We’ve just opened a virtual cinema featuring the work of Reha Erdem, ranging from the blackly comic to the eerily poetic. In the US, most were first introduced to Erdem when his Times and Winds, which had won the award for Best Film (as well as the FIPRESCI Prize) at the Istanbul International Film Festival in 2006, saw a limited theatrical run two years later before its release on DVD. It’s “a film bewitched by the rhythms of everyday life in a remote Turkish village,” wrote Ed Gonzalez in the Voice. “Erdem sees pain and love the same way he does the moon and sun — as constant, illuminating forces — and his camera pushes forward as if on an axis, peering at family and communal experience through the impressionable eyes of three pre-adolescents.” (more…)

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This week’s MUBI update features a great number of prize winners and nominees, ranging from the Academy Awards to prestigious film festivals — with some fascinating filmmakers thrown in between.

Far from Heaven (Todd Haynes, USA)

Before Todd Haynes put Kate Winslet in the 1930s (Mildred Pierce) he recreated the 1950s for Julianne Moore (with whom he’d already worked on the mid-90s classic, Safe) in this Oscar-nominated melodrama of lush colors, repressed emotions and sinisterly conservative social mores. The result is one of the most beautiful and intelligent films of the decade.

Available in: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden

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This MUBI update is stellar collection of what makes the offering great: a combination of classic cinema (a beloved Cuban masterpiece), art house movies (Antonioni’s Psycho for the art house crowd), contemporary genre films (Hong Kong gangster action!), super smart and sexy mainstream international titles and an undistributed film festival discovery. Enjoy!

Love Crime (Alain Corneau, France)

This corporate thriller stars Kristin Scott Thomas as a powerfully manipulative skyscraper boss and Ludivine Sagnier as her object of desire and torment. “The central goal of a classic whodunit is to unravel how a crime was committed. Love Crime turns that convention around—halfway through it shows exactly how a crime was committed, and then leaves the audience to figure out why it was committed in such a strange and specific way” (Paste Magazine).

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My French Film Festival continues!
Firstly, a time-sensitive reminder: there’s still a week remaining in our unique collaboration with the My French Film Festival. The festival, which includes both short films and features, emphasizes the work of exciting new French filmmaking talent. The festival continues to run online on MUBI through February 1, 2012. (more…)

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Happy New Year! We hope you enjoyed some terrific films over the holidays.

Starting today on MUBI we’re beginning our collaboration with My French Films Festival 2012. Running 12 January – 1 February, we’re showing feature and short films in this festival whose mission is to let you discover young French filmmakers and allows you to share your love of French cinema with Internet users across the globe.

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