China builds itself a DREAM FACTORY
MUBI Podcast8 Heinä 2021

China builds itself a DREAM FACTORY

China’s Lunar New Year movie season is like America’s summer blockbuster season… on steroids. And it got that way thanks to THE DREAM FACTORY — a wry 1997 comedy directed by Feng Xiaogang, who’d come to be known as “the Chinese Spielberg.” Host Rico Gagliano gets a crash course on the movie from experts on Chinese cinema, including City University of New York’s Ying Zhu and UCLA’s Michael Berry. Our first season, titled “Lost in Translation,” spotlights movies that were massive ...

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KNEECAP — Rich Peppiatt on politics and partying

KNEECAP — Rich Peppiatt on politics and partying

Our full interview with the writer/director of the Northern Irish indie phenomenon KNEECAP. Host Rico Gagliano visits Rich at his Belfast pad, to talk about wrangling the movie's titular hard-partying...

24 Heinä 202529min

AMORES PERROS shakes up Mexico City (w/ Gael García Bernal)

AMORES PERROS shakes up Mexico City (w/ Gael García Bernal)

Superstar Gael García Bernal (THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES) and legendary set designer Eugenio Caballero (PAN’S LABYRINTH) help take host Rico Gagliano on a tour of Mexico City’s streets and its cinema — fr...

17 Heinä 202539min

Smashing in the doors of Amsterdam cinema (w/ BABYGIRL director Halina Reijn)

Smashing in the doors of Amsterdam cinema (w/ BABYGIRL director Halina Reijn)

The Netherlands isn't known for tons of great movies... but its capital city of Amsterdam is packed with tons of great movie theaters. Rico takes us on a tour of his favorite town, to learn why. (Spoi...

10 Heinä 202536min

Ireland tells its own tales (w/ KNEECAP director Rich Peppiatt)

Ireland tells its own tales (w/ KNEECAP director Rich Peppiatt)

Rico travels to Dublin and Belfast, and hangs with an epic lineup of local heroes, to learn how Ireland went from a backdrop for Hollywood rom-coms... to one of the hottest film cultures on the planet...

3 Heinä 202542min

GRAND THEFT HAMLET — How Shakespeare’s Danish prince conquered the movies

GRAND THEFT HAMLET — How Shakespeare’s Danish prince conquered the movies

GRAND THEFT HAMLET tells the radical tale of a band of artists who stage a virtual production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet inside the online video game Grand Theft Auto. But it’s hardly the first time film...

6 Maalis 202525min

THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE — Magnus von Horn on the dark past...and present

THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE — Magnus von Horn on the dark past...and present

The Oscar-nominated THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE is inspired by the grim, gripping true story of one of Denmark's most infamous criminals. Director/co-writer Magnus von Horn tells guest host Anna Bogutsk...

6 Helmi 202526min

QUEER — Luca Guadagnino & Justin Kuritzkes take William S. Burroughs on a whole new trip

QUEER — Luca Guadagnino & Justin Kuritzkes take William S. Burroughs on a whole new trip

For their first project together since last year's steamy hit CHALLENGERS, director Luca Guadagnino (CALL ME BY YOUR NAME) and writer Justin Kuritzkes tackle another story about a sensuous 1950s roman...

30 Tammi 202522min

SPEED RACER — The Wachowskis go full throttle

SPEED RACER — The Wachowskis go full throttle

After THE MATRIX and V FOR VENDETTA, the Wachowskis were ready to turn from darkness, into the bright, bright candy-colored light. The result was SPEED RACER, an eyepopping postmodern explosion that h...

19 Joulu 202430min

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