MUBI Blog

Welcome to the inaugural edition of our new weekly guide to goings on at MUBI, The Auteurs and, precocious as it may sound, the world.

FILM WORLD NEWS

Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist, based on an unrealized screenplay by Jacques Tati, opened the Edinburgh International Film Festival on Wednesday and David Cairns has given it a 4-out-of-5-star rave. Also on Wednesday, we were shocked and saddened to learn of the sudden and untimely death of film critic Peter Brunette.

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IF YOU ONLY SEE ONE MOVIE THIS WEEK

Michelangelo Antonioni’s Le amiche in you’re in New York (see Glenn Kenny’s review); otherwise, Luca Guadagnino’s I Am Love with Tilda Swinton (see the first wave of reviews from last year’s Venice and Toronto festivals and Adrian Curry’s collection of Tilda posters).

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Vadim Rizov’s “brief taxonomy of mumblecore.” CINE-FILS’ interview with cinematographer Harris Savides. Caleb Crain on why Splice isn’t science fiction and Charles Arthur on why Minority Report, too, was spot on.