MUBI (Criterion-affiliated streaming classic, foreign, independent movie site) - c/d, comments, recommendations, etc.

http://mubi.com/home

I joined so I could watch "A Letter To Uncle Boonmee" for $1 but there is a lot of good stuff on here and I know people who have had offers to stream their work on MUBI. What do people think of sites like this as a means of exhibition/distribution?

I am not in any way affiliated with MUBI but I am interested in how people will be screening and watching movies in the coming futures.

Some really good, surprising stuff on there imo

Lots of people gave them shit for changing their name, but it certainly hasn't affected the quality of the website. Really well-designed, lots of valuable information. The Notebook is, quite easily, my favorite website for film news: David Hudson is wonderful at his job.

I worked on this and am really happy with the way the stream looks: http://mubi.com/programs/50

Ha, I found this site the other day looking for ... well, you know.

ive read the notebook for a while now, though havent explored much else of the site. o i think i watched "fat girl" for free here a while back too

Watched an early Desplechin on it a few months back, but nothing since... in the UK, anyway, the list of films available seems a little limited?

i can't find out how much subscriptions cost - is it worth it to have an unlimited subscription vs. paying per film?

heh, i subscribed to this a month ago and didn't watch a single film before my subscription timed out.

haha, the reason i joined was a letter to uncle boonmee, i just didn't watch it.

@sarahel if you click on 'Account' at the top right and then 'Subscription' it should tell you how much a subscription costs in your area.

In the UK a subscription is £12 per month and individual movies are £3 each or a one-off £12 for 5 films, so a subscription is worth it if you plan on watching 6 or more in a month.

looks like the sub is just 9 pounds now, so it becomes worth it if you watch 4 or more a month

the good - beautiful interface; lots of obscure flicks; lots of short films; don't have to subscribe; movies start instantly

the bad - only about 400 films so far, yet their database makes it seem like there's more (for instance, they're doing a promo about agnes varda at the moment, using a still from a movie that's not actually available to see)

- you need to choose "WATCH" to limit our searches to only things that are available

anyway, anybody got any good recs? i haven't heard of most of these movies

(this is available on the PS3 now, by the way, and it looks gorgeous)

I have enough films to watch, so I just read The Notebook (esp since Hudson links Slant all the time).

the notebook is very handy

i made this list of UK-available ones to watch

Despleschin
Miguel Gomes
Nossiter
HONOUR OF THE KNIGHTS (QUIXOTIC)
Love Will Tear Us Apart

the first guy you probably know, the last one is by the DoP of something or other chinese, the others i can't remember why i put them down or who they are

oh yeah the nossiter thing is about french wine?

gomes is a portugese guy, im betting

the other one, idk... albert serra?

Gomes is indeed Portuguese. Our Beloved Month of August is great. The earlier stuff is pretty eh.

they are showing new argentinian stuff gratis this week

Honor Of The Knights is Albert Serra. Enjoy!

Anyone who uses this, how is it going?

Love that it's on the PS3, would join if it was on Wii

This site throws up some interesting things from time to time.

to watch?
i just really read the notebook, which is good

Watched Vampyr this afternoon. It was excellent.

You can become a fan of me now, if you like.

I'm not twisting yr arm or anything,

http://mubi.com/cast_members/140297

Done!

gave you an official film club endorsement, let me know if there are palpable ripples of interest

Trying to watch the Zidane doc right now before it goes away, but buffering issues.

Looking forward to watching the two Philippe Garrels.

Wish they had a mute button for the silents.

resident evil!

i am sort of onboard with this site now

I have a free months I think?

I need to make more time for these things

I took a break for a while need to get back into it.

Also, silents ain't exactly silent since somebody usually tacks orchestral soundtracks onto them.

this sucks that there's no way to watch this on a television in the us that i can find.
maybe apple tv via the ipad? I'll have to buy a membership to find out...

i use my hdmi-bluray cable to connect my computer to my tv. doesn't that work in us?

if i had a computer with a hdmi out, yeah

if i had a computer with a hdmi out, yeah

i use ipad with hdmi, plus changing the aspect ratio. works fine.

you can get an adapter that uses the weird lil - what is it? - svga out?, on your computer? & that transforms to hdmi

apple tv works just fine and I can also download to my pad to watch on the train. watched three films today. Very much hooked.

ooh, they've got diaz's from what is before on. Just need to find a spare 5.5hr

That was screened without an intermission at the Glasgow Film Festival, hope you'll observe the same viewing conditions

haha so I didn't do this

I have 2hr left to watch this 5.5hr film before it goes out of my life forever

I'm too tipsy to concentrate tho

this thing is awesome but i need an easier way to port it to my (american) tv set

ideoatv, this is the most perfect service I have ever known

Today's film in Denmark is The Second Game, the film Corneliu Porumboiu made, consisting of a vhs-copy of a tv-game from 88 with him and his dad talking on top of it. That's arty. Also, it's pretty fun for fans of Porumboiu.

that's today's film everywhere! will watch.

It was fun to watch at a film festival with an audience consisting mainly of football fans. I hope they got something out of it.

sadly my internet connection at home is too slow to reliably stream this, especially if i try to feed it through to my TV. i tried to watch "the strange little cat" that way and it stuttered every minute or so. but Mubi /is/ kind of amazing.

ideoatv, this is the most perfect service I have ever known

"I don't even own a TV"

ha, damn u
i was googling ideaotv obsessively hoping there was an app for tivo or something

excited to watch Kurosawa's The Idiot, love the book & Kurosawa but have never got round to seeing this

I have been told Amazon fire tv will play this in the usa...?

can you chromecast it?

paul thomas anderson's new film junun will premiere on here on the 9th

:O

how cool!

lol

one for the ia thread maybe, got 1hr into diaz's melancholia and the stream started fucking up - sound going out of sync with picture. This has happened before, I know from experience that it will work fine on my tablet but do I want to watch the next 7hr of this film on a 9in screen? it's either that or, realistically, never see this film. v annoying

Laajakangaselokuvana!

