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The Owl and the Cow: A Conversation with Kelly Reichardt

• 04 October 2022
• MUBI

Showing Up (2022).Sometimes, nothing happens: nothing happens but waiting, saving and making do in the meantime. How do we make stories from these passages of time? Kelly Reichardt not only directs ...

Tiff 2017. Wavelengths Preview: The Short Stack

• 07 September 2017
• MUBI

It’s been an interesting run-up to the Toronto International Film Festival, and in terms of the survival of the species, the good ol’ U.S.A. has been something of a race to the bottom. What would do ...

Camilo Restrepo’s Impressions

• 21 August 2017
• MUBI

Camilo Restrepo's Impression of a War (2015) is playing August 10 - September 8, 2017 on Mubi in many countries around the world as part of the series Direct from Locarno.Like Shadows Growing as the ...

Homelands and Landscapes: The Found Footage Films of Shambhavi Kaul

• 12 May 2017
• MUBI

Scene 32Field of Stone (2007) the first film by Shambhavi Kaul, is a feature-length documentary about the polarizing Harley-Davidson-riding country western singer David Allan Coe, but ten years later, ...

Reappearing Fireflies: Bruce Baillie in Vienna

• 21 March 2017
• MUBI

Bruce Baillie. Courtesy of Lux. The first time he saw Bruce Baillie, a fiery Peter Kubelka recounted in front of an amused audience at the Austrian Film Museum, the American filmmaker was pulling off ...

The Wind that Shakes the Barley: Scott Barley’s "Sleep Has Her House"

• 09 March 2017
• MUBI

Like the great Jean-Marie Straub, Scott Barley creates striking images by returning us to the basics of cinema, the natural world, but abstracting it through profilmic means by reducing the landscape ...

Cinema Changes Trees: A Dialogue About New Films By James Benning

• 02 January 2017
• MUBI

Spring EquinoxOn November 10, James Benning premiered five of his latest works (thinking of red, wavelength, measuring change, Spring Equinox and Fall Equinox) at the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna, ...

NYC Weekend Watch: Maggie Cheung, ‘Leviathan,’ Busby Berkeley, Dennis Hopper & More

• 09 December 2016
• The Film Stage

Since any New York City cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory showings into one handy list. ...

Sea Voyages, Failed Surgeries, and Folk Art: the Viennale 2016

• 29 November 2016
• MUBI

I attended the Viennale for the first time this year, both because I was already in Vienna and had been there since the summer with the purpose of improving my German and because the festival was ...

Landscape Cinema Starter Kit

• 11 October 2016
• MUBI

I’ve been making 16mm durational urban landscape voiceover films, slowly but surely, since the late ‘90s. My short film Blue Diary premiered at the Berlinale in 1998. My two features, The Joy of Life ...

Daily | Previewing Viennale 2016

• 20 August 2016
• Keyframe

The Viennale, running this year from October 20 through November 2, has begun previewing its lineup, including a retrospective essentially built on creatively programmed double features. For example: ...

Daily | Previewing Viennale 2016

• 20 August 2016
• Fandor: Keyframe

The Viennale, running this year from October 20 through November 2, has begun previewing its lineup, including a retrospective essentially built on creatively programmed double features. For example: ...

Nyff: Film Society Announces 2016 Projections Section Lineup

• 17 August 2016
• Indiewire

The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced the complete lineup for the Projections section of the 54th New York Film Festival. Heading into its third year, the annual celebration will take place ...

Nyff’s Projections Lineup Includes Nathaniel Dorsky, ‘The Human Surge’ & More

• 17 August 2016
• The Film Stage

As with their Convergence section, the New York Film Festival offers an expanded view of the current cinema with yet another installment in their Projections series, a showcase of recent developments ...

Daily | Goings On | Jarman, Malle, del Toro

• 03 August 2016
• Keyframe

Melissa Anderson and Amélie Garin-Davet have curated a week-long series opening Friday, Dim All the Lights: Disco and the Movies, occasioned by the world theatrical premiere of Derek Jarman’s Will You ...

Daily | Goings On | Jarman, Malle, del Toro

• 03 August 2016
• Fandor: Keyframe

Melissa Anderson and Amélie Garin-Davet have curated a week-long series opening Friday, Dim All the Lights: Disco and the Movies, occasioned by the world theatrical premiere of Derek Jarman’s Will You ...

Weekly Rushes. Cimino & Kiarostami Remembered, Eastwood & Malick Trailers, Writing "Dr. Strangelove"

• 06 July 2016
• MUBI

NEWSPoster for Abbas Kiarostami's The ReportIt's been a devastating series of days for film lovers. First, Heaven's Gate director Michael Cimino passed away at 77, silencing one of American cinema's ...

Weekly Rushes. Fake Coens Trailer, Apichatpong Begins, Rohmer's Swimsuits, Woody's Next Films

• 29 June 2016
• MUBI

Rushes collects news, articles, images, videos and more for a weekly roundup of essential items from the world of film.NEWSPhoto by Apichatpong WeerasethakulLast weekend came the news that the great ...

Discovery’s David Zaslav On International Growth: “We’re Just Getting Started”

• 04 June 2015
• Deadline TV

Using the French Open as a backdrop, Discovery executives gathered at Roland Garros in Paris this morning to tubthump the company's international growth and show off Eurosport, the pan-regional sports ...

Daily | Jump Cut, Filmmaker, Vogel

• 22 January 2015
• Fandor: Keyframe

A new issue of Jump Cut is always a thumper and #56 is no exception: Mike Budd on Disney "in the era of corporate personhood," Douglas Kellner on 12 Years a Slave and Amistad, Heather Ashley Hayes and ...