Author Selects
Welcome to OVID’s “Author Selects” series, where we invite an author to select a film on OVID and talk about why it's worth watching.
Kyle Turner, author of The Queer Film Guide: 100 Great Movies That Tell LGBTQIA+ Stories, picks GAY USA as his favorite film on OVID.
Jessa Crispin, editor of The Culture We Deserve, picks Penance as her favorite series on OVID.
Ryan Douglass, author of The Dialectics Fail Me, picks Arguing the World as his favorite film on OVID.
Film scholar and author of Horror Matters, Adam Lowenstein talks about Tracey Moffat’s incredible debut Bedevil.
Jason Bailey, author of Fun City Cinema, talks about Stations of the Elevated as his favorite film on OVID.
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11 itemsA. S. Hamrah Selects
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Ovid asked me to recommend a selection of films streaming on their channel. Initially attracted by the documentaries they offer about musicians I love, including Ornette Coleman, Pulp, Bill Callahan, and the Magnetic Fields, instead I picked ten features that are not music docs.
Nevertheless, I ...
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Movie + 1 extraJaison Bailey: Stations of the Elevated
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Stations of the Elevated (1981) is a 45-minute city symphony directed, produced and edited by Manfred Kirchheimer. Shot on lush 16mm color reversal stock, the film weaves together vivid images of graffiti- covered elevated subway trains crisscrossing the gritty urban landscape of 1970s New York, ...
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6 itemsJessa Crispin: Penance (series)
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Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa • Drama • With Kyoko Koizumi, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yu Aoi • 2014 • 300 minutes
Japanese master of suspense Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s eerie, intense psychological thriller Penance (Shokuzai) unfolds on a sleepy small town playground, when a mysterious stranger approaches a group...
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Movie + 1 extraAdam Lowenstein: Bedevil
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BEDEVIL is the stunning debut feature from Tracey Moffatt (NIGHT CRIES, NICE COLORED GIRLS) and the first feature directed by an Australian Aboriginal woman. Inspired by ghost stories she heard as a child from both her extended Aboriginal and Irish Australian families, Tracey Moffatt has construc...
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Movie + 1 extraRyan Douglass: Arguing the World
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Directed by Joseph Dorman • Documentary • With Irving Howe, Daniel Bell, Nathan Glazer, Irving Kristol • 1997 • 109 minutes
Arguing the World is the story of four brilliant and engaging men caught up in the central struggles of our time. This enthralling film creates a vivid picture of intellect...
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Movie + 1 extraKyle Turner: Gay USA
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Directed by Arthur J. Bressan, Jr. • Documentary • 1977 • 72 minutes
Beautifully restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive in collaboration with Frameline and Outfest, Gay USA is the first American feature-length documentary by and about LGBTQ+ people. Director Arthur J. Bressan, Jr. (best ...