Astrid Lindgrens klassiker

(Sökarna) slog ner som en bomb på de svenska biograferna för 25 år sedan! Ingen hade någonsin sett en mer kompromisslös ungdomsfilm än Daniel Fridells och Peter Cartriers debut. Kritikerna var arga, flera riksdagsledamöter ville stoppa den, censuren klippte hej vilt och filmen anmäldes för olaga våldsskildring till justitiekanslern. Historien om värstingen Jocke som gör […]

It s a rare person who would give up fame and fortune to toil in obscurity for someone else s creative vision. Yet, that s exactly what Leon Vitali did after his acclaimed performance as Lord Bullingdon in Stanley Kubricks Barry Lyndon. The young actor surrendered his thriving career to become Kubrick s loyal right-hand […]

I Tigers Are Not Afraid tacklar Issa Lopez ett oerhört viktigt ämne, genom att ge röst till en hel generation barn som gömts och glömts av samhället. Hon blandar skickligt fantasielement med verklighetens faror och skapar en helt unik, om än skrämmande, värld.

“Kom snart” var drottning Victorias sista ord till sitt livs stora kärlek, läkaren Axel Munthe. Utan honom hade hon dött redan som ung. Axel Munthe är allas doktor på Capri. En Robin Hood som tar bra betalt av de rika för att gratis kunna hjälpa de fattiga. Kronprinsessan Victorias äktenskap är olyckligt och hennes man […]

Close to a nuclear power station, inside his modest, sparsely furnished home on the barren, windswept Dungeness coastline, Derek Jarman dreams. This intimate insight into Jarman’s inner world was beautifully shot on fragile Super 8 film with the help of friends and collaborators. Shifting from the personal to the political, it culminates in a near-mythic […]

“Everyone knows who won. But not everyone knows how.” The result of the Brexit referendum in the summer of 2016 caused a political earthquake that laid waste to the normally stable British establishment and sent political tremors across the world. This punchy and provocative feature length drama goes exclusively behind the scenes of the “Vote […]

Australian supernatural horror thriller directed by Danny and Michael Philippou. On the anniversary of her mother’s death, Mia (Sophie Wilde) and her friends hold a seance using what is purported to be the embalmed hand of a powerful medium. The rush they experience from each brief possession becomes addictive but malevolent spirits are not to […]

The Technicolor expressionism of Douglas Sirk reached a fever pitch with this operatic tragedy, which finds the director pushing his florid visuals and his critiques of American culture to their subversive extremes. Alcoholism, nymphomania, impotence, and deadly jealousy—these are just some of the toxins coursing through a massively wealthy, degenerate Texan oil family. When a […]