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Checkpoint Cinema: Mohammed Almughanni on “An Orange from Jaffa”
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Published: April 24, 2025 15:03
An Orange from Jaffa (Mohammed Almughanni, 2024).Mohammed Almughanni is a young filmmaker from Gaza, Palestine, whose breakthrough short film, An Orange from Jaffa (2024), won the Grand Prix at Clermont-Ferrand last year and was subsequently shortlisted…
MUBI Podcast: Voci Italiane Contemporanee | David di Donatello Special
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Published: April 24, 2025 08:52
A collection of this year’s David-nominated short films will be available on MUBI starting May 8.Italian cinema never changes. Italian cinema speaks to no one. Italian cinema is dead. But are we sure about that?For the new season of the MUBI Podcast…
Rushes | An Oscar for Stunts, Auteur Ownership, the Dastardly “Movie Mate”
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Published: April 23, 2025 16:47
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 Hooper (Hal Needham, 1978)
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and…
Elaine May’s Women: In Praise of the Loser Brunette
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Published: April 21, 2025 17:59
A New Leaf (Elaine May, 1971).Never have I seen one woman in whom every social grace was so lacking. Did I say she was primitive? Well, I retract that. She’s feral.—Henry Graham, of Henrietta, in A New Leaf (Elaine May, 1971)I have been dreading writing…
Ticked Off: Against “The Clock”
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Published: April 21, 2025 16:19
Illustrations by Liv Garber.In the dark of a cinema, the audience is invited to forget about everything except the image on screen. At an art museum, however, the original intent of an artist is subject to contamination by a variety of other authors—the…
Take the Notebook Reader Survey
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Published: April 18, 2025 19:15
Where Is the Friend’s House? (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987).We’d like to know you better, dear reader! Please take a moment to complete our first-ever survey, practically ensuring that you will soon find even more of the kind of thing you like in our pages.As…
Buried in the Mind: On “The Shrouds,” David Cronenberg’s Grief-Stricken Techno-Thriller
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Published: April 18, 2025 08:00
The Shrouds (David Cronenberg, 2024).In defense of The Shrouds (2024), the new film by David Cronenberg, I propose a moratorium on our fixation with “the body” when considering one of the great filmmakers of the mind. My intention is neither to be perverse…
Jerry Schatzberg Looks You in the Eyes
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Published: April 17, 2025 08:00
Self-Portrait (Jerry Schatzberg, 1964).“Maybe I should have a fall at the end of every film now!”I’m calling to check in with Jerry Schatzberg, who is fresh out of the hospital. Two days earlier, at the opening night of a Museum of Modern Art retrospective…
One Shot | Stanley Kwan’s Computer Poetry
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Published: April 16, 2025 08:00
Women (Stanley Kwan, 1985).“I swear you are my only beloved wife!” the text on the computer screen reads, above a drawing of two hearts skewered by a single arrow. This message, rendered with the program AtariArtist on a Taxan CRT monitor, is Derek’s (Chow…
Overlapping Struggles: Mahasen Nasser-Eldin on “The Silent Protest”
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Published: April 14, 2025 14:15
This is the first in a series of three interviews with contemporary Palestinian filmmakers.The Silent Protest (Mahasen Nasser-Eldin, 2019).The history of Palestine is a lesson in resilience and resistance—to colonialism, oppression, and genocide. An often…