Watch

Daily Stream: Wex virtual screenings as of May 1

Melissa Starker, Creative Content & PR Manager

May 01, 2020

Chris Cooper and Rosalind Chao in a scene from Nancy Kelly's film Thousand Pieces of Gold

Lots of options for your home movie watching this week, from a New Wave classic to a rediscovered Indie treasure, to the latest online presentation Out of The Box. Every ticket you buy through our indie distribution partners helps support the Wex.

Premiering today: Band of Outsiders

Anna Karina in a scene from Jean-Luc Godard's film Band of Outsiders

Image courtesy of Film Movement

"Godard’s style, with its nonchalance about the fates of the characters—a style drawn from American movies and refined to an intellectual edge in post-war French philosophy and attitudes—is an American teenager’s ideal. To be hard and cool as a movie gangster yet not stupid or gross like a gangster—that’s the cool grace of the privileged, smart young."—Pauline Kael

More about the film

Buy your ticket.

 

Premiering today: Thousand Pieces of Gold

Chris Cooper and Rosalind Chao in Nancy Kelly's film Thousand Pieces of Gold

Image above and at top of page courtesy of IndieCollect

"After Thousand Pieces of Gold was released, I got extraordinary reviews from critics, some of whom compared my talent to that of John Ford. My agent set up many many meetings, but I became a victim of prejudice. One producer bluntly told me, 'You are a good director, too bad you’re a woman.'”—filmmaker Nancy Kelly

New restoration!

More about the film

Buy your ticket.

 

Premiering today: What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

Archive photo of film critic Pauline Kael on a talk show panel with actor Tony Randall

Image courtesy of Juno Films

"It’s a spirited, engaging celebration of not only [critic Pauline] Kael, but of film itself as a source of entertainment, inspiration and discussion."—Maddwolf.com

More about the film

Buy your ticket.

 

Out of The Box for May: Liza Johnson, In the Air

A teenage circus performer rehearses a trapeze act in a scene for Liza Johnson's In The Air

Image courtesy of the filmmaker

"Equal parts High School Musical and Gus van Sant... In the Air leaves the emotions, just as the title promised, deliciously suspended."—cultural historian Tavia Nyongo

Watch it here for free through May 31.

 

Ends tomorrow! 2020 Ohio Shorts

A little boy in a Spider-Man costume lies facing the camera on a stretch of grass in the short film Blink of an Eye by Ohio filmmaker Maya Neyman

From Blink of an Eye, courtesy of the filmmaker

"This was a story that I had been trying to tell for a while, but I couldn’t figure out quite how to tell it. And I felt like I finally was able to tell it, and finally, I could share my voice.”—Blink of an Eye filmmaker (and Audience Choice Award winner) Maya Neyman in The Lantern

See the program listings and watch the films here.

 

Holding: Beyond the Visible: Hilma Af Klint

A scene from Beyond the Visible: Hilma Af Klint

Image courtesy of Zeitgeist Films

"It's an eloquent contribution to af Klint's rediscovery, which began four decades after her 1944 death. It's also a cogent argument for why that rediscovery impels nothing less than a rewriting of art history."—Hollywood Reporter

More about the film

Buy your ticket.

 

Holding: Pahokee

A black man kisses the small child he's holding up in his hands in a scene from the documentary Pakokee

Image courtesy of Monument Releasing

"A documentary full of hope, life and beauty in a place mostly known for its struggles."—Remezcla

More about the film

Buy your ticket.

 

Holding: Rififi

A scene from Jules Dassin's film noir classic Rififi

Image courtesy of Film Movement

Holding: Sátántangó

A scene from the Bela Tarr film Satantango

Image courtesy of Arbelos Films

"Sátántangó has cast its spell on cineastes as varied as the late Susan Sontag and the rejuvenated Gus Van Sant. If you have a day to devote to it, the same might happen to you."—J. Hoberman

More about the film

Buy your ticket.

 

Also holding

Scene from the film Cane River

From Cane River, courtesy of Oscilloscope Labs