MUBI Adds New Titles And Amazing Highlights To Its October Streaming Content

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MUBI has released the details of new titles and themed collections coming to the platform throughout October. These include the streaming premiere of Steve McQueen’s OCCUPIED CITY. A celebration of the Spooky Season with the female vampire season A Woman’s Bite along with IT FOLLOWS. A celebration of Black Cinema with the Cut to Black collection. Terence Davies’ THE DEEP BLUE SEA and an insight into the work of contemporary artist William Kentridge with SELF-PORTRAIT AS A COFFEE POT.

LATEST & GREATEST: OCCUPIED CITY

Academy Award-winner Steve McQueen’s latest documentary Occupied City (2023) offers a sobering and unconventional excavation of Nazi-occupied Amsterdam through the lens of the city as it stands today. Highlighting the gap and the proximity between the past and our precarious present, McQueen forgoes the conventional use of archive footage in favour of contemporary scenes from Amsterdam alongside a poignant historical narration from Melanie Hyams.

Deep layers of history are uncovered by the immediacy of the modern cityscape. Such as the effect of the Holocaust. The Netherlands’ colonial past, and the country’s involvement in the slave trade. Informed by Bianca Stigter’s Atlas of an Occupied City (Amsterdam 1940-1945), McQueen delivers a harrowing tour de force. Reflecting on time, memory, and the uncertain future that awaits us all.

Occupied City (McQueen, 2023) – October 11

MUBI RELEASE: SELF-PORTRAIT AS A COFFEE POT

Experience the core of the creative process with renowned South African contemporary artist William Kentridge in Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot (2024). This original series of nine short episodes offers a window into Kentridge’s creative sanctuary during the COVID-19 pandemic. Exploring the intersections of memory, identity, and cultural essence through a dynamic sequence of interconnected vignettes.

Alongside an army of his doppelgangers and alter egos, Kentridge masterfully employs a diverse range of artistic mediums in his distinctively whimsical style. In conversations that are at turns humorous, philosophical, political and probing. The result is an inspirational hymn to artistic freedom that boldly confronts existential dilemmas. Whilst laying bare his perspective on art, culture, and politics.

Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot: Episode 1 (Kentridge, 2024) – October 18

Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot: Episode 2 (Kentridge, 2024) – October 18

A Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot: Episode 3 (Kentridge, 2024) – October 18

Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot: Episode 4 (Kentridge, 2024) – October 18

Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot: Episode 5 (Kentridge, 2024) – October 18

A Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot: Episode 6 (Kentridge, 2024) – October 18

Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot: Episode 7 (Kentridge, 2024) – October 18

Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot: Episode 8 (Kentridge, 2024) – October 18

A WOMAN’S BITE: FEMALE VAMPIRES

This Halloween season, sink your teeth into our latest collection A Woman’s Bite: Female Vampires. Featuring bloodsucking cult classics and festival gems. This new collection sees female vampirism become a vehicle to explore an array of contemporary fears. From disease to gentrification to modern dating and desire.

Spanning a spectrum of genres from comedy to erotica and horror, this collection intricately weaves feminist subtext into its narrative fabric. Offering a critical lens on the representation of the female vampire as a symbol of both subversion and empowerment.

Lips of Blood (Rollin, 1975) – October 1

Trouble Every Day (Denis, 2001) – October 1

The Bloodiest (Bekolo, 2005) – October 11

Bloodsuckers (Radlmaier, 2021) – October 11

Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Louis-Seize, 2023) – October 11

Only Lovers Left Alive (Jarmusch, 2013) – Now Streaming

CUT TO BLACK: CELEBRATING BLACK CINEMA

A celebration of Black talent in cinema, both in front of and behind the camera. The titles in this series bear witness to the incredible wealth of Black artistry. Vibrantly present in an eclectic range of works. The collection features acclaimed classics from Spike Lee’s trailblazing Malcolm X (1992). To Steve McQueen’s mammoth Occupied City (2023), his in-depth reflection of the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam during World War II.

Proudly entering the collection also comes the 4k restoration of David Schickele’s Bushman (1971). A docudrama tracking the life of a Nigerian youth who has fled Civil War only to arrive in California during its revolutionary anti-establishment era. This collection speaks to the lived realities of the Black community. And the significance of representation in the arts.

