New releases and coming soon to MUBI UK (15th July 2017)
David Farnor | On 15, Jul 2017
What’s new, coming soon and leaving soon on the subscription streaming service? This is your weekly MUBI Digest:
This week on MUBI
Slack Bay – 15th July
Masterful slapstick, political horror and bourgeois family drama combine in Bruno Dumont’s enjoyably unpredictable comedy. Read our full review
El Dorado XXI – 21st July
MUBI’s latest Special Discovery is from director Salome Lamas. Set in La Rinconada y Cerro Lunar in the Peruvian Andes – 5500 metres above sea level – the Portuguese director’s second feature is a striking portrait of the migrant workers inhabiting the world’s highest settlement.
Other new releases on MUBI
Symbol
One man (Matsumoto!) is trapped in a room; another, a Mexican wrestler, starts his day. Only pure ingenuity could connect them together. Read our full review
Scabbard Samurai
Matsumoto returns to deconstructing genre expectations with this goofball chambara (swordplay movie). The scenario forces gag after gag, as our hero attempts to escape harakiri.
Goto, Island of Love
MUBI dedicates a double-bill tocontroversial expat Polish director Walerian Borowczyk. It begins with his first live-action feature—a distinctive, stylised fable of mythical proportions, in a glorious restoration including previously omitted colour sequences.
Immoral Tales
Borowczyk’s first sin? By some critical accounts, this film is when Boro went too far with his soft-core, erotic provocations, leaving behind the “art” in favor of exploitation. That didn’t stop it being a huge hit in France, but with the result of dangerous damage to Boro’s reputation.
Cries and Whispers
Winner of an Oscar for the extraordinary color photography of Sven Nykvist, this existential wail of a drama is one of Bergman’s most striking formal experiments. Two sisters, keeping vigil for a third, who is dying of cancer and can find solace only in the arms of a beatific servant.
From Here to Eternity
The iconic beachside kiss between Burt Lancaster & Deborah Kerr is amongst the most renowned of movie images, and yet it’s only one of many sublime moments in Fred Zinnemann’s classic.
The Rendez-vous of Deja-Vu
MUBI celebrates Bastille day in style with a summery dose of pure Frenchness. Antonin Peretjatko’s irreverent, absurdist comedy steals the spirit and style of a sacred tradition of French New Wave cinema, romanticising its ethos while charmingly parodying the stereotypes that populate Gallic movies.
Heartbeats
Xavier Dolan’s sophomore effort from 2010 follows best friends Francis and Marie. One day, the gorgeous Nicolas walks into a Montreal coffee shop and the two friends, instantly and equally infatuated, compete for his indeterminate affections. The conflict climaxes when the trio visit the vacation home of Nicolas’ mother.
Edith Walks
Hot on the heels of its cinema release, Andrew Kotting’s latest experimental documentary arrives exclusively on MUBI. The 60-minute-and-66-second feature film is inspired by a walk from Waltham Abbey in Essex via Battle Abbey to St Leonards-on-Sea in East Sussex – a pilgrimage carried out in memory of Edith Swan Neck.
3:10 to Yuma
Glenn Ford stars in Delmer Daves’ iconic western, which sees outlaw leader Ben Wade captured in a small town, only for small-time rancher Dan Evans to agree to take him in secret to the nearest town with a railway station to await the train to the court at Yuma. The only problem? Wade’s gang are on the move to get their leader back. Moral ambiguity and serious action make for one of the great entries in the genre.
Persona
MUBI’s Ingmar Bergman retrospective continues with yet another classic. With the radical Persona, the supreme artist attained new levels of visual poetry. A nurse is put in charge of an actress who no longer speaks and finds that the actress’ persona is melding with hers.
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Last chance to stream: Titles leaving MUBI soon
King of New York
Available until end of: 15th July
Viridiana
Available until end of: 15th July
The Exterminating Angel
Available until end of: 15th July
Camille Claudel 1915
Available until end of: 15th July
3:10 to Yuma
Available until end of: 15th July
Being 14
Available until end of: 15th July
Wild Strawberries
Available until end of: 21st July
Le Moulin
Available until end of: 2nd July