David Farnor | On 21, May 2020

MUBI has opened up its streaming archive for the first time with a new section called Library.

The subscription streaming service has always placed an emphasis on curation and collection, bringing together a rolling carousel of films from the around the world available for 30 days at a time. Now, it’s letting subscribers revisit and discover films that have previously been hand-picked and left that carousel, with more than 100 archive titles available to subscribers as part of MUBI’s standard £9.99 monthly subscription.

MUBI Library comprises past exclusive releases, previous retrospectives, double-bills and other exclusives. In the UK, that means the opportunity to stream Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir, Kantemir Balagov’s Cannes prizewinner Beanpole, Juliano Dornelles & Kleber Mendonça Filho’s acclaimed siege thriller Bacurau, Jospehine Decker’s energetic Madeline’s Madeline and masterpieces from Jean-Luc Godard, Dario Argento, Satyajit Ray, Chantel Akerman, Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni among others.

It’s a big step for MUBI into territory more aligned with Netflix or BFI Player’s sizeable streaming catalogues, at a time when people staying at home are looking for quantity of entertainment as well as quality – a notable advantage that streamers with larger back catalogues have over fledgling VOD contenders such as Apple TV+. And, with MUBI Go (which offers a free cinema ticket every week at participating venues for a specific film) unable to operate at present, it’s a move that adds more value to a MUBI subscription.

The Library sits alongside MUBI’s Now Showing section, which continues to introduce a new film every day. It will come to MUBI’s Apple and Android apps in the near future, but is currently available on the web at mubi.com/library.

For more details on how it works, a full guide to what’s included, updates on when it comes to mobile devices and more, see our guide to MUBI Library.

In the meantime, here’s a list of Library highlights:

Film	Director	Year
Meshes of the Afternoon	Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid	1943
Umberto D.	Vittorio De Sica	1952
L'avventura	Michelangelo Antonioni	1960
La Dolce Vita	Federico Fellini	1960
Night Tide	Curtis Harrington	1961
81⁄2	Federico Fellini	1963
I Am Cuba	Mikhail Kalatozov	1964
Marriage Italian-Style	Vittorio De Sica	1964
The 10th Victim	Elio Petri	1965
The Battle of Algiers	Gillo Pontecorvo	1966
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?	William Klein	1966
Lucía	Humberto Solás	1968
Memories of Underdevelopment	Tomás Gutiérrez Alea	1968
The Structure of Crystal	Krzysztof Zanussi	1969
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania	Jonas Mekas	1972
We Can't Go Home Again	Nicholas Ray	1973
Les Hautes Solitudes	Philippe Garrel	1974
Suspiria	Dario Argento	1977
Ecce bombo	Nanni Moretti	1978
My Uncle from America	Alain Resnais	1980
The Stranger	Satyajit Ray	1991
Strawberry and Chocolate	Juan Carlos Tabío,Tomás Gutiérrez Alea	1993
Deep Crimson	Arturo Ripstein	1996
Humanité	Bruno Dumont	1999
Kikujiro	Takeshi Kitano	1999
Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease	Krzysztof Zanussi	2000
Dolls	Takeshi Kitano	2002
L'Auberge Espagnole	Cédric Klapisch	2002
Marseille	Angela Schanelec	2004
Evolution of a Filipino Family	Lav Diaz	2005
The Wild Blue Yonder	Werner Herzog	2005
Southland Tales	Richard Kelly	2006
Extraordinary Stories	Mariano Llinás	2008
Involuntary	Ruben Östlund	2008
Summer Hours	Olivier Assayas	2008
Lourdes	Jessica Hausner	2009
The Mouth of the Wolf	Pietro Marcello	2009
To Die Like a Man	João Pedro Rodrigues	2009
The Myth of the American Sleepover	David Robert Mitchell	2010
Almayer's Folly	Chantal Akerman	2011
Art History	Joe Swanberg	2011
Jiro Dreams of Sushi	David Gelb	2011
Terri	Azazel Jacobs	2011
Ashes	Apichatpong Weerasethakul	2012
Barbara	Christian Petzold	2012
Hannah Arendt	Margarethe von Trotta	2012
Neighbouring Sounds	Kleber Mendonça Filho	2012
Sister	Ursula Meier	2012
Wadjda	Haifaa Al-Mansour	2012
Ida	Paweł Pawlikowski	2013
It Felt Like Love	Eliza Hittman	2013
Night Moves	Kelly Reichardt	2013
Stop the Pounding Heart	Roberto Minervini	2013
Story of My Death	Albert Serra	2013
10.000 Km	Carlos Marques-Marcet	2014
From What is Before	Lav Diaz	2014
The Wonders	Alice Rohrwacher	2014
Arabian Nights: Volume 1, the Restless One	Miguel Gomes	2015
Arabian Nights: Volume 2, the Desolate One	Miguel Gomes	2015
Arabian Nights: Volume 3, the Enchanted One	Miguel Gomes	2015
John From	João Nicolau	2015
Junun	Paul Thomas Anderson	2015
Mustang	Deniz Gamze Ergüven	2015
My Friend From The Park	Ana Katz	2015
Son of Saul	László Nemes	2015
The Event	Sergei Loznitsa	2015
Antiporno	Sion Sono	2016
Brothers of the Night	Patric Chiha	2016
Eldorado XXI	Salomé Lamas	2016
Further Beyond	Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor	2016
Mimosas	Oliver Laxe	2016
Paterson	Jim Jarmusch	2016
Slack Bay	Bruno Dumont	2016
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki	Juho Kuosmanen	2016
The Park	Damien Manivel	2016
Félicité	Alain Gomis	2017
Have a Nice Day	Liu Jian	2017
Let the Sunshine In	Claire Denis	2017
Lover for a Day	Philippe Garrel	2017
On Body and Soul	Ildikó Enyedi	2017
High Life	Claire Denis	2018
Knife + Heart	Yann Gonzalez	2018
Leto	Kirill Serebrennikov	2018
Madeline's Madeline	Josephine Decker	2018
The Apparition	Xavier Giannoli	2018
The Image Book	Jean-Luc Godard	2018
Touch Me Not	Adina Pintilie	2018
Under the Silver Lake	David Robert Mitchell	2018
Yves Saint Laurent: The Last Collections	Olivier Meyrou	2018
A Dog Called Money	Seamus Murphy	2019
Bacurau	Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho	2019
Beanpole	Kantemir Balagov	2019
Ema	Pablo Larraín	2019
GUO4	Peter Strickland	2019
Portrait of a Lady on Fire	Céline Sciamma	2019
The Souvenir	Joanna Hogg	2019
The Staggering Girl	Luca Guadagnino	2019
The Wild Goose Lake	Diao Yi'nan	2019
Zombi Child	Bertrand Bonello	2019

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