James R | On 01, Oct 2016

Not getting your arthouse fix from Netflix? Wish there were more indie films on Amazon Prime Video? Every week, we round up the new releases on MUBI, the subscription VOD service that hand-picks new and old classics from around the world.

Following MUBI’s exclusive release of Mathieu Amalric’s The Blue Room on Sunday 25th September, the site is getting ready to release its other big recent acquisition: Rachel Lang’s Baden Baden.

Who’s Rachel Lang? MUBI’s got the answer, introducing the director with the first two shorts of her Ana trilogy, which culminates with Baden Baden.

Here’s what’s new and coming soon to MUBI:

 

This week on MUBI

Introducing Rachel Lang: For You I Will Fight

The first of Rachel Lang’s Ana trilogy is a short from 2010, which explores the uncertainty of late adolescence. Salomé Richard stars as Ana, a role she occupies so well that she continues to star in every entry of Lang’s triptych.

Introducing Rachel Lang: White Turnips Make It Hard to Sleep – Saturday 1st October

White Turnips sees Ana trapped in a fading relationship, gradually coming to terms with the idea of letting go.

Baden Baden – Sunday 2nd October

The climax of the Ana Trilogy, Rachel Lang’s feature debut balances comedy and tragedy to create a unisex heroine for the ages with echoes of Frances Ha. Read our full review.

These Three – 3rd October (TBC)

MUBI begins a weekly William Wyler retrospective with These Three, which follows school teachers Karen Wright and Martha Dobie, both in love with Dr. Joe Cardin. But the malicious lie of one of their students involves all three in a scandal which disrupts all their lives.

Mr. Nice – 4th October (TBC)

Bernard Rose’s comedy/drama/biopic is loosely based on the 1997 cult autobiography by Howard Marks, with Rhys Ifans in the title role.

Other new releases on MUBI

The Blue Room (Mathieu Amalric)

This romantic drama about a man on trial for an unknown crime, months after having an affair, is a “quietly gripping chamber piece that seduces with its intoxicating mystery”. Read our full review.

Other Amalric films currently on MUBI include Sans Rires, Heartbeat Detector, and Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian.

Broadway by Light

MUBI kicks off a William Klein retrospective with his first film, a short that marks his transition from photographer to director – declared by Orson Welles to be the “first film I’ve seen in which colour was absolutely necessary”.

Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?

William Klein’s comedy stars Dorothy McGowan as a model, who tells a TV crew about her dreams of a life with prince charming, while fending off the lecherous advances of a horde of men.

The Model Couple

Klein’s satire of government surveillance and invasion of privacy sees two middle-class citizens chosen for a national experiment, which will require them to live in an apartment filled with modern appliances and filmed for six months.

Black Narcissus

Adapted from the novel by Rumor Godden and filmed in Technicolor, Powell and Pressburger’s melodrama, starring Deborah Kerr, follows a group of nuns who open a convent in the Himalayas – and find trouble with the locals, the terrain and their own demons.

 
A monthly subscription to MUBI costs £5.99 a month, with a 30-day free trial.

 

Last chance to stream: Titles leaving MUBI soon

Scoop
Available until end of: 1st October

Los Sures
Available until end of: 2nd October

The Parallax View
Available until end of: 3rd October

Great Expectations
Available until end of: 4th October

Munich
Available until end of: 5th October

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Available until end of: 6th October

If…
Available until end of: 7th October

Pretty Persuasion
Available until end of: 8th October

The Odd Couple
Available until end of: 7th October

Man on Wire
Available until end of: 7th October

 

 

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