Doing a nice run of Argentinian new wave films rn.

In the US two. Haven't watched any yet though

Aargh! Two=too

Watch Eduardo Williams' The Human Surge! I will definitely rewatch. When first I saw it, I didn't really think much of it, but parts of it has stayed with me and I've been thinking more and more about some of the stuff that it did.

The Gold Bug is a pretty great example of how to deal with weird co-production schemes as well. Fun film.

In the US they are all directed by either Mariano Llinás or Alejo Moguillansky.

Intend to see all apart from Extraordinary Stories which is four hours long.

I watched the very beginning of Extraordinary Stories and would have watched more if I had time. Also watched the first two sections of Balnearios which I really enjoyed, but again didn't have time to finish. Would definitely want to see both in the entirety. Probably better to see a four hour movie in a theater though.

Mubi always creeps up on me. I intend to watch another, then finally have to download to phone when something is expiring and I watch as match as I can before it is wiped.

So, good luck to me with the three early Hitchcocks.

Or maybe I can finish watching the early Renoir Whirlpool of Fate that is already expired but still exists on my phone for a few more moments.

thought Cocote was excellent, a really haunting subversion of the filial revenge archetype to look at how religion shapes peoples awareness of their own agency within an urban/rural divide.

https://www.screendaily.com/news/mubi-launches-uk-cinema-ticket-offering-mubi-go-exclusive/5132278.article

A weekly ticket for HOME Manchester and MUBI access? Yaldi

When did this Mubi Rental feature start?

seems kinda like a good idea tbh

see some press from March

Hey, there is a 30 minute Victor Erice short available here: https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/foreplays-15-victor-erice-s-la-morte-rouge

Terrific Hong Sang-soo retro on MUBI, watched three so far..the first two are gone but do catch the others if you haven't

Yeah I’m loving it, and uncharacteristically managing to remember to see them before they drop off - which is more than I can say about their wenders retro, all of which I have missed so far (meaning that I have still never seen a wenders film)

This seems to not be on in the US :(

You have to see Paris Texas wins!

Wenders is ok sometimes but that stuff comes around again and again. The Sang-soo retro is really useful because you hardly get a film of his on a good run.

Having said that I should watch Paris Texas actually.

price gone up on this recently? swear it used to be £60 pa or £8 pcm payg

scribd comes with mubi now? glad i tried out the annual free month again.

that is, you subscribe (or get a free month) to scribd and they give you mubi for free.

I enjoyed the oddly retitled and sweetly mannered "Microhabitat" which just got on the roster so should be there for a bit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMuGBFMCuq8

kinda thinking i will give these kazuhiro soda films a try too
http://www.spectacletheater.com/kazuhiro-soda/

Only seen Inland Sea, but it's pretty great! Jealous it's not on in Denmark, I would try and see them all.

Really dug this Mathieu Amalric film I just watched.

Has anyone checked out Ovid? Collective of small distributors banded together to start a streaming site of their own, it looks like they might be using the same back end as Mubi?

https://ovid.tv/

Amazing doc collection!

Looks great

https://mubi.com/showing/leto

I'm really looking forward to this - timed to coincide with the 29th anniversary of Tsoi's death.

Excellent. Think this was playing at the ICA last week.

https://mubi.com/showing/the-needle

!!!!!!!!!

More Tsoi!

I don't want to rain on anyone's parade, but I thought Leto was a bit so so. The story is fascinating, and I like the mood, but... I think Serebrennikov might just not be such a great filmmaker.

The Needle is pretty good though. And Assa, if they show that as well. That's a crazy film :)

Apparantly, Infinite Football is on there in many territories. Not Denmark. But if it's available, I do recommend it. Best film of 2018, imo.

The Romanian movie? Saw that there, looking forward and to watching, thanks for the recommendation.

now has a constant library. with a lot of lav diaz.

All I see is Night Tide with Dennis Hopper.

Holy fuck.

Oh on the desktop, but not the app.

coming soon apparently

Did you get some kind of notification? I didn't.

I got an email, stating:

«Our LIBRARY is now open.
Today, we open our LIBRARY. A huge, brand new section of MUBI. Full of hundreds of incredible films.

Films you missed the first time we picked them.
Films you can discover all over again.
Films you never even knew existed.

From MUBI specials and retrospectives, to our double-bills and other exclusives.
All hand-picked by us. As always.

LIBRARY is included with a MUBI membership. You can explore right now, on our website. And very soon on our Apple and Android apps.»

Hm. The last email I got from MUBI was about The Last Laugh.

I’m in Europe btw

Right, was wondering about that. Still, I can see some kind of library on my desktop.

xpost
Think USA MUBI differs quite a bit from EURO MUBI

Glad to have a chance to catch-up with some things I missed - some of the Diaz, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, High Life, Bacurau, Jonas Mekas, The Wonders etc

If people haven't seen Serra's Story of My Death, that gets my highest recommendation fwiw

yeah this library helps a lot. Ryuichi Sakamoto's Coda is one of the best things I saw last year.

Okay, the email came about a half hour ago.

When this comes to the app I will be all over it

I did notice that they are charging an additional £2.49 per film for some of the titles in the library - and they have nothing from the Straub-Huillet season (although that appears to have restarted - their Antigone is currently up)

And the announcement is showing up on social media now, ICYMI.

Really want to dig into the Spotlight on India section of the library

Just want to be Ble tomwatch the library section on my TV!

Able to watch, even

Thought was some kind of failed attempt at Create a Super-ILXer!

