After being banned in Hong Kong, a new documentary about protest movements in that city, will be playing to largely sold-out audiences this weekend in San Francisco.
In 1997, as James Cameron’s Titanic sank box office records around the world including in China Sally Berger, assistant film curator at the Museum of Modern Art, worked to bring New York moviegoers a raft of Chinese movies they’d never heard of.The fourteen films in the series were not martial arts pictures or costume dramas, but instead movies like director Wu Wenguang’s
New to Stream: OVID’s January 2021 Movie Lineup
OVID.tv, the curated streaming destination for documentaries and art-house films, has announced its January streaming lineup! Documentary premiere highlights for next month include Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter’s Space Dogs, which documents the life of Moscow’s street dogs and traces their story back to Laika, the first dog in space; Martina Kudlacek’s
Notes on Marie Menken, the story of one of New York’s outstanding underground filmmakers who inspired and worked with Andy Warhol, Stan Brakhage, Jonas Mekas, and Kenneth Anger; and Wen Hai and Zeng Jinyan’s