Mary Stephen. Photo by Jessey Tsang Tsui Shan during the editing of her film Flowing Stories.In 2018, I created Edited By, a website that features the work of 206 women editors. It was motivated by reading a chapter about editing in a film production handbook in which the director of each notably-edited film was mentioned, but not the editor. Unfortunately I wasn’t surprised by this lack of recognition, since film scholarship has always privileged the director, but I thought it was time to rectify that. At least half of the editors of those notable films turned out to be women–including the editor of The Wizard of Oz, Blanche Sewell. And in the process of discovering the women who shaped so many canonical films, I learned about the remarkable career of Mary Stephen.Stephen is a Hong Kong-born Chinese-Canadian editor and filmmaker with 52 credits and nine best editing nominations. Based in Paris,...
- 1/3/2022
- MUBI
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
Andrzej Munk Retrospective
An influence on the likes of Krzysztof Kieślowski, Roman Polanski, and Jerzy Skolimowski, and more, Andrzej Munk’s filmography is quite unspoken of here in the United States. Hopefully that will change with the arrival of new restorations, featuring his early political documentaries and his subsequent features including Bad Luck, Eroica, Man on the Tracks, and Passenger, which was finished after his untimely death in 1961.
Where to Stream: Film at Lincoln Center’s Virtual Cinema
Annette (Leos Carax)
In Annette, a provocative comedian (Adam Driver) and renowned opera singer (Marion Cotillard) fall in love and have a gifted child. Written and composed by Ron and Russell Mael of Sparks, the singular rock band that formed in the early 1970s,...
Andrzej Munk Retrospective
An influence on the likes of Krzysztof Kieślowski, Roman Polanski, and Jerzy Skolimowski, and more, Andrzej Munk’s filmography is quite unspoken of here in the United States. Hopefully that will change with the arrival of new restorations, featuring his early political documentaries and his subsequent features including Bad Luck, Eroica, Man on the Tracks, and Passenger, which was finished after his untimely death in 1961.
Where to Stream: Film at Lincoln Center’s Virtual Cinema
Annette (Leos Carax)
In Annette, a provocative comedian (Adam Driver) and renowned opera singer (Marion Cotillard) fall in love and have a gifted child. Written and composed by Ron and Russell Mael of Sparks, the singular rock band that formed in the early 1970s,...
- 8/20/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.Newsa number of this year's fall blockbusters have been delayed and rescheduled for 2021 releases, including Warner Bros.' The Batman, the latest James Bond picture No Time to Die, and Denis Villeneuve's Dune.Recommended VIEWINGSan Francisco Cinematheque has made the program Memories of Earth: (A)wake in a House of Worlds available for free online. The program, which includes artists from Yoko Ono and Yvonne Rainer to Sky Hopinka and Kevin Jerome Everson, features films that "recast notions of what constitutes the cinematic, the political and the poetic." From Ken Jacobs' Vimeo channel, his 2004 experimental feature Star Spangled to Death—a six-hour commentary and critique of the United States—in its entirety.An official trailer for Robert Zemeckis' adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Witches (produced by Guillermo Del Toro), set to premiere on HBO Max.
- 10/7/2020
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSDisney has announced that Barry Jenkins will helm the live-action The Lion King sequel, which reportedly includes "Mufasa's origin story."Speaking of sequels, Chinese authorities have approved the production of a project written by Wong Kar-wai, curiously titled Chungking Express 2020. The synopsis states that at least a portion of the film will take place in 2036, where "young Xiao Qian and May are unwilling to be held back by genetic partnerings, and insist on finding their own ‘destiny’.”Festival season persists: The Cannes Film Festival will be hosting a three-day "Special Cannes" event in October that will feature the screening of four Official Selections, in-competition short films, and the Cinéfondation’s school films. This year's San Sebastian Film Festival concluded with the sweep of Georgian filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili’s debut feature Beginning, which received four of seven jury prizes.
