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mrhotmaster · 5 years ago

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January 2020:Mubi World Films Releases

Date

Movie

Director

January 1, 2020

L'eclisse

Michelangelo Antonioni

January 2, 2020

Katalin Varga

Peter Strickland

January 3, 2020

Two English Girls

Francois Truffaut

January 4, 2020

The City of Lost Children

Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet

January 5, 2020

Biutiful

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

January 6, 2020

Boarding Gate

Olivier Assayas

January 7, 2020

Deadlock

Roland Klick

January 8, 2020

Les Miserables

Ladj Ly

January 9, 2020

The Cow

Dariush Mehrjui

January 10, 2020

Love on the Run

Francois Truffaut

January 11, 2020

Neon Bull

Gabriel Mascaro

January 12, 2020

While We are Young

Noah Baumbach

January 13, 2020

Everywhere We Are

Veronika Kaserer

January 14, 2020

Suzaki Paradise: Red Light

Yuzo Kawashima

January 15, 2020

The Nun

Jacques Rivette

January 16, 2020

A Family Submerged

Maria Alche

January 17, 2020

The Last Metro

Francois Truffaut

January 18, 2020

In Bloom

Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Gros

January 19, 2020

Macbeth

Justin Kurzel

January 20, 2020

A Time for Drunken Horses

Bahman Ghobadi

January 21, 2020

Tales of Ginza

Yuzo Kawashima

January 22, 2020

To the Ends of the World

Guillaume Nicloux

January 23, 2020

The Woman Next Door

Francois Truffaut

January 24, 2020

Sons of Denmark

Ulaa Salim

January 25, 2020

Carnal Knowledge

Mike Nichols

January 26, 2020

The Bare Necessity

Erwan Le Duc

January 27, 2020

Rabbit Hole

John Cameron Mitchell

January 28, 2020

Till We Meet Again

Yuzo Kawashima

January 29, 2020

Mute Fire

Federico Atehortua Arteaga

January 30, 2020

The Beast in the Jungle

Clara van Gool

January 31, 2020

Confidentially Yours

Francois Truffaut

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letterboxd · 3 years ago

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Halfway—2021.

Two Filipino indies lead the Letterboxd Top 25 at the 2021 halfway point, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to shake—and reshape—the film industry. Jack Moulton and Gemma Gracewood take stock.

Cleaners, Glenn Barit’s photocopied, hand-colored, stop-motion feature about high schoolers in the northern Philippines city of Tuguegarao, is the highest-rated 2021 film on Letterboxd at the halfway point of the year, with a weighted average of 4.3 out of 5 stars. Ode to Nothing, by Barit’s fellow countrywoman Dwein Baltazar, is in second place, and Shaka King’s two-time Oscar-winner Judas and the Black Messiah rounds out the top three.

Last year was a transition year in many ways: for the world, a pandemic-led move away from cinema screenings to at-home virtual theaters and streaming-first releases; for Letterboxd, a move away from US-led release dates in our annual calculations. This has opened the way for notable films from around the world to be included on our lists far sooner than their oft-delayed American releases (which had resulted in, for example, Brazil’s Bacurau not making the 2019 Letterboxd Year in Review).

Both of these factors help to explain why we have two Filipino independent features leading our midway Top 25. “Cleaners and Ode to Nothing are exactly the kind of small Filipino films that would have struggled to get national distribution in theaters in the before times, despite the buzz that they garnered,” writes Manila-based film critic Philbert Dy in his companion essay to the Top 25, in which he explains how the Philippines’ particularly long and harsh Covid lockdown has “led to smaller, quirkier films being made accessible to more Filipinos, whose consumption of cinema were once beholden to the whims of conglomerate cinema owners”.

‘Cleaners’, written and directed by Glenn Barit.

When we shared the good news with him, a delighted Cleaners director Glenn Barit specifically shouted out his nation’s film lovers: “It is a testament to a vibrant Filipino film community still actively watching and supporting films of our own. Especially with a film like ours set in a small city far from the capital, it is amazing to read in reviews that it resonates with a lot of people (sometimes even outside our country).”

From this year forward, our mid-year rankings include films that have been released in any country, with at least a limited theatrical, streaming or video-on-demand run, and a minimum of 1,000 views on Letterboxd. These new rules allow us to celebrate the love for Katie Found’s lesbian romance My First Summer—released in Australia in March—without having to wait for the US to catch up. It joins indie highlight Shiva Baby, Michael Rianda’s animated hit The Mitchells vs The Machines and Heidi Ewing’s swooning romance, I Carry You With Me, on the Top 25 in putting young, queer characters on the screen.

‘My First Summer’, written and directed by Katie Found.

