The great avant-garde filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky directs this new ident for MUBI.
“Che is the story of a tragedy, and that the gap between audience and myth is eventually brought to a close is very much courtesy of Del Toro’s ability to make Guevara’s plight, if not relatable, at least unbearably vivid.“
Leonardo Goi provides a close-up on Steven Soderbergh’s Che, which is now playing on MUBI through to July in the United States.
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Y Tu Mamá También (2001) dir. Alfonso Cuarón
To celebrate his 88th birthday, we’re honoured to be exclusively premiering Jean-Luc Godard’s latest coup, The Image Book, on MUBI in the UK. Watch Now.
Video essay by Jorge Negrete, concerning the intersection between beauty and power in a classic (The Red Shoes) and cult-classic (Showgirls) alike.
Video essay by Miguel Rodríguez, examining the visual similitudes, double strategies and tropes in Hollis Frampton’s filmography.
Video essay by Diego Cepeda, Toni González, Carmela García, Luis Franze, concerning two stories about ghosts and wartime, found in: Ugetsu Monogatari (1953) by Kenji Mizoguchi and La Jeteé (1962) by Chris Marker.
Ricky D’Ambrose provides us with a video interview with a group of indie filmmakers—Alexander Carver, Benjamin Cotty, Daniel Schmidt—whose work is now being shown on MUBI.
In the first ever episode of The Cinema Show, author and researcher Richard Martin discusses the role of visual beauty in some of cinema’s greatest achievements. With a special focus on Jean-Luc Godard’s Le Mépris, we visit the Gulf of Naples with fashion designer Massimo Alba who is one of its best-known residents. And touching down in Hong Kong, photographer Michael Wolf recalls the influence of the city’s labyrinth of alleys on Wong Kar-wai’s classic, In the Mood for Love.
The dreamy, ironic American indie comedy L for Leisure is now playing on MUBI.
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MUBI x Little White Lies collaborate to bring you a series of screenings and panel discussions, held at the Little White Lies screening room. Each event will coincide with the special release of a film on MUBI for 30 days.
Daisies Vera Chytilova’s 1966 feminist classic. Screening + Panel Discussion Tuesday 7 July, 7pm 71a Gallery, 71a Leonard Street, London For One Night Only
Fruit of Paradise Surreal 1970 retelling of the Adam & Eve myth. Screens on MUBI from 7 July With thanks to Second Run DVD www.mubi.com For 30 Days Only
The trailer for the upcoming line-up for MUBI France.
MUBI is thrilled to present the online premiere of Lav Diaz’s searing 338 minute opus and 2014 Golden Leopard Winner at the Locarno Film Festival, From What Is Before. Starkly shot in black and white, Diaz chronicles a remote and peaceful village in the Philippines suffering from a series of mysterious acts of evil…
Watch From What Is Before and read a few words Lav shared with us on the Notebook.