Adventures in Lefty Cinema (or How I Learned That Films About the Past are Often Also About the Present)
An essay by SACCO AND VANZETTI and THE INTERNATIONALE filmmaker Peter Miller
OVID Subscriber Favorites – 2022 Edition
Read on for the most-watched films of 2022!
As she opens her eyes and ours: Leyla Bouzid’s “As I Open My Eyes” and “A Tale of Love and Desire”
An essay by Michael Barrett
In a new podcast interview, OVID’s managing director reveals all
Not pictured: Jonathan Miller
Existential Crises, the State of Streaming, and OVID
Level Five, Chris Marker (1997)
Richard Brody on “The Sorrow and the Pity”
"Its main story is that France has been telling itself a story."
Towards A Thriving Film Culture
On the occasion of the streaming release of two landmark Chinese independent films – Wen Hai and Zeng Jinyan’s Outcry and Whisper and Hu Bo‘s An Elephant Sitting Still – the good folks at Ovid asked me to share some thoughts. If you watch only two Chinese films this year, watch these two. I stand in awe of both films. Taken together, they form as deep, complex and varied a portrait as possible of contemporary China. Neither film should exist. Yet, they do. Beautifully. Miraculously. Brazenly. The producer and writer of Outcry and Whisper survived years of house arrest. The director o
Happy New Year from OVID.tv
As we enter the new year, it seems appropriate that I report on aspects of how OVID is doing. I also want to point you in the direction of two interesting articles which I think contextualize what OVID is all about. First, we’ve updated our searchable Master List of Films on OVID. We added about 30 titles over the past two months—we took a break over the holidays—so as of December 31, 2020, we are now at 982 titles. Of course we do continue to add more films every week. We have 18 titles lined up for January, and will be sharing each coming month’s schedule here on metafilm.