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MUBI Podcast
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…
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MUBI PodcastSofia Coppola — PRISCILLA, from source to soundtrack
In a wide-ranging interview, Sofia Coppola tells host Rico Gagliano all about the making of her new Priscilla Presley biopic—from the Kubrick flick that…
MUBI PodcastSofia Coppola — from VIRGIN SUICIDES to PRISCILLA
There’s maybe no working filmmaker more associated with film fashion than Sofia Coppola. But in this brief history of her super-stylish body of work, we figure…
MUBI PodcastDO THE RIGHT THING — Spike Lee and Ruth E. Carter find color in the dark
Spike Lee’s masterwork DO THE RIGHT THING is an incendiary look at racial tension, an empathetic portrait of a community...and one of the flyest-ever…
MUBI PodcastQUADROPHENIA — The mod, mod world of ’64, ’79 and beyond
In 1979, at the tail end of the punk era, Franc Roddam’s QUADROPHENIA helped convince a certain crew of UK kids to favor sharp suits over bondage gear. Host…
MUBI PodcastBREATHLESS — Jean Seberg & Jean-Luc Godard dress down film and fashion
In 1959, a brash critic-turned-filmmaker named Jean-Luc Godard cast movie star Jean Seberg in his first film, BREATHLESS. You probably know it revolutionized…
MUBI PodcastHOW TO HAVE SEX — Molly Manning Walker just wants to talk
The Cannes-winning HOW TO HAVE SEX tracks a trio of UK women on a non-stop clubbing holiday...that goes disturbingly off the rails. In this special episode…
MUBI PodcastKen Loach Calls for Solidarity in THE OLD OAK
As the “Hot Labor Summer” of union strikes rolls into autumn, legendary British director Ken Loach sits down with host Rico Gagliano to look back on a long…
MUBI PodcastSebastián Silva on ROTTING IN THE SUN — "Everyone and everything in it *will* get trashed"
Sundance favorite Sebastián Silva tells host Rico Gagliano about his self-described "misanthropic comedy" ROTTING IN THE SUN—the satirical story of a happy…
MUBI PodcastPASSAGES — Ira Sachs's "endless circle of desire"
"Let's just say I wanted to make a liberated film. I felt like...am I allowed to say 'f*** it?' Like, 'f*** it.'" So says legendary indie filmmaker Ira Sachs…
MUBI PodcastCannes Conversations — Ildiko Enyedi on short cinema
Oscar-nominated Hungarian filmmaker Ildiko Enyedi is celebrated for her bold, unclassifiable features (like the Cannes-winning sci-fi MY 20TH CENTURY). But at…
MUBI PodcastCannes Conversations — Filipa Reis on privilege and empowerment
At Cannes, celebrated Portuguese directing duo Filipa Reis and Joao Miller Guerra debuted LEGUA — a movie about a housekeeper tending to an empty country…
MUBI PodcastCannes Conversations — Joanna Arnow watches (wryly) from a distance
Filmmaker Joanna Arnow’s shorts and docs are funny, fearless looks at people at their most excruciatingly vulnerable — especially herself. In her debut feature…
MUBI PodcastCannes Conversations — With OMEN, Baloji clears his name
Belgian rapper-turned-auteur Baloji was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo — where for some, his name literally means “demon.” So it’s no surprise that…
MUBI PodcastCannes Conversations — Elene Naveriani on their stealth punk heroine
In their sophomore feature BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBERRY, Georgian-born filmmaker Elene Naveriani tells the story of a middle-aged virgin in a small Georgian…
MUBI PodcastCannes Conversations — Weston Razooli lets his kids go wild
L.A. filmmaker Weston Razooli’s debut feature RIDDLE OF FIRE is like if THE GOONIES were directed by Francois Truffaut — a tale of three modern kids on an…
MUBI PodcastCannes Conversations — Monia Chokri on THE NATURE OF LOVE
Quebecois actor and director Monia Chokri is a Cannes regular — who in her films, regularly returns to her favorite themes: Very smart women having a very hard…
MUBI PodcastCannes Conversations — Kleber Mendonça Filho watches movie palaces disappear
In 2019, Brazil's Kleber Mendonça Filho won the Jury Prize at Cannes with his co-directed movie BACURAU. This year he returned to the fest to premiere a…
MUBI PodcastCannes Conversations — Wim Wenders on ANSELM
To kick off our mini-season of conversations taped on location at the 2023 Cannes film festival, host Rico Gagliano meets up with legendary director Wim…
MUBI PodcastFERRIS BUELLER to WOLF OF WALL STREET — Cinema's top music supervisors break down their greatest hits
We wrap up our season on great needle drops with an interview mixtape. Host Rico Gagliano talks to three legendary music supervisors about their iconic…
MUBI PodcastBLACKBOARD JUNGLE — Hollywood's first rumble with rock ‘n’ roll
In his gritty ’55 flick BLACKBOARD JUNGLE, director Richard Brooks introduced a wide audience to Sidney Poitier, the harsh world of inner-city schools...and a…
MUBI PodcastCHUNGKING EXPRESS — Wong Kar Wai puts "Dreams" on the menu
Shot on a shoestring in six wild weeks, CHUNGKING EXPRESS is the movie that put legendary Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar Wai on the international map—along with…
MUBI PodcastCLOSE — Lukas Dhont's Quietly Powerful Coming-of-Age Movie
In his Oscar-nominated CLOSE, filmmaker Lukas Dhont uses the sparest dialogue, the gentlest music, and the most pastoral of images...to tell a shattering story…
MUBI PodcastTHE HARDER THEY COME — Reggae catches fire on film
