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) 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
6) SALAAM BOMBAY & THE LUNCHBOX — Mira Nair & Ritesh Batra deliver
Legendary director Mira Nair and Cannes-winner Ritesh Batra made two very different hit films about very different sides of India's fabled food delivery system. Batra tells Rico about the romance of d...Show More
7) Kelly Reichardt: THE MASTERMIND behind some of the best movies of the century
The NYTimes just named Kelly Reichardt's THE MASTERMIND one of the top 10 films of 2025... and in this episode she looks back on the career that led up to it. From her debut RIVERS OF GRASS to the Osc...Show More
Kelly Reichardt: THE MASTERMIND behind some of the best movies of the century
42:08 | Dec 16th, 2025
8) JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI... and David Gelb changes how people eat it
Director David Gelb’s documentary about a tiny, austere sushi joint and its perfectionist chef defined a food-film style... and set off an international omakase craze. Gelb tells Rico the story, and a...Show More
9) HAL & HARPER — Cooper Raiff comes unstuck
Sibling duo Hal and Harper are best friends, and have been ever since they lost their mother as children. But is there such a thing as being too close? And when your family is your life raft, what doe...Show More
10) THE TASTE OF THINGS — Alison Roman savors the opposite of a chef movie
Ex-NYTimes columnist and bestselling cookbook writer Alison Roman (SOMETHING FROM NOTHING) talks with Rico about the tropes of fictional film chefs, and how the dreamy Cannes-winner THE TASTE OF THING...Show More