MUBI (Criterion-affiliated streaming classic, foreign, independent movie site) - c/d, comments, recommendations, etc.

Gomes is indeed Portuguese. Our Beloved Month of August is great. The earlier stuff is pretty eh.

they are showing new argentinian stuff gratis this week

Honor Of The Knights is Albert Serra. Enjoy!

Anyone who uses this, how is it going?

Love that it's on the PS3, would join if it was on Wii

This site throws up some interesting things from time to time.

to watch?
i just really read the notebook, which is good

Watched Vampyr this afternoon. It was excellent.

You can become a fan of me now, if you like.

I'm not twisting yr arm or anything,

http://mubi.com/cast_members/140297

Done!

gave you an official film club endorsement, let me know if there are palpable ripples of interest

Trying to watch the Zidane doc right now before it goes away, but buffering issues.

Looking forward to watching the two Philippe Garrels.

Wish they had a mute button for the silents.

resident evil!

i am sort of onboard with this site now

I have a free months I think?

I need to make more time for these things

I took a break for a while need to get back into it.

Also, silents ain't exactly silent since somebody usually tacks orchestral soundtracks onto them.

this sucks that there's no way to watch this on a television in the us that i can find.
maybe apple tv via the ipad? I'll have to buy a membership to find out...

i use my hdmi-bluray cable to connect my computer to my tv. doesn't that work in us?

if i had a computer with a hdmi out, yeah

if i had a computer with a hdmi out, yeah

i use ipad with hdmi, plus changing the aspect ratio. works fine.

you can get an adapter that uses the weird lil - what is it? - svga out?, on your computer? & that transforms to hdmi

apple tv works just fine and I can also download to my pad to watch on the train. watched three films today. Very much hooked.

ooh, they've got diaz's from what is before on. Just need to find a spare 5.5hr

That was screened without an intermission at the Glasgow Film Festival, hope you'll observe the same viewing conditions

haha so I didn't do this

I have 2hr left to watch this 5.5hr film before it goes out of my life forever

I'm too tipsy to concentrate tho

this thing is awesome but i need an easier way to port it to my (american) tv set

ideoatv, this is the most perfect service I have ever known

Today's film in Denmark is The Second Game, the film Corneliu Porumboiu made, consisting of a vhs-copy of a tv-game from 88 with him and his dad talking on top of it. That's arty. Also, it's pretty fun for fans of Porumboiu.

that's today's film everywhere! will watch.

It was fun to watch at a film festival with an audience consisting mainly of football fans. I hope they got something out of it.

sadly my internet connection at home is too slow to reliably stream this, especially if i try to feed it through to my TV. i tried to watch "the strange little cat" that way and it stuttered every minute or so. but Mubi /is/ kind of amazing.

ideoatv, this is the most perfect service I have ever known

"I don't even own a TV"

ha, damn u
i was googling ideaotv obsessively hoping there was an app for tivo or something

excited to watch Kurosawa's The Idiot, love the book & Kurosawa but have never got round to seeing this

I have been told Amazon fire tv will play this in the usa...?

can you chromecast it?

paul thomas anderson's new film junun will premiere on here on the 9th

:O

how cool!

lol

one for the ia thread maybe, got 1hr into diaz's melancholia and the stream started fucking up - sound going out of sync with picture. This has happened before, I know from experience that it will work fine on my tablet but do I want to watch the next 7hr of this film on a 9in screen? it's either that or, realistically, never see this film. v annoying

Laajakangaselokuvana!

Doing a nice run of Argentinian new wave films rn.

In the US two. Haven't watched any yet though

Aargh! Two=too

Watch Eduardo Williams' The Human Surge! I will definitely rewatch. When first I saw it, I didn't really think much of it, but parts of it has stayed with me and I've been thinking more and more about some of the stuff that it did.

Pretty happy with MUBI GO these days.

Last week CRIMSON, this week REVOIR PARIS.

Franz Rogowski and Adèle Exarchopoulos is about as MUBI as casting could get.

