After presenting the online premieres of his previous two features The Night I Swam and The Park, MUBI returns to the work of French auteur Damien Manivel. His latest and most ambitious feature, Isadora’s Children, won him Best Director at Locarno last year and is an affectionate tribute to the legendary dancer Isadora Duncan.
Winner of the Palme d’Or for Best Short Film at Cannes 1996, Marcell Iványi’s The Wind restages Lucien Hervé’s photo “Les trois femmes” and then pans to reveal a distressing reality just outside the photograph. The Hungarian director paints a sobering look at post war Hungary in a single 360° shot.
[Rediscovered] After premiering at Rotterdam 2019 and having a run at New York’s Film at Lincoln Center earlier this year, MUBI is excited to exclusively present a new restoration of Maria Saakyan’s The Lighthouse. Considered the first film directed by an Armenian woman filmmaker, this is a visually stunning, dreamlike window into Soviet-era Armenia. A singular artist, Saakyan sadly died from cancer in 2018 at age 37.
[Undiscovered] MUBI will exclusively present Sergio Da Costa and Maya Kosa’s hybrid fictionalized documentary portrait of a Swiss bird sanctuary. Bird Island (Locarno ‘19) is a beguiling, cautionary parable about the hostile modern world and the current environmental crisis.
The exclusive online premiere of the late Jóhann Jóhannsson’s directorial debut. End of Summer documents the renowned Icelandic composer’s journey to the Antarctic Peninsula. This personal portrait of austere landscapes is layered with an emotional, enduring original score, which was also conceived as an album and is now newly released on vinyl.
EDWARD YANG, HOU HSIAO-HSIEN, AND NEW TAIWANESE CINEMA
DUST IN THE WIND
MUBI is proud to present this retrospective dedicated to renowned directors Hou Hsiao-hsien and Edward Yang, foundational figures behind the first wave of New Taiwanese Cinema in the 1980s. Embracing a cinematic style that emphasized long takes, elliptical editing, and shifting points of view, this movement put Taiwanese cinema on the map for international audiences.
This series focuses on the early works that sparked this dynamic run of auteur driven films that compassionately meditated on daily life in a transforming Taiwan, including Hsio-hsien’s semi-autobiographical drama A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Berin ‘86) and Yang’s groundbreaking film The Terrorizers (Berlin ‘87).
Next month, MUBI will celebrate the one-of-a-kind, visceral cinema by renowned writer, playwright, and filmmaker Marguerite Duras, exclusively presenting three of her most celebrated films. This includes her compassionate meditation on the anguish of love, Baxter, Vera Baxter (Cannes ‘75), featuring mighty performances from Claudine Gabay and Delphine Seyrig.
To celebrate the birthday of one of cinema’s most important directors and one of the 20th century’s greatest artists, MUBI will present a double bill by Jean Renoir. To showcase Renoir’s incredible range, the selection features films that bookmark his prolific filmography. This includes his third feature, the silent film Nana starring his first wife Catherine Hessling, and his penultimate work The Elusive Corporal (Berlin ’62), a spiritual follow-up to his classic Grand Illusion.
LOVE & LOSS & LIBERATION: TWO CLASSIC GAY FILMS BY
ARTHUR J. BRESSAN JR.
GAY USA
MUBI is proud to present the streaming premieres of two new restorations of Arthur J. Bressan Jr.’s enduring, landmark works of LGBTQ+ cinema. Gay USA documents a variety of Pride parades across the United States in the late 70s, capturing a key moment in the American gay rights movement.
Bressan’s devastating drama Buddies was the first-ever feature to explore the AIDS pandemic. Bressan died of an AIDS-related illness two years after the release of the monumental film.
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