Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSPoor Things.The 80th Venice Film Festival concluded last weekend. The jury, chaired by Damien Chazelle, awarded the Golden Lion to Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest, Poor Things; in his latest dispatch, Leonardo Goi calls it "joltingly alive, a film that crackles with the same restless curiosity and lust of its protagonist." See a summary of all the awards, plus a roundup of our coverage.San Sebastian Film Festival has announced who will serve on their festival juries for their 71st edition: Claire Denis will be the president for the Official Section, while Hayao Miyazaki will receive an honorary award for career achievement. His latest film, The Boy and The Heron, will open the festival.Recommended VIEWINGFor their 50th anniversary, the Film Fest Gent have commissioned 25 new short films inspired by new musical compositions. There's...
- 9/16/2023
- MUBI
Mubi has announced its lineup of streaming offerings for September, including the exclusive streaming premieres for Rebecca Zlotowski’s Other People’s Children; and Lola Quivoron’s Rodeo; and Rotting in the Sun by Sebastián Silva, whose work is highlighted in a series that also includes The Maid, Life Kills Me, and Nasty Baby.
Additional selections include a mini-retro of last year’s TIFF (Pacifiction and the newest film by Sophy Romvari among them), 10 by Pedro Almodóvar, and David Lynch’s rare 1988 short The Cowboy and the Frenchman, starring Harry Dean Stanton and Jack Nance.
Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
September 1
Volver, directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Matador, directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Dark Habits, directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Law of Desire, directed by Pedro Almodóvar
High Heels, directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Kika, directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Live Flesh,...
Additional selections include a mini-retro of last year’s TIFF (Pacifiction and the newest film by Sophy Romvari among them), 10 by Pedro Almodóvar, and David Lynch’s rare 1988 short The Cowboy and the Frenchman, starring Harry Dean Stanton and Jack Nance.
Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
September 1
Volver, directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Matador, directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Dark Habits, directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Law of Desire, directed by Pedro Almodóvar
High Heels, directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Kika, directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Live Flesh,...
- 8/31/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSConann.The lineup for the 76th Locarno Film Festival is now online, and it includes new films from Radu Jude, Eduardo Williams, Bertrand Mandico (a feature and two shorts), Leonor Teles, Lav Diaz, and Denis Côté, plus many more. The festival runs from August 2 through 12.Following Barbie, which releases later this month, Greta Gerwig will next direct two Chronicles of Narnia adaptations for Netflix. This news comes as a side detail in a wide-reaching New Yorker piece on Mattel Films by Alex Barasch, which details the toy company’s plans to develop more than 45 films using its properties, including a Hot Wheels film by J.J. Abrams and a Daniel Kaluuya-led, "surrealistic" reboot of the children's show Barney.REMEMBERINGThe great comic actor Alan Arkin died last week at age 89. For the New York Times,...
- 7/5/2023
- MUBI
TÁR (Todd Field).VENICEAwardsTop 10: Leonardo Goi1. Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella)2. No Bears (Jafar Panahi)3. The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg)4. Saint Omer (Alice Diop)5. The Kiev Trial (Sergei Loznitsa)6. Master Gardener (Paul Schrader)7. Blonde (Andrew Dominik)8. A Couple (Frederick Wiseman)9. Athena (Romain Gavras)10. TÁR (Todd Field)Coverageby Leonardo GoiDispatch 1: White Noise (Noah Baumbach), Bardo (or a False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths) (Alejandro González Iñárritu), TÁR (Todd Field)Dispatch 2: A Couple (Frederick Wiseman), Athena (Romain Gavras), Argentina, 1985 (Santiago Mitre)Dispatch 3: Master Gardener (Paul Schrader), The Whale (Darren Aronofsky), The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg)Dispatch 4: The Kiev Trial (Sergei Loznitsa), Saint Omer (Alice Diop), Blonde (Andrew Dominik)Dispatch 5: No Bears (Jafar Panahi), Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella)TORONTOTop 10: Daniel Kasman (Unranked)All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)Eventide (Sharon Lockhart)The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg)F1ghting Looks Different 2 Me Now (Fox Maxy)How...