As expected, many films on the list have suffered pandemic delays. We use premiere dates to mark the year of record for each film, so A Quiet Place Part II will always be attached to its March 2020 red-carpet screening, despite the fourteen-month hibernation that followed. This is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection by Mosotho director Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese screened at 2019’s Venice Film Festival and had a very long festival run until Mubi picked it up for streaming in the UK this year. The film’s lead, Mary Twala, passed away a year ago, July 4, 2020 (see her also in Beyoncé’s Black is King). Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s Our Friend—one of the eight women-directed films on the list—went to TIFF, London, and AFI before being released this January without screening once in 2020.

More than half of our Top 25 films are directed by BIPOC directors, nearly a dozen of whom are of Asian descent, illuminating a key benefit of the new eligibility system. Challenging the US for the most represented country is India with five films in the list, taking advantage of Amazon’s distribution deal and creating greater accessibility for Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam-language films at home and abroad.

‘Red Post Post on Escher Street’, written and directed by Sion Sono.

Also among the Asian directors making the list are legends Tsai Ming-liang and Sion Sono. Tsai’s Days recently received a limited run in Spain (it will be brought to the US by Grasshopper Films this August), while Sono’s Red Post Post on Escher Street had a quick VOD run in February courtesy of Japan Society Film.

Produced in the US and directed by Japanese-Brazilian Edson Oda, Nine Days qualifies due to an exclusive run at the Singapore arthouse theater The Projector in May—it’ll be released in the US later this month. Finally, Asian American director Jon M. Chu makes the list with his adaptation of Quiara Alegría Hudes and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights. We are also happy to see a couple of Letterboxd members in the halfway 25: Cleaners’ Barit and Chad Hartigan (Little Fish). If you’d like to discover more 2021 releases by our member-filmmakers, we have a list for that.

The Top 25 is, of course, solely made up of narrative feature-length films. On the documentary front, Flee is currently the highest-rated non-fiction feature of 2021. Neon is expected to release the film in the US for an awards run later this year, but it’s eligible now due to a release earlier this month in director Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s homeland of Denmark.

‘Flee’, directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen.

Fellow Sundance Film Festival winner Summer of Soul (or… When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) is currently the year’s highest-rated documentary in general, but was 48 hours shy of eligibility for the halfway list, releasing in theaters and on Hulu on July 2. The runners-up are: Sir Alex Ferguson: Never Give In, directed by the notorious football manager’s son; David Attenborough’s The Year Earth Changed, directed by Tom Beard; and rock-docs TINA and (in his doc-directing debut) Edgar Wright’s The Sparks Brothers.

In other categories, It’s a Sin is the highest-rated narrative miniseries at the midway point, Can’t Get You Out of Our Head by Adam Curtis is the highest-rated documentary miniseries, Bo Burnham: Inside is the highest-rated comedy special, Blackpink: The Show is the highest-rated music film, Save Ralph is the highest-rated animated short film, and Four Roads, by Alice Rohrwacher, is the highest-rated live-action short film.

With Cannes underway and more festivals to come, it is still a long road to the 2021 Year in Review for these films—but given the journey most of them have already travelled, it is pleasing to celebrate the filmmakers’ success. Ang galing ninyong lahat!

On top of its meticulously bonkers production process, our highest-ranked film, Cleaners, had a long journey to its first theatrical distribution, and it’s far from over. The film premiered at the QCinema International Film Festival in October 2019, to raves from Filipino Letterboxd members, and it still holds a firm grasp on its high rating nearly two years later. Ultimately, the first non-fest release for Cleaners occurred when Singapore’s Asian Film Archive screened it for a week in April, thus qualifying the film for our 2021 lists.

‘Ode to Nothing’, written, directed and edited by Dwein Baltazar.

Ode to Nothing has been on an even longer journey. The film also debuted at the QCinema Festival, but in 2018, and finally arrived on local streaming services iWantTFC and KTX.PH earlier this year.

Being celebrated by their countryfolk on Letterboxd is one thing, but how can those of us outside the Philippines see these top two films? Perhaps we need to give our local distributors a nudge. As Cleaners director Barit explains: “We are a team of three first-time filmmakers and producers. We are still learning the ropes of film distribution and marketing—and it’s been very hard. I just want to shamelessly say that our doors are wide open for distribution and acquisition; we are not yet available on any streaming platforms locally or internationally [winks nervously].”

