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“Please Baby Please,” a MUBI release, is as campy as it is difficult, though Andrea Riseborough leans into the movie’s energy.
The three selections by MUBI under their “New Indian Cinema” series seek to explore what ails the nation, and what fears have befallen its populace.
Hong Sang-soo’s third feature, “Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors,” was also his last film to be made from a full script.
Tomu Uchida’s Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji is a masterpiece, offering a complex rewriting of Japanese national mythology.
Film Title Poem, a 67-minute experimental traversal of film history, both canonical and personal, entirely by way of title cards.
Matthias & Maxime, Xavier Dolan’s most open and tender film to date, sees him reclaiming his wunderkind status as a director once again.
MUBI is currently hosting a mini-retrospective highlighting four of her features, including A Woman’s Revenge (2012) and The Portuguese Woman (2018).
Director Franco Rosso’s film Babylon is a hidden gem when it comes to authentic explorations of institutional racism and the immigrant experience.
As society becomes twisted and distorted in our actual lives, The Halt from director Lav Diaz now feels like a prophetic tale.
Personal Problems focuses on Black humanity in all of its highs and lows, hopes and fears, mistakes, and triumphs.
Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo is comforting, emotive, overwhelming at times, and always worth the time spent giving it your full attention.
Almayer’s Folly is a movie that quietly but forcefully acknowledges Chantal Akerman’s feminism, accommodating the racial imbalances with equal space as the gender dynamics.
Ariane Labed’s Olla tells an important tale of the migration of resourceful, young, Eastern European women into Western Europe.
Satyajit Ray’s Agantuk (The Stranger) attempts two examinations of India – one of gender dynamics and the other a much more philosophical look.
Now available on Mubi, Ghost Town Anthology evokes the presence of a forgotten and bedeviled past buried underneath it.