Hi. Not coming back, just a quick question for work: I can see the Danish film Giraffe is on Mubi in the UK, but I can't figure out if it's on in the US as well. Anyone who can check for me? Also, do watch Giraffe, it was my favorite Danish film of 2019

seems to be on mubi in canada so most likely the states as well, though someone else would have to confirm

I don't subscribe, but it looks like it's there.

https://mubi.com/films/giraffe-2019

PUT THE FUCKING LIBRARY ON THE TV APP FOR FUCK'S SAKE

hope you come back at some point to the film threads Fred

Yes, I'm a Mubi subscriber in the US and I can watch Giraffe. Should I?

it was my favorite Danish film of 2019

D'oh. Missed this – you already answered that question.

PUT THE FUCKING LIBRARY ON THE TV APP FOR FUCK'S SAKE
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, August 10, 2020 12:50 AM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm

also send us email updates when things are added to the library (if they ever are...)

it's been on the TV app, mine anyway, for a few weeks.

WHAT

Not the fire tv app last I looked

It's fire I'm using.

Sounds like the US is getting the shitty end of the stick.

Maybe you have to reinstall the app.

It is on us amazon last i looked

Oh -- I thought you meant Criterion for some reason

library showing on my (samsung) TV app now too. hallelujah

So much good stuff in that library. I see Alain Tanner’s first film just popped up.

Why don't I have the full library? Is this an Apple TV thing?

How do you know you don't have the full library?

how do you know when stuff has been added to the library?

There is a Recently Added category

Fifth from the bottom.

not fifth from the bottom on my page

here's a link though
https://mubi.com/library/specials/recently-added

How do you know you don't have the full library?

I can only see the Now Showing selection on my screen. No different sections, no full library. But I see that some people have suggested re-installing the app, so I'll try that.

Yeah, I only have the 30 time-limited ones on my app, too (LG smart TV)--not yet got the library included.

We reinstalled the app and now we have everything. So many films I will continue to intend to watch but never actually watch.

Oh really I am going to try this.

Do they have Antonio Das Mortes available on it btw?

"This film is not currently playing on MUBI but 30 other great films are. See what’s NOW SHOWING"

I was thinking it might be on this library thing. I watch 7-10 every 30 days.

Not as far as I can tell. I don't really understand the platform or the interface TBH.

I understand the platform just not how you access the library.

In our case, on the Apple TV, we access the library through the pull-down menu at the top of the screen. Where you'd normally find info and subtitles and stuff.

do you get the full mubi offering (including library) via amazon prime video?

looks like you maybe do?

amazon prime is £8 pcm and has a bunch of other benefits, mubi is £10 pcm... what am I missing, beyond amazon being xunts of course

i thought Prime just allowed you to buy a Mubi subscription as an add-on?

yeah i mean they are comically, deliberately, crookedly terrible at telling you what you get for your money but £8 pcm gets your basic Prime Video i think which is basically shit for movies, and then you'd have to pay for a Mubi subscription which you can watch "thru" Prime for some reason

That's how I understand it too.

So you can get Mubi for £7.99 per month via Amazon (rather than £9.99 directly), but you have to have Amazon Prime to do so, which is £7.99 a month itself.

I don't know if the full library is available if you go via Amazon.

ahhhh... thanks. was quite unclear from my cursory 15 minutes of googling

The advantage of having something else other than Mubi is the search function, as far as we can tell. The Mubi interface (on our TV, anyway, I don't know about the web interface) has no search. We have to use the Apple TV's own search to search rather than browse.

I get mubi through my scribd subscription, which is $5/month.

Wow - that does seem like a great loophole, though Scribd seems to cost new subscribers $10 a month. Is Scribd itself good?

I mainly use it for audiobooks. Be warned that it's not actually unlimited -- if I listen to around 3 audiobooks within a month, they lock me out of most audiobooks for the rest of the month.

I threatened to cancel once and they reduced my price permanently.

Ah - that's something Mubi too, with some ridiculous "OK, we blinked first" message when you hit cancel.

The Library seems like a larger selection, rather than the full set of films being available (that would probably be suicide lol).

Anyway, Llanas' Extraordinary Stories is there and I'm going in this week.

llinas rules

On the 30 days I got to watch Hu's Wuxia films for the first time, and Awaara is a pretty good addition to their Indian cinema season. Might re-watch Sicilia, one of the best Straub-Huillet films XP fingers crossed. Really wanted to see the one week screening of La Flor (in three parts). Of course no time.

Apparently I’m in that phase where I like to write about the things I’m watching, so let’s go with it.

Swimming Pool (Ozon) is on at the moment and I watched it again today. I’ve seen it a couple of times already but not for at least 12 years and it’s still a really good watch. People always complain that it’s slow but I have never found it so. Sarah’s first solitary days in the house and wandering around the village struck a real chord with me - I have always been happy being alone and the sense of time and space stretching away from you like that is so freeing. This contrasts of course with how Sarah actually lives her life - Diet Coke and sweetener-enhanced yoghurt, clothes that disguise her entirely, disciplined waking times.

Into all this, of course, crashes Julie. I saw some thread on twitter a while back asking for opinions on “which actor had ever looked the best in a film” and Ludivine Sagnier in this would be up there for me - she’s luminous. Her Julie tosses her unbrushed hair over her shoulders, eats paté and cheese, smokes and drinks and brings men home. Sarah watches, first with anger at the intrusion and then with envy.

If you’ve seen this before then you know how it plays out. I thought, watching it again today, thatthe story that unfolds at the publisher’s house is not just the book that it becomes but the process of writing the book itself. Julie is changeable, and the several scene where a male character is standing gazing down at one of the women reminded me of writing and rewriting a piece to make it right. There are odd turns that don’t quite fit - when you have a scene or an idea that won’t leave you and must put it down immediately with a view to making it fit within the whole. Like when Sarah asks Julie why she did something and she replies “I don’t know,” - it’s Sarah the writer making her character do something because it struck her just so and needing to rationalise it afterwards. Whether any of it happened is not really the point because it’s about what it says it is at the beginning - a writer trying to do something different. Sarah changes because she’s written a book that is a complete inversion from her usual formula and she blossoms as a result. You really do love to see it.
Or so I thought anyway.

