Metrograph

Lower East Side

Art & Culture

Movie Theater, Bar & Restaurant Where They Take Celluloid Seriously…

Metrograph Interior box office Lower East Side

Metrograph Interior Lower East Side

Metrograph Interior bookstore LES

Metrograph Exterior Lower East Side

About Metrograph

& why it made the Carpe City list

On any given week at Metrograph, you can see anything from Breakfast at Tiffany’s to Twin Peaks to Psycho to The Sound of Music.
With only two screens, this place packs a hefty cinematic punch!
Metrograph offers rare archival print screenings as well as exclusive premieres, special dinners, and book signings all under one roof.
- And the consistently fantastic movies and events are not the only things that are meticulously curated:
- The theater offers a whole new take on an old school art house.
  - It opened in 2016 with a candy shop, book store, lounge and Commissary restaurant that harkens back to the great Hollywood studio cafeterias during the golden age of film.
  - Founder (and filmmaker and fashion designer) Alexander Olch envisioned the space as a place fit for New York’s filmmakers and filmgoers alike.
  - The whole vibe is about creation and celebration.
  - Olch hopes that between shows, you’re hanging out in the Commissary writing your own screenplay…
  - They have a unique “writer’s menu” full of “small dishes you can eat with one hand while writing with the other hand.”

Carpe City Trivia

A little film buff trivia...

Thomas Edison himself gave the first-ever public presentation of the Vitascope (an early film camera) at Koster and Bial’s Music Hall on 34th Street and Broadway in 1896! (Yes, Macy’s is now on that corner.)
- And guess what? Edison didn’t even invent it. He acquired the rights to manufacture and market it as his invention, but it was created by Thomas Armat!

By: Lucie Levine

Photography by:
Anne Crays

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