Park Chan-wook finds DECISION TO LEAVE in “The Mist”
In 1972, a lush pop ballad called "The Mist" swirled out of radios all over South Korea. Fifty years later, master auteur Park Chan-wook has taken it as the main inspiration for his celebrated new thr...
8 Des 202220min
Zanzibar's Majestic, the last cinema standing (feat. Nick Broomfield)
"Only in Theaters" concludes with the cautionary tale of the Majestic. Africa's island region of Zanzibar used to be movie crazy — but today just one cinema remains: The Majestic, a 1950s-era building...
11 Aug 202231min
Being Like Water: Tilda Swinton and Apichatpong Weerasethakul on MEMORIA
This week, we have a special bonus episode courtesy of our Latin American podcast MUBI Podcast: Encuentros. To celebrate the exclusive release of MEMORIA on MUBI in many countries, we're excited to sh...
4 Aug 20221h 12min
The Dryden Theatre's Nitrate Picture Show explodes our view of movie history
For the first half-century of cinema, most movies were made and printed on nitrate film. Problem: it easily decomposes, it's easily combustible, and once it's on fire, you can't put it out. Only a fe...
28 Jul 202234min
London's Scala Cinema becomes "A country club for lunatics" (feat. Mary Harron and Peter Strickland)
In the grey Thatcher-era England of the '80s, a romantically dilapidated London movie palace called The Scala beckoned to England's subcultures — and influenced filmmakers from Christopher Nolan to St...
21 Jul 202242min
HAROLD AND MAUDE find new life at The Westgate
Hal Ashby's HAROLD AND MAUDE debuted to generally poor reviews, and worse box office. But in suburban Minneapolis, a humble second-run neighborhood theater called The Westgate found the film an audie...
14 Jul 202238min
The Elgin and EL TOPO plunge NYC into "Midnite Madness"
In 1970, a scruffy repertory theater — led by the visionary Ben Barenholtz — quietly placed a print ad in the Village Voice, advertising midnight screenings of a Spanish-language western they claimed ...
7 Jul 202236min
The Cinémathèque Française launches two revolutions
In 1940s France, a little 50-seat cinema opened that would launch one revolution on international movie screens...and arguably a second one in the streets of Paris. Host Rico Gagliano delves into the ...
30 Jun 202242min
