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Fantasy Double Features of 2024
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Published: December 20, 2024 08:00
Illustration by Stephanie Lane Gage.The results of our seventeenth annual writers poll are in! Every year, we ask our contributors to program a fantasy double feature, placing one new release and one older film back to back, coaxing out subtle resonances…
MUBI Podcast | “Speed Racer”: The Wachowskis Go Full Throttle
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Published: December 19, 2024 09:00
After The Matrix (1999) and V For Vendetta (2005), the Wachowskis were ready to turn from darkness into the bright, bright candy-colored light. The result was Speed Racer (2008), an eyepopping postmodern explosion that honored the gravity-defying spirit of…
MUBI Podcast: Voci Italiane Contemporanee | Susanna Nicchiarelli
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Published: December 19, 2024 08:00
The collection "Rewind and Play: Music Documentaries" is now showing exclusively on MUBI.Cinema is a principal part of our sensory education. Its images, sounds, and music intertwine in our memory, often to the point that we can no longer separate them.In…
Rushes | Court Weighs Review Ban, Hong Kong Cinemas Shutter, List Season Continues
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Published: December 18, 2024 19:36
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.NEWSGoodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang, 2003).
The Tamil Film Active…
The Enigmatic Case of Johnnie To
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Published: December 18, 2024 14:30
Executioners (Johnnie To and Ching Siu-tung, 1993).Now that’s a suit, I think, as Johnnie To walks into the offices of the Museum of Modern Art in New York—shades on, cuffs shot. I’m not there in person, but even through the low-resolution video-chat…
Submit to Notebook’s “Exquisite Cinema”
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Published: December 16, 2024 20:57
EXQUISITE CINEMAWe’re inviting our readers to join us on an interactive adventure. Notebook magazine’s Exquisite Cinema is a new collaborative feature in which we make imaginary movies together, image by image.Please send us an original photograph (analog…
RaMell Ross Sees Through Us
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Published: December 16, 2024 20:35
Illustrations by Zoé Maghamès Peters.Artists think about it all the time. What is in me? How am I going to get it out? And what is it going to be once I get it out there? These thoughts are not just the precursor to a practice, but fuel for the creative…
Life During Wartime: On the Films of Jocelyne Saab
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Published: December 13, 2024 16:59
Beirut, My City (Jocelyne Saab, 1983).Beirut is not dead, but simply disfigured. If it weren't for the sea, Beirut wouldn't have survived its devastation. But there is salt on the ground, in our mouths, on our clothes, in our hands; something that resists…
On the Way to the Movies
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Published: December 12, 2024 19:27
A Continuous Stream: The Soundtracks of 2024
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Published: December 12, 2024 17:24
Illustrations by Stephanie Lane Gage.In 1996, Brian Eno reflected on his run of ambient albums for EG Recordings twenty years prior, writing that he recognized a desire among his friends “to use music in a different way—as part of the ambience of our…
MUBI Podcast Voci Italiane Contemporanee | Lele Marchitelli
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Published: December 12, 2024 11:50
The collection "Rewind and Play: Music Documentaries" is now showing exclusively on MUBI.Cinema is a principle part of our sensory education. Its images, sounds, and music intertwine in our memory, often to the point that we can no longer separate them.In…
MUBI Podcast | “Synecdoche, New York”: Charlie Kaufman’s Movie of a Lifetime
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Published: December 12, 2024 09:00
When screenwriter Charlie Kaufman started making his epic, heartbreaking directorial debut Synecdoche, New York (2008), he was the toast of Hollywood. Then it flopped, put a pause on his career, and arguably marked the end of the heady “Indiewood” era of…
Rushes | Golden Globe Noms Announced, List Season Starts, Slow-Cinema “Mufasa”
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Published: December 11, 2024 17:40
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 Emilia PĂ©rez (Jacques Audiard, 2024).
Jacques Audiard’s Emilia…
In, Under, Out Of, and In Between Vietnam
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Published: December 9, 2024 20:41
Việt and Nam (Trương Minh Quý, 2024).The fate of modern Vietnam is inseparable from the image. The war was the first large-scale conflict in human history to be captured on film and disseminated in real time. And yet, in cinema, hegemonic representations…