Matthew Rankin's The Twentieth Century is showing exclusively on Mubi in many countries starting February 15, 2021 in the series Festival Focus: Berlinale.The Twentieth Century is my first feature. As with all my short films, directing this film was akin to willfully relaunching the Hindenberg knowing full well that it’s going to blow up. Like a rutting salmon hurling himself ridiculously upstream, yearning to actually Die in the moment of his most creative outpouring, the images I am chasing are so difficult that they might well exceed my reproductive competence. Such was my process on this movie. The resultant film is an unbridled surrealist epic, an insurgent attack upon the biopic form and a lament for 21st Century nihilism. It is also an encyclopaedic effort to irritate my fellow Canadians.The film takes as its subject the youthful obsessions of Canada’s longest-serving prime minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King...
- 2/14/2021
- MUBI
Following our top 50 films of 2020 and more year-end coverage, we’re pleased to share personal top 10s of 2020 from our contributors.
Yes, 2020 will forever be known as the year with an asterisk etched next to it. This strange 12-month span saw a pandemic grip the world, cinemas shuttered, tentpoles delayed, and the advent of new, potentially devastating streaming models. Even so, there were numerous masterful films and dynamic performances––as well as more VOD dreck than ever before.
On a personal level, the move to virtual festivals gave me the opportunity to cover a number of festivals from home: Toronto, New York, AFI, and Chicago. Several of the entries on my top 10 (and five honorable mentions) list were festival selections, and the memory of watching them on my sofa next to my snoring terrier is rather surreal, and also rather wonderful.
Two additional notes: My initial hope was to have...
Yes, 2020 will forever be known as the year with an asterisk etched next to it. This strange 12-month span saw a pandemic grip the world, cinemas shuttered, tentpoles delayed, and the advent of new, potentially devastating streaming models. Even so, there were numerous masterful films and dynamic performances––as well as more VOD dreck than ever before.
On a personal level, the move to virtual festivals gave me the opportunity to cover a number of festivals from home: Toronto, New York, AFI, and Chicago. Several of the entries on my top 10 (and five honorable mentions) list were festival selections, and the memory of watching them on my sofa next to my snoring terrier is rather surreal, and also rather wonderful.
Two additional notes: My initial hope was to have...
- 12/30/2020
- by Christopher Schobert
- The Film Stage
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