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FKA Muub Tube - Ralph and Owen bring the film form into focus.

tv & film film reviews

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00:24:36

Aftersun is overrated :/

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2023/01/23

Paul Mescal and Franky Corio star as a father and daughter on their hols in Turkey in the much-hyped feature debut of Charlotte Wells. Despite wearing Chantal Akerman’s influence on her sleeve Wells fails to conjure the formal flare of her heroine, leaning on a few set pieces, some sloppy cinematography and a very dodgy score. Even after 100 minutes under the projection lamp, neither Ralph nor Owen were feeling the burn.

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01:00:07

Carlos Reygadas + Sight & Sound Top 100

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2022/12/05

This week the boys are joined by screenwriter James King to discuss one of the most disctinctive voices in world cinema. An audacious arthouse alchemist who wears his influences on his sleeve, an access-all-areas immersion architect who raise moments of intimacy to the level of holy miracles, and a lover of landscape who lingers with as much curiosity on the hills of the Morelos as he does the concrete jungle of Mexico City. We also speak in depth about the new Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All

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01:12:10

Cinema of the 1930s, w/ Eugene Kotlyarenko

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2022/11/08

The arrival of sound opened a proverbial can of worms in the mute halls of cinema. For ten furious years (1930-1940), the ‘talkie’ would make and break itself again and again. The names are in the history books: Lang, Clair, Lubitsch, Dreyer, Mamoulian, Berkely, Vigo, Mizoguchi, von Sternberg, Hawks, Ford. Etc! But over these same years, cinema would begin to ossify – “where the experiments of 1930 became the shortcuts of 1939”. That’s Eugene Kotlyarenko, speaking in this episode – because he joined

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01:03:55

Theo Angelopoulos

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2022/10/21

'The slightest movement sends reverberations through the viewer' said Scorsese of Greece's old master auteur. The boys locked in for punishing schedule of yearning and distance in snowy and misty conditions. As winter comes down the tracks, why not warm your hands under the projection lamp and witness the transcendent imagery of Theo Angelopoulos. Films covered include: Landscapes in the Mist, The Travelling Players, Suspended Step of the Stork, Voyage to Cythera, Eternity and a Day, The Hunters and

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01:07:15

Mark Jenkin's Enys Men

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2022/08/11

This week, the boys complete their New Horizons derive; casting a wide net over the work of Cornish filmmaker Mark Jenkin. Between the devil and the deep blue sea, they set sail for Enys Men (his latest) before dipping their oars into Jenkin’s preceding forays into hand-cranked celluloid (Bait and Bronco’s House). Questions. What’s eating contemporary British filmmaking, and how can we escape the leery lobster-pot of hauntological homages and atavistic hauntings? Derrida’s spectres – Fisher’s

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01:03:01

New Horizons Report 2: Crimes of the Future, Broker,...

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2022/07/27

In their 2nd despatch from Wroclaw, Owen, Ralph and George cover James Benning’s new structural state of the nation United States of America, Claire Denis’ dodgy lockdown drama Both Sides of the Blade, David Cronenberg’s speculative surgery sci-fi, Michel Franco’s existential Acapulco ennui in Sundown and Hirokazu Kore-Eda’s poignant road movie Broker.

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00:56:27

New Horizons Report 1: Triangle of Sadness, EO,...

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2022/07/23

The boys are back in town, and the town is Wroclaw, Poland - a sweaty Mecca for cineastes across Europe. Joined by frequent guest George MacBeth, Ralph and Owen dissect Ruben Östlund’s new caustic cruise comedy, Jerzy Skolimowski’s dizzying tale of a downtrodden donkey, Lukas Dhont’s tender childhood tragedy and Ulrich Seidl’s formidable Rimini. Garnish your pierogies and settle in for our first round…

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01:02:47

Godard Special: The Essayist w/ Daniel Neofetou

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2022/04/17

All good things must come to an end. The first of those is our four-episode season on Jean-Luc Godard, coming to a climatic halt with this hour-long chat with a jetlagged Daniel Neofetou. We did Godard the essayist, covering the dense thickets of his Mark Kermode-baiting wonders: IMAGE BOOK, GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE, and FILM SOCIALISME. And the second ‘end’ is MUUB TUBE itself. For seventy-odd episodes, we’ve talked about some of the greatest films ever made. We’ve also done some mids. That, ladies and

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01:09:58

How to talk about Bruno Dumont?

