MUBI Blog

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

THE WAR COMES HOME

The flap over General McChrystal has dragged the war in Afghanistan back into the news cycle. The award-winning documentary Restrepo, opening on Friday, reminds us how hellish fighting that war can be. Here’s what the critics are saying.

CANNES FOR FREE

Just a few days left to watch some of the best films to ever screen at Cannes — for free! Co-presented by Stella Artois.

IF YOU ONLY SEE ONE MOVIE THIS WEEK

Alain Resnais “is a director who has always complicated drama with comedy, realism with surrealism, philosophy with pop culture — and vice versa.” Adrian Martin for Sight & Sound: “Wild Grass is a relatively gentle work when placed beside Hiroshima, mon amour (1959) or Providence (1976), but it still has the pundits guessing: what is this brazenly youthful film from a man of 87 – deadly serious, or an extended joke? A summing-up of the œuvre, or a taking-off into unknown skies? It manages, magisterially, to be all of these things at once.”

THE BEST MAGAZINES IN THE WORLD

This week sees a new issue of Cinema Scope and the sudden appearance of rich archives: FEED (may it rest in peace) and 032c, still very much alive and kicking.

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