‘Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass’ Review: A Vibrant World of Grotesqueries. Opens 8/29 @filmforumnyc.bsky.social and 9/5 LA @laemmle.com (NoHo 7). www.slantmagazine.com/film/sanator...

Held Over through 9/11 at NYC's @filmforumnyc.bsky.social Opens LA this Friday, @laemmle.com NoHo7."It is an undeniably (and inimitably) human work of art!" - @ebertvoices.bsky.social more dates/locations incl SF, Cleveland, Boston, Philly, etc > kimstim.com/film/sanator...

‘Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass’ Review: A Vibrant World of Grotesqueries. Opens 8/29 @filmforumnyc.bsky.social and 9/5 LA @laemmle.com (NoHo 7). www.slantmagazine.com/film/sanator...

THIS IS NOT A MOVIE: ROBERT FISK AND THE POLITICS OF TRUTH "The two things that give this doc its power and provocativeness are intellectual rather than dramatic: Fisk’s work, and his ideas." @slantmagazine.com Now Streaming on OVID courtesy @kimstim.bsky.social www.ovid.tv/videos/this-...

The 2004 drama MA MERE (MY MOTHER) starring Isabelle Huppert & Louis Garrel has been released on Blu-ray. More details here: entertainment-factor.blogspot.com/2025/07/ma-m... #bluray #mamere #mymother #isabellehuppert #louisgarrel #christophehonore @kimstim.bsky.social

KimStim is the U.S. distributor. I wrote a little about the film in this list: www.avclub.com/20-great-int...

New for subscribers only, a quick look at Wei Shujun's Only the River Flows, one of the more interesting Moody Chinese Noirs to appear over the past decade. Opens tomorrow at the Metrograph before making the rounds over the next few months thanks to KimStim. www.thechinesecinema.com/only-the-riv...

While some of Kawamoto’s works have made it to DVD over here via KimStim, the only US release Okamoto ever got was an incredibly rare $100 LD from Pioneer Special Interest.

Now watching. Opened in NYC July 26; opens in Toronto Aug 1. From the KimStim one-sheet: "Director Wei Shujun's murky throwback film noir, gritty, textured film grain captures the pulpy proceedings. Torrents of rain envelop the characters as they descend into madness in pursuit of the truth."

Films from Philippe Lesage, Andrew Dominik, Mohammad Rasoulof, Wang Bing, and more are among our streaming picks of the week.

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Now available to order from the @vinsyn.bsky.social website from new #OCNDistribution #PartnerLabel @kimstim.bsky.social: #MaMere (2004)! KimStim is a Brooklyn based, full-service distribution company dedicated to the release of exceptional independent, foreign,

We're thrilled to exclusively announce that the Quay Brothers' first feature in two decades, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, has been acquired by @kimstim.bsky.social for a North American theatrical release this year. Watch an exclusive clip:

ONLY THE RIVER FLOWS is now available on @primevideo.bsky.social "A gorgeous film to look at, reminiscent of the good old days of 90s Wong Kar-Wai and Zhang Yimou's cinema.”  @screenanarchy.bsky.social shorturl.at/X0pSh

Now on Amazon Prime! Hélène (Isabelle Huppert), cool & in charge, & her pious Catholic teenage son Pierre (Louis Garrel) are grieving following the death of the family patriarch. While mourning, Hélène begins to involve her son in her drug-fueled, sex-filled nights. www.amazon.com/gp/video/det...

@unseenfilms.bsky.social interviews co-director Ery Rocha and shaman Davi Kopenawa on the urgent, breathtaking and collaborative documentary THE FALLING SKY. Screening at the @laemmle.com in LA this week. A @kimstim.bsky.social release

Trump, Musk and Republicans in Congress are gutting services, raising prices, and racing towards slashing Medicaid, Social Security, and other life-saving programs. It’s time to fight back. app.sosha.ai/s/btwOEwk2

In Philippe Lesage’s “patient, emotionally roiling” new film, “Who by Fire,” several strains of wounded masculinity derail an idyllic retreat in the mountains of Quebec. Read @justincchang.bsky.social’s review.