I think I've seen it a couple of times but not for about 12 years too. Your post makes me want a rewatch – thanks!

top tip: open a mubi account at the £9.99 a month rate, then cancel your subscription after a few weeks and then they make an improved "please stay" offer of £5.99 a month for a year. Well at least it worked for me tonight.

watched Edward Yang's The Terrorizers last night. Absolutely fantastic, best film I've watched this year

noticed that many of the 30-day films eventually transition into the library section but presumably not all. so it can be a bit hit or miss on whether you absolutely /need/ to watch a film when it's on the now showing feed. would be good if they could add a little marker to show those films which will be added to the library after 30 days

also: can't search on my TV (samsung) app nor add titles to a watch list

I couldn't find the library when I used the MUBI PS4 app on the tv either - it is so annoying I only watch stuff through my pc now.

Still processing Serra's Liberté, which debuted on Euro MUBI yesterday, but was left wondering if the BBFC even has any jurisdiction over this kind of sexually explicit material any longer...

I liked Liberte way more the day after after having thought about it than watching it. I don’t think that’s a knock necessarily, some work just functions that way.

*bump*

Curious about

Wittgenstein Plays Chess with Duchamp or How Not to Do Philosophy

It's lovely.

So sometimes Mubi sends an email that something is leaving soon and then in the app over that film it will say leaving in one week, but then other times it sends the notification email but the app doesn’t seem to say anything until the thing disappears, as seems to have been the case with India Song. What gives?

I watched Ida Lupino's The Hitch-Hiker last night. A decent 50's noir with William Talman putting in a good shift as a beastly psychopath who sleeps with one eye open.

I need to watch that, can't remember if I ever saw it. The last one I saw of hers was The Bigamist, which I would recommend.

https://bamlive.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/program_slide/s3/Lupino_Hitch-Hiker_002.jpg?itok=7Yig2VBK

I will be watching The Bigamist while it's still on there. Talman sports an incredible look in The Hitch-Hiker.

Is it going away soon? Didn’t notice.

I'm not totally sure about MUBI's rotation policy tbh, but they obv don't stream as many as n*****x and stuff does disappear every so often

mubi recently changed how it works, before it was 30 films, one gets removed and another added each day, to them having a library section, which seems to be stuff that is available permanently (or as permanently as anything on a streaming service is) and then the 'film of the day' section which has the 30 films like before (some of which go into the library, some don't)

i would highly recommend 'about some meaningless events' which was added to their library recently and is a genuine 10/10 stone cold masterpiece

Martin Eden showed up at some point recently.

US only it seems

Sorry, this special is not available in your country
Okay, I kind of hate it when I see this.

This is one of the few streaming services where you can use a V1R7U41 PR1V473 N37W0RK to pretend you are in a different land. It has always worked for me, anyway.

I just watched Swimming Pool, reviewed upthread.

Really impressed by Charlotte Rampling's performance as an uptight English person. She really captures the atmosphere and mannerisms of being an uptight rigid person, whilst hating yourself for being so, and the increasing envy of people who are freeing and obviously enjoying themselves more. The general atmosphere of heat and time slowing down in the country were also captured really well and seem very exotic from my current viewpoint.

Have resolved to make more of MUBI. Any more recommendations welcome...

Can strongly recommend Shiva Baby which has just appeared. Great debut film.

Just got an email to watch Drugstore Cowboy before it leaves in seven days.

Swimming Pool leaving (UK) MUBI shortly.

FOTD is Tom Ford’s A Single Man, which I liked quite a bit (not a widely shared view though).

Good news. One of your favourite films, The Giant is now showing.
The Giant
Johannes Nyholm

1) I no longer pay for mubi (I hope!)
2) I have never heard of this film.

In the middle of Sweat, which is pretty good so far.

Wonder if I spoke too soon, turned even darker than I expected.

Wonder whether I should watch Cedric Klapisch, the Lem festival, something else or nothing at all.

Lem festival?

Lem Centennial. Four films:
His Master’s Voice
The (Futurological) Congress
Roly Poly
Maska

The MUBI Podcast is very good - all about films that are huge in a specific country but mostly obscure outside it. Usually also made in that country but not always - there's one about a Mexican melodrama that flopped there but became a huge seller in the Soviet Union!

Irritatingly none of those are available here.

Just watched Chavela, which I recommend.

Might try to go see the new Jane Campion Western during the week and then the Romanian film over the weekend

Okay, completed phase one of this project.

i really would like to be well enough to go see the new Campion in theaters. what did you think?

i got a sub to this to get away from flipping thru the menus of shittier services for hours, but i rarely watch it lol

the last thing i caught was this quasi-horror movie and hfs it was GRIM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_(2012_film)

i tried getting into this but it didn't really stick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_of_Wasseypur

other than that, idk, i got a kick out of those stop-motion 70s hungarian shorts

i really would like to be well enough to go see the new Campion in theaters. what did you think?

that was decent yeah, even though I didn't feel in the mood for Cumberbatch in that type of role, but he does ok.

Very much of a piece with her crime TV work imo.

Had a grand old time having two bros behind me at the cinema chuckling at every instance of homophobic bullying in it.

I was thinking something similar to calzino. Do I actually need to see him in this role? Maybe not. But I’m fine with it. The most interesting performance by far was the boy. Oh and don’t blink or you’ll miss Keith Carradine.

Wow, BC seems to have engaged in some serious Marathon Man-level Method Acting.

