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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Signup to Generate a PitchThe 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.
MUBI Podcast is hosted by MUBI. The show has published 104 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "PULP live!, Jarvis Cocker & Garth Jennings capture the power of pop" (15 October 2026, 36 minutes), "The Cinémathèque française, celebrating 90 years and 2 revolutions (rewind)" (3 September 2026, 43 minutes), and "ROSEBUSH PRUNING, Riley Keough eats the rich (and survives MAD MAX)" (20 August 2026, 22 minutes).
MUBI Podcast publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 36 minutes across 104 episodes.
Booking probability for MUBI Podcast is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. MUBI Podcast requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. MUBI Podcast's contact route on record: verified email.
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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...
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...
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Cannes-winning actor/filmmaker Riley Keogh (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...
Episode #5
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...
Episode #4
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...
Episode #3
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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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...
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...
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...
Episode #3
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...
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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...
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