- 9/30/2022
- MUBI
While we’re in the middle of the fall festival season, with Telluride, Venice, and TIFF in the rearview, and NYFF, BFI London, and AFI Fest on the horizon, it’s time to round up some of our early favorites. We’ve polled our contributors from Venice and TIFF to share their top picks, which one can see below along with our ongoing coverage here.
David Katz (@davidfabiankatz)
1. Saint Omer (Alice Diop)
2. Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella)
3. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
4. Master Gardener (Paul Schrader)
5. The Whale (Darren Aronofsky)
6. Love Life (Kôji Fukada)
7. Blonde (Andrew Dominik)
8. A Couple (Frederick Wiseman)
9. In Viaggio (Gianfranco Rosi)
10. The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg)
Luke Hicks (@lou_kicks)
1. Bones and All (Luca Guadagnino)
2. Other People’s Children (Rebecca Zlotowski)
3. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
4. The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg)
5. Athena (Romain Gavras)
6. White Noise (Noah Baumbach)
7. The Banshees of Inisherin...
David Katz (@davidfabiankatz)
1. Saint Omer (Alice Diop)
2. Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella)
3. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
4. Master Gardener (Paul Schrader)
5. The Whale (Darren Aronofsky)
6. Love Life (Kôji Fukada)
7. Blonde (Andrew Dominik)
8. A Couple (Frederick Wiseman)
9. In Viaggio (Gianfranco Rosi)
10. The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg)
Luke Hicks (@lou_kicks)
1. Bones and All (Luca Guadagnino)
2. Other People’s Children (Rebecca Zlotowski)
3. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
4. The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg)
5. Athena (Romain Gavras)
6. White Noise (Noah Baumbach)
7. The Banshees of Inisherin...
- 9/21/2022
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Last year the The Globe & Mail released an article entitled "What is Wrong with the Canadian Film Industry?" that outlined the problems facing our country’s cinema: low box-office numbers, a crisis of English-Canadian identity, an inability to compete with Hollywood entertainments etc., etc. Focused entirely on the industry, the piece fails to mention the resurgence that had been taking root for quite some time. 2015 was an important year for Canadian cinema, but while Room, Hyena Road and Wet Bum ate up the article’s word count, three of the year’s great Canadian films by emerging directors went unnoticed: Isiah Medina’s 88:88, Kurt Walker’s Hit 2 Pass, and Kazik Radwanski’s How Heavy This Hammer. Equating cinema with ‘content,’ a product to be bought and sold, the article is as much a reflection of the problems with Canadian cinema as an exposition of it. But this insidious...
- 11/29/2016
- MUBI
Rushes collects news, articles, images, videos and more for a weekly roundup of essential items from the world of film.News Jan Němec, the Czech director of Diamonds of the Night (1964), has died. Keyframe has an overview of his work. Above: the Czech poster for Němec's 1966 film, A Report on the Party and the Guests, via Adrian Curry's blog Movie Poster of the Day.Speculation around the 2016 Cannes Film Festival selection is raging, but Variety is pretty sure it will include several new American films, including new movies directed by Sean Penn, Woody Allen and Jeff Nichols.The Criterion Collection has announced its next lineup of releases, which includes Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Olivier Assayas's Clouds of Sils Maria, and Michelangelo Antonionio's Le amiche.New issues of Cinema Scope and Senses of Cinema are out. Yes,...
- 3/23/2016
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Kon Ichikawa (The Burmese Harp, Fires on the Plain, Tokyo Olympiad) was born 100 years ago today. Also in today's roundup: Melissa Anderson remembers Chantal Akerman, André Bazin and Jean Renoir on television, Girish Shambu on Gina Teleroli's Here's to the Future! and Kurt Walker's Hit 2 Pass, J. Hoberman on Robert Aldrich's Emperor of the North and Nicholas Ray's Wind Across the Everglades, a roundup on Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense, Laurie Anderson on Fresh Air, independent Chinese cinema in San Francisco, Soon-Mi Yoo's Songs from the North in Los Angeles, plus news of an animated feature from Edgar Wright and the latest on that sequel to Trainspotting. » - David Hudson...
