Meet The MUBI Team

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MUBI, our new film application on the PS3, was introduced to you guys last week, so you should already know about our service. Here on the PlayStation.Blog we’ll be sharing with you what’s exciting on MUBI and in the world of cinema each month. Since this is our first post, I thought some introductions are in order.
I’m what they call the “Director of Content” for MUBI – the PS3 application and our website, mubi.com. It’s a stuffy sounding title that really means I get to do all the fun stuff.
I get to search for great films to show on our platform, exciting new things premiering at film festivals, old classics unfairly forgotten by time, and the best of what’s been distributed in local countries. And I get to edit and write about films for our online magazine, The Daily Notebook. Basically, I keep up with what’s new and interesting in independent, international, and classic film, and share it with our users. I’ll be posting regular updates here to let you guys know about the new films we’ve added to our curated catalogue.
I couldn’t do this without two members of our editorial team who you’ll get to know soon: David Hudson and Adrian Curry.
Based in Berlin, David is our marvellous news man. He edits The Daily part of our magazine, indefatigably finding out what’s happening now in film around the world, cutting out all the useless stuff and delivering just the necessary facts and impressions. Each month he and I will bring you a roundup of the essentials, what you need to know about what’s going on mubi.com and in world cinema.
Working from New York, Adrian Curry writes the highly popular Movie Poster of the Week column on our website. He’ll be sharing with you each month some of his finds: unusual, striking, and otherwise notable graphic poster designs in a world where most movie posters are designed around, as they say casually in the industry, ‘big heads’.
Okay – enough with the introductions already, let’s get to the movies!

HANYO

Here’s my first tip: While we have different films playing in different countries on the platform, we do indeed have many films playing on MUBI in all countries, and, guess what – some of those are free!
My personal favourite of the films playing for free right now on MUBI is Kim Ki-young’s 1960 surreal classic The Housemaid. This film needs no endorsement from me; it was selected to be restored and preserved by Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Foundation, and was likewise selected to be remade this year by one of South Korea’s hottest directors, Im Sang-soo, whose 2010 version premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. The new film has its supporters, but no remake could be as searing and passionate as the original, shot in gorgeous black and white. There may be no finer introduction to our philosophy of making exciting and accessible films previously unknown or undistributed – there are beautiful, strange, wonderful films out there, so many to discover.
The Housemaid is one of the finest, and is now playing for free.

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