WOW! @newyorker.com Justin Chang writes, “Who by Fire” Is a Brilliant Drama of Male Rage at Its Most Elemental" i 🔥 Held Over 🔥 @filmlinc.bsky.social through March 27th. Opens LA's Laemmle Royal this Friday!! >https://laemmle.com/film/who-fire< www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

"The movie’s opener — including the enigmatic drive, which can’t help but evoke Kubrick’s “The Shining” — announces Lesage’s gift for stirring up tension visually.” @manohladargis.bsky.social via @nytimesarts.bsky.social Starts Friday @filmlinc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/m...

Our review for WHO BY FIRE 🇨🇦 "Lesage lulls the audience into a sense of serenity before suddenly tugging the rug out from under us as a series of intense, ultimately explosive verbal exchanges eventually bleeding into the inevitably of violence." #KimStim bit.ly/3uRZ5tV

Hey! NY Film Fest Main Slate selection, WHO BY FIRE, starts Friday @filmlinc.bsky.social (Lincoln Center) w/Philippe Lesage in attendance! "A coming-of-age drama that flickers and crackles like the campfire around which a wild story is told." @bealoayza.bsky.social, @filmcomment.com.web.brid.gy

Q&A with co-director Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, moderated by DOC NYC's Jaie Laplante, at the opening night of THE FALLING SKY at MoMA. The scorching doc on Indigenous resistance in the Amazon runs through Thurs, 3/13. A @kimstim.bsky.social release moma.org/calendar/eve...

North American theatrical run of THE FALLING SKY by Ery Rocha and Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha to open in March. A @kimstim.bsky.social release. Read the news via @broadwayworld.bsky.social

Who by Fire opens Friday, Mar. 14th @filmlinc.bsky.social Lincoln Center (tix now on sale!) and then on Friday, Mar. 21st at @laemmle.com The Monica in Los Angeles www.ioncinema.com/news/foreign...

The Falling Sky -OPENS Museum of Modern Art March 7. youtu.be/Nc2lQdTXN-s?... The film invites us to participate in the sacred ritual of Reahu, & challenges all of us who exploit nature for financial gain to rebel against the damage wrought by the industrial world. moma.org/calendar/eve...

Isabelle Huppert & Louis Garrel play a mother-and-son duo bound by drug-and-booze-fueled depravity in Christophe Honoré’s 2004 drama MA MERE! New restoration! Screens tonight! @Select Laemmle Theaters: Claremont, Glendale, Monica, Newhall, & Town Center. www.laemmle.com/film/ma-mere

Watch our exclusive trailer premiere for Philippe Lesage’s lush, stellar drama #WhoByFire, opening on March 14 at @filmlinc.bsky.social.

ONLY THE RIVER FLOWS is now available on @primevideo.bsky.social "A gorgeous film to look at, reminiscent of the good old days of 90s Wong Kar-Wai and Zhang Yimou's cinema.”  @screenanarchy.bsky.social shorturl.at/X0pSh

Garth Hudson, the multi-instrumentalist and last surviving member of the Band, has passed away at the age of 87. www.pastemagazine.com/music/the-ba...

PLAN 75 is featured @thefilmstage.bsky.social Streaming roundup: “Finds humanity in the face of despair. Perhaps this is why it never feels like a dystopian narrative; it’s haunting but never hopeless.” @yesitsalistair.bsky.social Stream on OVID.TV or buy/rent on Amazon Prime. shorturl.at/tCEuS

Christophe Honoré’s controversial MA MERE w/Isabelle Huppert & Louis Garrel Opens Jan 24 @ifccenter.bsky.social Center! Warning Trailer NSFW: youtu.be/Xsx6LW6h28s

Only place online that I know has it is ovid.tv which has some other cool docs on Marxism, labor, etc.

Flow!!! Flow!! Flow wins the #GoldenGlobe!!!!!! Yes!!

Happy New Year! Excited to share three upcoming 2025 releases: Jan 24 @ifccenter.bsky.social (IFC FILM CENTER) Ma Mère(4K) Christophe Honoré March 14 @filmlinc.bsky.social (Film at Lincoln Center) WHO BY FIRE - Philippe Lesage TBD: THE FALLING SKY Eryk Rocha, Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha