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The MUBI Podcast is an audio documentary series about how great cinema happens, and why it matters. Every season’s a deep dive into a different corner of movie culture — from classic needle drops, to movie theaters that changed the world. Plus, between seasons: intimate interviews with some of the best filmmakers alive. Nominated for multiple Webbys, Ambies, and British Podcast Awards. Hosted by veteran arts journalist Rico Gagliano. “It’s like This American Life for filmmaking stories” — Matt Wallin
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THE SECRET AGENT — Kleber Mendonça Filho & Wagner Moura on memory and manguebeat
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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LURKER — Alex Russell's outsider look at the in-crowd
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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SENTIMENTAL VALUE — Joachim Trier’s different kind of meta-movie (w/ Stellan Skarsgård, Elle Fanning & more)
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Wim Wenders LIVE in Berlin: 50 years of rock-n-road movies
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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SALAAM BOMBAY! & THE LUNCHBOX — Mira Nair & Ritesh Batra deliver realism and romance
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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Kelly Reichardt: THE MASTERMIND behind some of the best movies of the century
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI... and David Gelb changes how people eat it
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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HAL & HARPER — Cooper Raiff comes unstuck
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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THE TASTE OF THINGS — Alison Roman savors the opposite of a chef movie
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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RATATOUILLE — Brad Bird cooks up the ultimate food film
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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DIE MY LOVE — Lynne Ramsay unleashes the beast
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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ARTISTS VS. AUTOCRACY: Istanbul cinema crosses the bridge
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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MUSSOLINI: SON OF THE CENTURY — Joe Wright gazes into the abyss
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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MULHOLLAND DRIVE in the rearview, with Deborah Levy
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Debbie Zoller drives LOST HIGHWAY
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Heidi Bivens outfits INLAND EMPIRE
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Sabrina Sutherland guides TWIN PEAKS’ RETURN
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Jennifer Lynch writes THE SECRET DIARY OF LAURA PALMER
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Mark Frost founds TWIN PEAKS
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Isabella Rossellini wears BLUE VELVET
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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New Season Trailer: LADIES OF LYNCH (w/ Isabella Rossellini)
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Nothing rhymes with PAVEMENTS
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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LA film fades out...and in (w/ THE STUDIO's Evan Goldberg)
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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KNEECAP — Rich Peppiatt on politics and partying
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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AMORES PERROS shakes up Mexico City (w/ Gael García Bernal)
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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Smashing in the doors of Amsterdam cinema (w/ BABYGIRL director Halina Reijn)
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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Ireland tells its own tales (w/ KNEECAP director Rich Peppiatt)
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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GRAND THEFT HAMLET — How Shakespeare’s Danish prince conquered the movies
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE — Magnus von Horn on the dark past...and present
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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QUEER — Luca Guadagnino & Justin Kuritzkes take William S. Burroughs on a whole new trip
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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SPEED RACER — The Wachowskis go full throttle
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK — Charlie Kaufman’s movie of a lifetime
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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THE HUDSUCKER PROXY — The Coen Brothers fall from a great height
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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SYLVIA SCARLETT — Katharine Hepburn pays for her transgressions
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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BABE: PIG IN THE CITY — George Miller makes one for the grownups
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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SORCERER — William Friedkin’s heart of darkness
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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SKINAMARINK — The Internet’s own haunted house
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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HOUSE — The Japanese psychedelic masterpiece
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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THE AMITYVILLE HORROR — America’s most haunted home
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE — Guillermo del Toro’s creative resurrection
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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POLTERGEIST — The first suburban haunted house
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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THE SUBSTANCE — Coralie Fargeat rips beauty standards to gory shreds
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Riz Ahmed channels Yann Mounir Demange in DAMMI
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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The Flipsides of Cannes — Featuring Wim Wenders and more
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May 16, 2024 |
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PERFECT DAYS — Wim Wenders cures his post-pandemic blues
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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HIGH & LOW - JOHN GALLIANO — Kevin Macdonald tackles fashion and forgiveness
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Sofia Coppola — PRISCILLA, from source to soundtrack
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Sofia Coppola — from VIRGIN SUICIDES to PRISCILLA
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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DO THE RIGHT THING — Spike Lee and Ruth E. Carter find color in the dark
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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QUADROPHENIA — The mod, mod world of ’64, ’79 and beyond
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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BREATHLESS — Jean Seberg & Jean-Luc Godard dress down film and fashion
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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HOW TO HAVE SEX — Molly Manning Walker just wants to talk
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Ken Loach Calls for Solidarity in THE OLD OAK
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Sebastián Silva on ROTTING IN THE SUN — "Everyone and everything in it *will* get trashed"
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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PASSAGES — Ira Sachs's "endless circle of desire"
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Cannes Conversations — Ildiko Enyedi on short cinema
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Cannes Conversations — Filipa Reis on privilege and empowerment
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Cannes Conversations — Joanna Arnow watches (wryly) from a distance
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Cannes Conversations — With OMEN, Baloji clears his name
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Cannes Conversations — Elene Naveriani on their stealth punk heroine
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Cannes Conversations — Weston Razooli lets his kids go wild
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Cannes Conversations — Monia Chokri on THE NATURE OF LOVE
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Cannes Conversations — Kleber Mendonça Filho watches movie palaces disappear
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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Cannes Conversations — Wim Wenders on ANSELM
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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FERRIS BUELLER to WOLF OF WALL STREET — Cinema's top music supervisors break down their greatest hits
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May 11, 2023 |
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BLACKBOARD JUNGLE — Hollywood's first rumble with rock ‘n’ roll
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May 04, 2023 |
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CHUNGKING EXPRESS — Wong Kar Wai puts "Dreams" on the menu
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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CLOSE — Lukas Dhont's Quietly Powerful Coming-of-Age Movie
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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THE HARDER THEY COME — Reggae catches fire on film
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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DONNIE DARKO — Richard Kelly makes the ultimate ‘80s mixtape
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY — Stanley Kubrick finds heavenly music on vinyl
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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With TÁR, Todd Field makes a power play
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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In AFTERSUN, Charlotte Wells lets Queen and Bowie tell the story
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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Park Chan-wook finds DECISION TO LEAVE in “The Mist”
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Zanzibar's Majestic, the last cinema standing (feat. Nick Broomfield)
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Being Like Water: Tilda Swinton and Apichatpong Weerasethakul on MEMORIA
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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The Dryden Theatre's Nitrate Picture Show explodes our view of movie history
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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London's Scala Cinema becomes "A country club for lunatics" (feat. Mary Harron and Peter Strickland)
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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HAROLD AND MAUDE find new life at The Westgate
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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The Elgin and EL TOPO plunge NYC into "Midnite Madness"
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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The Cinémathèque Française launches two revolutions
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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In LINGUI, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun honors women's "invisible resistance"
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May 05, 2022 |
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Joachim Trier sympathizes with THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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In Andrea Arnold’s COW, audiences find themselves
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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China builds itself a DREAM FACTORY
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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From Mexico with love: The Soviet Union embraces YESENIA
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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LIVING IN BONDAGE fast-forwards the Nigerian film industry
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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Brazil dances the (metaphorical) samba with DONA FLOR AND HER TWO HUSBANDS
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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India's 25-year (and counting) marriage to DDLJ
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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Paul Verhoeven’s TURKISH DELIGHT ignites the Netherlands
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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MUBI Podcast: Season One Trailer
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May 25, 2021 |