- 9/30/2020
- MUBI
This piece is one part loving obituary and one part urgent call-to-action around the undeniable need for our independent film industry to put some sort of safety nets in place for our beloved and aging indie film leadership. Ironically, when I wrote this piece just two months ago, who could have imagined that the topic of safety nets would become so important to All Of Us given the ways in which our industry has been so dramatically halted and upended by the #Coronavirus public health pandemic?By Marc Smolowitz
30 March
For context, I am currently developing a new film as a director on these topics, and I hope to gather steam among key indie film organizations in the coming months, so we can all come together (either online or in-person when safe to do so) to create new programs and initiatives that help build safety nets for the most vulnerable in our industry.
30 March
For context, I am currently developing a new film as a director on these topics, and I hope to gather steam among key indie film organizations in the coming months, so we can all come together (either online or in-person when safe to do so) to create new programs and initiatives that help build safety nets for the most vulnerable in our industry.
- 5/5/2020
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSOleg Sentsov.Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, whose film Gamer was previously shown on Mubi in December of 2018, has been released from imprisonment in Russia following a prisoner exchange. Today, September 18, 2019, is Art House Theater Day, "an annual celebration of art house and indie theaters." The official Art House Theater Day website has provided a service that helps art-house movie enthusiasts find nearby locations to celebrate and support their local theaters. New details have emerged regarding Angela Schanelec's upcoming feature, Music, an adaptation of the Oedipus myth that follows a young boy from Greece to London. Recommended Viewing. Todd Haynes's latest, Dark Waters, delves into a legal battle between an attorney and a chemical company that connects a series of mysterious deaths to forty years of poisoned water. The international trailer for Pietro Marcello's Martin Eden,...
- 9/18/2019
- MUBI
A group of international films that seem partially united by the theme of global awareness, this program is more of a mixed bag than most. Sadly, I was unable to preview the first film in the show, 2minutes40seconds, by Han Ok-hee. It’s from 1975, and it is a rare screening of work by the Kaidu Club, a feminist experimental film collective from South Korea. Considering just how little Korean avant-garde film gets screened at all, much less from the seventies, I’d say Han’s film is a categorical must-see.Hrvoji, Look at Your From the TowerRyan Ferko has presented a number of films in festivals past, although those previous entries have been co-directed by Faraz and Parastoo Anoushahpour. They are both listed in the credits of Hrvoji as collaborators, but Ferko is credited as the sole filmmaker, and this in itself is intriguing. Although the trio's films have been quite impressive,...
- 9/9/2019
- MUBI
As her longtime life partner and co-director Beth Stephens puts it in the second documentary they’ve made together, “There’s a reason her name is Annie Sprinkle.” This loving duo leads their audience through a sensual requiem for mother earth in “Water Makes Us Wet—An Ecosexual Adventure,” which recently premiered at Doc Fortnight, the Museum of Modern Art’s annual documentary festival. For the uninitiated, the film serves as an introduction to Sprinkle and Stephens’ sexecology movement, also known as ecosexuality, which Wikipedia describes as “a radical form of environmental activism based around nature fetishism.” In the film’s definition, an ecosexual is “a person who imagines the earth as their lover, and finds nature (human and non-human) sensual and erotic.”
The documentary is narrated by the earth herself, as voiced by artist and transgender pioneer Sandy Stone. Stone’s gentle exposition guides the proceedings with a soft rumble,...
The documentary is narrated by the earth herself, as voiced by artist and transgender pioneer Sandy Stone. Stone’s gentle exposition guides the proceedings with a soft rumble,...
- 2/27/2019
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Part One of this series is about the origin of the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema (Rbmc). Part Two covers all the screenings in 1998.
Continuing into 1999 at the Collective Unconscious theater space in NYC, the Rbmc — co-programmed by Brian L. Frye and Bradley Eros — went on hiatus for the first week of the year, but resumed on January 12. Below is a list of screenings from then until a May 18 event that celebrated the Rbmc’s first full year of existence.