I was going a few months there where I wasnt really getting the use out of it but I've seen some great stuff over the last two months

The Nun (Rivette, 1966)
Ponette (Doillon, 1996)
In the Name of Christ (M'Bala, 1993 - strange religious satire from the Ivory Coast)
Mandabi (Sembene, 1968)

MUBI GO is a cheat, cheat, cheat. Instead of the Romanian film they promised it is still the Jane Campion, so not a new film every week. BTW, the JC film is based on a book but not the book of the same title a lot of ILX0Rs like.

Maybe I will, um, go to Lincoln Center on my own dime.

I did watch Die Wand/The Wall before it leaves in five days, which I recommend.

https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/the-current-debate-the-obliqueness-of-campion-s-the-power-of-the-dog

I kind of am curious about the novel The Power of the Dog. I assume much stuff that is cryptic or murky in the movie is made more explicit, although Wikipedia has a summary with some spoilers that seems to indicate some different action from the film.

MUBI GO fixed the glitch. I’m in!

Enjoyed Microhabitat - Jeon Go-woon’s debut film. One of the user reviews compared it to Frances Ha - and it is an interesting thought.

weird how two of the three movies I watched because they expiring from MUBI ended up on Tubi.

Looking forward to AZOR this weekend.

Enjoyed Microhabitat - Jeon Go-woon’s debut film. One of the user reviews compared it to Frances Ha - and it is an interesting thought.

― Luna Schlosser, zondag 28 november 2021 1:12 (four days ago)

One thing: seems to me they used to give advance notice which films were coming in a series but now they are often more cagey, so Pierrot le fou but then what.

Thought about going to see The Hand of God yesterday but didn't. Maybe next week.

Went today. Not sure how I feel about it.

I saw it this weekend, and was rather annoyed. But I knew going in it was another specimen of film industry navel-gazing.

Enjoyed this week’s selection.

Featuring a real virtuoso performance and not just scenery-chewing like three weeks ago.

But I somehow managed to avoid Léa Seydoux up until now so maybe I am easily impressed.

And the hits keep coming

Just got an alert about some Jacques Demy shorts expiring.

Azor is a very good period movie set in the Pinochet era. Swiss banker and his wife following a colleague who disappeared. It's a horror movie in places.

Yeah. That’s been on my list for a while/pvmic

It's a very good film indeed.

it's look and eerie mood sort of reminded me a bit of Il Divo, particularly that ungodly Monsignor character.

One thing I don't understand: They seem to own the distribution and streaming rights for Benedetta in the US as well as the UK, but one can't actually stream it through MUBI US. At some point there were some some things you could pay for outside of your regular membership but I don't see that anymore.

Maybe the don't own US rights, onliy UK.

In any case maybe watching Ms. 45 would be a good substitute.

IFC has the US rights. Wikipedia sentence is a little confusing: "That same month, MUBI and IFC Films acquired the distribution rights to the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the United States respectively."

Or maybe fragment of sentence that showed up in search was confusing.

Also keep seeing them talk about The Worst Person in the the World, no idea when I can see it in the US.

Oh wait, it's playing at Film at Lincoln Center. Not sure I can get over there anytime soon but it's a possibility.

Was blown away by the new film Zero Fucks Given, starring Adèle Exarchopoulos. The first half brilliantly conveys the ruthless regime of working on budget airlines mixed with the vapid and dreary 'luxury' leisure time in holiday resorts. The second half gets below the surface. A really outstanding performance.

Oh yeah. Saw that pop up in the queue and was intrigued. Also may have used my MUBI GO today. More later.

ZFG looks good but how come in English, where’s the V.O.? Maybe they shot two at the same time like in old days or maybe it’s actually just the way they did it.

Oh, Adèle E was also in Sibyl which I quite liked, with Virginie Efira, although I still haven’t seen Benedetta.

I watched ZFG in French with English subtitles. Definitely what I’d recommend as her voice is an integral part of the performance. (If I’ve understood the issue correctly)

In the US it seems to be an English-only version. She seems to be doing her on dialogue, it is not dubbed, but still.

Maybe I will ask them. They seem to respond to their Instagram.

Message sent. Let's see how this plays out.

Ahed’s Knee is what I saw in the theater. Really well done. Think I will finally get around to streaming his other stuff, especially since Synonyms just showed up on Criterion.

MUBI USA responded to my query!

They reminded me that it was in English AND French.

Anyway, this may be a good follow-up to having binge-watched The Flight Attendant on HBO Max.

Good selection today on MUBI USA. About to dive into ZFG now.

ZFG exactly as you described it, thanks for the tip!

Saw THE GIRL AND THE SPIDER last night with MUBI GO. Catch it if you can.

And this week WE'RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR. Kind of a Noize Board Blair Witch Project. Very interesting.

One of the main characters almost has the same moniker as an ILX0r.

Christian Petzold and Delphine Seyrig leaving MUBI US at the end of this month.

This week’s GO selection was fine.

THE TALE OF KING CRAB

This week’s MUBI GO US really good, HIT THE ROAD

Directed by Panah Panahi, son of Jafar.

Probably the best one yet, and that's saying something.

Hmm, updating the MUBI app messed up some of my downloads. No real worries though.

Sorry, this special is not available in your country

Had to update a few more times. Hopefully the download problem is finally fixed.

Also went to see THE TSUGUA DIARIES courtesy of MUBI GO and it totally lived up to its billing.

Think I saw Peter Guralnick walking around Lincoln Center but didn’t have time to chase him down.

Kind of the BETRAYAL or MEMENTO version of THE QUINCE TREE SUN.

https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/the-possible-cinema-a-conversation-with-maureen-fazendeiro-and-miguel-gomes

This new Spanish twenty minute take on The Tempest that just arrived on MUBI US, SYCORAX, looks great.

