L'homme atlantique.In 1981, coinciding with the release of Marguerite Duras’s seventeenth film, L’homme atlantique, Le Monde published a short text—“a warning”—by the writer and filmmaker: It has become customary for the majority of cinemagoers in France to act as though cinema is something that is owed to them, to protest and scream bloody murder at the appearance of films that weren’t made for them alone. Therefore, I would like to tell these viewers not to step foot in the cinema that is screening "L’homme atlantique," that there is no use in doing so because the film was made in total ignorance of their existence.Later that year, in an interview conducted by Anne de Gasperi, Duras doubled down on her exclusionary rhetoric. “My cinema is not made for people who love cinema. I didn’t think about those people for a second,” she said.
- 2/26/2024
- MUBI
As December begins, you might be looking forward to spending time with friends and family over the holidays—and in need of some gift-giving inspiration. Look no further than Notebook's Cinephile Gift Guide, the proverbial online Shop Around the Corner (1940).Below is our third annual, lovingly curated guide to the holiday season. It's sure to spread film-themed cheer, and we hope it's thorough enough to surprise all of the film fans in your life.Jump to a category:Books about cinemaBooks by filmmakers and artistsHome videoMusicHome goods, posters, and gamesApparel Books About CINEMAFirst up is UK culture and music critic Ian Penman’s kaleidoscopic, genre-bending offering to Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors. The book has drawn comparisons to Charles Baudelaire and Roland Barthes, but is undoubtedly a sui generis response to a singular legacy.On offer this year from Another Gaze Editions is My Cinema by Marguerite Duras, a...
- 12/12/2023
- MUBI
With the horrific oppression against women, the Lgbtiq+ community, and minorities being carried out by Iran’s regime, a platform has launched to shed insight into the stories of Iranian women and non-binary filmmakers being told through cinema. Another Gaze’s Daniella Shreir has launched “Films From Iran For Iran” on Another Screen, which features 20 films from 1979 through the present, streaming for free through January 4. Check out their introduction below.
Films From Iran For Iran is a programme of films by women and non-binary filmmakers, made from 1979 to the present day, with a focus on experimental and non-fiction work. Exploring ideas around forced and chosen departures, return, mother and other tongues, familial and non-familial feminist and proto-feminist lineages, we seek to extend solidarity to the struggle in Iran, and contribute some much-needed nuance and context to the long history of feminist resistance to state violence that has existed there, at the intersections between gender,...
Films From Iran For Iran is a programme of films by women and non-binary filmmakers, made from 1979 to the present day, with a focus on experimental and non-fiction work. Exploring ideas around forced and chosen departures, return, mother and other tongues, familial and non-familial feminist and proto-feminist lineages, we seek to extend solidarity to the struggle in Iran, and contribute some much-needed nuance and context to the long history of feminist resistance to state violence that has existed there, at the intersections between gender,...
- 12/7/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI, and sign up for our email newsletter by clicking here.NEWSJeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles.At last, Sight & Sound have released the results of the 2022 Greatest Films of All Time critics’ poll. 1,639 ballots later, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) has risen to the number-one spot, accompanied by a new piece from Laura Mulvey. The New York Times offers a useful interactive feature to unpack how the rankings have evolved over time.The American documentarian Julia Reichert—best known for Growing Up Female (1971), Union Maids (1976), and the Oscar-winning American Factory (2019)—died last week of cancer at age 76. Eric Hynes wrote an elegant appreciation of her work in a 2020 piece for Crosscuts, published by the Walker Art Center: Consistently through half a century of filmmaking, Reichert spends time with people.
- 12/6/2022
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSNighthawks.Buenos Aires—1970s Los Angeles—outer space—all of these destinations are contained in Issue 2 of the Notebook print magazine, which will ship out at the end of January. Click here to learn more and subscribe.If you read this New York Times profile of Jennifer Lawrence carefully, you’ll find that she is planning a project with Lynne Ramsay—an adaptation of Ariana Harwicz’s Die, My Love. In a follow-up tweet, Kyle Buchanan added that Martin Scorsese will produce.X Crucior is the heavy-metal name of the next film project written by Ron and Russell Mael of Sparks—a musical, of course, continuing their momentum with Annette (2021). No director is attached yet, but if it's not too much to ask, a reunion with Guy Maddin would be fun.According to The Times,...
- 11/9/2022
- MUBI
Cannes Directors’ Fortnight has unveiled the new team of programmers and consultants who will work with incoming delegate general Julien Rejl on his inaugural selection for May 2023.
Rejl will be supported by seven programmers.
