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Rushes | TIFFruptions, Roman Scandal, No Good Doc Goes Unpunished
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Published: September 18, 2024 16:15
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 Twitter and Instagram.NEWSNo Other Land (Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel…
For an Ad Hoc Cinema: TIFF Wavelengths 2024
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Published: September 18, 2024 08:10
Illustrations by Maddie Fischer.A camel, it has been said, is a horse designed by committee. This seems wrong, though, since it assumes that a horse was the initial objective, and that the camel resulted from too many incompatible interests and desires. In…
Searching for the Palestinian Militant Image in Times of Existential Emergency
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Published: September 18, 2024 08:05
This text was commissioned by and is published jointly with Fantômas, the Belgian film quarterly, which hosts the Dutch-language version.Perpetual Recurrences (Reem Shilleh, 2016).This meeting takes place on shaking ground. Since October 7, words have…
Fall 2024 Festivals
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Published: September 18, 2024 02:41
Illustrations by Maddie Fischer.Throughout the fall festival season, we'll be publishing a wide array of interviews, dispatches, and ballots from Venice, Toronto, and New York. Watch this space!From Venice“Rage Against the Dying of the Light” by Leonardo…
TIFF Dispatch: Hunt or Be Hunted
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Published: September 17, 2024 17:18
Illustrations by Maddie Fischer.To participate in the Toronto International Film Festival Scavenger Hunt, simply take a selfie with each of the eight “landmarks” around Festival Street—the three-block stretch of King Street where you’ll find key festival…
Home, Interrupted: A Locarno Critics Academy Correspondence
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Published: September 13, 2024 15:28
Notebook is covering the Locarno Film Festival with a series of correspondence pieces written by the participants in the Critics Academy.Illustrations by Lucy Jones.At its simplest, the concept of home may evoke a child’s drawing of a house with a smoking…
Movie Poster of the Week: The Illustrated Alain Delon
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Published: September 13, 2024 08:00
Above: Italian 4-foglio for Purple Noon (René Clément, France, 1960). Artist uncredited.In April of this year, on the occasion of a retrospective tribute to French movie star Alain Delon at New York’s Film Forum, Anthony Lane wrote an article in the New…
Venice Dispatch: Empathy Machines
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Published: September 12, 2024 15:27
Illustrations by Maddie Fischer.The first film I saw on the Lido this year wasn’t a feature but a twenty-minute VR project: Mammary Mountain. Playing in the Venice Immersive sidebar, and directed by Tara Baoth Mooney, Camille C. Baker, and Maf’j Alvarez,…
One Shot | Eliza Hittman’s Hands
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Published: September 11, 2024 08:00
One Shot invites close readings of the basic unit of film grammar.Beach Rats (Eliza Hittman, 2017).In the sanctuary of a church, Frankie (Harris Dickinson) watches his younger sister, Carla, shares a few words about their late father. “If my dad were here…
Once in a Lifetime: Zia Anger on “My First Film”
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Published: September 6, 2024 08:00
My First Film is now showing exclusively on MUBI.My First Film (Zia Anger, 2024).Between 2010 and 2012, Zia Anger directed a feature film titled Always All Ways, Anne Marie in her hometown of Ithaca, New York. She cast her friend Deana LeBlanc as a…
A Crack in Everything: Piotr Szulkin’s “Asocial Fiction” Tetralogy
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Published: September 5, 2024 18:42
Apocalypse Now: Four Sci-Fi Parables by Piotr Szulkin is now showing on MUBI in many countries.O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization (Piotr Szulkin, 1984).When considering the complex and fraught history of Polish science-fiction cinema, one may quote the…
Rushes | Landmark Eyes Auction Block, Head Rolls at Lionsgate, Chick-Fil-A Lays an Egg
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Published: September 4, 2024 23:54
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 Twitter and Instagram.NEWSChicken Run (Nick Park and Peter Lord, 2000).
After earlier claims…
Venice Dispatch: Rage Against the Dying of the Light
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Published: September 4, 2024 16:18
Illustrations by Maddie Fischer.As the vaporetto pulled out of San Marco and veered east toward the Lido, I decided I’d kick off my tenth trip to the Venice Film Festival doing something I’d never done before: visit its Extended Reality section. Tucked…
A Place to Disappear: The Istanbul of “Crossing”
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Published: September 3, 2024 18:19
Levan Akin’s Crossing is now showing on MUBI in many countries.Crossing (Levan Akin, 2024).Levan Akin’s tender, pensive new film begins in Batumi, the Georgian city where his family is from, and soon finds itself in Istanbul, “a place where people come to…
Just the Same but Brand New: A Locarno Critics Academy Correspondence
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Published: August 30, 2024 10:00
Notebook is covering the Locarno Film Festival with a series of correspondence pieces written by the participants in the Critics Academy.Illustrations by Lucy Jones.In our second missive from the Locarno Critics Academy, Leonard Krähmer, LucĂa Requejo, and…