Said Spanish, but lots of people speaking Portuguese.

Think the directors and star are Argentine and it is shot in Portugal or something.

Lost my free MUBI access, thanks for nothing Scribd, you fucks

Wait, what?

Scribd subs used to include free MUBI subs as a bonus, but no more.

Oh, sorry

My life is a Shakespearean tragedy etc etc

usw usw usw

Really enjoyed last week’s MUBI GO selection, LOST ILLUSIONS. This week’s, CHA CHA REAL SMOOTH, also just popped up on Apple TV+.

The 2014 documentary Life Itself about Roger Ebert with the same title as his memoir that is about to leave but will still be available on Tubi is amazing.

Glad I watched MARTIN EDEN before it left.

Just went to the latest MUBI GO US offering. Still processing. Will report back tomorrow.

the new park chan wook? I'm thinking about going tomorrow

Yes. At the Angelika.

I guess you can still go to the Nitehawk Williamsburg.

What will tomorrow’s film be? They still aren’t saying.

they're holding over Decision to Leave, which is good because i didn't see it!

i'm walking distance from Nitehawk Prospect, a half hour from BAM, and at Lincoln Center often so lots of options.

Was wondering. Think they did they same with Blonde or Marilyn or whatever it’s called.

Hmm. Since they held it over I think I can just use MUBI GO to see it again.

going thursday. think i talked the guy who i went to a show with tonight into joining mubi so i can have another mubi buddy

Headed back!

:)

JRB, we should probably connect as mubi buddies

Sure. Can we do that? Maybe we actually passed by criss-cross this evening, we’ve never met in person.

By which I meant is that a thing within MUBI. In any case, I can contact you through social media.

yeah, hit me up and let's see something! i dunno about the next week's film, i'm dubious after the times review.

Okay, sure. I might go to see this one just for the foreign language angle.

Some of the cast was also in Tehran Taboo, which I still need to watch.

Similar sort of expat film about Iranian demimonde or whatever you want to call it.

they're holding over Decision to Leave, which is good because i didn't see it!

― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Friday, October 21, 2022 2:28 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

I saw this last night. It's an interesting neonoir, but I continue to wish that most 2+-hour movies be taken out of their directors' hands and be edited down to 90 minutes. And I remain unconvinced that Mubi US is worth the subscription.

Think I mentioned on the Park Chan-Wook thread that I didn’t mind the length upon second viewing, which is saying something.

This week’s offering, Holy Spider, is not for everyone. At first blush it may seem like a grisly true crime fictionalization masquerading as social commentary, but after pondering it for a few days maybe I liked it after all and maybe it did add to that small body of films that take place in Iran but are made outside of Iran by expats and can show things that cannot be filmed in country.

Is that the one where the actress, upon winning at Cannes, delivered a 17-minute speech?

Dunno but I will agree that it's quite a good film that lingers in the memory; caught a screening at the local Alamo the other week.

Can't find the acceptance speech, did find a press conference.

Hah, I guess it was a comparatively brisk 6 minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSaNZRcaQ7g

My one major beef with MUBI is some download weirdness.

Le Bao's Taste is very strange. It has arresting images but is inscrutable. There is almost no dialogue or explanation of events. It is a step further removed from Pedro Costa in that it shows an oppressed environment but it doesn't offer any context

So next week’s NYC GO offering is MEET ME IN THE BATHROOM? Don’t know how I feel about that. Also just a notice that WIFE OF A SPY is leaving soon but no sign of when.

Hmm.. Don't see WIFE OF A SPY here, which is usually the best way to see what's leaving. https://mubi.com/specials/leaving-soon

Restored & remastered riget incoming

All episodes of Lars von Trier’s (Melancholia, Nymphomaniac) classic original 90s series THE KINGDOM I stream in never-seen-before versions from this Sunday, followed by THE KINGDOM II on November 20.

THE KINGDOM EXODUS, a brand new limited event series, premieres weekly from November 27. A MUBI Release.

Don’t I know it.

MUBI hype injection into the James Redd cranial pleasuredome almost as intense with this as with DECISION TO LEAVE.

oy @ meet me in the bathroom; i didn't want to be part of that clique while it was happening, wtf do i wanna watch the movie of them

Kingdom on the other hand

I feel exactly the same although I may go see the first thing anyway just because, just because…because I still have a krush0r on Karen O from the time I saw her hanging around MoMA downstairs when Spike Jonze interviewed Maurice Sendak? Or was it the other way around? I mean interview-wise.

In any case I prefer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3z8nGVkQ-8

The ground underneath the Kingdom is an old swamp.

Hmm, I got an alert about THE KINGDOM but I guess I still have to wait a few hours.

Ran over to see Netflix’s WHITE NOISE at the Angelika at the last minute yesterday, sorry forks for not letting you know.

Was it any good? I kinda hate Baumbach’s whole steez

Thought it was really, good but I usually like his stuff.

Recent reviews on this have been a bit of an about-face from its initial TIFF/NYFF buzz

I hadn't read anything in advance. I didn't really even know who was in it except for the couple. When I blinked and figured out who was playing the nun I almost laughed.

Which experience A.O. Scott would have spoiled for me.

Likely gonna see Nanny on Tuesday night at IFC at an open captioned screening as that's what my schedule allows. "Horror-version of Sembene's Black Girl" is of interest to me.

With MUBI GO? Seems like not too many showings available.

Yeah. I wanted to go Monday but my MUBI buddy wasn't available so we pushed to the subtitles. Looks like IFC is just running this for awards season qualification which is a surprise given the substantial hype surrounding it.

ended up paying for this again because I fancied a Chan-Wook weekend. I re-watched Thirst which I've always liked (it seemed far funnier in parts than I noticed the first time) and watched Joint Security Area which is all over the place but basically v good.

