David Farnor | On 02, Oct 2022

MUBI is a global streaming service, production company and film distributor, which has become the go-to place for new and old classics from around the world, ranging from hand-picked debuts to festival favourites. This month, MUBI gets in the spooky spirit with Berberian Sound Studio and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, plus five of Dario Argento’s greatest films. It also continues its spotlight on David Cronenberg and, to celebrate the release of Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave in cinemas, it presents seven of the director’s films.

In the meantime, it’s your last chance to stream Sergei Loznitsa’s A Night at the Opera, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Blue and Lynne Sachs’ Your Day Is My Night.

What’s new, coming soon and leaving soon? Read on for your monthly MUBI Digest.

 

This month on MUBI

Surviving You, Always – 3rd October

British experimental artist, critic, and writer Morgan Quaintance explores cinema as collective memory. Through his texturally rich short films, Quaintance focuses on hidden or forgotten history through the reconstruction of archival materials, moving image, photographs, written text and disconnected sounds. Surviving You, Always (2020), contrasts the proposed metaphysical highs of psychedelic drugs versus the harsh actualities of concrete metropolitan life in 1990s London.

Free Chol Soo Lee – 7th October

Award-winning journalists Julie Ha and Eugene Yi excavate the largely unknown yet essential history of Chol Soo Lee in their riveting Sundance selection Free Chol Soo Lee (2022). Combining rich archival footage, firsthand accounts, and narration drawn from personal writings, this poignant documentary paints an intimate portrait of the complex man at the centre of a movement and serves as an urgent reminder that his legacy is more relevant than ever.

Charade – 9th October

Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn make for an iconic duo in Stanley Donen’s hugely entertaining spy romance caper.

Rosa Rosae: A Spanish Civil War Elegy – 12th October

Carlos Saura recovers and manipulates more than thirty images, drawings and photographs to recreate the Spanish Civil War in his new animated short. The montage of images set to the music of singer-songwriter José Antonio Labordeta pays tribute to those childhoods stolen by the Spanish Civil War, reflecting the horrors of universal warfare and resonating with the urgent topic of conflict in today’s world.

Earwig – 15th October

The English-language debut from acclaimed filmmaker Lucile Hadžihalilović (Innocence, Evolution), Earwig (2021) is a dark fairytale examining solitude and madness as hallucinations invade reality. Led by captivating performances from Paul Hilton (Lady Macbeth), Alex Lawther (The Imitation Game) and Romola Garai (Atonement) and featuring a hypnotic score from Augustin Viard and Warren Ellis (of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds), Hadžihalilović crafts a twisted nightmare in her adaptation of Brian Catling’s novel of the same name.

Portrait of a Lady on Fire – 16th October

Céline Sciamma’s most accomplished film to date is beautiful, bold and sensual.

The White Reindeer – 19th October

Erik Blomberg’s haunting exploration of female sexuality and desire sees a newly married young woman becomes frustrated as her husband, a reindeer herder for a small Arctic village, spends much time away in devotion to his work. Desperate for affection, she visits a shaman who makes her an irresistible object of desire, but to a terrible cost: she becomes a bloodthirsty shapeshifter who lures and kills men.

Hit the Road – 20th October

Panah Panahi’s sensational feature debut as writer and director, Hit the Road (2021) is an emotive comedy-drama perfectly balanced with joy and tenderness. A take on traditional Iranian cinema, Panah Panahi offers a raw and authentic observation into the life of one family, where laughter is used to fight back the tears.

The African Desperate – 21st October

Palace is not going to the fucking graduation party! She hates the woods. If this were a reality show, she would be the person who was not here to make friends. Palace needs to get home, back to Chicago from upstate New York. But that means surviving a hazy, hilarious, and hallucinatory night-long odyssey, stumbling from academic critiques to backseat hookups. The electrifying feature debut from renowned artist Martine Syms, The African Desperate (2022) brings her razor-sharp satire and vivid aesthetic invention to a riotous coming-of-age comedy.

Berberian Sound Studio – 22nd October

A fascinating meta-horror featuring Toby Jones, some cabbages and a dangerously aroused goblin? Foley crap, it’s awesome.

A Human Certainty – 24th October

Morgan Quaintance’s 2021 short playfully follows the neurotic ramblings of a death-obsessed romantic in the throes of post-breakup blues.

The General – 25th October

Buster Keaton’s impeccable silent comedy is beautifully conceived and hilariously executed.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre – 31st October

One of the greatest movies ever made, Tobe Hooper’s seminal film changed American horror cinema forever.

 

Other titles also coming to MUBI UK in September 2022:

1st October
Deep Red

2nd October
A Hard Day’s Night

4th October
Invisible Demons

5th October
The Brood

6th October
Joint Security Area

8th October
Phenomena

10th October
You Will Die at Twenty

11th October
Ramen Shop

13th October
Tenebrae

14th October
The Handmaiden

17th October
The Wolf House

18th October
The Gold-Laden Sheep & the Sacred Mountain

23rd October
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

26th October
Spectre: Sanity, Madness and the Family

27th October
After the Curfew

28th October
Scanners

29th October
Sympathy for Mr Vengeance

30th October
Suspiria

 

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Last chance to stream: Titles leaving MUBI soon

Your Day Is My Night
Available until: 3rd October

Crossfire
Available until: 13th October

The Arbor
Available until: 3rd October

Adieu Bohème
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Safar
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The Amorous Indies
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Hidden
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House of Memories
Available until: 13th October

A Night at the Opera
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The Ultimate Woman
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The Kaleidoscope
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In Search of Famine
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Divas of the Taguerabt
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Blue
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Your Day Is My Night
Available until: 3rd October

Degas et moi
Available until: 13th October

Corporate Accountability
Available until: 11th October

Norwegian Wood
Available until: 12th October

Malaise
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L’entretien
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Belonging
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A Single Man
Available until: 31st October 2022

Aani Maani
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Ghost World
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House of Tolerance
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Babylon
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Joy Division
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Tangerine
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Good Vibrations
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The Fish Curry
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A Hard Day’s Night
Available until: 4th November 2022

The Souvenir
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24 Hour Party People
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Open Hearts
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The Love Witch
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Tamaash
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When You’re Strange: A Film About the Doors
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Wildlife
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Air Conditioner
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Maelström
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Shortbus
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Happy End
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While We’re Young
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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Destiny
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80,000 Years Old
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The Babadook
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Personal Shopper
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Visiting Ours
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Amer
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2 Days in Paris
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Ghost Town Anthology
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Prevenge
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Purple Sea
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Only God Forgives
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Afterglow
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Aahuti
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Footnotes to a House of Love
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Cry When it Happens
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Words, Planets
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Autofiction
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025 Sunset Red
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