The Skeleton Dance (Walt Disney, 1929).George Eastman Museum senior curator Peter Bagrov was buying time for a projector to be repaired before the Nitrate Picture Show’s opening-night screening of Intolerance (1916). He told the audience that a fellow archivist had once compared the event, held annually at the Museum’s Dryden Theatre, to a feast where...

The collection “Let's make it weird: Laughing with Italian Comedies” is now showing exclusively on MUBI.Most of us have experienced the joys of watching Italian cinema—not least of which is the delight of laughing at Italian comedies. In the second season of MUBI Podcast: Voci Italiane Contemporanee, we explore how Italian comedy has changed since the...

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 Twitter and Instagram.NEWSMy Life as a Dog (Lasse Hallström, 1985). Amid concerns over new provisions for AI, IATSE members have voted to ratify their new three-year contract with AMPTP,...

One Shot invites close readings of the basic unit of film grammar.Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai, 1997).In exploring the romantic yearning that propels discordant lovers to seek reconciliation, the plot and visual language of Wong Kar-wai’s Happy Together (1997) makes repeated reference to Argentina’s Iguazú Falls. Seeking to recuperate their faltering...

Raqs Media Collective’s The Bicyclist Who Fell into a Time-Cone is now showing on MUBI in many countries as part of “Whitney Biennial 2024: Better Than the Real Thing.”The Bicyclist Who Fell into a Time-Cone (Raqs Media Collective, 2023).Raqs Media Collective defines its work as a form of “kinetic contemplation.” Over the past 30 years, the group has...

The Action Scene explores the form, history, and visceral power of action cinema through its set pieces.Clockwise from top left: The Fall Guy (David Leitch, 2024), In the Shadows (Ric Roman Waugh, 2001), Kambakkth Ishq (Sabbir Khan, 2009), and Hooper (Hal Needham, 1978).Invoking both the stuntman and the scapegoat, the title of The Fall Guy (2024) pithily...