Hello,
We are MUBI.
Who? What?
Ok, lets make this simple… Do you know who Kubrick is? What about Antonioni? David Lynch? Ring any bells?
It’s ok, don’t bother if you don’t…
But if you are still reading you are going to like this a lot.
Well, we are MUBI and we are basically transforming your PS3 console into your own online cinema. (You can still play games and all that, don’t worry!) We couldn’t resist the idea of everyone having their own exquisite film library—And that’s it in a nutshell.
But lets get this straight, we are not just an online cinema and we are not just some tech and film geeks in California—well, some of us are, yes—but we are 300,000 friends talking, discovering, and sharing films with one another every day. In fact, every 2 minutes there’s someone joining us. Yes. 2 minutes. Sorry to get a bit geeky (we warned you!), but that’s 700 people joining each day. Not bad… but joining what?
The truth is, we can’t even start explaining. But let’s try this: At the moment, some of us are at the Cannes Film Festival announcing a major collaboration with SCEE for PS3. So, soon, you will find a new application on your console, which will let you stream the best of international cinema from the comforts of your couch. This is not a simple virtual videostore; we emphasize quality over quantity. You’ll find undistributed festival gems ripe for your discovery, your favorite recent independent and art-house releases. Names like the Coen brothers, Godard, Kitano, Almodóvar, Tarantino, and Van Sant are some we’ll bring home to you.
Palm d’Or winners and simply films we think should have won awards. But that’s not all. We’ll bring you exclusive online premieres, collaborations with international film festivals, and retrospectives of some of the best cinema the world has ever seen.
And as we said, we love talking and sharing wonderful cinema too. Which makes MUBI like a small coffee shop, a place where you can gather and chat about alternative endings, directors’ cuts, or whatever those frogs in Magnolia meant.
You can follow members and interact with them: This is Martin Scorsese’s profile for instance (he happens to be a member!). Anyway, you get the point. We’ve spent some time tying together an online cinema with a simple, engaging social network to help film lovers spread around the world connect over the movies they love best. And that is that. Welcome to MUBI.
Do you know what Tati means? What about Jonze?
Enjoy,
The Mubi Team



















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171 CommentsAdd Yours
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 11:33 am by space_squirrel
maaan. I’d love to have this kind of service in Poland…
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 11:49 am by GhostViper
Nordic Countries at launch? That’s great
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 11:54 am by Fantatier
can we turn off subtitles? if watching a movie from germany, i mean i dont need them im british :p
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 11:54 am by Yeroon
I hope this works better than Vidzone.
That only shows a black screen and no video
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 12:06 pm by shaney2007h
Looks goooood! Another nice app for PS3
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 12:09 pm by Tridentmorph
Oh, this looks cool. Def will check this out when it appears.
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 12:10 pm by vicheous
Quote: “Efe Cakarel – Hello. The service is exclusive to PS3. Nordic countries are part of the launch, and we are in Cannes closing some major distribution deals in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland. Expect to watch great films instantly on your PS3 this Fall.”
Sweet! Can’t wait
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 12:11 pm by Bonyman
Sounds interesting, looking forward to more details.
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 12:13 pm by GuttermouthSIN
What a great little application. Can’t wait to try it out
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 12:15 pm by FluBBa
Looks really interesting, I hope it can compete with Headweb.
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 12:18 pm by mattkan
I have some opinions on those frogs.
It just happened
I call this the service made for me.
Thanks it’s actually a feature i am now anticipating more than the release of Monkey Island.
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 12:26 pm by ElStefio
The PS3-owning, film loving part of me is liking this very much. The part of me that works in the DVD rental game not so much…
I jest of course – this is great news.
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 12:33 pm by sentry-23
Looking at the trailer.. did you guys just borrow my DVD collection to make that? Seeing Audition, Hedwig, Sonatine, Naked Lunch, and many more in a ‘mainstream’ trailer is very promising.
I just hope you’ll have enough movies I haven’t seen yet
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 12:39 pm by maddymad
Amazing! I love it when you say “quality over quantity”
I’m looking forward to it.
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 12:40 pm by JohnParry
Fantastic news!!
