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We're streaming three of five from Devika Girish's Intl Movies to Stream column @nytimes 🗞️
Check out "pitch-perfect physical comedy" THE ART OF NOTHING + Carmen Trocker’s "lively" humanity in PERSONALE + Houman Seyedi’s "utterly believable" WORLD WAR III
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Critic’s Pick! "A brilliantly observed portrait of a young woman simmering with frustrations." —Nicolas Rapold @nytimes
DESERT OF NAMIBIA joins our collection of New York Times Critic’s Picks. Streaming courtesy @kani_releasing
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We're streaming three of five from Devika Girish's Intl Movies to Stream column @nytimes 🗞️
Check out "pitch-perfect physical comedy" THE ART OF NOTHING + Carmen Trocker’s "lively" humanity in PERSONALE + Houman Seyedi’s "utterly believable" WORLD WAR III
nytimes.com/2026/10/16/movie…
BEIJING WATERMELON
"A treasure of wry, telling observations… an eloquent commentary on the magic of the cinema itself." @latimes
Based on true events, this restored 1989 gem is the fourth film by Nobuhiko Obayashi to join OVID.
Now streaming courtesy @kani_releasing
DESERT OF NAMIBIA
"Yuumi Kawai is immediately magnetic… Yamanaka’s work defies binaries… pulsating, alive!" @Variety
"Intriguing because it’s so unusual." @voguemagazine
"An ultra-melancholic slapstick comedy." @Slatefr
#Nowstreaming on OVID courtesy @kani_releasing
KRAKATIT
Otakar Vávra’s fever dream movie mixes noir, paranoid thriller and sci-fi: "Few films have more potently captured the distress of living in a time where mankind’s impulse for self-destruction was seemingly at its peak." @Slant_Magazine
Streaming via @DeafCrocodile
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"Kramer faded from sight in the United States because for several decades almost none of his work was easily available to see… no other artist holds as strong a claim to being the emblematic filmmaker of the US New Left."
Another terrific piece on Kramer via @whitstrub @jacobin
hey-o, I wrote about Robert Kramer for Jacobin!
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"Kramer faded from sight in the United States because for several decades almost none of his work was easily available to see… no other artist holds as strong a claim to being the emblematic filmmaker of the US New Left."
Another terrific piece on Kramer via @whitstrub @jacobin
hey-o, I wrote about Robert Kramer for Jacobin!
jacobin.com/2026/10/politica…
"Deadly serious and howlingly absurd... Mesmerizing from first frame to last... A masterpiece!" @Variety
Lav Diaz's BATANG WEST SIDE unspools with the ambition of an epic novel.
Now streaming on OVID courtesy @kani_releasing
"Deadly serious and howlingly absurd... Mesmerizing from first frame to last... A masterpiece!" @Variety
Lav Diaz's BATANG WEST SIDE unspools with the scope and ambition of an epic novel.
Now streaming on OVID courtesy @kani_releasing
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"Ghassan Salhab’s first feature film, PHANTOM BEIRUT, ought to be placed in a lineage of cinema of revenants, strangers, and unexpected or unwelcome guests..."
Terrific essay by @HishamAwad4 🙏
PHANTOM BEIRUT now streaming on OVID courtesy @Several_Futures
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"Ghassan Salhab’s first feature film, PHANTOM BEIRUT, ought to be placed in a lineage of cinema of revenants, strangers, and unexpected or unwelcome guests..."
Terrific essay by @HishamAwad4 🙏
PHANTOM BEIRUT now streaming on OVID courtesy @Several_Futures
metafilm.ovid.tv/2026/10/08/…
Filmed 10 years after FINALLY GOT THE NEWS, TAKING BACK DETROIT is an essential portrait of socialist organizing against the backdrop of Detroit's extreme economic crisis.
Now streaming on OVID alongside a brand new 4K scan of FINALLY GOT THE NEWS courtesy @IcarusFilms!
STATE OF WEIGHTLESSNESS lifts off with archives from Soviet era space missions:
"If you’ve ever been curious about what it was actually like on the other side of the Space Race, Maciej Drygas gives you a front-row seat—and it’s more human than you’d expect." @FilmThreat
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Long live the League. FINALLY GOT THE NEWS, new on Blu-ray this month, documents the efforts of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers to build an independent black labor organization that would respond to worker's problems. Pre order now 🔗mailchi.mp/icarusfilms/hv-fi…
Brand new 4k scan! FINALLY GOT THE NEWS, a searing portrait of the activities of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers inside and outside the auto factories of 1970s Detroit, is now streaming on OVID courtesy @IcarusFilms
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Polish filmmaker Maciej J. Drygas’s 1991 debut HEAR MY CRY "remains one of the most important films in the history of Polish cinema." @FilmThreat
OVID is now streaming HEAR MY CRY, VIOLATED LETTERS and ONE DAY IN PEOPLE'S POLAND. More to come next week:
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EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET opens TOMORROW October 2 at SBIFF's Film Center Santa Barbara + Laemmle Royal‼️
Filmmaker FELIPE BUSTOS SIERRA IN PERSON FOR Q&As at both venues!🎟️ are on sale NOW!
"An EXCEPTIONAL documentary!" @nytimes
@SBIFF
@laemmleroyal @laemmle
@KenmureStreet
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VIOLATED LETTERS and ONE DAY IN PEOPLE'S POLAND use archival documents to expose the pervasive censorship, surveilance and privation in Communist Poland. Both are exceptional films. @OVIDtv reviews up here: jbspins.com/2026/10/violated… and here: jbspins.com/2026/10/one-day-…