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stainedglassgardens · 4 years ago

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Watched in January 2021

The Wayward Girl (Ung Flukt) Loving Wuthering Heights The Creatures (Les Créatures) Women Reply: Our Bodies, Our Sex (Réponse de femmes : notre corps, notre sexe) August 32nd on Earth (Un 32 août sur terre) Daguerréotypes The Craft: Legacy Timecrimes (Los cronocrímenes) The Pleasure of Love in Iran (Plaisir d'amour en Iran) Documenteur 7p., cuis., s. de b., ... à saisir Kajillionaire Mural Murals (Mur Murs) You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know (T'as de beaux escaliers tu sais) Nocturne Farewell Amor Tigers Are Not Afraid (Vuelven) Promising Young Woman His House Ratcatcher Kung-Fu Master! Unrelated Joy of Man's Desiring (Que ta joie demeure) Knives Out One Hundred and One Nights (Les Cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma) How to Talk to Girls at Parties The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later (Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse... deux ans après) The Vanishing Lion (Le Lion volatil) Ydessa, the Bears and etc. (Ydessa, les ours et etc.) Dick Johnson is Dead Rakka

Did not finish

Attraction (Притяжение, Fyodor Bondarchuk, 2017) Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme, Xavier Dolan, 2013) A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall, 1992)

Did not like

Kajillionaire (Miranda July, 2020)

Disappointing

The Wayward Girl (Ung Flukt, Edith Carlmar, 1959): I suppose it was all right really. It was my first Edith Carlmar film and I didn’t expect much but I still ended up a little bit bored

Loving (Jeff Nichols, 2016): This was very good but in a very bland way

The Craft: Legacy (Zoe Lister-Jones, 2020): I obviously had huge expectations for this and just like with the Black Christmas remake, I couldn’t help being disappointed. I’m glad films like this are being released for today’s teenagers though

Nocturne (Zu Quirke, 2020): I’m sad to say this reminded me of The Perfection, minus all the amputations. It was all right, not amazing

Tigers Are Not Afraid (Vuelven, Issa López, 2017): A good film that could have been better

Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay, 1999): This was quite good and I think the only reason it disappointed me was that this was Lynne Ramsay, whose other films I loved. Also reminded me of Fish Tank and The Selfish Giant

Unrelated (Joanna Hogg, 2007): My first Joanna Hogg. It was just good

Dick Johnson is Dead (Kirsten Johnson, 2020): This was good also but the buzz made it sound like it would be amazing

All the Varda films

The Creatures (Les Créatures, 1966), Women Reply: Our Bodies, Our Sex (Réponse de femmes : notre corps, notre sexe, 1975), Daguerréotypes (1979) The Pleasure of Love in Iran (Plaisir d'amour en Iran, 1976), Documenteur (1981) 7p., cuis., s. de b., ... à saisir (1984), Mural Murals (Mur Murs, 1981), You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know (T'as de beaux escaliers tu sais, 1986), Kung-Fu Master! (1988), One Hundred and One Nights (Les Cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma, 1995), The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later (Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse... deux ans après, 2002), The Vanishing Lion (Le Lion volatil, 2003), Ydessa, the Bears and etc. (Ydessa, les ours et etc., 2004): I’m almost done watching all the Varda films available on Mubi France, and somehow that became a priority for January. All of those are good, although some of the shorts are very forgettable.My favourite of those was probably Documenteur

Films I liked

Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold, 2011): I’d wanted to see this for years! It’s very good and made me want to reread the book

August 32nd on Earth (Un 32 août sur terre, Denis Villeneuve, 1998): This very much felt like a first film but it was interesting to watch

Timecrimes (Los cronocrímenes, Nacho Vigalondo, 2007): A great, silly time travel film

Farewell Amor (Ekwa Msangi, 2020): Good film about family and immigration

Joy of Man's Desiring (Que ta joie demeure, Denis Côté, 2014): A good documentary about factory work in Québec, by my darling Denis Côté

Knives Out (Rian Johnson, 2019): This was fun! Not as good as Brick but nothing will ever be as good as Brick

How to Talk to Girls at Parties (John Cameron Mitchell, 2017): WTF? A lot of fun

Rakka (Neill Blomkamp, 2017): Great short from the director of District Nine

Favourites of the month

Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell, 2020): This just blew my mind it is so good. It’s the rape-revenge film of my dreams. Very much of the moment but very clever too. I loved it

His House (Remi Weekes, 2020): I think I initally gave this 3.5 stars but I kept thinking about it. There are so many ways for a horror film about the refugee experience to be a massive failure, and yet this was very good. Don’t expect to be scared out of your whatever, but it is as scary as it is intelligent. This month I was also reading Dina Nayeri’s The Ungrateful Refugee and I keep thinking about that book, too (so I suppose I’m saying watch the film, and read the book if you want to know more on that topic)

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bigyack-com · 5 years ago

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Mubi India January 2020 Releases: 62 Indian, World Films Announced

