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A Psychological Detective Story: Kevin Macdonald on HIGH & LOW - JOHN GALLIANO
The Scottish filmmaker discusses his documentary on the fashion designer’s rise and fall.
Video Essay | Shaw Brothers: Wuxia Warriors and Kung Fu Masters
In the early 1960s, four brothers redefined the landscape of Chinese cinema.
DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD | Official Trailer #2 | On MUBI May 3
A punchy film festival favorite, Radu Jude’s DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD is a wildly entertaining and darkly funny ride through the vulgar indignities of modern life.
YANNICK | Official Trailer | Streaming on MUBI April 5
YANNICK. The Locarno-prize winning comedy from acclaimed director Quentin Dupieux. Streaming exclusively on MUBI April 5 (almost) globally here.
MUBI Picks at Posteritati | Sarah Sherman
The comedian and actor talks Odorama, Venetian blinds, and Bugs Bunny.
Related Images | "In the wake of emotions"
The animator Flóra Anna Buda shares part of her visual research for “27,” imaginary portraits of actual moods.
Menaces and Martyrs: A Brief History of the Political Assassin on Film
From "The Execution of Mary Stuart" (1895) to Masao Adachi’s "Revolution+1" (2023), how cinema has put heads of state in its crosshairs.
Losing the Way Home: The Irrepressible Uncanny in Hayao Miyazaki
Revisiting the animator's worlds through the eyes of a six-year-old.
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"Gucci called out of the blue.... A few days later we were on a plane to Milan."
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FUNNY HA HA 148 films
Everyone could do with a good laugh. From slapstick and screwball to arthouse subversion and sharp political satire—all by way…
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The latest slate of MUBI Releases and exclusive films coming to audiences across the globe.
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From acclaimed classics to hidden treasures, social critiques to genre pleasures, these films powerfully articulate the struggles, resilience, and joy…
First Films First 85 films
A director’s first film can provide the roadmap for an entire oeuvre. Our series of directorial debuts revisits the films…
Brief Encounters 54 films
New short films by some of the best up-and-coming as well as established filmmakers and artists.
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Recent reviews
Reliving triumphs and controversies, fashion designer John Galliano takes center stage in this grippingly nuanced portrait from Oscar®-winner Kevin Macdonald. Star-studded interviews and rare archival footage reveal the toxicity behind exquisite glamor and spectacle, both on and off the runway.
Now streaming in many territories. A MUBI Release.
One of the first Jordanian films to premiere at Cannes, Faris Alrjoob’s beguiling short languidly drifts on the shifting tides of love and loss. At once eerie and sensuously pleasurable, sun-drenched frames are imprinted with the specter of grief, made achingly tangible on sumptuous 16mm film stock.
Now streaming (almost) globally.
In this hilarious satire, social contracts are broken and hackneyed forms of entertainment are upended. Corralling a brilliant cast into a boisterous deconstruction of actors’ egos and audience expectations, Quentin Dupieux revels in the insights of an outsider in his latest meta-provocation.
Now streaming in many countries.
Vibrant with the ecstasies of being young and fleetingly free, this Cannes prizewinner from British filmmaker Molly Manning Walker is an honest take on female friendship and first sexual experiences. Buzzing with the excitement of new horizons, Mia McKenna-Bruce shines in a star-making performance.
Now streaming. A MUBI Release.
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An oddball mix of interrelated shorts, or just an average day in the city of angels? Director, co-writer, and star Al Warren is a filmmaker on the edge in this metatextual comedy, which conveys a sincere wonder at the chaos of both life and cinema with its sunny cinematography and colorful cast.
Now streaming exclusively.
An out-of-this-world nightmare birthed from metal and flesh, Shin’ya Tsukamoto’s cult horror classic frenetically rejects the drudgery of so-called normal life. Surrendering to the tactile allure of the machine, the human body undergoes extreme transformations, set to a frenzied industrial score.
Now streaming here.
Visionary director Djibril Diop Mambéty (Touki Bouki) makes a feisty assault on economic imperialism in this loose adaptation of Friedrich Durrenmatt’s play, The Visit. Relocated to a Senegalese town, Hyenas is a comic, cutting critique of globalization conveyed with playful, imaginative flourish.
Now streaming here.
Juxtaposing overwhelming sorrow with an underlying joy, Abderrahmane Sissako intertwines the cruel realities of occupation with buoyant, moving moments that overwhelmingly emphasize the strength of the human spirit. Timbuktu is a political film of defiance, resilience, and poetry.
Now streaming here.
Everyone could do with a good laugh. From slapstick and screwball to arthouse subversion and sharp political satire—all by way of a perfectly timed sight gag or impromptu, unexpected moment: the cinema has a long history of making people laugh, easing their troubles, and poking fun at those in power.