DECISION TO LEAVE streaming premiere party in NYC in a half hour but I won’t be able to make it unfortunately.

It’s at https://posteritati.com/

Maybe one of you can go and pretend you are James Redd.

Nanny wasn't good btw! needed significantly more time in the oven.

RIP, Mike Hodges. May be time to re-watch CROUPIER.

Had a “your MUBI retrospective 2022” email, which informs me that I watched 14 films in 2022 - placing which me in the top 21% of MUBI users.

I wonder how much use the average subscriber makes of it.

Good question. I feel like maybe it undercounts somehow, like if you didn’t watch something to the very end it’s not in there?

l definitely didn't complete all of the films listed. I think I only saw 11 films in full.

Any streamer is more likely to do the opposite for their metrics: if you watched just a little bit it counts.

Wondering why pip doesn’t seem to work on my phone app anymore or if it ever worked and I am misremembering.

You mean this?

Heh, no. Picture in Picture.

CAIRO CONSPIRACY had me on the edge of my seat the whole time.

Guess I should watch his other one, THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT

really! It didn't look of much interest. You recommend?

Yeah, but's it's kind of up my alley, not yours I don't think. Middle Eastern things shot in other countries. See also HOLY SPIDER and Apple TV+'s TEHRAN (the first season anyway).

hm, yeah i dunno. i should deffo watch holy spider.

Holy Spider is very good indeed.

Forks, you passed on HOLY SPIDER earlier when you had the chance iirc

not so much passed, still have it on plex. just gettin in where its fittin in!

So, um, MUBI GO is starting to be a premium and the number of screenings this week is kind of limited. I think I may still keep it though.

From the current crop of Leaving In 3 Days I think my first pick for myself might be THE APPLE, by Samira Makhmalbaf.

It's a great film.

Thanks. Started.

i paid for the yearly mubi go so i should be okay through next year.
don't think i have the interest/stomach/self-hatred to see irreversible straight cut tho'.

Ha! Same pretty much. Did you go to last week's offering?

i actually got a membership at IFC and have been hitting it pretty hard. Gonna be going to a few of these this week:
https://www.ifccenter.com/series/aca-cinema-project-2023

seen at IFC in the past week: Baby Ruby, Godland, House Made of Splinters, I'm Thinking About Ending Things

Hmm.

three of em were good!

Is that membership expensive?

I feel like I should restart my Film Forum membership at some point.

Man MUBI is pushing this week's film almost as hard as DECISION TO LEAVE.

it's not cheap but it amortizes quickly if you get good use out of it

I gather you are a Cineaste?

May I say that the non-parallelism of the Carpenters t-shirt on sale at the concession kind of bothers me?

I'm a mogul. And I own that Carpenters shirt!
http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0640/9215/products/carpenterxt_grande.jpg

Note to self: All the Satyajit Ray's expiring from MUBI at midnight PST are on Criterion. Some that already expired are nowhere to be found in legit streaming.

Took them up on their recommendation to watch MODERN ROMANCE on Valentine's Day and didn't regret it.

Rewatched Ali: Fear Eats the Soul on Mubi last night and that was a perfect VD choice.

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mubiusa Today is your last chance to see IRREVERSIBLE - STRAIGHT CUT (Gaspar Noé, 2023) in theaters, free with MUBI GO at the link in our bio.

Sorry, mubiusa and MUBI GO, think I will pass on this, although the video of Monica B dancing in the shiny gold dress is nice.

yeah zero desire to ever watch that movie again

it's fucking wretched. Whatever's Noe's parents spent on the private Catholic school he went to didn't help whatsoever in his development.

i'm okay skipping it based on what i know of it and the last three posts help reinforce that impulse.
I would like to see Pacifiction but it's a busy week and THREE HOURS dude c'mon

Same

three hours starting at 730 in the upper east side no less

Did they relocate the Walter Reade Theater to the Upper East Side?

Trying to make the 1PM show. Wish me luck!

why did i say upper east? "upper west"
lemme know if it's worth the trek!

Just got out into the light. My eyes are still adjusting.

Verdict: worth the trek

score!

Feel like for the ones that are longer and at inconvenient times weekends are best if possible.

Anyway the vibe, the aura and the look of this are incredible and there are a couple of amazing performances.

Picture in Picture starting working again when I updated my iOS.

now in UK and Irish cinemas. Streaming exclusively from June 16 in the UK, Ireland, Turkey and India. A MUBI Release.

Finally watched WIFE OF A SPY. Really good.

This week’s MUBI GO selection, wow.

Robinson in Space is sort of glumly magical ... and REAL. great stuff

I keep watching this trio of Patrick Keiller docs: Robinson in Ruins/in Space and London (Ruins narrated by Vanessa Redgrave). I still have little idea who Robinson was, but I like him a lot.

he was imprisoned for some reason I didn't pick up on in the docs and he believed he could look into the future by looking hard at the "molecular basis of historical events" in the locations they occurred or something like that. He was obv a fantastic bloke!

Those films are so great. Not sure I've ever actually seen Robinson in Space, having said that. The novel by Chris Petit is really good too.

I've made that sound like they're intentionally related when the relationship is more, uh, tangential but the echoes are there.

Pretty happy with MUBI GO these days.

Last week CRIMSON, this week REVOIR PARIS.

Franz Rogowski and Adèle Exarchopoulos is about as MUBI as casting could get.

Reasonably certain Passages will end up my favorite movie of the year in the end

just noticed that there is watch history on mubi and these are movies i would totally watch again/i really liked:

Lucky Chan-Sil
Styx
The Guardians
Sweetgrass
Of Horses And Men
Fourteen
Air Conditioner
Esther Kahn
Gritt
24 City
Once Upon A Time In Anatolia
America As Seen By A Frenchman
Azor

most WTF uhhhhhhhhhhhh award obviously goes to The Trouble With Being Born. don't think i need to see that again though...

