The 4 Best MUBI Podcast Episodes
1) Lost in Translation Episode 6: 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...Show More
2) Lost in Translation Episode 5: 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...Show More
3) BLACKBOARD JUNGLE — Hollywood's first rumble with rock ‘n’ roll
In his gritty ’55 flick BLACKBOARD JUNGLE, director Richard Brooks introduced a wide audience to Sidney Poitier, the harsh world of inner-city schools...and a genre of music called "rock ‘n’ roll."Hos...Show More
4) Lost in Translation Episode 3: 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...Show More
5) WHISPER OF THE HEART — Hayao Miyazaki takes “Country Roads”
How'd a 1971 country-pop anthem about West Virginia... inspire a 1995 anime classic about teens in Tokyo? We kick off a season about great movie needle-drops with the tale of WHISPER OF THE HEART — th...Show More
6) MY FATHER'S SHADOW — Akinola Davies Jr. dreams of 90s Nigeria
Akinola Davies Jr. never really knew his dad. But in MY FATHER’S SHADOW, his BAFTA-winning debut feature set in 90s Nigeria, the director imagines what it would be like to spend the day with him. Akin...Show More
7) THE SECRET AGENT — Kleber Mendonça Filho & Wagner Moura on memory and manguebeat
The Best Picture–nominated thriller THE SECRET AGENT tells a tale of intrigue and absurdity in ’70s Brazil. Director Kleber Mendonça Filho (PICTURES OF GHOSTS) and star Wagner Moura (CIVIL WAR) give R...Show More
8) LURKER — Alex Russell's outsider look at the in-crowd
Alex Russell just won 2 Independent Spirit awards for LURKER - his debut thriller about a superfan wheedling his way into a pop star's orbit. Alex tells Rico about his own experiences running with th...Show More
9) SENTIMENTAL VALUE — Joachim Trier’s different kind of meta-movie (w/ Stellan Skarsgård, Elle Fanning & more)
Joachim Trier, co-writer Eskil Vogt, and an all-star cast including Stellan Skarsgård, Renate Reinsve, Elle Fanning, and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas talk about the making and meaning of SENTIMENTAL VALUE ...Show More
10) Wim Wenders LIVE in Berlin: 50 years of rock-n-road movies
Our New Year’s gift to you: Filmmaking legend Wim Wenders returns to the show for a career-spanning interview. Taped before a live audience in his home city of Berlin, Germany, he tells Rico how class...Show More