I’m a member of The Auters already and I’m working on a complete Criterion blu-ray collection so this is pretty much perfect news for me.
I really like that you’ve maintaned the look of The Auters/The Criterion Collection on the MUBI service. So Pleased!!!
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 12:40 pm by cthulhu85
This sounds great
Finally something nice, movie related, being released to nordic countries also
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 12:41 pm by WillyKYU
Outstanding, marvelous, BRILLIANT! Thank you SO much, this is the best VOD service announcement ever!
Original language? subs? excellent movie selection! (mubi! cool japanese name!) if so, this is perfect. What about a subscribe service with a month fee with unlimited access?
Now could you also give us the original languages and subs for the regular video store now?
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 12:41 pm by Shin-Ra
Love the UI, very polished looking!
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 12:48 pm by Mabdias
I would love to have such service in my country, but unfortunately, difficult to believe that someday we will see this service here.
Sorry for my bad English, it happened because I’m using a translator
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 12:51 pm by Cimbrer
This looks promising. Big thank you for including the Nordic countries in your launch of this service, unlike others.
Any information regarding the Video and Audio quality? Will it be in Standard Definition, or can we expect some High Definition content from this service?
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 1:11 pm by Splutterbug
Fantastic news! It sounds like an arthouse netflicks. Very excited lets hope we get some decent pricing and eventually HD.
Lets have some dates people!
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 1:12 pm by makingdamage
If you going for quality over quantity then you´ll need Jean-Pierre Jeunet! He is the greatest!
Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 3:23 pm by Efe Cakarel
Jeunet is awesome.. We are working on it.
http://mubi.com/cast_members/1564
/efe
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 1:15 pm by BlueViper
Would be great with free movies=)
One serious suggestion: Able to import ratings from IMDB or filmtipset.se (filmtipset are very open so I think they would be very helpful!)
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 1:18 pm by Shuya86
Sounds pretty good I saw both Audition and Oldboy in that trailer which surprised me.
I’m a lovefilm member and they have a webstreaming service but it’s rather limited would you say mubi has better video quality than that? (ie at least looks good enough for tv)
If so I’ll consider you for streaming in addition to my current film package.
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 1:21 pm by VictorAnalogy
Thanks for responding and clarifying on the pricing structure, I love that all the films are the same price, great move!
I don’t suppose you have any comment on the chances of securing rights from the films shown in the advert for this service? I’d love to be able to stream Ghostdog, Withnail, Audition and Downfall.
Thanks also for clarifying on the SD/HD issue, as I said, the films I’m likely to watch on this are the great character stories rather than summer blockbuster films so the resolution isn’t such a big deal to me.
Finally, sorry to ask again, but will the Audio be 5.1?
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 1:22 pm by Matazone
Sorry if it’s a cheeky question, but how much do the film makers get? I love supporting independent cinema and would like to make sure that I’m seeing their work in the way that helps them the most.
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 1:27 pm by mew_frenger
i whish the video store had higher priority than this. looks great, but we still dont have a video store for “normal movies”.
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 1:30 pm by spatsnaz
Wonderful. I really hope Finland gets this too.
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 1:38 pm by Bloody_Marcel
Wish Vidzone had the same (awesome) slick interface.
Anyway, incredible movie collection. Very hyped about this. More so than the PlayStation Video Store actually.
Too bad about no HD offerings. I don’t get the justification given about it in one of the devs comments. “Not everyone has super fast bandwidth to support HD”? Seriously now, you waiting for EVERYONE to have it before offering HD content? I understand there is enough people ready (and willing to pay) for HD movies.
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 1:39 pm by Bloody_Marcel
Forgot to ask something:
Will presence data be supported? Vidzone supports it…
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 1:47 pm by Ryusennin
It’s part of PSN Premium, right?
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 1:49 pm by Mithos-SWE
@FluBBa – Yeah, lets hope the deals being struck make some diffrence, right now there are not much there (MUBI) being available in Sweden, that I am interested in.
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 1:50 pm by Guillemots
Nice!
Another GREAT service for PS3.
Thanks!
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 1:52 pm by HelgastKing_90
And There will be the italian ?
