It deals with the construction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant and its impact on the surrounding countryside, in particular one soon-to-be-submerged village, birthplace of General Fedorchenko (Boris Livanov), whose arrival for a visit in its final days stirs long-dormant memories. The film is 105 minutes long.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/poem-of-the-sea-56688/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005038-poem-of-the-sea/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/56bdbcb91d824efdd1429c5d919903fe8b87e190a935b2327e90007f38a52ca1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Aerograd", "start": "2026-11-02T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://t.metrograph.com/Ticketing/visSelectTickets.aspx?cinemacode=9999&txtSessionId=31317", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama", "history/soviet-union"], "description": "Aerograd is a 1935 feature film directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko. Set in the Soviet Far East in the not-too-distant future, it takes its title from a fictitious Siberian city that, home to a strategically vital airfield, is targeted for conquest by the duplicitous forces of the Japanese Empire. Shot by cinematographer Eduard Tissé, it shows the forces of the Revolution contending with samurai saboteurs, counterrevolutionary kulaks and \"Old Believer\" Christians, pushing Soviet civilization into the wilds of the Pacific coast. Part spy thriller, part full-throated agitprop, and part pantheistic bliss-out.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/aerograd-67260/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005037-aerograd/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c874ddabd5510121d8f4210cfa12d0924d78216fee1c69ee47bf9d3f354cc514-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Ivan", "start": "2026-11-02T16:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://t.metrograph.com/Ticketing/visSelectTickets.aspx?cinemacode=9999&txtSessionId=31318", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/silent-film"], "description": "Ivan is a 1932 film directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko, his first sound film. It is a melic ode to the construction of the Dnipro Hydroelectric Station and the men and women conscripted into its accomplishment, among them the eponymous Ukrainian villager. In it Dovzhenko created a rich sonic tapestry, proving himself an innovator in the aural as much as the visual realm. As influential as Earth before it on the Ukrainian poetic cinema of the 1960s, it is an achievement of towering stature.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/ivan-56685/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005035-ivan/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3a6ed9671d777fb71d94afe63405cc35b35bc4bc576f8efa7e05b9f1b49e84e2-2000.webp"}, {"title": "News from Home + Interior NY Subway, 14th Street", "start": "2026-11-01T17:45:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://t.metrograph.com/Ticketing/visSelectTickets.aspx?cinemacode=9999&txtSessionId=31229", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "A double bill of two films shown together: Chantal Akerman's 'News from Home' and G. W. \"Billy\" Bitzer's 'Interior NY Subway, 14th Street to 42nd Street'. Made when Akerman was 26 and living in New York, away from her native Belgium and her mother, 'News from Home' pairs images filmed with Babette Mangolte in subway stations and on street corners with Akerman's recitals of her mother's fretful letters, and is considered one of the greatest portraits of a city ever put on film and a troubling, touching depiction of maternal love. Bitzer's short from 1905 runs 6 minutes, while Akerman's 1976 film runs 85 minutes in its English-language version. The screening is introduced by series curator Genevieve Yue.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/news-from-home-interior-ny-subway-14th-street-56679/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005065-news-from-home-interior-ny-subway-14th-street/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a0e387220b790665e9991ac12f62f9415157faaa56150001151cc2752699a0dc-2000.webp"}, {"title": "My Undesirable Friends: Part II – Exile", "start": "2026-11-01T12:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-02T12:00:00-05:00", "place": "Film Forum", "address": "West Houston Street 209", "price": "$12.00 Member, $18.00 General", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "18.00", "tickets_url": "https://filmforum.org/support/more/membership", "category": "film", "tags": ["society/politics/russia", "film/documentary", "history/exile"], "description": "A screening of Chapters 4-5 of MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART II – EXILE followed by a question-and-answer session. Filmmaker Julia Loktev appears with her subjects, exiled Russian journalists Ksenia Mironova and Elena Kostyuchenko, and the session is moderated by filmmaker Kirsten Johnson. Ksenia Mironova reports on political prisoners, Ukrainians affected by Russia's invasion, and repression of human rights in Russia. Elena Kostyuchenko was a longtime investigative journalist at Novaya Gazeta covering corruption, LGBTQ rights, environmental issues, and the war in Ukraine.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/my-undesirable-friends-part-ii-exile-66471/", "official_url": "https://filmforum.org/events/event/my-undesirable-friends-part-ii-exile-november-1-420", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5758e0fd8dec5f4ff4fda56c831a45bdeb2294192ee1a4bf95305dd8a2dffb5c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "News From Home", "start": "2026-10-30T20:45:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://t.metrograph.com/Ticketing/visSelectTickets.aspx?cinemacode=9999&txtSessionId=31214", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary/essay-film"], "description": "News From Home is a screening of Chantal Akerman's 1976 nonfiction diary/essay/poem, filmed in New York City subway stations and on street corners with cinematographer Babette Mangolte, with Akerman reading her mother's letters. Made when Akerman was 26 and living in New York, far from her native Belgium and her mother, it is considered one of the greatest portraits of a city put on film and a touching depiction of maternal love. It screens in the English-language version.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/news-from-home-56665/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999000425-news-from-home/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/509d1597cb758f0fbf88d21e81f2be2c2a303425cc444b84af28c155c1e97a51-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Suzhou River", "start": "2026-11-06T21:10:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://t.metrograph.com/Ticketing/visSelectTickets.aspx?cinemacode=9999&txtSessionId=31289", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "Suzhou River is a feature film screening. Director Ye Lou, from his hometown Shanghai, named it after the polluted river flowing through the city. Using the first-person perspective of an unseen videographer-narrator, it follows an unsuspecting motorcycle courier who becomes snared in a kidnapping plot and murder rap. The brooding film draws on influences from film noir to Vertigo while developing its own haunting visual vocabulary.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/suzhou-river-56699/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999003167-suzhou-river/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ed01a98d737c3a27b3be0a1a3318d5275ee0f19ccf147ac882581a221dcc1e95-2000.webp"}]}