Werner Schroeter's Malina (1991) is exclusively on Mubi on October 22, 2020 in Mubi's Rediscovered series.Malina (1991), Werner Schroeter’s searing and serrated adaptation of Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann’s 1971 cult novel, begins with a flurry of typing and the scratching of pen against paper. An anonymous woman writer (Isabelle Huppert), surrounded by papers, scrawls the letters of a feminine name not her own: Malina. Or as Humbert Humbert wrote of Lolita—Lo-lee-ta—Malina’s hypnotic chain of vowels guides “the tip of the tongue [on] a trip of three steps down the palate.” Ma-Lee.-Na. Flushed with the heat of obsession, she takes the word apart and rearranges its letters: Malina. Anima. Animal. Animus. The figure on the page—Malina (Mathieu Carrière), the woman’s housemate—then enters. Through the mirrors on the walls and doors, his figure becomes distorted and projected across every surface while the camera circles the maze-like estate.
- 10/22/2020
- MUBI
If the Costa Concordia, which ran aground off the west coast of Italy last night, looks familiar to you, it's likely that it's because it's the cruise ship that's the setting for the first movement of Jean-Luc Godard's Film socialisme ("It's less a tourist cruise than an international summit of bastards," wrote David Phelps in June). The accident, which cost the lives of three people and injured many more (and around 40 of the 4000 passengers are still missing), occurred on the same evening that a rogue vigilante group going by the name of Standard and Poor's downgraded the credit ratings of nine eurozone countries.
Which brings us to our first set of DVDs. A Forum topic on Artificial Eye's release of its Theo Angelopoulos Collection has been rumbling along for half a year now and, with the third volume coming out next month, David Jenkins has a good long...
Which brings us to our first set of DVDs. A Forum topic on Artificial Eye's release of its Theo Angelopoulos Collection has been rumbling along for half a year now and, with the third volume coming out next month, David Jenkins has a good long...
- 1/14/2012
- MUBI
"Romanian films set in the era after the fall of Communism suggest the nation suffers a hell of a hangover from the ideology," writes Steve Erickson in Gay City News. "For instance, Corneliu Porumboiu's Police, Adjective attacks draconian drug laws left over from the old regime. Tuesday, After Christmas presents a very different vision of Romania. Its characters can afford to buy expensive Christmas gifts; one of them picks up a 3,300 Euro telescope. It may not be entirely accurate to call the film apolitical, but the most political thing about it is its avoidance of Eastern European miserabilism and its depiction of people who could be living much the same lifestyles in Western Europe."
Damon Smith introduces an interview with director Radu Muntean for Filmmaker: "Tuesday, After Christmas, which premiered at Cannes last year, opens on a dreamy scene: sunlight bathes a naked couple, middle-aged Paul (Mimi Branescu) and pretty,...
Damon Smith introduces an interview with director Radu Muntean for Filmmaker: "Tuesday, After Christmas, which premiered at Cannes last year, opens on a dreamy scene: sunlight bathes a naked couple, middle-aged Paul (Mimi Branescu) and pretty,...
- 5/26/2011
- MUBI
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