February is going to be a busy month over at digital cinema platform Mubi. Here’s a look at everything which is joining the platform next month.
This month, we’re thrilled to exclusively present Cathy Yan’s masterful first feature Dead Pigs (2018), a bitingly humourous social satire about the trials and tribulations connecting a disparate group of characters, as thousands of dead pigs mysteriously float down the river towards a rapidly modernising Shanghai, China. Unreleased so far, the dark comedy will be showing exclusively on MUBI after its successful festival debut (which included a Grand Jury Prize for the ensemble cast at Sundance), and rave reviews that landed Yan the job to direct the critically acclaimed DC Comics film, Birds of Prey.
Dead Pigs – 12 February
With two of our favourite film festivals taking place online this year, we’re reminiscing about the last edition of the Berlinale and the Rotterdam International Film Festival with a special collection of films direct from last year’s selections.
Highlights from our Direct from Rotterdam special include Oda Kaori’s mesmerizing documentary Cenote (2019) and Salka Tiziana’s portrait of an isolated family For the Time Being (2020), as well as Carl Olsson’s Meanwhile on Earth (2020) and Babis Makridis’ Birds (Or How To Be One) (2020).
Our Berlinale Focus includes the D’Innocenzo Brothers’ competition entry Bad Tales (2020), Patric Chiha’s magnetic dance reverie If It Were Love (2020), Romanian master Radu Jude’s latest political investigation Uppercase Print (2020), Georgis Grigorakis’ Digger (2020) and Matthew Rankin’s The Twentieth Century (2019).
Cenote – 1 February
For The Time Being – 4 February
Birds (Or How To Be One) – 8 February
Bad Tales – 18 February
If It Were Love – 11 February
The Twentieth Century – 15 February
Digger – 16 February
Uppercase Print – 17 February
This month, we’re spotlighting the brilliant cinema of one of the most unique and uncompromising American indie directors, Alex Ross Perry. The three films that make up our focus are The Color Wheel (2012), an uncomfortably funny road trip film about a pair of siblings that are equally arrogant and vulnerable, Listen Up Philip (2014), starring Jason Schwartzman as a narcissistic writer, and Queen of Earth (2015), an acerbic, sharp drama featuring two wonderful performances by Elizabeth Moss and Katherine Waterston.
The Color Wheel – 7 February
Listen Up Philip – 19 February
Queen of Earth – 28 February
Here’s the full list of titles joining the platform:
1 February | Cenote | Direct from Rotterdam | Oda Kaori
2 February | Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris | Rediscovered | Terence Dixon
3 February | The Passion of Joan of Arc | Double Bill: Carl Theodor Dreyer | Carl Theodor Dreyer
4 February | For The Time Being | Direct from Rotterdam | Salka Tiziana
5 February | Heat | Michael Mann
6 February | The Terrorizers | Edward Yang
7 February | The Color Wheel | Alex Ross Perry Focus | Alex Ross Perry
8 February | Birds (Or How To Be One) | Direct from Rotterdam | Babis Makridis
9 February | Song Without a Name | MUBI Spotlight | Melina León
10 February | Stump The Guesser | Luminaries | Galen Johnson, Evan Johnson, Guy Maddin
11 February | If It Were Love | Berlinale Focus | Patric Chiha
12 February | Dead Pigs | Debuts | Cathy Yan
13 February | L’Auberge Espagnole | The Spanish Apartment Trilogy | Cédric Klapisch
14 February | The African Queen | Valentine’s Day | John Huston
15 February | The Twentieth Century | Berlinale Focus | Matthew Rankin
16 February | Digger | Berlinale Focus | Georgis Grigorakis
17 February | Uppercase Print | Berlinale Focus | Radu Jude
18 February | Bad Tales | Berlinale Focus | Fabio & Damiano D’Innocenzo
19 February | Listen Up Philip | Alex Ross Perry Focus | Alex Ross Perry
20 February | Russian Dolls | The Spanish Apartment Trilogy | Cédric Klapisch
21 February | The King of Comedy | Martin Scorsese
22 February | Sacro Gra | Gianfranco Rosi
23 February | Fire at Sea | Gianfranco Rosi
24 February | The Sky is on Fire | Brief Encounters | Emmanuel Van der Auwera
25 February | Beyond Clueless | Charlie Shackleton
26 February | Chinese Puzzle | The Spanish Apartment Trilogy | Cédric Klapisch
27 February | Legend | Ridley Scott
28 February | Queen of Earth | Alex Ross Perry Focus | Alex Ross Perry
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