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Introduction | “Super Happy Forever”
https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/introduction-super-happy-forever
Published: July 15, 2025 08:00
Super Happy Forever is now showing on MUBI.Super Happy Forever (Kohei Igarashi, 2024).Scroll down to read this introduction in the original Japanese.下にスクロールすると、この紹介文を日本語で読むことができます。At the end of 2018, I received an email from two young actors, Hiroki Sano…
Soundtrack Mix #35 | Frozen in Flux: Chris Cunningham
https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/soundtrack-mix-35-frozen-in-flux-chris-cunningham
Published: July 12, 2025 08:00
Chris Cunningham is an embodiment of a time and place, of 1990s and early 2000s British underground cool, a moment when avant-garde art forms and personalities were enmeshed with the overground mainstream. Pop culture at large was still up for getting…
Movie Adaptation of the Sequel to Your Life: The True Abstractions of “Pavements”
https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/movie-adaptation-of-the-sequel-to-your-life-the-true-abstractions-of-pavements
Published: July 11, 2025 21:49
Pavements is now showing on MUBI in many places.Pavements (Alex Ross Perry, 2024).In the early 1990s, as punk was finally (the fable goes) breaking to the masses, a concurrent Gen X fairytale took root within the granite and concrete facade of the Whitney…
The Video Essay | Houses We Can Own
https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/the-video-essay-houses-we-can-own
Published: July 11, 2025 20:01
The Video Essay is a joint project of MUBI and FILMADRID International Film Festival. Film analysis and criticism forged a new path with the arrival of the video essay. The limits of this discipline are constantly expanding; new essayists are finding…
No Man’s Land: On Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “Inner Landscapes”
https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/no-man-s-land-on-nuri-bilge-ceylan-s-inner-landscapes
Published: July 11, 2025 08:00
Two Men by the Road, Ağrı (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2004).“Landscape has no owner,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1836. “You cannot freely admire a noble landscape if laborers are digging in the field.” In 1973, Raymond Williams would concur in The Country and…
MUBI Podcast | Smashing in the Doors of Amsterdam Cinema (with “Babygirl” Director Halina Reijn)
https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/mubi-podcast-smashing-in-the-doors-of-amsterdam-cinema-with-babygirl-director-halina-reijn
Published: July 10, 2025 08:00
The Netherlands isn't known for tons of great movies, but its capital city of Amsterdam is packed with tons of great movie theaters. Rico takes us on a tour of his favorite town to learn why. (Spoiler alert: Breaking into buildings played a role). Guests…
Marriage of Inconvenience: On “The Wedding Banquet” and Green-Card Comedies
https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/marriage-of-inconvenience-on-the-wedding-banquet-and-green-card-comedies
Published: July 8, 2025 13:47
The Wedding Banquet (Ang Lee, 1993). Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet (1993) begins at a gym in New York, where Wai-Tung Gao (Winston Chao) labors over a leg press and a loaded barbell, listening to a recorded message from his mother in Taiwan. She’s sent a…
Movie Poster of the Week: The Best of Movie Poster of the Day Part 30
https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/movie-poster-of-the-week-the-best-of-movie-poster-of-the-day-part-30
Published: July 4, 2025 08:05
Japanese chirashi for La chimera (Alice Rohrwacher, Italy, 2023). Designer unknown.Totting up the most-liked posters on my Movie Poster of the Day Instagram over the first six months of 2025, the surprise winner, with over 4,000 likes on one day, was a…
The Video Essay | Abbas Kiarostami: A Transversal Filmography
https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/the-video-essay-abbas-kiarostami-a-transversal-filmography
Published: July 4, 2025 08:00
The Video Essay is a joint project of MUBI and FILMADRID International Film Festival. Film analysis and criticism forged a new path with the arrival of the video essay. The limits of this discipline are constantly expanding; new essayists are finding…
MUBI Podcast | Ireland Tells Its Own Tales (with “Kneecap” Director Rich Peppiatt)
https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/mubi-podcast-ireland-tells-its-own-tales-with-kneecap-director-rich-peppiatt
Published: July 3, 2025 08:00
You can also catch the wonderful Fiona Shaw in HOT MILK, adapted from Deborah Levy’s bestselling novel. In cinemas July 4 across the UK, Ireland, Latin America, Germany and more.Rico travels to Dublin and Belfast, and hangs with an epic lineup of local…
Never to Meet: Indian Parallel Cinema
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Published: July 3, 2025 08:00
Mirch Masala (Ketan Mehta, 1987).Spanning almost three decades, the Indian Parallel Cinema movement produced more than 200 feature films, outnumbering those of the French New Wave and the New German Cinema combined. The sheer prolificity of the period…