In LINGUI, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun honors women's "invisible resistance"
On this special episode, host Rico Gagliano talks to Cannes-winning filmmaker Mahamat-Saleh Haroun about his latest film LINGUI, THE SACRED BONDS — the story of a mother trying to secure an abortion f...
5 Mai 202222min
Joachim Trier sympathizes with THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD
In this special episode, acclaimed filmmaker Joachim Trier tells host Rico Gagliano about how and why he made his tender look at messy modern romance, THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD—from constructing i...
1 Apr 202225min
In Andrea Arnold’s COW, audiences find themselves
The MUBI Podcast returns this week with a special episode. Host Rico Gagliano speaks with Oscar-winning filmmaker Andrea Arnold (AMERICAN HONEY, FISH TANK) about COW — her gripping debut documentary c...
10 Feb 202214min
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...
8 Jul 202133min
From Mexico with love: The Soviet Union embraces YESENIA
The biggest box office hit in the history of the Soviet Union was an early 1970s Mexican romance so obscure in its home country that even many experts on the era haven’t heard of it. Host Rico Gaglia...
1 Jul 202137min
LIVING IN BONDAGE fast-forwards the Nigerian film industry
One of the world’s most prolific film industries was founded on the success of a direct-to-video film distributed on VHS cassettes. Host Rico Gagliano learns the history of LIVING IN BONDAGE — the in...
24 Jun 202136min
Brazil dances the (metaphorical) samba with DONA FLOR AND HER TWO HUSBANDS
In the mid-70s, in the midst of a military dictatorship, a Brazilian filmmaker barely out of his teens brought a beloved magical realist story about food, sex and happy compromises to the screen... an...
17 Jun 202139min
India's 25-year (and counting) marriage to DDLJ
The longest-running film in Bollywood history, 1995's DILWALE DULHANIA LE JAYENGE (aka DDLJ) caught the imagination of a country in transition and practically created a new Bollywood subgenre. Rico ge...
10 Jun 202139min
