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On discovering a treasure trove of limited edition film posters by the renowned San Francisco artist and printmaker. 1977 poster by David Lance Goines for Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (F. W. Murnau, Germany, 1922) for the Pacific Film Archive.

A special conversation about the actor’s career and her role in the latest film from Karim Aïnouz. Rosebush Pruning is streaming exclusively on MUBI from August 21 almost globally. Cannes-winning actor/filmmaker Riley Keogh (The Girlfriend Experience, 2016) is no stranger to the worlds of wealth or fashion, and in the bloody, bawdy new satire Rosebush Pruning (2026), she inhabits a larger-than-life character who is way too into both.

4Columns website, November 21, 2025 issue. The best job I’ve ever had—and the one that I’ve held the longest—ended on June 26. That’s when 4Columns, the weekly online arts-criticism site founded by editor-in-chief Margaret Sundell, which debuted September 23, 2016, published its final issue after a decade-long run. I was there for nine of those years, serving as the magazine’s film editor and lead film critic.

By reducing Odysseus to a guilt- and PTSD-ridden war veteran, Nolan’s take on Homer’s epic sacrifices much of its richness and mystery. The Current Debate connects the dots around a topic of the critical conversation. The Odyssey (Christopher Nolan, 2026). It is early into Godard’s Contempt (1963) when Fritz Lang—playing himself as a director helming a big-screen adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey—clashes with an American producer (Jack Palance) incensed by early rushes.

The French acting legend reflects on her long collaboration with the New Wave auteur. Violette Nozière (Claude Chabrol, 1978). In 1978, Claude Chabrol and Isabelle Huppert made Violette Nozière, the first of seven collaborations over nearly 30 years.

This week’s essential news, articles, sounds, videos, and more from the film world. Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. To keep up with our latest features, sign up for the Weekly Edit newsletter and follow us @mubinotebook on X and Instagram. NEWS Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother (Bassam Tariq, 2026). The Toronto International Film Festival has unveiled its full lineup for its 51st annual edition.

One Shot is a series that seeks to find an essence of cinema history in one single image of a movie. Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa, 1965). Ever since she was scouted in a Tokyo Shimbun contest in 1949 at seventeen, Kyōko Kagawa has played many kinds of Japanese women.

As a new restoration of “The Hole” tours, the director talks about the 1998 film, his love of musicals, and his regular star Lee Kang-sheng. Tsai Ming-liang. Courtesy of Big World Pictures. A uniquely prescient film, Tsai Ming-liang’s 1998 feature The Hole opens with a radio report about a mysterious virus with strange side effects that’s spreading across Taiwan.

Like the seas he captured through his career, the films of the French iconoclast are constantly moving, and everything moves within them. Jean Epstein. Illustration by Leonardo Goi. Jean Epstein was an aquatic filmmaker, an artist who saw water as embodying the kind of cinema he aspired to create: fluid, tempestuous, unpredictable.

"The Odyssey" director’s heroes fight to achieve normal lives—but then spectacle obliterates the ordinary. Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan, 2023). In what has to be one of the earlier instances of literary criticism, Herodotus wrote that it was Homer “who gave to Greece its gods.” By this, he did not mean that The Iliad and The Odyssey gave the Greeks an entire theology but rather that these epic poems gave a form and a function to the myth of the gods.