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French director Quentin Dupieux may be in the busiest period of his career. After two films in 2022 (“Smoking Causes Coughing” and “Incredible But True“), he released two more last year.

Good news, cinephiles: one of 2023’s buzziest movies now has an official theatrical release date. Radu Jude‘s “Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World” hits theaters next month.

Everyone associates the Cannes Film Festival with its top prize, the Palme d’Or, arguably the most prestigious award on the annual festival circuit. But Cannes’ Un Certain Regard prize is just as sought after by young filmmakers: a prize that provides a daring and innovative film the chance for distribution in French cinemas and a sign of a director to watch on the international front.

Is the Western a dead genre? Not if Chilean director Felipe Gálvez has anything to do with it. Gálvez’s “The Settlers,” wowed audiences at the Cannes Film Festival this past May and won the Un Certain Regard FIPRESCI Prize in the process.

It’s been a good year for Aki Kaurismäki and his latest film “Fallen Leaves” so far. After the movie’s world premiere, it won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival back in May.

“Three and a half years in jail or twenty-five (thousand) in the bank”? That’s the premise, essentially, of the new MUBI dramedy, “The Delinquents,” which was one of the big hits from Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section earlier this year (read our glowing review here). In short, bank workers toiling away for pennies get fed up, know the system well, and think they can pull off a bank heist with minimal interruptions to their lives—some jail time— and meanwhile, they get rich.

Given all the sections at the Cannes Film Festival, when you tally it all up, there are probably some 70 or 80 films reviewed in total (in some years, we’ve reviewed over 50 movies). So, how do you stand out at all? Well, dazzle them, obviously, but it helps when you win a big award, too, especially if you’re an unknown commodity.

When it comes to “Passages,” Ira Sachs’ witty, wise and very sexy Parisian drama, it all started with Franz Rogowski, who plays the film’s self-absorbed film director, Tomas. “I had seen Michael Haneke’s “Happy End” starring Franz,” remembers Sachs, the auteur of richly textured, grown-up gems such as “Love is Strange,” “Little Men” and “Keep the Lights On,” recently joining me for an interview about his latest, opening in theaters this week.

An NC-17 rating for a film may as well be a scarlet letter branded on it before release, limiting its audiences and causing certain theaters not to carry it at all. But that branding won’t stop MUBI and Ira Sachs from debuting “Passages,” Sachs’ latest, in theaters next month.

We’ve said it quite a bit over the past few years, but the MUBI streaming service is one of the most underrated subscription services for film fans. Up there with The Criterion Channel, MUBI is a showcase of some of the best films from around the world, featuring selections that you likely wouldn’t be able to see anywhere else.

A young boy comes of age after his father’s sudden death in Christophe Honoré’s “Winter Boy.” A bleak portrait of grief, the film may earn points for crafting an empathetic, subjective portrayal of one boy’s emotional spiral. Yet, the film also makes several odd formal and aesthetic choices that, ultimately, make Honoré’s film feel more hackneyed than resonant.

For the first time in twenty-five years, Lars Von Trier returns to Copenhagen’s Rigshospitalet and his cult TV series “The Kingdom.” And while “The Kingdom Exodus” may be Von Trier’s final edition of the show, MUBI will give its streaming premiere a prestige rollout.   READ MORE: ‘The Kingdom Exodus’ Review: Lars Von Trier Is Down With The Sickness In Revived Hospital Comedy Series [Venice] Starting on November 13, MUBI will release remastered director’s cuts of the previous two seasons of “The Kingdom.” All five episodes of “The Kingdom I” hit the streamer this Sunday, while “The Kingdom II” debuts next Sunday, November 20.

It’s been six long years since Park Chan-wook‘s last outing, “The Handmaiden.” But now, the South Korean master director is back with his latest, “Decision To Leave.” And if his Best Director win for the film at the Cannes Film Festival this year is any indication, Park hasn’t lost a step. Park’s latest stars Park Hae-il as a detective sent to investigate a suspected murder.

Late last month, Lars Von Trier fans got their first peek at the third and final season of his TV series “The Kingdom Exodus.” It’s Von Trier’s first project since 2018’s divisive serial killer film “The House That Jack Built,” and the first season of “The Kingdom” since 1997. And now, after its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, it will stream exclusively on the global streamer MUBI.

As we pointed out in our Best Documentaries of 2021 list, this year we saw quite a few filmmakers really play with the non-fiction film form in unique, often impactful ways.

More than five years ago (man, this last five years really feels like two decades, huh?), Terrence Malick’s acclaimed documentary, “Voyage of Time,” was released in IMAX. Since then, outside of a re-release a year or so later, it’s been hard to find a way to enjoy Malick’s feature at your leisure.

Berlinale FIPRESCI winner “What Do We See When We Look At The Sky?” received rave reviews at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year. Now, the enchanting sophomore feature from Georgian director Alexandre Koberidze is about to make its North American premiere at the New York Film Festival next week, followed by a MUBI premiere in November.

For more than a year, the world’s social interactions have primarily taken place online. It’s no secret that social media doesn’t stack up against the real thing.

EXCLUSIVE: If you’re a fan of The Playlist and you are always on the hunt for the best platforms to find good films to watch, then we’ve talked a lot about MUBI. The curated streaming service is home to an ever-changing collection of indie, international, and arthouse films from some of the best filmmakers working today.

Before she made “Birds of Prey,” Cathy Yan impressed audiences at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival with her bold social satire “Dead Pigs,” but despite positive reviews, the film never got distributed for American audiences, until now. READ MORE: Cathy Yan Talks About ‘Dead Pigs’ Finally Coming To The U.S.

Even though last year’s film festival circuit was greatly impacted by COVID-19, with many being canceled, there were still enough opportunities for some relatively small films to break out in a big way when given the chance to screen.

Coming of age movies are a dime a dozen, but they normally don’t include sandwiches — that is, until “Ham on Rye.” The new trailer brings about a different coming of age story. READ MORE: The 25 Best Films Of 2020 You Didn’t See The movie follows a bizarre tradition in protagonist Haley’s hometown.