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A slow-burning masterwork of the early 1990s, this third feature by Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep) is a singular piece of American mythmaking. In a towering performance, Danny Glover plays the enigmatic southern drifter Harry, a devilish charmer who turns up out of the blue on the South Central Los Angeles doorstep of his old […]

Detta är den sanna och skakande historien om familjen Braude – den löftesrike boxaren Charles som just träffat kvinnan i sitt liv, hans bröder Isak och Harry samt föräldrarna Sara och Benzel. Huvudrollen innehas av

Jean-Pierre Melville (1917 – 1974) is one of the most revered French film directors of all time. Born in Paris during WW1, he was to become a member of the French resistance in the Second World War, an experience which he drew on in his later career as a film director, routinely plunging his characters […]

Robert Bresson writes and directs this 1950s French drama based on the memoirs of André Devigny. Lieutenant Fontaine (Francois Leterrier), a member of the French Resistance, is imprisoned and condemned to death by the Nazis. The film follows his attempts to escape from his cell at Montluc with the help of his teenage cellmate, François […]

Large spacecraft have landed at 12 locations around the world. In America, unable to understand the craft’s occupants the army drafts in linguist Louise Bank (Amy Adams) and scientist Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner) to translate the aliens’ message. When Louise finds a breakthrough in comprehension she also starts to experience a blurring of time that […]

In this jazzy gangster film, reformed killer Phoenix Tetsu’s attempt to go straight is squashed when his former cohorts call him back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang. This onslaught of stylized violence and trippy colours got director Seijun Suzuki (Branded to Kill) in trouble with Nikkatsu studio heads, who were put off […]

Utifrån en novell av Haruki Murakami har Hamaguchi skrivit ett prisbelönt manus tillsammans med Takamasa Oe. Murakamis ordknappa, precisa berättelse på under 40 sidor har inspirerat till en rik filmisk resa som tar sin tid och levererar starka känslor genom små åtbörder.

Jaco Van Dormaels sinnesutvidgande film använder sig av kaosteori och kvantfysik för att berätta en historia om livet, kärleken och de oändliga förgreningar som uppstår i efterdyningarna av de vägval många av oss ställs inför