Reasonably certain Passages will end up my favorite movie of the year in the end

just noticed that there is watch history on mubi and these are movies i would totally watch again/i really liked:

Lucky Chan-Sil
Styx
The Guardians
Sweetgrass
Of Horses And Men
Fourteen
Air Conditioner
Esther Kahn
Gritt
24 City
Once Upon A Time In Anatolia
America As Seen By A Frenchman
Azor

most WTF uhhhhhhhhhhhh award obviously goes to The Trouble With Being Born. don't think i need to see that again though...

(least favorite white savior movie about bongo drums: The Visitor.)

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is wonderful. Nuri Bilge Ceylan is one of today’s top 10 directors

Azor was my favorite 2021 movie. Even thinking about it now is giving me a bit of the creeps.

yes there are parts of that movie that evoke a rare sense of dread, it's top notch

Saw AMANDA last night with MUBI GO. Pretty good.

New collection here looks choice:

https://mubi.com/en/us/collections/spectacle-everyday

Beloved by Latin American audiences—and renowned auteurs such as Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo del Toro—the Golden Age of Mexican cinema is filled with treasures beyond a cinephile’s wildest dreams. Ushering in a monumentally prolific era of master filmmakers and unforgettable screen stars, these exquisite tales ingeniously reimagine the visual aesthetics of classical Hollywood through the distinctive lens of local culture and history. Pressing issues such as wealth inequality and gender roles are among their primary concerns, yet many of the most notable films from this period also have a penchant for the surreal, the fantastical, and the pleasurably strange. Immortalized on screen are not only political revolutionaries but also luchadores, witches, superheroes, and more.

Here, fiery passions can lead to more than a clandestine love affair; they can result in murder or villainous plans for world domination! With melodrama as the key mode of expression, the mirror of everyday realism is shattered, revealing the volatile depths of human desire. Curated in partnership with the Locarno Festival, this selection delivers a taste of their exceptional retrospective of Mexican film production, which includes never-before-seen works. Erasing the simplistic binary between so-called highbrow and lowbrow entertainment, these rediscovered gems, which span three decades, showcase the potency of popular cinema as a vessel for both social commentary and genre delights.

Five up now and hopefully more to follow.

Be still my beating heart.

Streetwalker looks awesome

Just want to say Azor was monumental, incredible movie

^Pretty good. Also dovetailed with my recent rock nacional studies.

yeah it's brilliant, one of the best movies of recent times imo

I assumed y’all watched the interview at the end.

My t0rr3nt didn't have one :(

There's something mystical about it, it locks you into this sickening dream

One of the best endings in a long time too

otm

it's sort of like The Third Man in its plot structure, but no snappy dialogue or safe characters and more like a mundane nightmare where you you sense there is a murky undercurrent of bad shit happening way scarier than the obvious ordinary everyday evil you see glimpses of and try to normalise.

OTM. It's more than tyres and petrol, Old Man.

Indeed to all the above -- a remarkable and unsettling film.

Watched four of those five (so far) Mexican showcase films I posted about earlier -- all great in their own ways!

"Your father was right - fear makes you mediocre" is up there with coldest putdowns in the history of cinema

Is it just me or is MUBI not updating with a new movie everyday anymore?

yes, they sent a circular to me via email a couple weeks ago suggesting there wouldn't be a daily movie anymore. not sure if that's impacted the number of overall films added, I've not really been super active on it recently

just came to ask about that. I really preferred the old structure - gave you a reason to check in every day plus provided some impetus to watch things which were due to drop off (and presumably helped them license some films - on a short term basis - they may otherwise struggle to.)

THE SWEET EAST is intense.

Had a snafu with MUBI GO last week but this week it seems to have worked fine mostly, although they QR reading is broken so they have to type in the code manually.

Anyway, saw THE PROMISED LAND/BASTARDEN at the Angelika yesterday and it lived up to its billing.

i really enjoyed Topology of Sirens - kind of Reichardt-y (very similar color palette and pace to Showing Up, but without the emotional core or character development), lots of experimental music (Sarah Davachi and Matchess act and perform in the movie), sometimes has the vibes of those videos where people play their expensive synthesizers in a very curated room with lots of plants, but it's also a mystery.

some of that reads like a backhanded compliment but it really was a pleasant way to spend an hour and a half - it looks really nice and has good music and sounds

https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/an-enfant-terrible-in-terrible-times-radu-jude-discusses-do-not-expect-too-much-from-the-end-of-the-world

Lol!