What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? (Minervini, 2018) – October 4

Omen (Baloji, 2023) – October 4

Malcolm X (Lee, 1992) – October 11

Occupied City (McQueen, 2023) – October 11

Bushman (Schickele, 1971) – October 18

Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris (Dixon, 1970) – Now Streaming

Second Coming (Green, 2014) – Now Streaming

LATEST & GREATEST: OMEN

After a series of brilliant short films, Belgian-Congolese rapper and singer Baloji makes his feature-length directorial debut with Omen (2023). Koffi, born in the Republic of the Congo but raised in Belgium, returns to his homeland with his Belgian fiancée. Upon arriving, Baloji’s film splinters into a mystical and unconventional mix of narrative threads. As Koffi tries to reconcile his Congolese and Belgian identity.

Stylish and lyrical, Omen won the Un Certain Regard New Voice Prize at Cannes 2023. And is an incomparable family drama that delves into the roots of identity through a blend of magical realism. Surrealism and Congolese history.

Omen (Baloji, 2023) – October 4

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: A PLACE WITHOUT FEAR

Fashion designer turned avant-garde filmmaker Susanne Deeken reinvents an abandoned Detroit house into a fantastical dreamscape in her animated short A Place Without Fear (2023). Through a blend of large-scale paintings. With stop-motion animation and digital renderings, Deeken crafts an eerily immersive journey into the dark depths of the human mind.

A young girl navigates a labyrinth of physical and emotional trials within the decaying walls of an abandoned house. Where she must choose between succumbing to her fears. Or evolving into a force to be reckoned with.

A Place Without Fear (Deeken, 2023) – October 4

THE DEEP BLUE SEA

The melancholic and romantic world of beloved British auteur Terence Davies comes to the platform in full force with the deeply wistful The Deep Blue Sea (2011). Davies’ account of the sensuous post-war affair between the free-thinking upper-class housewife Hester (Rachel Weisz) and the unsettled former Air Force pilot Freddie (Tom Hiddleston). Hester’s world turns upside down as passion takes control and sends her down a path of self-destruction.

Davies’ interpretation of the Terence Rattigan play of the same name. Shot in a palette of sumptuous browns, is an intimate and unjudging look at the circumstances that drive desire. And a compassionate exploration of the behaviour it can lead to.

The Deep Blue Sea (Davies, 2011) – October 7

IT FOLLOWS

David Robert Mitchell uniquely blends the teenage coming-of-age film with psychological horror in the cult hit It Follows (2024). After sleeping with her new boyfriend, 19-year-old Jay (Maika Monroe) develops supernatural symptoms. And is followed by the presence of phantoms. Jay and her friends must now either flee from the curse. Or confront it head-on…

Mitchell’s ingenious metaphor for teenage sexual anxiety confronts the matter with a visionary pulse. Layered with pulsating synth beats and the terrors of the unknown. It Follows tackles the rear that comes from embracing one’s sexuality.

It Follows (Mitchell, 2014) – October 25

MUBI UK & IRELAND OCTOBER 2024

01/10/2024 | Lips of Blood | Jean Rolin | A Woman’s Bite: Female Vampires
01/10/2024 | The Bloodiest | Jean-Pierre Bekolo | A Woman’s Bite: Female Vampires
04/10/2024 | A Place Without Fear | Suzanne Deeken | Cut to Black: Celebrating Black Cinema
04/10/2024 | What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? | Roberto Minervini | Latest & Greatest
04/10/2024 | Omen | Baloji | Latest & Greatest
07/10/2024 | The Deep Blue Sea | Terence Davies
11/10/2024 | Malcolm X | Spike Lee | Cut to Black: Celebrating Black Cinema
11/10/2024 | Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person | Ariane Louis-Seize | A Woman’s Bite: Female Vampires
11/10/2024 | Trouble Every Day | Claire Denis | A Woman’s Bite: Female Vampires
11/10/2024 | Bloodsuckers | Julian Radlmaier | A Woman’s Bite: Female Vampires
11/10/2024 | Occupied City | Steve McQueen | Latest & Greatest
18/10/2024 | Bushman | David Schickele | Cut to Black: Celebrating Black Cinema
18/10/2024 | Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot | William Kentridge | MUBI Release
25/10/2024 | It Follows | David Robert Mitchell | Thrills, Chills and Exquisite Horrors

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