New streaming entrant Mubi has announced the list of 62 movies — 31 from India, and 31 from the rest of the world — that will release in January 2020 on its platform. That includes films from the likes of Satyajit Ray, François Truffaut, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Raj Kapoor, Gulzar, Bimal Roy, Shekhar Kapur, Shyam Benegal, Nandita Das, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Noah Baumbach, Yûzô Kawashima, Olivier Assayas, and Ram Gopal Varma among others. One film — Ladj Ly's Les Misérables — exclusive to Mubi, is currently shortlisted for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2020 Oscars. Mubi Lets You Watch Art Films, and Offers Free Movie Tickets In keeping with its policies, two new films — one Indian and international apiece — will be added every day, with each movie available for the next 30 days. While most Indian films, save for two — Benegal's 1975 drama Nishant, and Sai Paranjpye's 1980 drama Sparsh — are already available on other streaming services in India, the opposite is true for the international fare. Five of Truffaut's and three of Kawashima's previously unavailable movies are coming to Mubi India in January 2020. A few films premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam last year. In India, Mubi is currently available at an introductory price of Rs. 199 for three months. After that, it costs Rs. 499 per month. Here's the complete list of Mubi titles for January 2020: Mubi India January 2020 moviesDate Movie Director January 1, 2020 Do Bigha Zameen Bimal Roy January 2, 2020 Mera Naam Joker Raj Kapoor January 3, 2020 Ghare Baire Satyajit Ray January 4, 2020 Koshish Gulzar January 5, 2020 Manorama Six Feet Under Navdeep Singh January 6, 2020 Gumnaam Raja Nawathe January 7, 2020 Jajantaram Mamantaram Soumitra Ranade January 8, 2020 Bawarchi Hrishikesh Mukherjee January 9, 2020 Shool Eeshwar Nivas January 10, 2020 Anarkali Nandlal Jaswantlal January 11, 2020 Masoom Shekhar Kapoor January 12, 2020 Guddi Hrishikesh Mukherjee January 13, 2020 Satyam Shivam Sundaram Raj Kapoor January 14, 2020 Namak Haram Hrishikesh Mukherjee January 15, 2020 Bioscope K.M. Madhusudhanan January 16, 2020 Karamati Coat Ajay Karthik January 17, 2020 Shiva Ram Gopal Varma January 18, 2020 Sadma Balu Mahendra January 19, 2020 Anand Hrishikesh Mukherjee January 20, 2020 Woh Kaun Thi Raj Khosla January 21, 2020 Paar Goutam Ghose January 22, 2020 Satte Pe Satta Raj N Sippy January 23, 2020 Nishant Shyam Benegal January 24, 2020 Sparsh Sai Paranjpye January 25, 2020 Golmaal Hrishikesh Mukherjee January 26, 2020 Firaaq Nandita Das January 27, 2020 Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi Satyen Bose January 28, 2020 Julie K.S. Sethumadhavan January 29, 2020 Thodu Akkineni Kutumba Rao January 30, 2020 Khoobsurat Hrishikesh Mukherjee January 31, 2020 Mandi Shyam Benegal Mubi World January 2020 moviesDate Movie Director January 1, 2020 L'eclisse Michelangelo Antonioni January 2, 2020 Katalin Varga Peter Strickland January 3, 2020 Two English Girls François Truffaut January 4, 2020 The City of Lost Children Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet January 5, 2020 Biutiful Alejandro González Iñárritu January 6, 2020 Boarding Gate Olivier Assayas January 7, 2020 Deadlock Roland Klick January 8, 2020 Les Misérables Ladj Ly January 9, 2020 The Cow Dariush Mehrjui January 10, 2020 Love on the Run François Truffaut January 11, 2020 Neon Bull Gabriel Mascaro January 12, 2020 While We're Young Noah Baumbach January 13, 2020 Everywhere We Are Veronika Kaserer January 14, 2020 Suzaki Paradise: Red Light Yûzô Kawashima January 15, 2020 The Nun Jacques Rivette January 16, 2020 A Family Submerged María Alché January 17, 2020 The Last Metro François Truffaut January 18, 2020 In Bloom Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Groß January 19, 2020 Macbeth Justin Kurzel January 20, 2020 A Time for Drunken Horses Bahman Ghobadi January 21, 2020 Tales of Ginza Yûzô Kawashima January 22, 2020 To the Ends of the World Guillaume Nicloux January 23, 2020 The Woman Next Door François Truffaut January 24, 2020 Sons of Denmark Ulaa Salim January 25, 2020 Carnal Knowledge Mike Nichols January 26, 2020 The Bare Necessity Erwan Le Duc January 27, 2020 Rabbit Hole John Cameron Mitchell January 28, 2020 Till We Meet Again Yûzô Kawashima January 29, 2020 Mute Fire Federico Atehortúa Arteaga January 30, 2020 The Beast in the Jungle Clara van Gool January 31, 2020 Confidentially Yours François Truffaut For the latest tech news and reviews, follow Gadgets 360 on Twitter, Facebook, and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

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