New releases and coming soon to MUBI UK (6th May 2017)
David Farnor | On 06, May 2017
MUBI begins May with style, from an iconic Orson Welles offering that all cinephiles know to a hidden gem unearthed by programming collective Misc Films.
Here’s what’s new, coming soon and leaving soon to the subscription streaming service:
This week on MUBI
The Lady from Shanghai – 6th May
MUBI marks Orson Welles’ birthday with his classic noir from 1947. It stars Rita Hayworth as a femme fatale who catches the eye of an Irish sailor. He soon finds himself implicated in a murder, despite his innocence. Based on the 1938 crime novel If I Die Before I Wake by Sherwood King, the film climaxes with one of the iconic moments in cinema history.
Buffalo ’96 – 7th May
Vincent Gallo directs and stars in this story about social misfit Billy Brown, who has recently been released from prison. His first port of call is to find a bathroom – instead he finds a dancer called Layla.
The Virgin’s Bed – 8th May
The first feature-length film in MUBI’s Philippe Garrel retrospective is a cinematic conflagration and re-invention of Biblical storytelling for a culture and an audience having just passed through the convulsions of May ’68. The loose allegory stars model-artist-musician Zouzou as Mary Magdalene, French actor Pierre Clémenti as Jesus and the director himself as a misguided apostle.
The Assassin – 9th May
Marcello Mastroianni stars in Elio Petri’s first film, a wicked social satire from 1961. He plays crooked antique dealer Alfredo, whose apartment is broken into by the police. They then bring him to the station, where he is accused of the murder of Adalgisa de Matteis, an ex-mistress. During the long and painful interrogation, he remembers some obscure fragments of his past.
Other new releases on MUBI
Homo Sapiens
Following its nationwide screening at Picturehouse cinemas last month, MUBI teams up with the intriguing new programming collective Misc. Films to stream Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s documentary, which explores places that have been forgotten or abandoned by their builders, from Fukushima to Bulgaria. Expect stunning things.
Starman
With Starman, John Carpenter riskily expanded his cinema for a supernatural love story: that of a communion between a young woman and a extraterrestrial being.
Christine
MUBI’s John Carpenter double-bill is completed with Christine, his one-of-a-kind look at American teenage life: the repression, the rock n’ roll… and, of course, the supernatural auto-mobile.
Man at Bath
A low-budget vision expressively set between New York and Gennevilliers, Christophe Honoré’s small yet ambitious movie is a portrait of separation. Staged in a inspired framework with an indelible cast and aesthetic sensibility, it is one of the great queer love stories in recent French cinema.
Battle Royale
Forget The Hunger Games. Before Katniss’ Mockingbird came director Kinji Fukasaku with his shocking, violent political satire that takes Lord of the Flies to the extreme.
Le Revelateur
MUBI launches a new retrospective dedicated to auteur Philippe Garrel, whose new film debuts in Cannes this month. It begins in Garrel’s, 20s with the first film he made among the radical Zanizbar art collective.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
By the mid 1930s, Capra’s work had become a genre in itself, so it’s only fitting that MUBI’s season of his American Dreams concludes with a classic piece of “Capracorn” cinema, a paean to integrity and democracy that still feels relevant today.
The Tragedy of Macbeth
“It is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. Signifying nothing.” Film critics love to quote Shakespeare when it comes to bashing the latest Michael Bay film, but in 1971, Roman Polanski turned Macbeth into exactly that. A brutal tale of greed, ambition and its moral undoing, the director brought a strikingly different interpretation to the text. Read our review
You Can’t Take It With You
MUBI’s Frank Capra season continues with the film that won the Italian-American his third Oscar — and also his first collaboration with (a very young) Jimmy Stewart. This spirited, heart-warming comedy rewards us with a much-needed dose of optimism and genuine utopia.
Laurel Canyon
Even in her second feature, director Lisa Cholodenko had already honed her knack for understanding the nuances of human relationships, as she follows a pair of upper-middle-class lovebirds as they relocate from the East Coast to Los Angeles – and the estranged mother of one of them decides to put them up. Frances McDormand, Kate Beckinsale and Christian Bale star.
And Now for Something Completely Different
Sometimes, it’s easy to forget that Monty Python started out as a TV sketch show. Between the naughty boy Messiahs and killer rabbits, you could almost overlook the dead parrots and cheese shops. Effectively a 90-minute highlights reel of the comic troupe’s small screen creations, And Now for Something Completely Different reminds you just how great that old Flying Circus was. Read our full review.
The Marriage of Maria Braun
MUBI’s Fassbinder retrospective reaches its conclusion with the director’s biggest box office success. Collaborating with the late cinematographer Michael Ballhaus, and starring Hannah Schygulla, this German Hollywood movie is study of a woman picking herself up from the ruins of her own life, and a pointed metaphor for a society determined to forget its past.
Maesta, the Passion of the Christ
MUBI begins the Easter weekend with Andy Guérif’s 2015 adaptation of the Maestà of Duccio as a tableau vivant: the tale of the Christ’s Passion in 26 successive panels, from the arrival in Jerusalem to the road to Emmaus.
Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present
MUBI celebrates the late Tony Conrad with this documentary portrait of the multi-disciplinarian genius, whose charisma and talent leap off the screen.
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Last chance to stream: Titles leaving MUBI soon
Sarah Winchester, Phantom Opera
Available until end of: 6th May
Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present
Available until end of: 7th May
The Two Jakes
Available until end of: 8th May
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Available until end of: 9th May
Fox and His Friends
Available until end of: 10th May
Storm Children, Book One
Available until end of: 11th May
Lila Says
Available until end of: 12th May
Maesta, The Passion of the Christ
Available until end of: 13th May
And Now for Something Completely Different
Available until end of: 14th May
Juliet of the Spirits
Available until end of: 15th May
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Available until end of: 16th May
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Available until end of: 17th May
Fragment 53
Available until end of: 18th May
Contact High
Available until end of: 19th May
Rouge
Available until end of: 20th May