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Welcome to our #7th No-Nonsense Newsletter. The newsletter where we give you all of our team recommendations. This week the team are spilling the beans on their top film picks on MUBI (Öffnet in neuem Fenster).
Thanks so much to all who joined our watch party on Monday! It was so much fun watching Pleasure with you all on MUBI 🍒
If you couldn’t join us on Monday, do not worry, you can still watch Pleasure, plus all the other hand-picked highlights of cinema from around the world on MUBI, with 30 days of MUBI for free. Sign up here! (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)
Thanks again to MUBI.
💋 Let’s jump right into our team recommendations 💋
🕺🏿TEAM RECOMMENDATIONS🕺🏿
FOUNDER OF POLYESTER, IONE GAMBLE
FILM: Ghost World!! I know it's a classic, and probably everyone reading this email has seen it, but I wrote this whole essay (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) right at the beginning of lockdown about how formative it was for me, sooooo, how could I not.
COMMUNITY EDITOR, HALIMA JIBRIL (ME)
FILM: Shiva Baby, directed by Emma Seligman! I love this movie with all my heart. There's this very iconic scene between the lead character and her dad where he's trying to get her a job (she's just graduated from doing Gender Studies), and he goes, "feminism isn't exactly a career path, sweetie", and she yells "it's not a career! it's a lens." I have never laughed so hard in my life.
DEPUTY EDITOR, GINA TONIC
FILM: I watched Shortbus for the first time after being a Hedwig and the Angry Inch stan for years, and it's a fantastic insight into how much sex shapes us and our lives. The notions of identity throughout really struck a chord, and it also gave me lots of shagging positions to consider for the future.
CREATIVE PRODUCER, ISSEY GLADSTON
FILM: Benedetta is coming to MUBI in July, and there’s honestly not much more I could want from a film. The film is centred around a lesbian love affair between two French nuns and is directed by the same director as Showgirls and stars Charlotte Rampling. I think it’s the closest I’ll ever get to a religious experience!!
SOCIALS EDITOR, EDEN YOUNG
FILM: Showgirls! Misunderstood at the time but is now a satirical camp classic critiquing showbiz and American capitalism. Ridiculous dialogue, the most gorgeous costume design, make-up and nails and the most unbelievable sex scene I've ever seen in my life. And the documentary about Showgirls going from box office disaster to adored cult film, You Don't Nomi, is also on MUBI! Double bill, baby. When we did our watch party for Pleasure, we noticed a lot of parallels between Pleasure and Showgirls - especially in the costume design and themes!! Make it a triple bill xoxo
BEAUTY EDITOR, GRACE ELLINGTON
FILM: Tie Me Up Tie Me Down. It’s an early Almodóvar, 1989. It’s a dark, melodramatic rom-com with a really emotional core and is simultaneously violent, sweet and kitsch in a very Almodóvar way.
You can watch all of our recs and more with 30 days of MUBI for free (Öffnet in neuem Fenster). 😉
C ya soooon 🥰
XOXO,
Halima ❤️
