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

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.

The Gold Bug is a pretty great example of how to deal with weird co-production schemes as well. Fun film.

In the US they are all directed by either Mariano Llinás or Alejo Moguillansky.

Intend to see all apart from Extraordinary Stories which is four hours long.

I watched the very beginning of Extraordinary Stories and would have watched more if I had time. Also watched the first two sections of Balnearios which I really enjoyed, but again didn't have time to finish. Would definitely want to see both in the entirety. Probably better to see a four hour movie in a theater though.

Mubi always creeps up on me. I intend to watch another, then finally have to download to phone when something is expiring and I watch as match as I can before it is wiped.

So, good luck to me with the three early Hitchcocks.

Or maybe I can finish watching the early Renoir Whirlpool of Fate that is already expired but still exists on my phone for a few more moments.

thought Cocote was excellent, a really haunting subversion of the filial revenge archetype to look at how religion shapes peoples awareness of their own agency within an urban/rural divide.

https://www.screendaily.com/news/mubi-launches-uk-cinema-ticket-offering-mubi-go-exclusive/5132278.article

A weekly ticket for HOME Manchester and MUBI access? Yaldi

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!