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A quick guide to goings on at MUBI and The Auteurs.

OLAF WHO?

Olaf Möller, a regular contributor to Cinema Scope and Film Comment, a film curator and programmer for museums and festivals, that’s who. A need-to-know sort. See the first part of Dmitry Martov’s interview and look for the second on Monday. Möller is also the Other First Secretary and Minister of Spirituality of the Ferroni Brigade, who looked back at Cannes this week and awarded their Golden, Silver-Winged and Grey Donkeys.

LIBERTAS FILM FESTIVAL SHORTS - FOR FREE!

For the first time, Libertas in Croatia is teaming up with MUBI to show a selection of its short films online. During the Libertas Film Festival, June 25th-July 6th, 2010, 13 films from their short program will be playing for free on the site. Have your own little Libertas Film Festival at home!

IF YOU SEE ONLY ONE MOVIE THIS WEEK

… And you’re in New York, we hope you’re enjoying the New York Asian Film Festival. Be sure to catch Hitoshi Matsumoto’s Symbol, screening on Sunday and Wednesday. If you’re not in New York, make that one movie Giorgos Lanthimos’s Dogtooth. Yes, it actually opened last week, but evidently, if you’re over 15, the studios aren’t expecting you in theaters this July 4 weekend.

VIRAL VIDEO

Quick summertime views. “McGuffin by Hitchcock.” “100 Greatest Movie Insults of All Time.” A live stage version of Chuck Jones’s “What’s Opera, Doc?” And Independencia interviews this year’s Palme d’Or winner, Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

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