Hervé Aubron, film academic and Cahiers du Cinéma critic Agathe Bonitzer, actress, whose credits include When Margaux Meets Margaux and A Bottle In The Gaza Sea Elsa Charbit, experienced programmer who was formerly artistic director of France’s Entrevues, Belfort International Film Festival Caroline Maleville, programming manager at the French Cinematheque Jean-Marc Zekri, head of Paris arthouse cinema Le Reflet Médicis Daniella Shreir, U.K. founder and co-editor of feminist film journal ‘Another Gaze’ Muyan Wang, Paris-based Chinese critic
They will be joined by four consultants
Alvaro Arroba, Buenos Aires-based Spanish film journalist and programmer for the city’s International Independent Film Festival (Bafici). He will advise on Latin America and Spanish-speaking countries. Cintia Gil, former Sheffield DocFest and Doclisboa head.
Rejl will be supported by seven programmers.
Hervé Aubron, film academic and Cahiers du Cinéma critic Agathe Bonitzer, actress, whose credits include When Margaux Meets Margaux and A Bottle In The Gaza Sea Elsa Charbit, experienced programmer who was formerly artistic director of France’s Entrevues, Belfort International Film Festival Caroline Maleville, programming manager at the French Cinematheque Jean-Marc Zekri, head of Paris arthouse cinema Le Reflet Médicis Daniella Shreir, U.K. founder and co-editor of feminist film journal ‘Another Gaze’ Muyan Wang, Paris-based Chinese critic
They will be joined by four consultants
Alvaro Arroba, Buenos Aires-based Spanish film journalist and programmer for the city’s International Independent Film Festival (Bafici). He will advise on Latin America and Spanish-speaking countries. Cintia Gil, former Sheffield DocFest and Doclisboa head.
- 9/28/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSThe 2022 poster for Cannes' Directors' Fortnight.Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight has announced the seven programmers and four consultants who will be supporting incoming artistic director Julien Rejl in his selection processes. Amongst the team is ex-Sheffield DocFest director Cintia Gil, Another Gaze founder Daniella Shreir, and Ming-Jung Kuo, former Program Director of the Taipei Film Festival.Dutch documentary festival IDFA has released the lineups for the first few strands of their 2022 edition, including the short and youth documentary competitions, plus a tribute to the late Lithuanian filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravičius.David Cronenberg’s Scanners is being remade as a TV series. Yann Demange (executive producer of Lovecraft Country and Top Boy) will direct, with Cronenberg also on board as an executive producer.Recommended VIEWINGAfter premiering in competition at the Venice International Film Festival, A Couple, Frederick Wiseman’s new fiction feature,...
- 9/27/2022
- MUBI
In today’s Global Bulletin, Steve Coogan takes Alan Partridge on the road; Another Screen offers a free, month-long selection of films from Palestinian women filmmakers; Spain gets a “Temptation Island” spinoff show; the Gulf Cooperation Council launches a campaign to bring audiences back to the cinema post-covid; Vis makes its first reality format deal in the Nordics with Svt; and ITV appoints Kunal Shah as sales director for South Asia.
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Steve Coogan is bringing his most famous character to the stage in “Stratagem With Alan Partridge,” a new live show set to tour the U.K. and Ireland in the Spring of 2022. Tickets for the tour go on sale this Saturday.
With a Ted Talk-style head-mic, perfectly quaffed hair and a love-hate-able shtick that has tickled British audiences for decades, Alan Partridge will bring his unique brand of motivational speaking to audiences in a show produced by Phil...
Theater
Steve Coogan is bringing his most famous character to the stage in “Stratagem With Alan Partridge,” a new live show set to tour the U.K. and Ireland in the Spring of 2022. Tickets for the tour go on sale this Saturday.
With a Ted Talk-style head-mic, perfectly quaffed hair and a love-hate-able shtick that has tickled British audiences for decades, Alan Partridge will bring his unique brand of motivational speaking to audiences in a show produced by Phil...
- 5/26/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSOleg Sentsov.Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, whose film Gamer was previously shown on Mubi in December of 2018, has been released from imprisonment in Russia following a prisoner exchange. Today, September 18, 2019, is Art House Theater Day, "an annual celebration of art house and indie theaters." The official Art House Theater Day website has provided a service that helps art-house movie enthusiasts find nearby locations to celebrate and support their local theaters. New details have emerged regarding Angela Schanelec's upcoming feature, Music, an adaptation of the Oedipus myth that follows a young boy from Greece to London. Recommended Viewing. Todd Haynes's latest, Dark Waters, delves into a legal battle between an attorney and a chemical company that connects a series of mysterious deaths to forty years of poisoned water. The international trailer for Pietro Marcello's Martin Eden,...
- 9/18/2019
- MUBI
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