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‘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...
'Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass' Review:
'Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass' is a film about its own condition of being an outsider to its own time.
www.slantmagazine.com
August 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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
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September 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
‘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...
'Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass' Review:
'Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass' is a film about its own condition of being an outsider to its own time.
www.slantmagazine.com
August 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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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

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This Is Not a Movie: Robert Fisk and the Politics of Truth
Directed by Yung Chang • Documentary • With Robert Fisk • 2019 • 109 minutes For more than 40 years, journalist Robert Fisk has reported on some of the most violent and divisive conflicts in the worl...
www.ovid.tv
July 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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KimStim is the U.S. distributor. I wrote a little about the film in this list: www.avclub.com/20-great-int...
November 23, 2024 at 7:22 PM
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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.

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Only the River Flows (Wei Shujun, 2023)
Films from Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, and Beyond
www.thechinesecinema.com
July 25, 2024 at 6:26 PM
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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.
September 24, 2024 at 1:55 AM
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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."
July 28, 2024 at 3:14 AM
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Films from Philippe Lesage, Andrew Dominik, Mohammad Rasoulof, Wang Bing, and more are among our streaming picks of the week.
New to Streaming: Who by Fire, A Desert, Bono: Stories of Surrender, On Swift Horses & More
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. Bono: Stories of Surrender...
thefilmstage.com
May 30, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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***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,
June 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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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:
Exclusive: The Quay Brothers’ Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass Acquired by KimStim
We're delighted to exclusively announce that KimStim has acquired all North American rights to the Quay Brothers' Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass. A stop-motion/live-action masterpiece insp...
thefilmstage.com
April 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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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

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February 4, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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.
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Watch Ma Mère | Prime Video
Honoré's scandalous second feature returns in this 20th-anniversary restoration. Set in the Canary Islands, promiscuous mother Hélène (Isabelle Huppert), cool and in charge, and her pious Catholic teenage son Pierre (Louis Garrel) are grieving following the death of the family patriarch in a car crash. While mourning, Hélène begins to involve her son in her drug-fueled, sex-filled nights.
www.amazon.com
April 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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@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
Talking about THE FALLNG SKY with Co-Director Eryk Rocha and Shaman Davi Kopenawa
This interview is a long time in coming. The interview was done on a Sunday afternoon in November 2024 before the screening of FALLING SKY...
www.unseenfilms.net
March 31, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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
Join me on April 5th
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March 29, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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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.
“Who by Fire” Is a Brilliant Drama of Male Rage at Its Most Elemental
In Philippe Lesage’s film, several strains of wounded masculinity derail an idyllic retreat in the mountains of Quebec.
www.newyorker.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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-...
“Who by Fire” Is a Brilliant Drama of Male Rage at Its Most Elemental
In Philippe Lesage’s film, several strains of wounded masculinity derail an idyllic retreat in the mountains of Quebec.
www.newyorker.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:56 PM
"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...
‘Who by Fire’ Review: Masculinity and Its Discontents (Gift Article)
Men posture and peacock in the Québecois director Philippe Lesage’s ensemble drama set at an isolated house in a remote forest.
www.nytimes.com
March 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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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
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March 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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
March 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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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...
March 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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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
North American Theatrical Run Of THE FALLING SKY to Open in March
KimStim will present the North American theatrical release of The Falling Sky (A Queda do Céu), the immersive and lyrical Brazilian documentary co-directed by acclaimed documentarian Eryk Rocha (Cinem...
broadwayworld.com
February 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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...
Exclusive Clip: A Wee Bit of Tension in Philippe Lesage's Who by Fire - IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive clip: Philippe Lesage's Who by Fire. Visit IONCINEMA.com for more world cinema news, reviews and interviews!
www.ioncinema.com
February 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM