MUBI, the streaming home of beautiful, interesting and incredible films, has announced a huge slate of additions for September 2022. There might STILL be a heatwave outside, but here we’re planning exactly what we want to add to our watch list!
September on MUBI includes Hideous, a team up between filmmaker Yann Gonzalez and The xx singer and bassist Oliver Sim. The film, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in this year’s Semaine de la Critique, stars Sim as the main guest of a talk-show which slides into a surreal journey of love, blood and homage to some of Sim’s favourite horror films.
The long-awaited latest feature from award-winning director Zhang Yimou (Hero, House of Flying Daggers), One Second (2020), his beautiful, moving, and deeply personal homage in the vein of Cinema Paradiso, arrives on MUBI this month.
The tragicomic tale follows an escaped convict in Northwestern China, seeking out a film reel which contains footage of his estranged daughter. After arriving in a nearby village, he crosses paths with a homeless girl who is also desperate for the film reel and will steal it by any means. The enigmatic film reel that sets them apart soon becomes the root of their unexpected friendship.
Featuring stunning cinematography of the Gobi desert along the Silk Road of Western China, Zhang Yimou’s heartfelt and often humorous feature is a bittersweet love letter to the redemptive power of cinema on both a personal and collective level.
Here’s the full listings for the month:
1 September | Classical Period | Ted Fendt | Missed Connections: The Cinema of Ted Fendt
2 September | Things to Come | Mia Hansen-Løve | Mia Hansen-Løve: Things to Come and Go
3 September | The Gold Machine | Grant Gee
4 September | Only Lovers Left Alive | Jim Jarmusch | The One and Only: Tilda Swinton
5 September | TBC
6 September | Lata | Alisha Tejpal | Country Focus: India
7 September | The Box | Jes Benstock, Luke Losey | The One and Only: Tilda Swinton
8 September | Hideous | Yann Gonzalez | Brief Encounters | A MUBI Release
9 September | Rabid | David Cronenberg | David Cronenberg: Love and Other Parasites
10 September | Cinema Paradiso | Giuseppe Tornatore
11 September | Wildlife | Paul Dano
12 September | The Girl Chewing Gum | John Smith | Spotlight on John Smith
13 September | The Black Tower | John Smith | Spotlight on John Smith
14 September | Destello Bravío | Ainhoa Rodríguez | Debuts | A MUBI Release
15 September | Playground | Laura Wandel | MUBI Spotlight
16 September | One Second | Zhang Yimou | Luminaries | A MUBI Release
17 September | Irma Vep | Olivier Assayas | Olivier Assayas: Double Bill
18 September | Teknolust | Lynn Hershman-Leeson | The One and Only: Tilda Swinton
19 September | TBC
20 September | A Night of Knowing Nothing | Payal Kapadia | Country Focus: India
21 September | An Autumn Tale | Éric Rohmer | Éric Rohmer: Tales of the Four Seasons
22 September | The Night | Tsai Ming-liang | Brief Encounters | A MUBI Release
23 September | TBC
24 September | Demonlover | Olivier Assayas | Olivier Assayas: Double Bill
25 September | We Need to Talk About Kevin | Lynne Ramsay | The One and Only: Tilda Swinton
26 September | Another World | Stéphane Brizé | Double Act: Vincent Lindon & Stéphane Brizé
27 September | At War | Stéphane Brizé | Double Act: Vincent Lindon & Stéphane Brizé
28 September | Wood and Water | Jonas Bak | Undiscovered | A MUBI Release
29 September | Orlando | Sally Potter | The One and Only: Tilda Swinton
30 September | Vortex | Gaspar Noé | MUBI Spotlight | A MUBI Release
