Check out the full list below of the film content coming to MUBI Canada in April 2023.
Highlights Include: Saint-Narcisse directed by Canadian queer-punk pioneer Bruce LaBruce, Adam Leon’s hazy drama Italian Studies and Claire Denis’ english-language sci-fi debut High Life.
MUBI’s award-winning audio-documentary series MUBI Podcast returns for its third season.
Plus a retrospective featuring the crème de la crème of British cinema, Gilded Passions: Films by Merchant Ivory, including a Japanese TV series and 2020 Cannes Film Festival official selection,
The Real Thing: Episode 1.
MUBI RELEASE
Wednesday, April 12
The Plains | dir. David Easteal, 2022
Every evening a man in his late 50s commutes home at the end of the working day in the outer suburbs of Melbourne. This engaging docudrama will be available to stream exclusively on MUBI.
MUBI HIGHLIGHTS
Saturday, April 1
Studio 54 | dir. Matt Tyrnauer, 2018
A documentary about the Studio 54 discotheque in New York City. Studio 54 was the epicenter of 70s hedonism. Its co-owners, Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell, two friends from Brooklyn, seemed to come out of nowhere to suddenly preside over a new kind of New York society.
Tuesday, April 4
Saint-Narcisse | dir. Bruce LaBruce 🍁, 2020
Separated from their ostracized lesbian mother shortly after they were born in 1950, identical twin brothers Dominic and Daniel grew up not knowing of each other’s existence. While Dominic is lovingly nurtured by his grandmother in Montreal, twin Daniel is raised by a depraved priest.
Friday, April 7
High Life | dir. Claire Denis, 2018
Monte (Robert Pattinson) and his baby daughter are the last survivors of a damned and dangerous mission to deep space. The crew—death-row inmates led by a doctor with sinister motives—has vanished. As the mystery of what happened onboard the ship is unraveled, father and daughter must rely on each other to survive.
Saturday, April 8
Italian Studies | dir. Adam Leon, 2021
Available to stream for the first time in Canada, this Tribeca Film Festival official selection follows a mysterious woman (Vanessa Kirby) who wanders the streets of Manhattan in a confused state. Finding herself inexplicably drawn to a charismatic teenager, she embarks on an adventure with him through the cityscape and into the unknown.
Monday, April 17
The Real Thing: Episode 1 | dir. Koji Fukada, 2019
Episode 1 of a 10-part TV series adaptation of the manga, The Mark of Truth unfolds like chapters in a book as each episode ends on a cliffhanger. Tsuji, a toy salesman who feels increasingly restless in both his personal and professional lives, breaks from his monotonous routine late one night when he runs across the mysterious Ukiyo at a convenience store.
Friday, April 21
Bully | dir. Larry Clark, 2001
Apart from using drugs and selling homemade porn videos, Florida teenagers Bobby and Marty don’t do much. After meeting Ali and Lisa, the sadistic, aggressive Bobby feels that he is losing his power over Marty, and gets really dangerous. From then on, the rest of the group conspire to murder him.
Sunday, April 28
Teen Spirit | dir. Max Minghella, 2018
Violet (Elle Fanning), a shy teenager living in Eastern Europe dreams of pop stardom and with the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters an international singing competition, that will test her integrity, talent and ambition.
MUBI Podcast Launches Season 3: Needle on the Record
Starting Thursday, March 30 the documentary-style series returns and will be hosted by acclaimed arts and travel reporter Rico Gagliano. Season 3: Needle on the Record, dives into the unifying power of movie music and tells the stories behind some of cinema’s most renowned “needle-drops” — moments where filmmakers deployed pre-existing music instead of an original score.
2001: A Space Odyssey (March 30) – Stanley Kubrick finds heavenly music on vinyl
The story of how Stanley Kubrick came to defy Hollywood convention by scoring his sci-fi epic with already-recorded classical music…against the advice of just about everybody, and to the detriment of at least two composers’ mental and physical health.
Donnie Darko (April 6) – Richard Kelly makes the ultimate ‘80s mixtape
A box office flop that left its first audiences totally confused, Richard Kelly’s cult classic Donnie Darko rose from the dead…and shot an ‘80s classic from Tears for Fears back to the top of the UK’s Pops.The Harder They Come (April 13) – Perry Henzell’s reggae revolution.
The Harder They Come (April 13) – Perry Henzell’s reggae revolution
Before Bob Marley was a household name, a gritty indie crime thriller—Jamaica’s first homegrown feature—captured the revolutionary sound and feel of roots reggae, and helped it catch fire worldwide.
Close (April 20) – Lukas Dhont’s quietly powerful coming-of-age movie
Midway through the season, the podcast will drop a special episode featuring Belgian auteur Lukas Dhont discussing his Oscar-nominated Close – in which the director explores his profound depiction of youth, intimacy and masculinity… and what it has in common with Titanic.
Chungking Express (April 27) – Wong Kar Wai puts dream pop on the menu
Wong Kar Wai’s ode to Hong Kong at its mid-90s’ coolest, Chungking Express landed Cantopop star Faye Wong on the cover of TIME, and made her cover of the Cranberries’ “Dreams” a favourite of Hong Kong’s first lady.
Listen to previous seasons and follow MUBI podcast on your preferred app HERE.
NEW + CONTINUING MUBI SPECIALS
GILDED PASSIONS: FILMS BY MERCHANT IVORY
Known for their meticulous lyricism and literary qualities, Merchant Ivory productions are the crème de la crème of British cinema. Founded in 1961 by producer-directors Ismail Merchant and James Ivory, the film company is a multi-hyphenated affair. Echoing the diverse, transnational backgrounds of their creators, Merchant Ivory are drawn to stories about in-between experiences, and the boundaries of social class and financial wealth.
Titles:
- April 11 – Shakespeare Wallah (1965)
- April 19 – Autobiography of a Princess (1975)
- April 27 – Quartet (1981)
CHAOS REIGNS: THE FILMS OF LARS VON TIER
When Lars von Trier was accepted to the National Film School of Denmark in the late 1970s, he claims to have spray-painted a wall in the institution with the insolent words “film school is dead”. In the four decades since then, the Danish director has continued his fearless dance on the grave of received wisdom, creating a cinema that asserts itself forcefully with each new film as if with an exclamation mark.
Titles:
- April 15 – Dogville (2003)
- April 16 – Manderlay (2005)
- April 29 – The Boss of it All (2006)
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