(least favorite white savior movie about bongo drums: The Visitor.)

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is wonderful. Nuri Bilge Ceylan is one of today’s top 10 directors

Azor was my favorite 2021 movie. Even thinking about it now is giving me a bit of the creeps.

yes there are parts of that movie that evoke a rare sense of dread, it's top notch

Saw AMANDA last night with MUBI GO. Pretty good.

New collection here looks choice:

https://mubi.com/en/us/collections/spectacle-everyday

Beloved by Latin American audiences—and renowned auteurs such as Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo del Toro—the Golden Age of Mexican cinema is filled with treasures beyond a cinephile’s wildest dreams. Ushering in a monumentally prolific era of master filmmakers and unforgettable screen stars, these exquisite tales ingeniously reimagine the visual aesthetics of classical Hollywood through the distinctive lens of local culture and history. Pressing issues such as wealth inequality and gender roles are among their primary concerns, yet many of the most notable films from this period also have a penchant for the surreal, the fantastical, and the pleasurably strange. Immortalized on screen are not only political revolutionaries but also luchadores, witches, superheroes, and more.

Here, fiery passions can lead to more than a clandestine love affair; they can result in murder or villainous plans for world domination! With melodrama as the key mode of expression, the mirror of everyday realism is shattered, revealing the volatile depths of human desire. Curated in partnership with the Locarno Festival, this selection delivers a taste of their exceptional retrospective of Mexican film production, which includes never-before-seen works. Erasing the simplistic binary between so-called highbrow and lowbrow entertainment, these rediscovered gems, which span three decades, showcase the potency of popular cinema as a vessel for both social commentary and genre delights.

Five up now and hopefully more to follow.

Be still my beating heart.

Streetwalker looks awesome

Just want to say Azor was monumental, incredible movie

^Pretty good. Also dovetailed with my recent rock nacional studies.

yeah it's brilliant, one of the best movies of recent times imo

I assumed y’all watched the interview at the end.

My t0rr3nt didn't have one :(

There's something mystical about it, it locks you into this sickening dream

One of the best endings in a long time too

otm

it's sort of like The Third Man in its plot structure, but no snappy dialogue or safe characters and more like a mundane nightmare where you you sense there is a murky undercurrent of bad shit happening way scarier than the obvious ordinary everyday evil you see glimpses of and try to normalise.

OTM. It's more than tyres and petrol, Old Man.

Indeed to all the above -- a remarkable and unsettling film.

Watched four of those five (so far) Mexican showcase films I posted about earlier -- all great in their own ways!

"Your father was right - fear makes you mediocre" is up there with coldest putdowns in the history of cinema

Is it just me or is MUBI not updating with a new movie everyday anymore?

yes, they sent a circular to me via email a couple weeks ago suggesting there wouldn't be a daily movie anymore. not sure if that's impacted the number of overall films added, I've not really been super active on it recently

just came to ask about that. I really preferred the old structure - gave you a reason to check in every day plus provided some impetus to watch things which were due to drop off (and presumably helped them license some films - on a short term basis - they may otherwise struggle to.)

THE SWEET EAST is intense.

Had a snafu with MUBI GO last week but this week it seems to have worked fine mostly, although they QR reading is broken so they have to type in the code manually.

Anyway, saw THE PROMISED LAND/BASTARDEN at the Angelika yesterday and it lived up to its billing.

i really enjoyed Topology of Sirens - kind of Reichardt-y (very similar color palette and pace to Showing Up, but without the emotional core or character development), lots of experimental music (Sarah Davachi and Matchess act and perform in the movie), sometimes has the vibes of those videos where people play their expensive synthesizers in a very curated room with lots of plants, but it's also a mystery.

some of that reads like a backhanded compliment but it really was a pleasant way to spend an hour and a half - it looks really nice and has good music and sounds

https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/an-enfant-terrible-in-terrible-times-radu-jude-discusses-do-not-expect-too-much-from-the-end-of-the-world

Lol!

About to watch it.

I quite loved it (and hated it simultaneously)

Because it never got even a cursory release here, I'm going to count it as a 2024 film (the NYT didn't review it until March).

The final extended sequence is ok - but overall this film really tested the limits of my patience, and I could never sit through it again.

Oh, it's definitely a "great, wonderful, timely, important, masterpiece" movie I won't ever see again, probably

Poor little flower.

Everything but the hounds nipping at moviegoers' rear end

70% off for 6 months deal going on right now, in the UK at least

have done it. I only use them during their deals or when they offer it half price when I'm cancelling subscription. The thing I like about Mubi is that you can actually cancel anytime, without any fucking about.

Alfred left us hanging from May awaiting a review of "Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World".

Lol

I need to rewatch sometime

Or watch a few more of his

Try THE SUBSTANCE.

I just came back from seeing it. Blimey. It was so fun to overhear people chatting ad they came out the cinema, it was like they'd been on a rollercoaster rather than seeing a film. Should it have its own thread?

i just watched Revenge which i posted about on my expert movie thread. wl def strm Th Sub wn it strms.

THE SUBSTANCE rocks

I hated The Substance. as subtle as a hammer to the jaw— i don’t appreciate films that drive their “lessons” home and treat the audience like a bunch of middle schoolers. awful film.

I watched Gasoline Rainbow last night, and it was incredible— a lovely film
about growing up, friendship, and being different.

'Moving' by Shinji Sōmai is a must-see, if it's on your local MUBI site. Saw it yesterday, amazing mix of children's story about parents getting divorced, and something much darker and more mysterious. With a camera that seems much inspired by Mizoguchi, but much more playful and warm. The last sequence during the credits is especially unique.

Unsubscribed after seeing the Sequoia capital investment stuff.