New releases and coming soon on MUBI UK this week (7th November 2015)
David Farnor | On 07, Nov 2015
Not getting your art house fix from Netflix? Wish there were more indie films on Amazon Prime? Every week, we round up the new releases on MUBI, a subscription VOD service that hand-picks films from around the world.
This month, MUBI undertakes an Eric Baudelaire retrospective, picks up a rare Pasolini documentary, throws us back into Fritz Lang’s heyday and still finds time for a modern classic sci-fi. And did we mention Wong Kar-wai?
Here’s what’s new and coming soon this week:
The Evil Dead – Sunday 1st November
Halloween may be over and done with, but you’ve still got until the end of the month to catch Sam Raimi’s original The Evil Dead, with its iconic turn from Bruce Campbell, forest full of disturbing trees and the director’s wonderfully madcap camerawork.
Available until: Monday 30th November
Love Meetings – Monday 2nd November
If the recent Willem Dafoe Pasolini biopic gave you an appetite for more of the director’s work, this little-seen 1965 documentary should be top of your list, in which Pier quizzes Italians on sex, love, marriage and sex.
Available until: Tuesday 1st December
Choking Man – Tuesday 3rd November
“Choking Man is everything an independent film should be.” Not our words, the words of Steven Soderbergh after seeing Steve Barron’s indie drama about a dishwasher in Queens who uses fantasy to escape the rough realities of life.
Available until: Monday 2nd December
The Ugly One – Wednesday 4th November
MUBI continues its Eric Baudelaire retrospective with this impressionistic collaboration with Japan’s Masao Adachi.
Available until: Tuesday 3rd December
Blind – Thursday 5th November
Perception is everything. When Ingrid loses her sight, it changes the way she sees things, from her apartment and her relationship with her husband to that strange-looking guy sitting on the bus. She spends her days alone in the apartment, writing on her laptop. Or does she? Eskil Vog’s drama, with a stellar performance by Ellen Dorrit Petersen, is a moving and endlessly surprising tale of love, loneliness and creativity.
Available until: Wednesday 4th December
Nashville – Friday 6th November
Robert Altman’s Nashville has never been released on DVD in the UK, so this is a rare chance to catch it on subscription VOD.
Available until: Thursday 5th December
In The Mood For Love – Saturday 7th November
In 1962, a journalist and his wife move into a Hong Kong apartment. With his wife away, he soon bumps into another woman, whose husband is also absent. Wong Kar-wai’s film is fizzingly sensuous stuff.
Available until: Friday 6th December
Buffalo 66 – Sunday 8th November
Vincent Gallo and Christina Ricci star in this 1998 film about a guy recently out of prison, who kidnaps a tap dancer and makes her pretend to be his wife. The support cast includes Mickey Rourke, Rosanna Arquette and Anjelica Huston.
Available until: Saturday 7th December
Die Nibelungen: Sigfried – Monday 9th November
Fritz Lang is one of the granddaddies of silent film – something that’s proven by this 1924 double-bill of fantasies based on the classic German epic poem, Nibelungenlied.
Available until: Sunday 8th December
Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild’s Revenge – Tuesday 10th November
Fritz Lang is one of the granddaddies of silent film – something that’s proven by this 1924 double-bill of fantasies based on the classic German epic poem, Nibelungenlied.
Available until: Monday 9th December
Letters to Max – Wednesday 11th November
Another entry in MUBI’s Baudelaire retrospective, Letters to Max is an essay film that studies the long-distance friendship that unfolds on the page between Eric and Maxim Gvinjia, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the contested state of Abkhazia.
Available until: Tuesday 10th December
Gattaca – Friday 13th November
Andrew Niccol has long been one of the most interesting filmmakers working in science fiction and Gattaca is a perfect example. The film, set in the near future, stars the always-excellent Ethan Hawke as Vincent, a man who is genetically flawed, something that prevents him from being sent into space. His solution? Buying the genes of a genetically perfect man (Jude Law) to join the Gattaca program.
Available until: Wednesday 12th December