After recent films on Marguerite Duras, a filmmaking academy, high school, and more, Claire Simon has turned her eye toward the female body. Premiering earlier this year at Berlinale to much acclaim, Our Body finds the London-born French director observing the everyday operations of the gynecological ward in a public hospital in Paris. “In the process, she questions what it means to live in a woman’s body, filming the diversity, singularity and beauty of patients in all stages of life. Through these many encounters, the specific fears, desires and struggles of these individuals become the health challenges we all face, even the filmmaker herself,” read the official synopsis. Ahead of an August 4 theatrical debut beginning at NYC’s Film Forum, we’re pleased to premiere the first U.S. trailer and poster courtesy Cinema Guild.
Darren Hughes said in our summer preview, “Claire Simon cites Frederick Wiseman’s Hospital...
Darren Hughes said in our summer preview, “Claire Simon cites Frederick Wiseman’s Hospital...
- 7/13/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAvant-garde filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky has provided a new ident for Mubi that displays his "sensory and tactile view on cinema." The ident features strips of film negative overlapping and whirring to the sounds of a passing train. Recommended VIEWINGThe official trailer for Clint Eastwood's Richard Jewell, based on the true story of a security guard falsely accused of planting a bomb at the 1996 Olympics. An investigation into the "real fake cameras" used to create Toy Story 4, which emulates a variety of camera lenses, from anamorphic to spherical. The elusive Roger Avary, co-writer of Pulp Fiction and director of The Rules of Attraction, returns from a long hiatus with what looks to be a delightful crime romp complete with Crispin Glover as a fake Frenchman-assassin.Mati Diop's Atlantics, which follows a woman...
- 10/9/2019
- MUBI
more than everythingFor those who love their live music to be risk-taking and cutting-edge, the Big Ears Festival, a 4-day event each March in Knoxville, Tennessee, is the place to be. For those who like their cinema of similar boldness and eclecticism, Big Ears is becoming a destination for that, too. Focusing on experimental work and inspired retrospectives, the film section of Big Ears is now in its third year, programmed by critic Darren Hughes (who writes regularly for the Notebook) and filmmaker Paul Harrill (Something, Anything), who together run The Public Cinema, a non-profit screening series shown at the Knoxville Museum of Art that operates year-long. Big Ears' film program is an exciting extension and expansion of The Public Cinema's initiative, which brings international art cinema like Hong Sang-soo's On the Beach Alone at Night and Valeska Grisebach's Western, as well as American independent cinema like Frederick Wiseman...
- 3/22/2018
- MUBI
Last year saw the premiere of not one but three Hong Sang-soo films—the gently oneiric On the Beach at Night Alone, the anguished black-and-white The Day After, and the airy 79-minute Claire’s Camera. All feature muse Kim Min-hee (now seemingly, welcomingly forever a fixture in Hong’s work). In Beach, she’s quietly recovering from an affair with a filmmaker first in Hamburg, then in her sleepy Korean hometown. In The Day After, she’s innocently caught in the middle of her book publisher boss’ sexual dalliance, so much so that his wife mistakes her for his mistress. And in Claire’s Camera, she plays yet another character enmeshed in the intimacies of friends and associates. Although this observation virtually applies to every filmmaker, it is more so with Hong: with each and every film in his continually expanding oeuvre, Hong’s aesthetic alters, now becoming more forthrightly...
- 3/8/2018
- MUBI
For the third year now, Knoxville’s Big Ears Festival will offer a number of film-related screenings in conjunction with The Public Cinema, the organization co-founded by writer Darren Hughes and filmmaker Paul Harrill (Something, Anything). Filmmaker Blake Williams, whose experimental work is 3D-based, attended last year (subscribers can read his enthusiastic write-up here) and has programmed one of this year’s big series. From the press release: A survey of 3D cinema — experimental and mainstream, short and feature-length, contemporary and historical — “Stereo Visions” will encompass and demonstrate the full visual and affective capacities of our favorite on-again/off-again format. From […]...
- 2/1/2018
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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