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The Woman with the Past: On Merle Oberon and Nancy Kwan
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Published: August 19, 2025 16:34
Night in Paradise (Arthur Lubin, 1946). Acting is like a virus. You have to get it out of your system. I guess I’ll never get it out of mine.—Merle OberonWhen Merle Oberon passed away in 1979, at the age of 68, the actress’s obituaries mourned the loss of…
“The Cameras of the Dispossessed”: Found Footage and the Survival of Memory
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Published: August 15, 2025 08:00
This essay was occasioned by Issue 7 of Notebook magazine as part of a broader exploration of the unfilmable. The magazine is available via direct subscription or in select stores around the world.A Fidai Film (Kamal Aljafari, 2024).A meaningful common…
One Meter below Our Gaze: The Bulgarian Children’s Cinema
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Published: August 12, 2025 08:00
This essay was occasioned by Issue 7 of Notebook magazine as part of a broader exploration of the unfilmable. The magazine is available via direct subscription or in select stores around the world.Poster for Item One (Boyan Danovski, 1956).When the…
The Action Scene | Choreographing the Real: A Conversation with Kenji Tanigaki
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Published: August 8, 2025 14:24
This piece was occasioned by Issue 7 of Notebook magazine as part of a broader exploration of the unfilmable. The magazine is available via direct subscription or in select stores around the world.Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends (Keishi Otomo,…
The Current Debate | James Gunn’s “Superman” Battles Fatigue
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Published: August 7, 2025 14:46
Superman (James Gunn, 2025).“I don't really think there was ever superhero fatigue,” James Gunn told NPR a few days after the release of his Superman (2025), “but I do think there was sort of a superhero gold rush for a minute.… And then after a while,…
MUBI Podcast | LA film fades out... and in (with Evan Goldberg of "The Studio")
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Published: August 7, 2025 08:00
The film and TV biz defines LA—so what does it look like as the biz moves abroad? Host (and longtime Angeleno) Rico Gagliano takes a tour of a changing city, from the Hollywood sign to a new crop of booming rep cinemas. Guests include The Studio (2025)…
Venice Hacked, Dorothy in Vegas, Fights with Wolves
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Published: August 6, 2025 16:23
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.NEWS Hackers (Iain Softley, 1995).
A cyberattack on the Venice Film…
Dreams Per Second: A History of the Frame Rate
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Published: July 30, 2025 08:00
This piece was originally published in Issue 7 of Notebook magazine as part of a broader exploration of the unfilmable. The magazine is available via direct subscription or in select stores around the world.FLIP AND FLICKERAs a child, one of the only…
The Unfilmable: The Cinema That Never Was, or Should Have Been
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Published: July 28, 2025 08:01
This piece was originally published in Issue 7 of Notebook magazine as part of a broader exploration of the unfilmable. The magazine is available via direct subscription or in select stores around the world.Back in 1964, British director and producer…
In Print | Notebook Issue 7
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Published: July 28, 2025 08:00
“Threshold of the Visible” is available via direct subscription or in select stores around the world.While cinema is a photographic art, many subjects and experiences fail to come across on film in the same way that we experience them in life, if they can…
Notebook Primer | The Grupo Ukamau
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Published: July 26, 2025 08:00
The Notebook Primer introduces vital figures, films, genres, and movements in film history.The Secret Nation (Jorge Sanjinés, 1989).In The Art and Politics of Bolivian Cinema (1999), still the only book on the subject written in English, José Sanchez-H.…
Related Images | Girls in Pictures
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Published: July 25, 2025 08:00
Related Images invites readers behind the scenes and into the sketchbooks of working filmmakers to learn more about their creative processes.Saulė Bliuvaitė’s Toxic (2024) is now showing on MUBI.Rineke Dijkstra, Kolobrzeg, Poland (1992), from Beach…