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 2:04 pm by GutsBerserker
Wow this is truly epic! Original languages with subtitles, low prices and I hope a growing selection of good/outstanding movies and even available in my small country AKA Switzerland from the get-go!! Who needs a sub-par Vidstore with no original language and high prices after this hits the PS3?
I’ve got one question for you, actually two:
- Will it be possible to pause the stream so the buffer can fill up? I fear my crappy 1024Kbit/s connection will fail at seamless playback if not.
- I guess we don’t need to pay monthly fees just to be able to rent movies or something crazy like that?
Thanks a lot for this new feature, this really is tremendous news!
Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 3:26 pm by Efe Cakarel
hello,
- it’s progressive download. so you’ll be able to pause the stream and have an espresso while the film buffers.
- there is no free lunch.
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 2:06 pm by Orange_Wedge
It better be not UK only..
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 2:07 pm by enormhi
Cool! Looking forward to it.
Will they release simultaniasly in all country’s or as usual: England, France, Germany and Spain first?
“Which makes MUBI like a small coffee shop”
The Dutch kind? Where you can buy Hasj?
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 2:11 pm by V_Ben
wow. this looks like one heck of a service. I’m totally going to end up watching films every week through this!
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 2:12 pm by ik00R
awesome! and we get in he countries that matters too!!
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 2:16 pm by Noisepurge
Can i select beetween different language subtitles and to watch it in either HD or SD? Surround or Stereo?
Already registered!
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 2:20 pm by sebbodes0
Can i pay the movies with my psn money? i’ve looked on the site and they have only credit card payment
Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 3:28 pm by Efe Cakarel
Hello,
The service is a native PS3 app and will be integrated with PSN wallet system. So you’ll be able pay with your PS3 account. Thanks.
/efe
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 2:22 pm by Haraldo
Sounds like a great service if the content offering is extensive enough.
Will the films be subtitled for each country that the service will launched in, for example Finnish subtitles for films that are available in Finland? Can you comment on the availability of local content for each country?
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 2:34 pm by whoismilan
This is great news, I’m looking forward to trying it out once it launches on PS3.
However, I went to your website, and I noticed that most movies (and most of the famous ones) are not available to watch in my area (Finland). I do appreciate that there are some instead of none at all, but I hope you’ll be able to bring more of them to Finland in the future, such as ones by Kubrick, Scorsese, Hitchcock, etc.
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 2:41 pm by Arion87
Any chance of it being launched in South Africa at some point?
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 2:43 pm by thomdibble
this sounds amazing. i’m a huge, huge fan, heard about blinkbox, but don’t like that it streams from the ps3 web-browser (which i really dont get on with). i love that there is an emphisis on indendent films / studios, and scorsese is on it? sweet as a nut!!!! hopefully there will be some intergration of major hollywood films as well though? would be missing a trick if you didn’t. this really has me excited. cannot wait!
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 2:43 pm by crashvu
Will finally hopefully be able to watch what movie all the Hitler rants actually come from in terms of screenplay. I’m sure it’s a interesting movie despite the numerous times it’s been used to take the mick out of Hitler.
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 2:44 pm by MJHAYLETT
Well colour me pink and call me Charlie. That is some sweet service coming to PS3. Any film montage that has a clip of Min-sik Choi about to cut off his tongue in ‘Oldboy’ is a WIN to me. Can’t Wait to try it out.
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 2:57 pm by GutsBerserker
Well just checked what movies are available right now for Switzerland…hmm not that overwhelmed anymore, hope it will get better over time.
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 3:00 pm by gekko1986
So is The Auteurs, err MUBI, going to be available in the U.S.?
Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 3:29 pm by Efe Cakarel
nice.. here is one of our founding members.
we are discussing US, and have the intention to launch there as well, but don’t have a target date yet.
/efe
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Posted on 18 May, 2010 at 3:03 pm by thomdibble
@98 i was thinking that maybe more mainstream movies were needed but had a look at their catalouge and i can honestly say i don’t want any ‘new’ films any more. there are countless classics in there. most of my favourites. my only concern is how many will be available to stream in the uk. on the site i changed to the ‘view available in my area’ and half of the best films dissppeared. any chance this will be fixed by ps3 launch??
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