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What the Image Hides: Tai KatĹŤ and the Art of Partial Vision
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Published: October 13, 2026 08:00
LOOKING THROUGH THE ROOMBlood of Revenge (Tai Katō, 1965).In Blood of Revenge (1965), Hatsue, a young woman bound by contract to a pleasure house, wants to see her dying father. Wearing violet, she bows low to the floor and begs Okatsu, who manages the…
“Water Lilies” in One Shot
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Published: October 12, 2026 08:00
One Shot is a series that seeks to find an essence of cinema history in one single image of a movie. Water Lilies (Céline Sciamma, 2007).Shown in slow motion with electronic music playing in the background, Floriane (Adèle Haenel) dances freely. With…
Know Thyself: Eric Rohmer’s “Élisabeth”
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Published: October 8, 2026 08:00
Éric Rohmer in Out 1: Noli Me Tangere (Jacques Rivette, 1971).In 1946, the prestigious French publishing house Editions Gallimard published a novel called Élisabeth by a man named Gilbert Cordier. No one had heard of this Cordier before, or knew anything…
Rushes | Paramount Officially Acquires Warner Bros., Social Media Platforms Reject “Musk,” “You Can See Everything” Trailer Drops
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Published: October 7, 2026 08:00
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. To keep up with our latest features, sign up for the Weekly Edit newsletter and follow us @mubinotebook on X and Instagram.NEWSDigger (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2026).
Paramount has officially…
Bumper-to-Bumper Traffic
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Published: October 5, 2026 08:00
2026 Toronto International Film Festival sponsorship ad by Rogers.At Cannes, competition screenings are preceded by nothing more than a computer-generated set of red-carpet stairs ascending out of the sea, sans any credits for financial supporters or…
Life at Its Wildest: Werner Herzog on “Bucking Fastard”
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Published: October 1, 2026 08:00
From left to right: Cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger, director Werner Herzog, and stars Rooney Mara and Kate Mara shooting Bucking Fastard (2026). Courtesy of Gateway to Orkney LLC.Werner Herzog’s first fiction film in seven years, Bucking Fastard…
Members Only: Cabal-Core Horror in the 21st Century
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Published: September 29, 2026 08:00
Salò: Or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975).In 2005, during a television interview in Italy, Giuseppe “Pino” Pelosi—AKA “The Frog”—recanted his confession about murdering Pier Paolo Pasolini on a beach in Ostia 30 years earlier. He claimed…
Pirating the Pirates
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Published: September 28, 2026 08:00
Home video release images from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966). Clockwise from top-left: Arrow Video (4K UHD, 2025), Kino Lorber (4K UHD, 2021), MGM (4K Blu-ray, 2014), MGM (DVD, 1998).“People who alter or destroy works of art and our…
Movie Poster of the Week | The Posters of the 1976 New York Film Festival
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Published: September 25, 2026 08:00
French grande for Small Change (François Truffaut, France, 1976). Design by Jouineau Bourduge.Another year, another Truffaut, another Fassbinder, another Visconti, another Renoir revival. The 1976 New York Film Festival—which ran from October 1 to 17—was…
Rushes | Venice and TIFF Announce Awards, Paramount Settles Antitrust Lawsuit, “Cliff Booth” Trailer Drops
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Published: September 23, 2026 08:00
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. To keep up with our latest features, sign up for the Weekly Edit newsletter and follow us @mubinotebook on X and Instagram.NEWSWoman Unknown (May el-Toukhy, 2026).
The Maggie Gyllenhaal-led jury at…