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The MUBI Podcast is an audio documentary series about how great cinema happens, and why it matters. Every season’s a deep dive into a different corner of movie culture — from classic needle drops, to movie theaters that changed the world. Plus, between seasons: intimate interviews with some of the best filmmakers alive. Nominated for multiple Webbys, Ambies, and British Podcast Awards. Hosted by veteran arts journalist Rico Gagliano. “It’s like This American Life for filmmaking stories” — Matt Wallin

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  1. PULP live! — Jarvis Cocker & Garth Jennings capture the power of pop

    Pop icon Jarvis Cocker and director Garth Jennings (SING, THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY) sit down with host Rico Gagliano to talk about their huge-yet-heartwarming concert film PULP: WHAT DO YOU DO FOR AN ENCORE?. Other topics includ

  2. The Cinémathèque française — celebrating 90 years and 2 revolutions (rewind)

    90 years ago in Paris, a little 50-seat screening room opened its doors... and soon become probably the most important cinema ever. This month, the Cinémathèque française celebrates its birthday with a retrospective, so we are too: with thi

  3. ROSEBUSH PRUNING — Riley Keough eats the rich (and survives MAD MAX)

    Cannes-winning actor/filmmaker Riley Keough (THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE) is no stranger to the worlds of wealth or fashion, and in the bloody, bawdy new satire ROSEBUSH PRUNING, she inhabits a larger-than-life character who is way too into b

  4. THIS IS ENGLAND — Shane Meadows's 2-Toned look at skins and ska (w/ Jack O'Connell)

    Rico gets a primer on the skinhead history—and ska-fueled soundtrack—behind THIS IS ENGLAND: The 2007 indie hit about misunderstood kids in a misunderstood subculture. Guests include stars Jack O'Connell (SINNERS) and Andrew Shim (A ROOM FO

  5. Alejandro G. Iñárritu & Rodrigo Prieto look back on AMORES PERROS

    Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu (THE REVENANT) and cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto (THE WOLF OF WALL STREET) have a blast telling host Rico Gagliano about the making of their high-octane 2001 breakthrough AMORES PERROS—the story of a car cras

  6. BELLY — Hype Williams and Soul II Soul bring hip hop "Back To Life"

    In the '90s, there was no music video director in hip-hop bigger than Hype Williams. And he concentrated all his visual powers on his first (and for now, only) feature film, BELLY (1998): a gangster film that looked—and sounded—like no othe

  7. ALL OF US STRANGERS — Andrew Haigh believes in the Power of Love

    Isolated during the COVID pandemic, director Andrew Haigh (LOOKING) wrote a feature about a man trying to break out of isolation and loss...and peppered it with the dance-pop hits that made him feel less lonely as a gay teen in the '80s. An

  8. BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM — Gurinder Chadha shoots and scores

    On the opening day of the World Cup, we take a look and a listen to the soccer-centric sleeper BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM (2002). Director Gurinder Chadha tells Rico about making her breakthrough rom-com about girl power, British Asian identity,

  9. CHUNGKING EXPRESS — Wong Kar Wai puts "Dreams" on the menu (rewind)

    Shot on a shoestring in six wild weeks, CHUNGKING EXPRESS is the movie that put legendary Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar Wai on the international map—along with his star, pop diva Faye Wong...and her Cantonese cover of The Cranberries's hit "

  10. DONNIE DARKO — Richard Kelly makes the ultimate ‘80s mixtape (rewind)

    Another classic episode about great music in a great movie: DONNIE DARKO. Richard Kelly's genre-busting rookie feature was one of the first cult hits of the 21st century... and it took the music of '80s band Tears for Fears along for the ri

  11. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY — Stanley Kubrick finds heavenly music on vinyl (rewind)

    While we polish up some brand-new episodes all about iconic movie needle-drops... we're resurfacing some classic episodes that tackled the same topic! Starting with this one, about the time Stanley Kubrick decided to score his sci-fi specta

  12. WHISPER OF THE HEART — Hayao Miyazaki takes “Country Roads”

    How'd a 1971 country-pop anthem about West Virginia... inspire a 1995 anime classic about teens in Tokyo? We kick off a season about great movie needle-drops with the tale of WHISPER OF THE HEART — the anime that helped drive John Denver's

  13. MY FATHER'S SHADOW — Akinola Davies Jr. dreams of 90s Nigeria

    Akinola Davies Jr. never really knew his dad. But in MY FATHER’S SHADOW, his BAFTA-winning debut feature set in 90s Nigeria, the director imagines what it would be like to spend the day with him. Akinola tells guest host Simran Hans how he

  14. THE SECRET AGENT — Kleber Mendonça Filho & Wagner Moura on memory and manguebeat

    The Best Picture–nominated thriller THE SECRET AGENT tells a tale of intrigue and absurdity in ’70s Brazil. Director Kleber Mendonça Filho (PICTURES OF GHOSTS) and star Wagner Moura (CIVIL WAR) give Rico a primer on the real politics behind

