Mubi and the gift of cinema
December 14, 2023
I received a Mubi subscription for my birthday and it's working out really well. In two weeks I dialled up Ninjababy, Zero Fucks Given, Actual People and Aloners; and the older A Very Curious Girl, Demonlover and Irma Vep. Millennial film good! The school reads like emotionally less certain slacker cinema, with parents. They've made me enjoy movies again. The soundtracks, too, touch on a lot of things in my collection. Harmonia is everywhere. And Olivier Assayas has dated better than one might have expected. His 1996 Irma Vep is a study for the 2022 TV version. But mostly I've enjoyed watching the kids: movies not for me made by people I don't know. It's refreshing. The lower production values are a visual relief.