Check out the full list below of the film content coming to MUBI Canada in March 2023.
Celebrate International Women’s Day with Cinematic Sorceress: The Films of Nina Menkes and Canadian filmmakers: Sarah Polley, Joële Walinga and Sara Cwynar.
Plus films by Spike Lee, Mamoru Oshii, David Cronenberg and Lars von Trier.
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Wednesday, March 1
Glass Life | dir. Sara Cwynar🍁, 2021
From her studio, Vancouver-born artist Sara Cwynar uses her computer and various studio setups to make sense of her visual archive – and the world outside. Images of food, grand artworks, political figures, Instagram models, among many other images, contend for our attention. (Preview)
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CINEMATIC SORCERESS: THE FILMS OF NINA MENKES
Over the past 30 years “cinematic sorceress” Nina Menkes has produced a visually stunning and uncompromising body of work that confronts violence, female subjectivity and isolation while standing alone in the landscape of American Independent cinema. Audiences can enjoy this series on International Women’s Day and throughout the month.
Titles:
- March 2 – The Great Sadness of Zohara (1983)
- March 6 – Magdalena Viraga (1986)
- March 9 – Queen of Diamonds (1991)
- March 16 – The Bloody Child (1996)
- March 22 – Phantom Love (2007)
- March 28 – Dissolution (2010)
EUGENE KOTLYARENKO SERIES
A focus on American indie director Eugene Kotlyarenko, whose work explores the ways in which technology and social media impact our sense of identity and our ability to relate.
Titles:
- March 7 – Zeros and Ones (2011)
- March 14 – A Wonderful Cloud (2015)
- March 21 – Wobble Palace (2018)
Friday, March 24
Ghost In the Shell | dir. Mamoru Oshii, 1995
Influencing filmmakers from the Wachowskis to James Cameron, Mamoru Oshii’s cyberpunk classic is one of the defining animes of its generation. Striking visuals, formed through unparalleled detail and flair, bring life to the dystopian world that houses the film’s action and vast philosophical scope.
On March 25, MUBI is pairing the original with 2008’s Ghost in the Shell 2.0 for the first time. The latter film is a reproduced version of the 1995 film, as all of the original animations were redone with new digital film and animation technologies, making it effectively a remix of the original.
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Friday, March 3
Stories We Tell | dir. Sarah Polley🍁, 2012
What is real? What is true? What do we remember? Using home movies, photographs, and interviews, Canadian director Sarah Polley delves into the life of her mother, a creative yet secretive woman. But while she is talking to her relatives, her interest lies in the bigger picture of what families hold onto as truth. (Trailer)
Friday, March 10
Crash | dir. David Cronenberg 🍁, 1996
After surviving a brutal car wreck, commercial director James Ballard finds himself slowly descending into a fetishistic underworld of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims, who find metallic collisions a sexual turn-on and a jolting life force they come to crave. (Trailer)
Sunday, March 12
Amy | dir. Asif Kapadia, 2015
The combination of Amy Winehouse’s raw honesty and virtuosity resulted in some of the most adored songs of the modern era. But her massive success brought relentless media attention, which coupled with Amy’s precarious lifestyle, saw her life unravel. (Trailer)
Monday, March 20
Self-Portrait | dir. Joële Walinga🍁, 2022
Canadian visual artist and filmmaker Joële Walinga creates a portrait of humanity as captured by its surveillance cameras. (Trailer)
Sunday, March 26
She Hate Me | dir. Spike Lee, 2004
Fired from his job for exposing corrupt business practices, a former biotech executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit. (Trailer)
Friday, March 31
Frankie | dir. Ira Sachs, 2019
This drama staring Isabelle Huppert, Marisa Tomei and Greg Kinnear follows three generations of a family grappling with a life-changing experience during one day of a vacation in Sintra, Portugal, a historic town known for its dense gardens and fairy-tale villas and palaces. (Trailer)
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