  15. LURKER — Alex Russell's outsider look at the in-crowd

    Alex Russell just won 2 Independent Spirit awards for LURKER - his debut thriller about a superfan wheedling his way into a pop star's orbit. Alex tells Rico about his own experiences running with that kinda crowd... and what his twisted ta

  16. SENTIMENTAL VALUE — Joachim Trier’s different kind of meta-movie (w/ Stellan Skarsgård, Elle Fanning & more)

    Joachim Trier, co-writer Eskil Vogt, and an all-star cast including Stellan Skarsgård, Renate Reinsve, Elle Fanning, and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas talk about the making and meaning of SENTIMENTAL VALUE — the multiple-Oscar-nominated juggernau

  17. Wim Wenders LIVE in Berlin: 50 years of rock-n-road movies

    Our New Year’s gift to you: Filmmaking legend Wim Wenders returns to the show for a career-spanning interview. Taped before a live audience in his home city of Berlin, Germany, he tells Rico how classics like Wings of Desire (1987), Paris,

  18. SALAAM BOMBAY! & THE LUNCHBOX — Mira Nair & Ritesh Batra deliver realism and romance

    Legendary director Mira Nair and Cannes-winner Ritesh Batra made two very different hit films about very different sides of India's fabled food delivery system. Batra tells Rico about the romance of dabbawallas, while Nair remembers the mea

  19. Kelly Reichardt: THE MASTERMIND behind some of the best movies of the century

    The NYTimes just named Kelly Reichardt's THE MASTERMIND one of the top 10 films of 2025... and in this episode she looks back on the career that led up to it. From her debut RIVERS OF GRASS to the Oscar-nominated MEEK'S CUTOFF and beyond, i

  20. JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI... and David Gelb changes how people eat it

    Director David Gelb’s documentary about a tiny, austere sushi joint and its perfectionist chef defined a food-film style... and set off an international omakase craze. Gelb tells Rico the story, and also how he gets his kids to eat escargot

  21. HAL & HARPER — Cooper Raiff comes unstuck

    Sibling duo Hal and Harper are best friends, and have been ever since they lost their mother as children. But is there such a thing as being too close? And when your family is your life raft, what does it look like to let go? Cooper Raiff,

  22. THE TASTE OF THINGS — Alison Roman savors the opposite of a chef movie

    Ex-NYTimes columnist and bestselling cookbook writer Alison Roman (SOMETHING FROM NOTHING) talks with Rico about the tropes of fictional film chefs, and how the dreamy Cannes-winner THE TASTE OF THINGS quietly roasts them over a spit. Just

  23. RATATOUILLE — Brad Bird cooks up the ultimate food film

    The animated classic about an adorbs rat chef… spent nearly 7 years in the oven. Director Brad Bird (THE IRON GIANT) and producer Brad Lewis (ANTZ) tell Rico the whole multi-course saga, including gut-busting tales of Michelin-starred “rese

  24. DIE MY LOVE — Lynne Ramsay unleashes the beast

    In DIE MY LOVE, new mother Grace (a virtuosic Jennifer Lawrence) is stuck at home while her disinterested husband Jackson (Robert Pattinson) is at work. With only her baby, a barking dog, and her own thoughts to keep her company, she begins

  25. ARTISTS VS. AUTOCRACY: Istanbul cinema crosses the bridge

    Istanbul is home to some great filmmakers trying to speak truth to power... in a country where the power is less and less willing to let them. Host Rico Gagliano talks with two of the best — Emin Alper (BURNING) and Özcan Alper (AUTUMN) — a

  26. MUSSOLINI: SON OF THE CENTURY — Joe Wright gazes into the abyss

    Joe Wright's known for Oscar-winning WWII epics like DARKEST HOUR. But his latest look at the era is a different animal: The nightmarish series MUSSOLINI: SON OF THE CENTURY, about the rise of the godfather of fascism. Joe tells host Rico G

  27. MULHOLLAND DRIVE in the rearview, with Deborah Levy

    Enigmatic women, their doubles, and an unmistakable air of strangeness… Award-winning author Deborah Levy (HOT MILK) on the hallmarks of David Lynch’s storytelling, and how the filmmaker has inspired her own work. LADIES OF LYNCH explores t

  28. Debbie Zoller drives LOST HIGHWAY

    Make-up and prosthetics artist Debbie Zoller (LOST HIGHWAY, TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN) first worked with David Lynch on LOST HIGHWAY. She discusses their two decades of friendship, and how she designed the look for some of his most iconic femm

  29. Heidi Bivens outfits INLAND EMPIRE

    How does costume shape character? Stylist and costume designer Heidi Bivens was in charge of wardrobe on INLAND EMPIRE. It was one of her first jobs, and David Lynch’s final film. What did they both learn? LADIES OF LYNCH explores the subve

  30. Sabrina Sutherland guides TWIN PEAKS’ RETURN

    David Lynch’s creative process was unconventional in many ways. For example, he preferred sketching his ideas as images to explaining them in words. Producer Sabrina Sutherland worked with him for more than 30 years. How did she find the la

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