In 1972, director Perry Henzell set a gritty crime thriller in Jamaica's exploding, politically charged music scene, and came up with THE HARDER THEY COME—the…
MUBI PodcastDONNIE DARKO — Richard Kelly makes the ultimate ‘80s mixtape
In 2001, writer/director Richard Kelly's genre-busting rookie feature DONNIE DARKO crashed and burned at the box office. But it almost immediately rose from…
MUBI Podcast2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY — Stanley Kubrick finds heavenly music on vinyl
In 1968, Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi epic 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY pushed movies light years into the future. It pioneered the use of special effects, makeup, sound…
MUBI PodcastWith TÁR, Todd Field makes a power play
The multiple-Oscar-nominated psychodrama TÁR is the story of a compulsive, privileged leader who abuses her power. In this special episode of the MUBI Podcast…
MUBI PodcastIn AFTERSUN, Charlotte Wells lets Queen and Bowie tell the story
Charlotte Wells's wildly acclaimed feature-length debut AFTERSUN follows a father and daughter on a vacation where much is implied but little is said...unless…
MUBI PodcastPark Chan-wook finds DECISION TO LEAVE in “The Mist”
In 1972, a lush pop ballad called "The Mist" swirled out of radios all over South Korea. Fifty years later, master auteur Park Chan-wook has taken it as the…
MUBI PodcastZanzibar's Majestic, the last cinema standing (feat. Nick Broomfield)
"Only in Theaters" concludes with the cautionary tale of the Majestic. Africa's island region of Zanzibar used to be movie crazy — but today just one cinema…
MUBI PodcastBeing Like Water: Tilda Swinton and Apichatpong Weerasethakul on MEMORIA
This week, we have a special bonus episode courtesy of our Latin American podcast MUBI Podcast: Encuentros. To celebrate the exclusive release of MEMORIA on…
MUBI PodcastThe Dryden Theatre's Nitrate Picture Show explodes our view of movie history
For the first half-century of cinema, most movies were made and printed on nitrate film. Problem: it easily decomposes, it's easily combustible, and once it's…
MUBI PodcastLondon's Scala Cinema becomes "A country club for lunatics" (feat. Mary Harron and Peter Strickland)
In the grey Thatcher-era England of the '80s, a romantically dilapidated London movie palace called The Scala beckoned to England's subcultures — and…
MUBI PodcastHAROLD AND MAUDE find new life at The Westgate
Hal Ashby's HAROLD AND MAUDE debuted to generally poor reviews, and worse box office. But in suburban Minneapolis, a humble second-run neighborhood theater…
MUBI PodcastThe Elgin and EL TOPO plunge NYC into "Midnite Madness"
In 1970, a scruffy repertory theater — led by the visionary Ben Barenholtz — quietly placed a print ad in the Village Voice, advertising midnight screenings of…
MUBI PodcastThe Cinémathèque Française launches two revolutions
In 1940s France, a little 50-seat cinema opened that would launch one revolution on international movie screens...and arguably a second one in the streets of…
MUBI PodcastIn LINGUI, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun honors women's "invisible resistance"
On this special episode, host Rico Gagliano talks to Cannes-winning filmmaker Mahamat-Saleh Haroun about his latest film LINGUI, THE SACRED BONDS — the story…
MUBI PodcastJoachim Trier sympathizes with THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD
In this special episode, acclaimed filmmaker Joachim Trier tells host Rico Gagliano about how and why he made his tender look at messy modern romance, THE…
MUBI PodcastIn Andrea Arnold’s COW, audiences find themselves
The MUBI Podcast returns this week with a special episode. Host Rico Gagliano speaks with Oscar-winning filmmaker Andrea Arnold (AMERICAN HONEY, FISH TANK)…
MUBI PodcastChina builds itself a DREAM FACTORY
China’s Lunar New Year movie season is like America’s summer blockbuster season… on steroids. And it got that way thanks to THE DREAM FACTORY — a wry 1997…
MUBI PodcastFrom Mexico with love: The Soviet Union embraces YESENIA
The biggest box office hit in the history of the Soviet Union was an early 1970s Mexican romance so obscure in its home country that even many experts on the…
MUBI PodcastLIVING IN BONDAGE fast-forwards the Nigerian film industry
One of the world’s most prolific film industries was founded on the success of a direct-to-video film distributed on VHS cassettes. Host Rico Gagliano learns…
MUBI PodcastBrazil dances the (metaphorical) samba with DONA FLOR AND HER TWO HUSBANDS
In the mid-70s, in the midst of a military dictatorship, a Brazilian filmmaker barely out of his teens brought a beloved magical realist story about food, sex…
MUBI PodcastIndia's 25-year (and counting) marriage to DDLJ
The longest-running film in Bollywood history, 1995's DILWALE DULHANIA LE JAYENGE (aka DDLJ) caught the imagination of a country in transition and practically…
MUBI PodcastPaul Verhoeven’s TURKISH DELIGHT ignites the Netherlands
To get a deeper idea of what makes his favorite country tick, Rico dives into Paul Verhoeven’s wild sophomore feature TURKISH DELIGHT — the biggest home-grown…
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MUBI Podcast: Season One Trailer
Coming soon. The MUBI Podcast. Subscribe now and tune in June 3. Hosted by Rico Gagliano, the first season of the MUBI Podcast focuses on movies that have…