Ruth Beckermann's Mutzenbacher is now showing exclusively on Mubi in most countries starting February 16, 2023, in the series Festival Focus: Berlinale.Men and sex. Male sexuality. What do men really want? Do men speak about sex? And if so, how? Those were the questions on my mind when I started the Mutzenbacher project. How could I find answers to these questions? Not by speaking to one or two or even ten men, but by starting a kind of field experiment with a random sample of dozens of men engaging in a dialogue about sex.To achieve this we put out a casting call: “Looking for men between ages 16 and 99 for a documentary about Josefine Mutzenbacher.” 150 men applied!It was a running gag of my professional career. Whenever we were stuck in the editing room or I didn’t know how to continue shooting I shouted, “Next time I will make a film about Mutzenbacher!
- 2/15/2023
- MUBI
Musician Grimes posted a funny shot of her daughter with Elon Musk making an… interesting choice in first reading materials.
Most people get their kids started with something like The Very Hungry Caterpillar, but Grimes went right to German philosophy showing her nine-month-old daughter Exa Dark Sideræl over an iPad showing the title page of Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy.
Grimes also joked that her daughter “loves Boris Brejcha.” This is a pretty funny bit, but hopefully Grimes has more people to debate nihilism and philosophy with than her infant child. But hey, maybe raising a daughter in the example of Nietzsche will bring us the next great thinker of that generation.
Exa (also nicknamed Y) is Grimes’ second child with Musk. They had a son who they infamously named X Æ A-12, and if Grimes’ parenting style is to be believed he probably has very well-formed opinions...
Most people get their kids started with something like The Very Hungry Caterpillar, but Grimes went right to German philosophy showing her nine-month-old daughter Exa Dark Sideræl over an iPad showing the title page of Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy.
Grimes also joked that her daughter “loves Boris Brejcha.” This is a pretty funny bit, but hopefully Grimes has more people to debate nihilism and philosophy with than her infant child. But hey, maybe raising a daughter in the example of Nietzsche will bring us the next great thinker of that generation.
Exa (also nicknamed Y) is Grimes’ second child with Musk. They had a son who they infamously named X Æ A-12, and if Grimes’ parenting style is to be believed he probably has very well-formed opinions...
- 9/23/2022
- by Jacob Linden
- Uinterview
Blue is the Warmest Collar: Periot’s Projects a Sublime Visualization of Potent Memoir
For his third feature length documentary, Jean-Gabriel Périot tackles the celebrated 2009 memoir by Didier Eribon, Returning to Reims (Fragments) (only recently translated into English in 2018). A celebrated writer and professor (his first publication was a lauded autobiography on Michel Foucault in 1991), his memoir provides an intimate anecdotal family history which simultaneously charts the political narrative of France’s working class at large from post-wwii on.
Periot makes this a stellar visual odyssey, tossing in Adele Haenel as narrator to voice Eribon’s prose (the commingling and collapsing of sexual orientations and identities from this creative choice leaves a profound impression), weaving her voice over a series of footage from both documentary and narrative cinematic elements.…...
For his third feature length documentary, Jean-Gabriel Périot tackles the celebrated 2009 memoir by Didier Eribon, Returning to Reims (Fragments) (only recently translated into English in 2018). A celebrated writer and professor (his first publication was a lauded autobiography on Michel Foucault in 1991), his memoir provides an intimate anecdotal family history which simultaneously charts the political narrative of France’s working class at large from post-wwii on.
Periot makes this a stellar visual odyssey, tossing in Adele Haenel as narrator to voice Eribon’s prose (the commingling and collapsing of sexual orientations and identities from this creative choice leaves a profound impression), weaving her voice over a series of footage from both documentary and narrative cinematic elements.…...
- 7/11/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Hitchcock’s masterpiece, rereleased after 60 years, combines his flair for psychological shocks with a genius for dapper stylishness
The unbearably sad, exquisitely macabre love story that is Vertigo now reaches its 60th birthday, and this week sees its rerelease, not much liked on first appearing in 1958 but now hugely canonical and prestigious, recently unseating Citizen Kane at the top of the Sight and Sound critics’ poll, due very much to unending critical interest in “the male gaze”, pioneered by theorists such as Michel Foucault and Laura Mulvey. This is that act of seeing that, so far from being transparent and neutral, is an imposition of power, and therefore extremely applicable to this drama of obsession and voyeurism, although I never tire of pointing out that there are very few members of the hetero-patriarchy who have the confidence or fanatical connoisseurship to pick out a woman’s clothes or exactly specify her hairstyle.
The unbearably sad, exquisitely macabre love story that is Vertigo now reaches its 60th birthday, and this week sees its rerelease, not much liked on first appearing in 1958 but now hugely canonical and prestigious, recently unseating Citizen Kane at the top of the Sight and Sound critics’ poll, due very much to unending critical interest in “the male gaze”, pioneered by theorists such as Michel Foucault and Laura Mulvey. This is that act of seeing that, so far from being transparent and neutral, is an imposition of power, and therefore extremely applicable to this drama of obsession and voyeurism, although I never tire of pointing out that there are very few members of the hetero-patriarchy who have the confidence or fanatical connoisseurship to pick out a woman’s clothes or exactly specify her hairstyle.
- 7/12/2018
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The retrospective Godard and the Dziga Vertov Group is showing from February 27 - March 26, 2018 on Mubi in the United Kingdom and United States.British SoundsThe execrable new film Redoubtable by Michel Hazanavicius reduces all aspects of Jean-Luc Godard and his career to the level of a cartoon. And not even a great, cinematically advanced cartoon—the Fleischer brothers, Chuck Jones, or Tex Avery, something that might actually capture some semblance of Jlg’s anarchic humor. No, Redoubtable is strictly Hanna-Barbara, two-dimensional animals lumbering about on an unchanging, depthless landscape. (Oh look! Silly Jean-Luc has broken his glasses again!) As if to drive home the childishness of the film, it is being retitled in the U.S. Now called Godard Mon Amour, it not only makes a mockery of an actually great film by Alain Resnais and Marguerite Duras. It emphasizes Godard as little more than a brand name, a selling point.
- 2/28/2018
- MUBI
It’s been an interesting run-up to the Toronto International Film Festival, and in terms of the survival of the species, the good ol’ U.S.A. has been something of a race to the bottom. What would do us in first: violent neo-Nazis whose activities are almost explicitly condoned by the Klansman In Chief? Or a 1,000-year weather event on the Gulf Coast whose magnitude surely owes something to global climate change, and whose aftermath of collapsing dams and exploding chemical factories has everything to do with systematic neglect?Given the state of things down here, who wouldn’t want to repair to Canada for some challenging cinema? As always, the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) is the place to be in September, and Wavelengths once again features the best of the fest. This is because the films selected for Wavelengths are the opposite of escapism. Whether they tackle...
- 9/7/2017
- MUBI
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