- 11/20/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Kon Ichikawa (The Burmese Harp, Fires on the Plain, Tokyo Olympiad) was born 100 years ago today. Also in today's roundup: Melissa Anderson remembers Chantal Akerman, André Bazin and Jean Renoir on television, Girish Shambu on Gina Teleroli's Here's to the Future! and Kurt Walker's Hit 2 Pass, J. Hoberman on Robert Aldrich's Emperor of the North and Nicholas Ray's Wind Across the Everglades, a roundup on Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense, Laurie Anderson on Fresh Air, independent Chinese cinema in San Francisco, Soon-Mi Yoo's Songs from the North in Los Angeles, plus news of an animated feature from Edgar Wright and the latest on that sequel to Trainspotting. » - David Hudson...
- 11/20/2015
- Keyframe
Luke McKernan presents a quick guide to a site devoted to Auguste and Louis Lumière, widely considered the world's first filmmakers. Also in today's roundup: A tribute to Chantal Akerman, appreciations of Richard Brooks's In Cold Blood, Kurt Walker's Hit 2 Pass and Gina Telaroli's Here's to the Future!, the Hollywood Reporter's actress roundtable with Cate Blanchett, Jane Fonda, Brie Larson, Jennifer Lawrence, Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan, Charlotte Rampling and Kate Winslet, interviews with Mark Rappaport, Walter Murch, Terence Davies, Tippi Hedren, László Nemes, Todd Haynes, Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Mathieu Amalric and Gaspar Noé—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 11/19/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Luke McKernan presents a quick guide to a site devoted to Auguste and Louis Lumière, widely considered the world's first filmmakers. Also in today's roundup: A tribute to Chantal Akerman, appreciations of Richard Brooks's In Cold Blood, Kurt Walker's Hit 2 Pass and Gina Telaroli's Here's to the Future!, the Hollywood Reporter's actress roundtable with Cate Blanchett, Jane Fonda, Brie Larson, Jennifer Lawrence, Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan, Charlotte Rampling and Kate Winslet, interviews with Mark Rappaport, Walter Murch, Terence Davies, Tippi Hedren, László Nemes, Todd Haynes, Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Mathieu Amalric and Gaspar Noé—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 11/19/2015
- Keyframe
Rushes collects news, articles, images, videos and more for a weekly roundup of essential items from the world of film.The biggest news of the week for us is the online release of new films by two Notebook contributors: Gina Telaroli's Here's to the Future! and Kurt Walker's Hit 2 Pass, two fundamentally undefinable and wildly adventurous movies made and released independently. (The two filmmakers discussed their independence in a conversation published on the Notebook.) Both films will be be available to stream through November 22, 2015, and all proceeds they make on the release will go towards their future film projects.The full trailer for Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight has been released, above, and it looks like the man generally derided (unfairly, we must add) as a kind of adolescent film nerd has made a film that looks akin to Alain Resnais' late films—and we couldn't be happier.
- 11/11/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
In today's roundup: A special section in the Los Angeles Review of Books marking the 20th anniversary of the death of Gilles Deleuze; a look at how benshi, performers who provided live narration in theaters for films during Japan’s long silent era, reshaped narratives; Kurt Walker's Hit 2 Pass and Gina Telaroli's Here's to the Future!; Catherine Hardwicke on women in the film industry; a Seijun Suzuki retrospective in New York; interviews with Walter Murch, Kent Jones and Charles Burnett; Quentin Tarantino on the police; the "serious" Films of Woody Allen; Jason Silverman and Samba Gadjigo's Sembene!—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 11/9/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
In today's roundup: A special section in the Los Angeles Review of Books marking the 20th anniversary of the death of Gilles Deleuze; a look at how benshi, performers who provided live narration in theaters for films during Japan’s long silent era, reshaped narratives; Kurt Walker's Hit 2 Pass and Gina Telaroli's Here's to the Future!; Catherine Hardwicke on women in the film industry; a Seijun Suzuki retrospective in New York; interviews with Walter Murch, Kent Jones and Charles Burnett; Quentin Tarantino on the police; the "serious" Films of Woody Allen; Jason Silverman and Samba Gadjigo's Sembene!—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 11/9/2015
- Keyframe
Kurt Walker in the background of Hit 2 Pass / Gina Telaroli making her way to the foreground in Here's to the Future!As has been previously reported, Here's to the Future! and Hit 2 Pass, new feature films from Notebook contributors Gina Telaroli and Kurt Walker, is starting its roll out this month. Following an open call for screenings the films will be playing at New York's Spectacle Theater (starting this Thursday November 5th), Toronto's Mdff (November 4th), Philadelphia's public access channel (starting November 13th), and more. The open call for screenings is in conjunction with an online release being done independently by the filmmakers themselves on their own website starting November 9th: http://h2phttf.tumblr.com The release, online and in real life, is a follow-up to Telaroli's grassroots release of her 2011 feature film Traveling Light (done in conjunction with the Spanish film journal Lumière). The following is...
