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The Action Scene | “The Raid at 15”
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Published: September 18, 2026 08:00
The Action Scene explores the form, history, and visceral power of action cinema through its set pieces.Clockwise from top-left: The Raid (Gareth Evans, 2011), Merantau (Gareth Evans, 2009), The Raid 2 (Gareth Evans, 2014), The Raid (Gareth Evans, 2011).It…
Defending the Elusive
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Published: September 15, 2026 08:00
Last Year in Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961).1Although it’s seldom acknowledged, one of the supreme pleasures of movies is the confusion and uncertainty often prompted by the beginning of a story, when we’re not yet fully tuned in to what’s going on. As in…
Venice Dispatch: The Garden of Forking Paths
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Published: September 14, 2026 08:00
NAZA (Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, 2026).To watch my first film at the 83rd Venice Film Festival, I wore a VR headset. I say “watch” when the more accurate verb would be “experience,” at least going by the fest’s preferred vocabulary for what goes down…
Survival Tactics: A Locarno Critics Academy Correspondence
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Published: September 11, 2026 08:00
Notebook, in partnership with the Locarno Critics Academy, presents a series of critical correspondences in which this year’s participants look back at the Swiss film festival. In this final installment, three critics explore how “tendenko,” a Japanese…
Cut and Spliced: A Locarno Critics Academy Correspondence
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Published: September 10, 2026 08:00
Notebook, in partnership with the Locarno Critics Academy, presents a series of critical correspondences in which this year’s participants look back at the Swiss film festival. In this second installment, four critics muse on cinema’s ability to splice…
Rushes | Remembering Dolly Parton, A24 Teases Nathan Fielder's Elizabeth Holmes Doc, the 100 Most-Screened Films in NYC
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Published: September 9, 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.NEWSPrimtime (Lance Oppenheim, 2026).
Meryl Streep and Laura Poitras have…
It Was Once Fire: A Locarno Critics Academy Correspondence
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Published: September 8, 2026 08:00
Notebook, in partnership with the Locarno Critics Academy, presents a series of critical correspondences in which this year's participants look back at the Swiss film festival. In this first installment, letters exchanged between three critics contour what…
The Final Temenos
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Published: September 7, 2026 08:00
Photo by Emma Fuchs.At sunset we move like a herd. Arms laden with blankets, we snake down the gravel path, as signs in blue spray paint warn “ΠΡΟΣΟΧΗ! Use Caution!” Halfway there, the trees that bracket us part like curtains. Below, stark against the…
The Armchair Answer to the Troubles
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Published: September 3, 2026 08:00
Illustration by Danny Ische.The 1970s was a difficult decade for cinemas across Britain and Ireland as attendances continued their long postwar decline. Most of the glamorous art deco picture palaces built during the 1930s had either closed or fallen into…
Inherit the Wind: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s “The Samurai and the Prisoner”
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Published: August 31, 2026 08:00
The Samurai and the Prisoner (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2026).Ever since he first broke into the Western cinephile consciousness with Cure (1997) and Pulse (2001), Kurosawa Kiyoshi has frequently been canonized as a horror auteur. This lens has been applied and…