Articles Culture Films In Partnership With Interviews Long Reads MUBI News Originals Paul Preciado

“This is the revolution”: Paul Preciado on trans history, a non-binary future and Orlando: My Political Biography

Paul Preciado discusses the importance of knowing your history, getting organised and a non-binary future as part of MUBI’s Through the Lens partnership with Gay Times. WORDS BY EMILY CAMERON IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MUBI They say in Dalston you’re never more than ten feet from a copy of Testo Junkie. Paul Preciado’s semi-autobiographical gender theory has informed and guided a generation of trans people’s relationship with medicine and their own history since its publication in 2008 and translation into English in 2013. Having since been translated into six languages, copies of…

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Articles Culture Films In Partnership With Long Reads MUBI News Originals Sorry Baby

With queer happiness at its heart, Sorry, Baby is essential viewing

“Are you so happy being gay and in love?”: How Sorry, Baby normalises queer happiness. WORDS BY EMILY CAMERON IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MUBI Sorry, Baby is a point blank exceptional piece of cinema. What’s perhaps most striking about it is the number of ways in which it is exceptional, how it hits the brightest peaks and darkest troughs of life with poignancy and accuracy again and again. Most simply, Sorry, Baby is the story of how a post-grad student (just about) gets over being sexually assaulted by their thesis supervisor. It’s…

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Articles Culture Daniel Craig Films LGBTQ+ Films LGBTQ+ News MUBI News Queer

Queer: Mubi acquires Luca Guadagnino’s steamy gay drama for UK and Ireland

The upcoming gay drama Queer has found its distributing home. Over the last year, LGBTQIA+ movie enthusiasts have been eager to immerse themselves in Luca Guadgnino’s steamy gay drama. While the film has already made waves within the festival circuit, information about a general release was unknown.  However, on 4 October, Variety revealed that Mubi secured the rights to Queer with a multi-territory deal, including the UK, Ireland, Canada, Latin America, Germany, Austria, Benelux, Spain, Turkey, India and Italy (not including theatrical distribution).   Additional information regarding the film’s release date…

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Articles Culture Films In Partnership With MUBI News

Award-winning LGBTQ+ cinema leads the UK’s first MUBI FEST this summer

Festival season is well and truly upon us and the crown jewel of this summer’s film circuit in the UK is the inaugural MUBI FEST Manchester, which will take place at Aviva Studios. Across two days on 12-13 July, MUBI FEST Manchester will play host to some of the best world cinema out there right now, as well as industry talks, DJ sets and art installations. The celebration of global film and culture in Manchester will be the first of many across a number of other global destinations, including Mexico…

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Articles Films In Partnership With MUBI News Through the Lens

Grab your free tickets to an exclusive screening of ‘Monica’ and live Q+A with Trace Lysette

 The ‘Pose’ actress will be interviewed virtually following an exclusive screening of her latest film ‘Monica’. WORDS BY MEGAN WALLACE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MUBI MUBI is a streaming service where you can find great, hand-picked films from across the world. In the ongoing series Through the Lens, we’ll be engaging with cinematic representation and queer interpretation via the films streaming on MUBI. Love queer film? Well listen up! To celebrate Pride, MUBI – the streaming platform dedicated to great, hand-picked films – and GAY TIMES have teamed up to host…

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Arthouse Articles Culture Film In Partnership With MUBI News Through the Lens

From shadowy villains to bloodthirsty lovers, is the outlaw always queer?

 LGBTQIA+ representation is historically lacking from the cinematic canon. We reassess the figure of the outsider in the films streaming on MUBI and show how the queer gaze can offer new readings on classic films. WORDS BY MEGAN WALLACE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MUBI MUBI is a streaming service where you can find great, hand-picked films from across the world. In the ongoing series Through the Lens, we’ll be engaging with cinematic representation and queer interpretation via the films streaming on MUBI. If you know your film history, you’ll be aware…

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A Strange Way Of Life Articles Culture Films In Partnership With MUBI News Originals Pedro Pascal

Beyond ‘Brokeback Mountain’: the daring directors reinventing the Western

    Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘Strange Way of Life’ has just landed on MUBI as part of their Neo-Westerns: A New Frontier series.  Words Patrick Sproull In the early 2000s Pedro Almodóvar turned down the opportunity to direct Brokeback Mountain, the groundbreaking gay romance starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger. 20 years later the Spanish filmmaker has returned to present what he describes as his “answer” to Brokeback Mountain, with the sexy, passionate Strange Way of Life – now streaming on MUBI as part of their new season, Neo-Westerns: A New…

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