kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4891 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish
| Message 1 of 3 07 January 2014 at 3:39am | IP Logged |
Has anyone used Mubi before? They offer a choice of
thirty international movies for $36 a year. Each day they put up a new movie, & remove
the last movie on the list. Their web app is available in English, French, Norwegian,
Bokmål, German, Italian and Turkish.
Wikidpedia article here.
It sounds like a great idea, and I'm about to give it a 7-day test run. I still have
some reservations about actually joining ... I'd love to hear if anyone has any
experience with them.
Here's the list of non-English language films as of this afternoon:
Intermezzo - Sweden, 1936
Die Nibelung -Germany, 1924 (Fritz Lang)
The Maid / La Nana - Spain, 2009
Home - Switzerland, 2008
City of Life and Death / Nanjing! Nanjing!- Hong Kong, 2009
My Joy / Sčasťje mojo - Russian, 2010
Unmistaken Child - Israel (in Hindi), 2008
Alps - Greece, 2011
The Blue Angel / Der Blaue Engel - Germany, 1930
5 Broken Cameras - Palestine, 2011
The Scent of Green / Papaya Mùi du du xanh - Vietnamese, 1993
Nénette et Boni - France, 1996
Burma VJ - Denmark (in Burmese), 2009
Paradise: Love - Austria, 2012
Reindeerspotting - Finnish, 2010
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow / Ieri, Oggi, Domani - Italian, 1963
Tuesday, After Christmas / Marţi, după Crăciun - Romanian, 2010
Headshot / Fon Tok Kuen Fa - Thailand, 2011
Mon Oncle Antoione - France, 1971
The American entries, at least for now, tend to be more screwball comedies like The
Pajama Game. I guess this balances out all the international drama.
I'll keep you all posted! I like the variety, even if few are in my target languages.
I stumbled on it while looking for Turkish movies, which are hard to find. This was
founded by a Turkish guy, and has a Turkish version of the site ... I'm hoping that
means there will be at least some Turkish movies in the line up.
I think you can download the movies if you don't want to stream them. I haven't found a
way to stream it through roku yet, which is too bad.
Edited by kanewai on 07 January 2014 at 3:41am
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daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4523 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic
| Message 2 of 3 07 January 2014 at 8:56pm | IP Logged |
Seems to be geolocation restricted, ie. as a German resident, you need to use
de.mubi.com, as a Norwegian no.mubi.com and so on. The lineup of films is different for
different countries.
Anyway, what made me cringe was the announcement on de.mubi.com for the new movie: it's
a French movie with German audio and no subtitles. Just idiotic, who on earth would want
to watch a French movie with German audio? Nice interpretation of international xD
Edited by daegga on 07 January 2014 at 9:02pm
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kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4891 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish
| Message 3 of 3 07 January 2014 at 9:11pm | IP Logged |
I'm running into problems too. The app doesn't load on smart phones (so no beaming it to
tv), older version of iPads, or roku streaming.
The only way I can watch their flics is on my computer.
Too bad, I still think it's a great idea. For me, though, it's not practical at this
time. I don't have the patience to sit in front of my computer to watch movies.
Edited by kanewai on 07 January 2014 at 9:15pm
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