Notebook
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@mubi's international film publication, exploring all sides of cinema culture—both online and in a biannual magazine.
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"In my film, the Western woman sees things, but not the whole story, not the complete truth. And with only the information she has, she asks herself: Does she believe this woman enough to help her?" Kurdwin Ayub introduces MOON (now streaming on @mubi.) mubi.com/en/notebook/po…
New films by Olivier Assayas, Jim Jarmusch, Pietro Marcello, Lucrecia Martel, Alejo Moguillansky, Park Chan-wook, Laura Poitras, Gianfranco Rosi, Benny Safdie, Shu Qi, Aleksandr Sokurov, Tsai Ming-liang and more will premiere at #Venezia82. Full lineup: variety.com/2025/film/fest…
"For Cloud, I was more interested in focusing on something we have inside of us—say, an insecurity that we can then amplify or multiply through the potentialities of the internet. The internet has many potentials, and one of them is this ability to amplify what’s inside us."…
Next in "The Video Essay," Russell Banfield shares "The Woman in the Yellow Dress" — a homage to Angie Dickinson and a critical commentary on the role of women in genre film and television. mubi.com/en/notebook/po…
HARVEST director Athina Rachel Tsangari sits down with Elissa Suh (@oddbarnacles) to discuss the film’s long gestation, her approach to building this world, the philosophical undercurrents running through it, and more. mubi.com/en/notebook/po…
For @Metrograph, Steve Macfarlane (@dimension__tide) unpacks Paul Vecchiali’s lush melodrama ROSA LA ROSE, FILLE PUBLIQUE, whose new restoration is currently playing in theaters. Discover this week’s essential film finds in the latest Rushes. mubi.com/en/notebook/po…
"The idea was whether it is correct to understand time moving linearly from the past to the future. The past will eventually pass, and the future will come after it...really?" Kohei Igarashi introduces SUPER HAPPY FOREVER. mubi.com/en/notebook/po…
"I would really say this is a film made in exile about exiles and for exiles, whoever doesn't feel like they belong in this world of ours today..." With TO A LAND UNKNOWN playing at @QuadCinema, revisit Mahdi Fleifel in conversation with @csaquinlan. mubi.com/en/notebook/po…
"[Alex Ross] Perry and Pavement are more intuitive than analytical, but seem to share in this idea that telling one finite story is too ridiculous an approach to entertain, that a closed narrative loop could never be “definitive.”" @jennpelly on PAVEMENTS.mubi.com/en/notebook/po…
In a new Soundtrack Mix, Florence Scott-Anderton shares a whirlwind exploration of English artist Chris Cunningham — a Francis Bacon for the rave generation who made unforgettable visuals for Aphex Twin, Björk, and PlayStation. mubi.com/en/notebook/po…
"Amidst a global housing crisis, we live vicariously through the homes we see in movies..." Our annual collaboration with @Filmadrid continues with Susana Bessa's video essay "Houses We Can Own." mubi.com/en/notebook/po…
Forrest Cardamenis (@FCardamenis) writes on "Nuri Bilge Ceylan: Inner Landscapes," a recent exhibition that overlooks the nuances of Ceylan’s art, in which Turkish identity is staged and challenged. mubi.com/en/notebook/po…
"Gradually, Parallel Cinema overturned the industrial hegemony of Bombay, creating centers of production across the country, working in languages other than Hindi. U. R. Ananthamurthy’s Kannada-language Samskara (1970), filmed in Karnataka, paved the way for other filmmakers from…
I wrote about Andrew Ahn’s recent remake of Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet, and the “comedy of green-card marriage,” for @mubinotebook 💍🧧 mubi.com/en/notebook/po…
.@kimhewlow writes on the “comedy of green-card marriage,” a genre that enforces traditional power relations and exposes the fundamental conservatism of institutional marriage. mubi.com/en/notebook/po…
New films by Fabrice Aragno, Abbas Fahdel, Maureen Fazendeiro, Radu Jude, Abdellatif Kechiche, Alexandre Koberidze, Dane Komljen, Julian Radlmaier, Ben Rivers, and more will premiere at @FilmFestLocarno #Locarno78. Full lineup: variety.com/2025/film/glob…
"Like anything I ever do, the starting point is that I love something and I just think, “How can I make something like that?” Oftentimes in narrative filmmaking, you're looking for your version of a story. And in this case I was like, “What is my version of this format?”" Alex…
What is the signficance of Indian Parallel Cinema in film history? Here's the story of the most sustained yet overlooked film movement. @mubi @mubinotebook mubi.com/en/notebook/po…
"For [Daniel] Kremer, [Ted] Kotcheff’s characters are all “looking to get out,” a roll call that includes the hapless traveler in Wake in Fright (1971); the pent-up young cultist of Split Image (1982); the aforementioned Phil Elliott in North Dallas Forty, and yes, John Rambo, a…
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