Category Archives: Releases

New to the Criterion Channel this week:
SEARCHING FOR MR RUGOFF

Director:
Ira Deutchman

World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2019

Select Festivals:
Palm Springs, Cleveland, Wisconsin, Galway, Mill Valley

About:
A look back at the outsized personality behind legendary art house distributor Cinema 5.

I previously wrote about the doc here.

Coming to OVID tomorrow, Tuesday, September 13:
UNFINISHED SPACES

Director:
Alysa Nahmias, Benjamin Murray

World Premiere:
Los Angeles Film Festival 2011

Select Festivals:
Camden, Denver, Havana, Palm Springs, Cinequest, Miami, Sebastopol Doc, Full Frame, Buenos Aires, New Orleans filmOrama

About:
An exploration of Cuba’s National Art Schools never-completed utopian architectural project.

I previously wrote about the film here.

Coming to OVID today, Monday, September 12:
BOY I AM

Director:
Sam Feder, Julie Hollar

World Premiere:
NewFest 2006

Select Festivals:
Outfest, Frameline, LGBT fests in Tucson, Seattle, Budapest

About:
An exploration of provocative issues rarely touched upon in films portraying trans male subjects.

The film screened at NewFest, for which our program notes read:
It is only in recent years that transgender people and their issues have gained significant visibility within the larger LGBTQ community. But visibility has not translated into instant acceptance or understanding from everyone. For some within the lesbian community, the act of FTM transitioning is viewed at best as a naive social trend, or, at worst, an anti-feminist rejection of butchness and female power in favor of male privilege. Sam Feder and Julie Hollar’s timely and balanced documentary uses the engaging stories of three NYC-based FTMs, as well as interviews with a number of activists and scholars, to explore this controversy and get to its historical and cultural roots.

Coming to Amazon Prime Video today, Friday, September 9:
FLIGHT/RISK

Director:
Karim Amer, Omar Mullick

World Premiere:
Amazon Prime Video (September 2022)

About:
Families, their legal teams, whistleblowers, and Pulitzer-winning Seattle Times journalist Dominic Gates find themselves in the midst of a global tragedy when two Boeing 737 Max planes crashed only five months apart in 2018 and 2019.