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Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI, and sign up for our weekly email newsletter by clicking here.NEWSStanley Kubrick in Filmworker.Stanley Kubrick’s long-lost passion project, a biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, may soon be realized. This week at the Berlinale, Steven Spielberg expanded on plans to executive-produce a seven-part series for HBO based on Kubrick’s original script.In June, Terence Davies will begin filming an adaptation of Stefan Zweig’s The Post-Office Girl. According to a production announcement, the cast includes Sophie Cookson, Richard E. Grant, and Verena Altenberger.Recommended VIEWINGWe’ve been enjoying the “redefining the food film” video-essay series on Vittles, a food and culture newsletter. Below is Andrew Key’s discussion of A Woman Under the Influence, and the ways that food can tear us apart:Shellac has shared a first trailer for Angela Schanelec’s Music,...

Ruth Beckermann's Mutzenbacher is now showing exclusively on Mubi in most countries starting February 16, 2023, in the series Festival Focus: Berlinale.Men and sex. Male sexuality. What do men really want? Do men speak about sex? And if so, how? Those were the questions on my mind when I started the Mutzenbacher project. How could I find answers to these questions? Not by speaking to one or two or even ten men, but by starting a kind of field experiment with a random sample of dozens of men engaging in a dialogue about sex.To achieve this we put out a casting call: “Looking for men between ages 16 and 99 for a documentary about Josefine Mutzenbacher.” 150 men applied!It was a running gag of my professional career. Whenever we were stuck in the editing room or I didn’t know how to continue shooting I shouted, “Next time I will make a film about Mutzenbacher!