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NEWS
- Following the launch of the English-language podcast earlier this month, yesterday we revealed our upcoming original Spanish-language podcast! In the first season of the MUBI Podcast: Encuentros, co-produced by MUBI and La Corriente del Golfo Podcast, leading voices in Latin American film and culture come together to think about their own methods and processes for approaching the craft, talk about personal experiences, and reflect on films and filmmakers that have inspired their work. We begin with Gael García Bernal (Mexico) and Carolina Sanín (Colombia) as the guests of the first episode, entitled The Ritual of the Masks. The first season of Encuentros consists of in-depth conversations among colleagues, an encounter between two people who share their love for cinema. Check out the trailer above and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts here.
- Andrea Arnold will be presiding over the Un Certain Regard jury at the 74th Cannes Film Festival in July. Joining her are U.S. director Michael Covino, Argentine director Daniel Burman, actor Elsa Zylberstein and Algerian director Mounia Meddour.
RECOMMENDED VIEWING
- This Thursday, celebrate Pride month with a live viewing party of Isabel Sandoval's short film Shangri-La and Toshio Matsumoto's Funeral Parade of Roses on MUBI! The party starts at 8PM ET, and you can join Sandoval on Twitter as she shares her thoughts on both films with the hashtag #PrideUnprejudiced.
- In honor of Juneteenth, MUBI is also proud to present a free presentation of Terence Dixon's documentary Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris, available to audiences globally from June 18-19. The film, which captures the iconic writer in many symbolic locations in the city, can be streamed on the web and iOS/Android mobile devices at mubi.com/free.
- A trailer for Arthur Harari's Onoda – 10,000 Nights In The Jungle, which will open the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes this year. The film follows soldier Hiroo Onoda, who hides out in the Philippines following the end of World War II and refuses to surrender.
- Artists Space is currently presenting Till They Listen: Bill Gunn Directs America, a comprehensive program of films, talks, and more celebrating the life and work of the great filmmaker, playwright, novelist, and actor Bill Gunn. This includes a series of films directed by and starring Gunn, a virtual concert by Carman Moore (the composer of the Personal Problems soundtrack), and a talk with long-time Gunn collaborator, poet and playwright Ishmael Reed, who wrote and produced Personal Problems.
- Thanks to the UCLA Film & Television Archive, you can now watch the 1967 pseudo-documentary short Queens at Heart online. The anonymously-made film is comprised of interviews with four transgender women. In the words of film historian and filmmaker Jenni Olson, who purchased a rare 35mm print of the film in the 1990s for $75, Queens at Heart is "a glimpse at pre-Stonewall queer life, it is truly remarkable."
- The official trailer for Michael Showalter's The Eyes of Tammy Faye, about the lives of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker and her husband Jim Bakker.
RECOMMENDED READING
Above: Lizzie Borden's Working Girls
- "In this film, sex work is work and an allegory for life in the service industry, whatever the service may be." Erika Balsom reviews Lizzie Borden's recently restored Working Girls, which opens June 18 at the IFC Center.
- For the Film Comment newsletter, Mackenzie Lukenbill interviews critic and theorist Genevieve Yue about her new book, Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality, and her approach to "[finding] the same logics of patriarchal power in non-representational spaces like the film lab, the editing bay, and the film archive."
- The new issue of photogénie is entitled "Duras/Rivette: Irreducibilities," and focuses on Marguerite Duras' and Jacques Rivette's "tireless redefinition of their authorship and medium."
- Over at The New York Times, J. Hoberman has provided a list of books that offer a prismatic and holistic view of Hollywood history, from Lillian Ross's Picture (1952) to Noah Isenberg's We’ll Always Have Casablanca (2017).
RECOMMENDED LISTENING
- The Ask Any Buddy podcast, which explores the history of gay adult film and video, kicks off Pride Month with an episode on the appearance of early Pride parades in Arch Brown’s Love Thy Neighbor (1974) and Zachary Youngblood’s Celebration (1978/1982).
- Docs in Orbit has released a conversation with Palestinian visual artist and filmmaker Basma Alsharif, whose films are included in Another Screen's ongoing series, For a Free Palestine: Films by Palestinian Women.
RECENTLY ON THE NOTEBOOK
- Emma Seligman's Shiva Baby is now exclusively showing on MUBI in some countries in the Debuts series. Seligman shares her Five Inspirations for the film with Notebook, which range from personal memories of family events to the paintings of Marc Chagall.
- Episode 2 of the English-language MUBI Podcast focuses on the longest-running film in Bollywood history, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), and includes an exclusive interview with critic Anupama Chopra. Read more about the film in an excerpt from Chopra's book, DDLJ: A Modern Classic.
- Aster Gilbert selects One Shot from the late Monte Hellman's Road to Nowhere, which is exclusively showing on MUBI in the United States.
- Sophia Satchell-Baeza interviews Lizzie Borden, whose incendiary feminist film Born in Flames is exclusively showing on MUBI in several countries in the series Rediscovered.
- In a conversation with Jordan Cronk, filmmaker Jim Cummings discusses the production and distribution strategy of his new film The Beta Test.
- The Video Essay, a joint project of MUBI and FILMADRID International Film Festival, continues with Una visita al mundo by Jorge Javier Negrete and Americana on the Road to Paris, Texas by Catherine Norton.
EXTRAS
- From Posteritati, a One Sheet t-shirt, featuring the standard U.S. poster size since 1909.
