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She Has Her Realm: Lucile Hadžihalilović on “The Ice Tower”
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Published: November 21, 2025 08:00
The Ice Tower (Lucile Hadžihalilović, 2025).Jeanne, the motherless adolescent in Lucile Hadžihalilović’s The Ice Tower (2025), has fallen in love with an idea. Stuck in an alpine foster home, where the palette of burnt-toast brown and porridgy beige binds…
MUBI Podcast: Encuentros | "Conceal Our Gods”
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Published: November 20, 2025 19:34
In this episode, urgency and joy are discussed as essential motivations for filmmaking. Iván Fund is an Argentine filmmaker whose work includes eight narrative features as director, as well as several documentaries, and many more credits as editor and…
MUBI Podcast | “Die My Love”: Lynne Ramsay Unleashes the Beast
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Published: November 20, 2025 09:00
Die My Love is now playing in theaters in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Latin America, Australia, Germany, and Spain. In Die My Love (2025), new mother Grace (a virtuosic Jennifer Lawrence) is stuck at home while her disinterested husband Jackson…
Melissa Anderson’s Lasso of Truth
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Published: November 19, 2025 17:21
Photographs by Eve Alpert.In her new book of collected criticism, The Hunger: Film Writing, 2012–2024, Melissa Anderson recounts the conundrum she faced when sitting down to review Wonder Woman (2017): How do you say something of interest about a movie…
At the Threshold of a Dream: On Christian Marclay’s “Doors”
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Published: November 18, 2025 15:29
Doors (Christian Marclay, 2022).A door in its doorframe—be it open or closed—exists as neither here nor there, neither inside nor outside, but rather, something in between. Call it a transitional space, or even a liminal space, if that term hasn’t by now…
Movie Poster of the Week | The Iconic Linocuts of Peter Strausfeld
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Published: November 14, 2025 08:00
Peter Strausfeld’s poster for The Butcher (Claude Chabrol, France, 1970).I’ve written about the work of Peter Strausfeld a couple of times over the fifteen years that I’ve been writing this column, but apart from seeing three of his posters (including his…
MUBI Podcast | Artists vs. Autocracy: Istanbul Cinema Crosses the Bridge
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Published: November 13, 2025 09:00
Istanbul is home to some great filmmakers who speak truth to power, though the Turkish state is less and less willing to let them. Host Rico Gagliano talks with two of the best—Emin Alper (Burning Days, 2022) and Özcan Alper (Autumn, 2008)—about making art…
MUBI Podcast: Encuentros | “Crossed Desires”
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Published: November 12, 2025 20:01
This episode explores literature and cinema as ways of devouring life—and staging reality.Isabel Coixet is a Spanish filmmaker and screenwriter, and one of the most prolific directors currently working in the country. Over the past three decades, she has…
Rushes | China Quashes NYC Fest, Commercials Leave LA, Remembering Peter Watkins
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Published: November 12, 2025 19:30
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.NEWS Poster for the now canceled IndieChina Film Festival.
Two days before it…
Woodcutters: From the Viennale
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Published: November 11, 2025 16:01
Detail from Viennale 2025 poster.Werner Herzog was once the codirector of the Viennale for a brief spell, from 1990 to 1992. After a budgetary crisis in 1989, the following edition had been canceled, and an ersatz Viennale called Novemberkino was held…
Related Images | “Winter in Sokcho”
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Published: November 7, 2025 09:43
Koya Kamura’s Winter in Sokcho is now streaming on MUBI.Winter in Sokcho (Koya Kamura, 2024).I discovered Elisa Shua Dusapin’s Winter in Sokcho while I was stuck writing another screenplay, Evaporés. That story followed a man who disappears, a father who…
MUBI Podcast: Encuentros | “Sculpting Memory”
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Published: November 6, 2025 13:48
This episode explores a cinema shaped by gestures and personal memories—an experimental, tactile relationship with image and sound.Paula Gaitán is a poet, visual artist, photographer, and filmmaker. Born in Paris, she has lived and worked between Colombia…
Mall Rats: At the 30th Busan International Film Festival
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Published: November 5, 2025 18:26
Amoeba (Siyou Tan, 2025).“Be prepared—everything’s massive,” I was warned by a friend mere hours after arriving at the Busan International Film Festival. I found out later she was referring to the Busan Cinema Center, the principal venue of Asia’s most…
You Had Better Disbelieve It
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Published: November 3, 2025 08:00
09/05/1982 (Jorge Caballero and Camilo Restrepo, 2025).Thirteen years ago, in a lecture delivered at the University of Chicago, art historian T. J. Clark departed from photos of the then recent London riots to ruminate on possible answers to a…