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Remembering 4Columns
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Published: August 17, 2026 08:00
4Columns website, November 21, 2025 issue.The best job I’ve ever had—and the one that I’ve held the longest—ended on June 26. That’s when 4Columns, the weekly online arts-criticism site founded by editor-in-chief Margaret Sundell, which debuted September…
The Current Debate: An Uncomplicated Odyssey
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Published: August 14, 2026 08:00
The Current Debate connects the dots around a topic of the critical conversation.The Odyssey (Christopher Nolan, 2026).It is early into Godard’s Contempt (1963) when Fritz Lang—playing himself as a director helming a big-screen adaptation of Homer’s…
“He Would Leave Me Totally Free”: Isabelle Huppert on Claude Chabrol
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Published: August 13, 2026 08:00
Violette Nozière (Claude Chabrol, 1978).In 1978, Claude Chabrol and Isabelle Huppert made Violette Nozière, the first of seven collaborations over nearly 30 years. Chabrol was already two decades into a prolific career that, after his breakout early…
Rushes | TIFF Reveals Full Lineup, Vimeo To End VOD Service, R.I.P. Grace “Mambo Girl” Chang
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Published: August 12, 2026 17:51
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.NEWSYour Mother Your Mother Your Mother (Bassam Tariq, 2026).
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KyĹŤko Kagawa in One Shot
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Published: August 11, 2026 08:00
One Shot is a series that seeks to find an essence of cinema history in one single image of a movie. Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa, 1965).Ever since she was scouted in a Tokyo Shimbun contest in 1949 at seventeen, Kyōko Kagawa has played many kinds of Japanese…
This Dystopian Future: A Conversation with Tsai Ming-liang
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Published: August 6, 2026 08:00
Tsai Ming-liang. Courtesy of Big World Pictures.A uniquely prescient film, Tsai Ming-liang’s 1998 feature The Hole opens with a radio report about a mysterious virus with strange side effects that’s spreading across Taiwan. Ignoring an evacuation order, a…
Turbulent Waters: The Cinema of Jean Epstein
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Published: August 4, 2026 08:00
Jean Epstein. Illustration by Leonardo Goi.Jean Epstein was an aquatic filmmaker, an artist who saw water as embodying the kind of cinema he aspired to create: fluid, tempestuous, unpredictable. Like the roaring seas he immortalized over a three-decade…
What Does a Christopher Nolan Movie Want?
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Published: August 3, 2026 08:00
Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan, 2023).In what has to be one of the earlier instances of literary criticism, Herodotus wrote that it was Homer “who gave to Greece its gods.” By this, he did not mean that The Iliad and The Odyssey gave the Greeks an entire…
MUBI Podcast: Voci Italiane Contemporanee | Season 6
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Published: July 31, 2026 11:56
What does it really mean to set off? In this season of MUBI Podcast: Contemporary Italian Voices, Isabella Ragonese explores the road movie as a metaphor for transformation. Joined by guests from the worlds of film and culture, she reflects on how every…