- 11/7/2015
- by gina telaroli
- MUBI
If you’re trying to place a finger on the true pulse of contemporary cinema, one should look no further than the latest in a screening series held by Mdff, the Toronto-based production company (headed by local filmmakers / producers Daniel Montgomery and Kazik Radwanski) that’s dedicated to bringing the kind of genuinely small cinema (one could say the sort often relegated to Vimeo links) to Canada’s biggest city. They will, in some cases, play at the historic Royal Cinema, which gives a Movie Palace presentation to even the lowest-budgeted and most intimate of films. While this location won’t be utilized for their November 4th screening, a collision of the old-fashioned and the new digital cinema will still be very present with the pairing of Gina Telaroli’s Here’s to the Future! and Kurt Walker’s Hit 2 Pass, two films harkening back while defiantly looking forward.
- 11/4/2015
- by Ethan Vestby
- The Film Stage
Rushes collects news, articles, images, videos and more for a weekly roundup of essential items from the world of film.Above: The unsubtitled trailer for Carlotta Films' new restoration of Jacques Rivette's cinephile "holy grail," Out 1, noli me tangere, which will soon be making the rounds in cinematheques, on home video, and online.Big news from filmmakers and Notebook contributors Gina Telaroli and Kurt Walker: they are staging a two-week online release in November of their latest feature films, Telaroli's Here's to the Future! and Walker's Hit 2 Pass. Find out more information here. These are must-sees!Via Variety, Steven Soderbergh is gearing up for a new HBO show, Mosiac, a "choose your own adventure project." The New York Times has given Nathaniael Dorsky and Jerome Hiler, two of the most special avant-garde filmmakers working today, a beautiful article dedicated to their on-going retrospective at the New York Film Festival.
- 9/30/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
For the first time since 1987 (Diane Kurys's A Man in Love), a female director will open the Cannes Film Festival: Emmanuelle Bercot's La Tête haute. Above: Josh Karp has written a book on Orson Welles's last film, The Other Side of the Wind, and has penned an article for Vanity Fair that traces the history of this infamous lost and found movie:"The story behind the making of The Other Side of the Wind begins at Schwab’s drugstore, the Hollywood soda fountain where: Charlie Chaplin played pinball, F. Scott Fitzgerald had his first heart attack, and, according to some versions of the story, Lana Turner was discovered while cutting school to grab a Coke."More on Orson Welles: David Bordwell writes on his personal history with the filmmaker (and his hometown) occasioned by a retrospective in Madison, Wisconsin: "So I had good luck coming here...
- 4/15/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
How would you program this year's newest, most interesting films into double features with movies of the past you saw in 2014?
Looking back over the year at what films moved and impressed us, it is clear that watching old films is a crucial part of making new films meaningful. Thus, the annual tradition of our end of year poll, which calls upon our writers to pick both a new and an old film: they were challenged to choose a new film they saw in 2014—in theatres or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they also saw in 2014 to create a unique double feature.
All the contributors were given the option to write some text explaining their 2014 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative film programming we'd be lucky to catch...
Looking back over the year at what films moved and impressed us, it is clear that watching old films is a crucial part of making new films meaningful. Thus, the annual tradition of our end of year poll, which calls upon our writers to pick both a new and an old film: they were challenged to choose a new film they saw in 2014—in theatres or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they also saw in 2014 to create a unique double feature.
All the contributors were given the option to write some text explaining their 2014 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative film programming we'd be lucky to catch...
- 1/5/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
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