MUBI Update: 15 April 2011

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MUBI Update: 15 April 2011

This week on MUBI we have some fun, time-limited collaborations.

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City of Lights, City of Angels x MUBI (pictured above)

The 15th City of Lights, City of Angels, a festival with both a handy acronym, COL•COA, and a winning subtitle, “A Week of French Film Premieres in Hollywood,” has opened in Los Angeles. We’re teaming up with the festival to present five of their shorts for free. All five have been made by students of La fémis in Paris (whose alumni, by the way, include Laurent Cantet, Costa-Gavras, Claire Denis, Louis Malle, Arnaud Desplechin, Claude Miller, François Ozon and Alain Resnais). You can view our offering here.
Available in: Everywhere!

Libertas Film Festival x MUBI

The 7th Libertas Film Festival is off and running through Sunday in the beautiful old Croatian town of Dubrovnik and we’re teaming up with the festival to present a selection of new Croatian short films for free, viewable around the world. View our offerings here.
Available in: Everywhere!

The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan, Canada)

Egoyan made his name in America with this prize-winning adaptation of Russell Banks popular novel about the repercussions in a small town after a school-bus accident. A terrific ensemble cast headlines this film, which caught the Grand Jury Prize in Cannes and scored Egoyan an Oscar nomination for Best Director.
Available in: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden

PTU (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)

This is a very personal film for Hong Kong genre master To (the Election Movies, Exiled, The Mission, and many, many more)—he shot it over three years at night between more commercial projects. It tells of the Police Tactical Unit, a night-clad squad of policemen who roam the vacated nocturnal city streets and get entangled in gang mischief and a missing firearm. Taut, mysterious, expert and thrilling—all hallmarks of a film directed by To.
Available in: United Kingdom, Ireland

Arsenal (Aleksandr Dovzhenko, USSR)

“Arsenal, Dovzhenko’s most complex, avant-garde work, is as revolutionary in its politics as in its style,” argues Philip French in the Observer. “It’s a dense, symbol-laden account of the last days of the first world war on the eastern front followed by the civil war in the Ukraine. This ambitious film has evoked comparisons with Picasso’s Guernica for its angry, compassionate, complex depiction of war and is full of unforgettable images such as the gassed German soldier and the portrait of a celebrated poet coming to life and blowing out the candle placed beneath it.”
Available in: Everywhere!

Kinatay (Brillante Mendoza, Philippines)

This film by Filipino auteur Brillante Mendoza caused a sensation at Cannes. A violent thriller telling of an initiation of a young police officer into the reality of how crimes are solved and justice handed out, it is as much about the darkness of night as it is a gripping moral tale.
Available in: Portugal

Mid-August Lunch (Gianni Di Gregorio, Italy)

This charmer follows a middle-aged Roman who lives with his tyrannical 93-year-old mother and suddenly finds himself forced to look after three other elderly ladies. Debuting director di Gregorio’s combination of artistry and humanity avoids platitudes as he spins this warm-hearted, humorous tale.
Available in: Australia, New Zealand

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