Beautiful Boy

Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In F for Fake, a free-form sort-of documentary by Orson Welles, the legendary filmmaker (and self-described charlatan) gleefully reengages with the central preoccupation of his career: the tenuous lines between illusion and truth, art and lies. Beginning with portraits of the world- renowned art forger Elmyr de Hory and his equally devious […]

Michelangelo Antonioni invented a new film grammar with this masterwork. An iconic piece of challenging 1960s cinema and a gripping narrative on its own terms, L’Avventura concerns the enigmatic disappearance of a young woman during a yachting trip off the coast of Sicily, and the search taken up by her disaffected lover (Gabriele Ferzetti) and best friend […]

Kyssen på kryssen är en uppvisning i svenskt leklynne à la Hasse Ekman och Arne Mattsson. Historien tilldrar sig under en filminspelning ombord på en kryssning och driver glatt med 1950-talets svenska filmbransch. Gunnar Björnstrand parodierar framgångsrikt Ingmar Bergman i sin roll som demonregissör och Annalisa Ericson är härligt rolig i sin dubbelroll. Filmen kastar […]

Regissörsduon Jean-Pierre Jeunet och Marc Caro slog i 90-talets början ned som en färgstark kärleksbomb på biograferna med den här stilsäkra debuten. Formspråket hämtades från

In a documentary on our society as it enters a new technological age, Werner Herzog explores the effect of the Internet – as well as its history and future – and the wonders of robotics. Herzog does not himself use a phone (smart or otherwise) and rarely goes online. Ironically this makes him the perfect […]

When a gifted but washed-up screenwriter with a hair-trigger temper—Humphrey Bogart, in a revelatory, vulnerable performance—becomes the prime suspect in a brutal Tinseltown murder, the only person who can supply an alibi for him is a seductive neighbor (Gloria Grahame) with her own troubled past. The emotionally charged In a Lonely Place, freely adapted from a Dorothy […]

Top of the Lake: China Girl is a crime mystery story that finds Detective Robin Griffin recently returned to Sydney and trying to rebuild her life. When the body of an Asian girl washes up on Bondi Beach, there appears little hope of

Montparnasse 19, a film about the tragic final years in the life of Italian painter and sculptor Amadeo Modigliani, was itself beset by tragedy. Max Ophuls, the famed director of Letter from an Unknown Woman and Le Plaisir, died during its production, leaving his friend Jacques Becker to complete the picture. Its lead performer too, […]