Mubi, the new film service for the PS3 that we’re quite big fans of, ran an interesting test over the weekend: showing a movie the same day it was out in cinemas.
Granted, it wasn’t a Hollywood blockbuster. It wasn’t even an English-language film, which shouldn’t be too surprising given Mubi’s slant towards foreign cinema. It was Mexican film Revolución, a collaborative project that featured film-makers like Gael García Bernal (The Motorcycle Diaries).
Did anyone see it? It’s a concept we’d love to see catch on, especially for films like this that many couldn’t see in a cinema if they wanted to.
thistler
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 at 10:05 AMYep, only noticed Mubi was available by accident. Watched Revolución with my partner. It was great, as in, great cinematography. Some of the stories were good up to a point with lame or obvious punch-lines at the end. That one story with the out of control party was a bit freaky. If we can convince internode to have mubi stream unmetered I’d be very very happy (unless it is already).
Stuart Skene
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 at 12:54 PMI d/l’d it but it is not available in any menu to install so I have no idea what is happening.
Simone Babij
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 at 5:26 PMI would love for this to catch on! I don’t really like going to the cinemas but if movies were released on mubi the same time as cinema I would definitely prefer to watch them on Mubi.