Rushes: Notebook Issue 4, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Agnès Varda's "Christmas Carole"

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  • Subscribe to Notebook magazine before November 1 to receive Issue 4, which explores cinematic soundscapes in their diverse sonic forms and includes contributions from filmmakers like Pedro Costa, Garrett Bradley, and Dominga Sotomayor, pop musician Julia Holter, plus a wide range of artists, writers, and scholars. Subscribers will also receive with this issue a very special gift, a seven-inch record featuring a song by filmmaker Gus Van Sant and a field recording by sound designer Leslie Shatz.
  • This week brought the sad, shocking news that the legendary Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien has retired from filmmaking due to illness. Hou's family confirmed in a statement that he is battling Alzheimer's, and the effects of long COVID have forced him to stop making films; they requested privacy during this time, adding that he is healthy overall, in the presence of family. Hou’s final film stands as 2015’s The Assassin, though he had been hoping to make the long-gestating Shulan River in recent years.
  • Lea Mysius’s next film, her third, will be an adaptation of Laurent Mauvignier’s novel The Birthday Party: a thriller set in a rural French hamlet, revolving around a man planning a surprise for his wife’s birthday. Mysius’s earlier films The Five Devils (2022) and Ava (2017) are now showing on MUBI in most countries; she is also a credited screenwriter on Claire Denis’s Stars at Noon (2022), Arnaud Desplechin’s Oh Mercy! (2019) and Ismael’s Ghosts (2017), and André Téchiné’s Farewell to the Night (2019).

REMEMBERING

Shaft (Gordon Parks, 1971).

RECOMMENDED VIEWING

Christmas Carole (Agnès Varda, 1966).

  • With his new film Passages (2023) now streaming on MUBI, Ira Sachs recently joined MUBI at Posteritati to discuss some of his most beloved movie poster designs, spanning films by Bob Fosse and Pier Paolo Pasolini.

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Los muertos (Lisandro Alonso, 2004).

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