Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Bertrand Bonello's Sarah Winchester, Phantom Opera (2016), which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, is showing from April 7 - May 7, 2017 as a Special Discovery.It’s a film of strange contrasts and concordances: the striking presence of the dancer’s body set against the Winchester rifle’s unseen destruction of flesh; modern and classical musical forms; the gold opulence and chandeliers of the theater and the modern machinery backstage.—Leo Goldsmith, Film Comment Coming Events Cast Their Shadows — Winchester Rifles and Winchester Ammunition advert, 1895You can’t finish a work of art if it doesn’t exist—let alone abandon it, cultivate it, revise it, retrieve it, breathe it, respond to it. The same goes for a human life: what to say to, what to do with, a person who is no more, a body that you never touched,...
- 4/7/2017
- MUBI
Leading curated streaming platform Mubi has announced today the launch of its brand new “Discoveries” series, featuring new films each month that have been hand-picked straight from the international film festival circuit, streaming exclusively on Mubi. The new series is intended to spotlight the work of acclaimed and established directors as well as some of the most talented emerging filmmakers from around the world.
Of the new series, Mubi’s Director of Content Daniel Kasman commented, “Countless wonderful and inspiring films made all over the world are seen only at select film festivals, unfairly left undistributed and inaccessible to most audiences. So it is with great pleasure that we’re launching Mubi’s Discoveries series, a programming initiative through which we will introduce these essential, previously unavailable but extraordinary works of international cinema to the largest possible audience.”
The first film in the Discoveries series will be Damien Manivel’s “Le Parc,...
Of the new series, Mubi’s Director of Content Daniel Kasman commented, “Countless wonderful and inspiring films made all over the world are seen only at select film festivals, unfairly left undistributed and inaccessible to most audiences. So it is with great pleasure that we’re launching Mubi’s Discoveries series, a programming initiative through which we will introduce these essential, previously unavailable but extraordinary works of international cinema to the largest possible audience.”
The first film in the Discoveries series will be Damien Manivel’s “Le Parc,...
- 1/9/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
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