The films and filmmakers selected to screen by Frye and Eros represent an interesting time in the sphere of avant-garde and experimental cinema. Up until this point, there seemed to be a distinct separation between the formal style of, say, structuralism, and the more raucous, punk rock world of the “underground.” However, in the 1990s, these two worlds appear to be colliding. The Rbmc seemed just as content screening Hollis Frampton‘s Critical Mass (Feb.
Continuing into 1999 at the Collective Unconscious theater space in NYC, the Rbmc — co-programmed by Brian L. Frye and Bradley Eros — went on hiatus for the first week of the year, but resumed on January 12. Below is a list of screenings from then until a May 18 event that celebrated the Rbmc’s first full year of existence.
The films and filmmakers selected to screen by Frye and Eros represent an interesting time in the sphere of avant-garde and experimental cinema. Up until this point, there seemed to be a distinct separation between the formal style of, say, structuralism, and the more raucous, punk rock world of the “underground.” However, in the 1990s, these two worlds appear to be colliding. The Rbmc seemed just as content screening Hollis Frampton‘s Critical Mass (Feb.
- 6/17/2018
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
This is Part Two in a series about Chicago’s Experimental Film Coalition; and covers their screening series. You can read Part One here.
Formed in 1983, the Experimental Film Coalition started holding regular monthly screenings starting in 1984. The screenings brought to Chicago the work of independent, experimental filmmakers across the country, as well as screening local work.
Screenings were held at the Randolph Street Gallery, an alternative performance and exhibition space located at 756 N. Milwaukee Ave. The Gallery eventually closed down in 1998 and donated their archives to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; which exhibits some of the Coalition’s flyers on their website.
Below is a sample of screening information culled from those archives, listed in chronological order:
1984
March 23
2 Razor Blades, dir. Paul Sharits
Make Me Psychic, dir. Sally Cruikshank
Unsere Afrikareise, dir. Peter Kubelka
Roslyn Romance, dir. Bruce Baillie
Musical Poster #1, dir. Len Lye
April 27
Rainbow Dance,...
Formed in 1983, the Experimental Film Coalition started holding regular monthly screenings starting in 1984. The screenings brought to Chicago the work of independent, experimental filmmakers across the country, as well as screening local work.
Screenings were held at the Randolph Street Gallery, an alternative performance and exhibition space located at 756 N. Milwaukee Ave. The Gallery eventually closed down in 1998 and donated their archives to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; which exhibits some of the Coalition’s flyers on their website.
Below is a sample of screening information culled from those archives, listed in chronological order:
1984
March 23
2 Razor Blades, dir. Paul Sharits
Make Me Psychic, dir. Sally Cruikshank
Unsere Afrikareise, dir. Peter Kubelka
Roslyn Romance, dir. Bruce Baillie
Musical Poster #1, dir. Len Lye
April 27
Rainbow Dance,...
- 12/17/2017
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
NEW YORK -- Film Society of Lincoln Center and Museum of Modern Art's New Directors/New Films series will open with Courtney Hunt's top Sundance prizewinner Frozen River.
It's one of several recent Sundance entries (including Trouble the Water, Sleep Dealer and Ballast) in the 17-country, 26-feature lineup running March 26 to April 6 at Lincoln Center and MOMA.
Helmers set to speak at the New Directors and Beyond March 30 roundtable include Michael Almereyda, Su Friedrich, Philip Haas, Tamara Jenkins, Tom Kalin, Lodge Kerrigan and Jim McKay.
It's one of several recent Sundance entries (including Trouble the Water, Sleep Dealer and Ballast) in the 17-country, 26-feature lineup running March 26 to April 6 at Lincoln Center and MOMA.
Helmers set to speak at the New Directors and Beyond March 30 roundtable include Michael Almereyda, Su Friedrich, Philip Haas, Tamara Jenkins, Tom Kalin, Lodge Kerrigan and Jim McKay.
- 2/22/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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