What’s coming soon to MUBI UK in October 2024?
David Farnor | On 30, Sep 2024
MUBI is weighing in with a big-hitter this October, as Steve McQueen’s latest documentary, Occupied City, makes its streaming debut. Elsewhere, the platform gets in the horror mood with the modern gem It Follows, accompanied by a celebration of female vampires in cinema.
In the meantime, it’s your last chance to stream Ringu, The Staggering Girl and Copycat.
What’s new, coming soon and leaving soon? Read on for your monthly MUBI Digest.
This month on MUBI
Omen – 4th October
After a series of brilliant short films, Belgian-Congolese rapper and singer Baloji makes his feature-length directorial debut with Omen (2023). Koffi, born in the Republic of the Congo but raised in Belgium, returns to his homeland with his Belgian fiancée. Upon arriving, Baloji’s film splinters into a mystical and unconventional mix of narrative threads as Koffi tries to reconcile his Congolese and Belgian identity.
A Place Without Fear – 4th October
Fashion designer turned avant-garde filmmaker Susanne Deeken reinvents an abandoned Detroit house into a fantastical dreamscape in her animated short. Through a blend of large-scale paintings, stop-motion animation and digital renderings, Deeken crafts an eerily immersive journey into the dark depths of the human mind.
The Deep Blue Sea – 7th October
The melancholic and romantic world of beloved British auteur Terence Davies comes to the platform in full-force with the deeply wistful The Deep Blue Sea (2011), Davies’ account of the sensuous post-war affair between the free-thinking upper-class housewife Hester (Rachel Weisz) and the unsettled former Air Force pilot Freddie (Tom Hiddleston). Hester’s world turns upside down as passion takes control and sends her down a path of self-destruction.
Occupied City – 11th October
Steve McQueen’s latest documentary offers a sobering and unconventional excavation of Nazi-occupied Amsterdam through the lens of the city as it stands today. Highlighting the gap — and the proximity – between the past and our precarious present, McQueen forgoes the conventional use of archive footage in favour of contemporary scenes from Amsterdam alongside a poignant historical narration from Melanie Hyams.
Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot – 18th October
Experience the core of the creative process with renowned South African contemporary artist William Kentridge in Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot (2024). This original series of nine short episodes offers a window into Kentridge’s creative sanctuary during the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring the intersections of memory, identity, and cultural essence through a dynamic sequence of interconnected vignettes. All 8 episodes arrive together.
Bushman – 18th October
The 4k restoration of David Schickele’s docudrama tracking the life of a Nigerian youth who has fled Civil War only to arrive in California during its revolutionary anti-establishment era.
It Follows – 25th October
David Robert Mitchell uniquely blends the teenage coming-of-age film with psychological horror in the cult hit It Follows (2024). After sleeping with her new boyfriend, 19-year old Jay (Maika Monroe) develops supernatural symptoms and is followed by the presence of phantoms. Jay and her friends must now either flee from the curse, or confront it head-on… Mitchell’s ingenious metaphor for teenage sexual anxiety confronts the matter with a visionary pulse, layered with pulsating synth beats and the terrors of the unknown.
Other titles also coming to MUBI UK in September 2024:
1st October
Lips of Blood
Trouble Every Day
The Bloodiest
Bloodsuckers
4th October
What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?
11th October
Malcolm X
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
Last chance to stream: Titles leaving MUBI soon
Copycat
Available until: 1st October 2024
There’s Nothing Out There
Available until: 1st October 2024
Ringu
Available until: 1st October 2024
Rude Boy
Available until: 1st October 2024
Paradise: Hope
Available until: 1st October 2024
The Staggering Girl
Available until: 2nd October 2024
Pino
Available until: 3rd October 2024
The Innocent
Available until: 8th October 2024