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2022/01/10

Between the brooding, overcast skies of LA VIE DE JESUS (1997) and the molten media-sploitation of FRANCE (2021), French filmmaker Bruno Dumont has worn many (often contradictory) hats. But for this one-time enfant terrible of French arthouse cinema, a persistent thread can be carefully picked out. And to begin the work of that tangled unpicking, the boys enlist the support of arch Dumontian George MacBeth. Together, they embark on a careening, freestyle foray through the land of Dumont - from

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00:30:07

Is Raúl Ruiz any good?

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2021/11/08

The promise of a Raúl Ruiz film is almost irresistible, vivid colours, dynamic camera movement, non-linearity, pirates! And yet his unique films are little-seen, not quite canon. Ralph and Owen took a bold voyage through his seafaring 1983 classics City of Pirates and Three Crowns of a Sailor and ponder, were these ravishing ripples redolent of an undiscovered new wave, or is it all just naval gazing?

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00:47:01

The Souvenir Part I & II - INSTANT REACTION (w/ Lucy...

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2021/10/18

A cinematic late starter, English filmmaker Joanna Hogg has been known for her clinically cool skewerings of the upper classes and the bourgeoisie. But then, in 2019, she dropped The Souvenir - a deeply personal, semi-autobiographical account of her own artistic development and trials as a twenty-something film student. Resplendent and eerie, she’s now followed it up with The Souvenir part II - a kaleidoscopic and formally invigorating portrait of the artist as a young graduate. Here, we catch our

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00:41:58

Celebrating Violent Male Friendship on Film - Mikey...

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2021/10/08

Elaine May's 'Mikey and Nicky' stars John Cassavetes and Peter Falk as old cronies bickering, and on the run. Cassevetes film 'Husbands' made around the same time, stars Cassavetes himself, Falk again, and Ben Gazarra as a pack of middle class dad bods wearing themselves out with aimless adventures in New York and London. That as maybe today's podcast is about Ralph and Owen: two dirtbag film podcasters with jobs in the creative industry, repressing their feelings, indulging in toxic displays of

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00:39:02

Marx INSTANT POST-CINEMA REACTION

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2021/09/22

A spectre is haunting central London, the spectre of five ebullient young men podcasting outside a pub on a warm night - the occasion is Olaf Nicolai’s Marx, a 24 hour film shown at the ICA this week, which consists entirely of one continuous closely-framed shot of a Karl Marx statue in Chemnitz, Germany. Owen and Ralph are joined by Daniel Neofetou, Matthew Turner and on the phone from Munich, George MacBeth.

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00:36:17

Annette INSTANT POST-CINEMA REACTION

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2021/09/17

Nine years have elapsed since the last salvo sprung from the mind of the layabout Leos Carax (remember, he was the director of 2012’s unkempt Holy Motors). Now, Carax brings us Anette. And it's a musical - a sort of sloppy and often sublime mess of a thing that seems as indebted to Bo Burnham as it is Fellini (apes of god, uncanny mannequins, the lot). But is Anette good enough, or does it go out with a whimper? This week, the boys brought their mics along for a post-screening pub chat in order to

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00:27:09

Tarred and weathered

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2021/08/18

Owen takes a long, hard look at Sátántangó - the seven hour magnum opus of Hungarian montage-hater Béla Tarr.

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00:21:01

Muriel, or the Time of a Return to the pod

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2021/08/16

Ralph shares some immediate, close-mic reflections on Alain Resnais’s 1963 film Muriel, or the Time of a Return - a whirlwind of desire and deception, full of deft cuts and lost love.

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01:16:34

Alexander Kluge w/ George MacBeth

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2021/08/13

German cinema would be much impoverished without the unique filmmaker and cultural wrangler Alexander Kluge. The boys are joined by George MacBeth to revel in Kluge's most ambitious works, those that oscillate wildly between multiple fictional and documentary forms; including Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed, The Power of Emotion, Germany in Autumn and Yesterday Girl

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00:20:03

Knight of Cups iS gOoD AcTuaLLY

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2021/08/10

Ralph defends Terence Malick's star-studded late career odyssey of luxury and ennui with a spirited late-night monologue.

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00:11:38

Owen on Godzilla

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2021/06/11

Owen keeps the show on the road, reflecting on two recent cinema outings, Godzilla and First Cow.

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00:51:20

Autumn Sonata

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2021/06/03

This week, the boys take their first podcast plunge into Bergman’s extensive oeuvre. The subject? Autumn Sonata of 1978. An explosively charged chamber piece that does open heart surgery on a tricky mother-daughter relationship. There’s baggage, there's close-ups, and there’s a lot barely concealed angst. Is this Bergman at his “most” Bergman? Probably. But is it his best?

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