The intimate bodily motion of “Days” startles its director’s usual stillness of routine
Tsai Ming-liang's latest socially conscious queer drama is screening as part of Spotlight Cinema on November 10.
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Joan Micklin Silver’s patient films challenged a bombastic Hollywood system
Starting September 24, UW Cinematheque honors the director, who was fascinated by cultural shifts in American society, with a four-film retrospective across four Fridays.
The unembellished exhibition of Sergei Loznitsa’s Soviet documentaries
The Belarusian filmmaker collects Stalin-era footage for historical and psychological study in two recent works—"State Funeral" and "The Trial"—now streaming on MUBI.
“My Darling Supermarket” finds the everyday within the profound
Maxwell Courtright tours this Brazilian documentary that praises the lives of those who are now seen as essential workers.
Jessica Sarah Rinland’s hands-on conservationist cinema
The avant-garde documentarian explores the interplay between natural and unnatural worlds in two recent films now streaming on MUBI.
Barbara Hammer’s radical personal and political ethos
This week, MUBI is spotlighting two short films—"A Month Of Single Frames" and "Vever (For Barbara)"— that encapsulate the late, great avant-garde filmmaker.
From “Citadel,” formal reflections of a quarantined year
What John Smith’s avant-garde short film, now streaming on MUBI, tells us about the way we live now.
The masochistic designs of men in fervent “Faith”
Valentina Pedicini’s final feature, a documentary on a martial arts cult in Italy, is now available on MUBI.
Sensory ethnography and disability in “Entire Days Together”
Luise Donschen's new avant-garde short is streaming exclusively on MUBI starting November 4.
“A Girl Missing” finds tragic drama in a mystery-thriller’s clothing
Kōji Fukada’s poignantly subversive film will be available virtually through MMoCA’s Spotlight Cinema on October 28.