The Daily Notebook
Salvation!: Have You Said Your Prayers Today? (Beth B, 1987).Across five decades, artist and filmmaker Beth B has produced a dazzlingly diverse body of work, spanning cinema, television, installation art, and performance. She made her name as a pioneer of No Wave, a movement that emerged during a legendary period of subcultural creativity in New York....
After a bad experience in Hollywood, Guillermo del Toro had lost his spark. He got it back with a story of a haunted orphanage during the Spanish Civil War, a script he wrote when he was still a student. Together with the film’s producer Rosa Bosch, BFI’s Creative Director and author of The Faber Book of Mexican Cinema Jason Wood and co-host of the...
Cloud (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2024).After four decades spent scaring moviegoers through all manner of supernatural subject matter, Kiyoshi Kurosawa has, with Cloud (2024), taken to exploring the psychological effects of a more everyday evil: capitalism. In this follow-up to his medium-length psychodrama Chime earlier this year (a film as cryptic and tantalizingly...
Related Images invites readers behind the scenes and into the sketchbooks of working filmmakers to learn more about their creative processes.Susanne Deeken’s A Place without Fear is now showing exclusively on MUBI.Initially, I began working on the film in my London studio, employing both analog and digital techniques. However, a visit to Detroit transformed...
The sixth season of the MUBI Podcast, titled “Haunted Homes,” explores how movies about haunted houses let us explore—and often parallel—our relationships with our homes.This five-part series is guest-hosted and written by author, film programmer, podcaster, and horror expert Anna Bogutskaya. Below she introduces this special, haunted season.To listen...
You Burn Me (Matías Piñeiro, 2024).That we can be here…and still find things to call beautiful and to love or to be unable to stop loving is indefensible. But we are here, and we do. —Anahid Nersessian, Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s DiscourseOceanic waters are “drenched in sperm and tears” as “Sea Foam”—one of 27 pensive, playful texts in Cesare Pavese’s...
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