Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSThe New York Film Festival has announced its Main Slate (featuring Chloé Zhao's Nomadland as the Centerpiece film) and its lineup of Revivals. Linda Manz, best known for her roles in Days of Heaven, Out of the Blue, and Gummo, has died. In memory of her iconic acting career, we're returning to Nick Pinkerton's 2011 interview with Manz (which contains her recipe for clam bread) and Sheila O'Malley's essay on Manz's performanceJanus Films has released a gorgeous teaser trailer for the 4K restoration of Claire Denis's Beau travail, which will be released in virtual cinemas in September. A24 has released the official trailer for Sofia Coppola's upcoming On the Rocks, starring Rashida Jones and Bill Murray. Recommended READINGThe Baffler's A.S. Hamrah interviews Michael Almereyda, who discusses his latest Tesla,...
- 8/19/2020
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Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Chris Marker's Level Five (1997) is playing September 17 - October 17, 2017 in most countries around the world as part of the retrospective Chris Marker: An Essayist from the Future.Midway into Chris Marker’s Level Five (1997), Laura (Catherine Belkhodja) ponders aloud what ethnologists of the future might think of the video diaries she makes throughout the course of the film. Answering to their presumed curiosity, she tells those future detectives, “Yes it was customary for such tribes to address a familiar and protective spirit known as a computer…They’d consult on everything, it kept their memory. In fact, they no longer had a memory. It was their memory.” If one had to make a sweeping statement about this dense, multivalent film, one could do worse than suggest that Level Five’s subject is this externalization of memory into media addressed by Laura,...
- 9/24/2017
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Craig Keller and Uncas Blythe continue our series of film dialogues. Isiah Medina's 88:88 is having its exclusive online premiere at Mubi, playing through April 17, 2016.Craig Keller: We're going to talk about Isiah Medina's 66-minute film from 2015, 88:88. It's a challenging movie: polyphonic, polypictorial, but not confrontational, in fact pretty chilled-out; if it were featured on Top Gear the hosts might praise its speed, dynamic facility, and stability of suspension. 88:88 presents Medina himself and a group of friends or characters from university in and around the neighborhoods of Winnipeg.Now I'll refrain from synopsizing any more. I had a hard time with the film, but like any complicated work revisitations in whole and in part yield stronger comprehension; accordingly, new insights rise to the surface. Going back through it again the other day I started by watching only the first ten minutes, which provide an overture,...
- 4/5/2016
- by Craig Keller
- MUBI
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