MUBI Podcast
The MUBI Podcast is an audio documentary series about how great cinema happens, and why it matters. Every season’s a deep dive into a different corner of movie culture — from classic needle drops, to movie theaters that changed the world. Plus, between seasons: intimate interviews with some of the best filmmakers alive. Nominated for multiple Webbys, Ambies, and British Podcast Awards. Hosted by veteran arts journalist Rico Gagliano. “It’s like This American Life for filmmaking stories” — Matt W...
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Episodes (94)
DO THE RIGHT THING — Spike Lee and Ruth E. Carter find color in the dark
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QUADROPHENIA — The mod, mod world of ’64, ’79 and beyond
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BREATHLESS — Jean Seberg & Jean-Luc Godard dress down film and fashion
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HOW TO HAVE SEX — Molly Manning Walker just wants to talk
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Ken Loach Calls for Solidarity in THE OLD OAK
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Sebastián Silva on ROTTING IN THE SUN — "Everyone and everything in it *will* ge...
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PASSAGES — Ira Sachs's "endless circle of desire"
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Cannes Conversations — Ildiko Enyedi on short cinema
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Cannes Conversations — Filipa Reis on privilege and empowerment
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Cannes Conversations — Joanna Arnow watches (wryly) from a distance
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Cannes Conversations — With OMEN, Baloji clears his name
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Cannes Conversations — Elene Naveriani on their stealth punk heroine
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Cannes Conversations — Weston Razooli lets his kids go wild
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Cannes Conversations — Monia Chokri on THE NATURE OF LOVE
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Cannes Conversations — Kleber Mendonça Filho watches movie palaces disappear
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Cannes Conversations — Wim Wenders on ANSELM
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FERRIS BUELLER to WOLF OF WALL STREET — Cinema's top music supervisors break dow...
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BLACKBOARD JUNGLE — Hollywood's first rumble with rock ‘n’ roll
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CHUNGKING EXPRESS — Wong Kar Wai puts "Dreams" on the menu
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CLOSE — Lukas Dhont's Quietly Powerful Coming-of-Age Movie
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THE HARDER THEY COME — Reggae catches fire on film
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DONNIE DARKO — Richard Kelly makes the ultimate ‘80s mixtape
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2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY — Stanley Kubrick finds heavenly music on vinyl
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With TÁR, Todd Field makes a power play
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In AFTERSUN, Charlotte Wells lets Queen and Bowie tell the story
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Park Chan-wook finds DECISION TO LEAVE in “The Mist”
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Zanzibar's Majestic, the last cinema standing (feat. Nick Broomfield)
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Being Like Water: Tilda Swinton and Apichatpong Weerasethakul on MEMORIA
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The Dryden Theatre's Nitrate Picture Show explodes our view of movie history
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London's Scala Cinema becomes "A country club for lunatics" (feat. Mary Harron a...
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HAROLD AND MAUDE find new life at The Westgate
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The Elgin and EL TOPO plunge NYC into "Midnite Madness"
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The Cinémathèque Française launches two revolutions
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In LINGUI, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun honors women's "invisible resistance"
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Joachim Trier sympathizes with THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD
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In Andrea Arnold’s COW, audiences find themselves
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China builds itself a DREAM FACTORY
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From Mexico with love: The Soviet Union embraces YESENIA
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LIVING IN BONDAGE fast-forwards the Nigerian film industry
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Brazil dances the (metaphorical) samba with DONA FLOR AND HER TWO HUSBANDS
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India's 25-year (and counting) marriage to DDLJ
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Paul Verhoeven’s TURKISH DELIGHT ignites the Netherlands
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MUBI Podcast: Season One Trailer
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