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We’ve updated our film library on MUBI this week. Each week we add more titles to our library of films to watch, which is accessible under the WATCH menu. (And is to be differentiated from the DISCOVER section, which includes a large database of titles for information and interactive purposes, and is not indicative of the film library.)
Here are some of my personal highlights from the most recent update:
Star Spangled to Death (United States, 2004)
We are particularly proud to feature American experimental master Ken Jacob’s magnum opus in four parts. It is, to put it simply (!), an abstract, political-philosophical treatise on the contradictions of life in America in the latter half of the 20th century, using excerpts from other films and news footage to touch upon issues of race, religion, and warfare.
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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (West Germany, 1975)
Directed by two of the big names in the New German Cinema movement of the 1970s, Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta, this film is a searing adaptation of Heinrich Böll’s startlingly told novel about the titular heroine who spends a night with an alleged terrorist and has to deal with the police and media fallout.
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The Deal (United Kingdom, 2003)
Stephen Frears found tremendous success in his exploration of the contemporary British monarchy in 2006 with The Queen, but he laid the ground work for that terrific film in 2003 with this picture, where actor Michael Sheen again plays Tony Blair, and the action is shifted to years earlier and the prescient, bitter power struggle of the Labor party to choose a leader.
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The Silence Before Bach (Spain, 2007)
Part of our retrospective on Spanish experimental director Pere Portabella, this incredible, wide-ranging and meditative film, part documentary, part drama, part film essay, is a celebration and contemplation of the role of Johann Sebastian Bach’s music in the world today.
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Plastic City (Hong Kong, China, Japan, 2008)
Yu Lik-wai is one of contemporary cinema’s most talented cinematographers, having defined the gorgeous digital look of Chinese master Jia Zhangke’s vital filmography. But few know that Yu is also an accomplished filmmaker, here moving from Hong Kong to the cities and jungles of Brazil to tell a hallucinatory story of gangsters and dreamers.
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The Roe’s Room (Poland, 1997)
From visionary Polish director Lech Majewski comes this stunning “autobiographical film opera,” where in a decaying building a young poet lives with his parents and through his imagination the energy of youth and the power of the natural world triumph.
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