Cat People

I slutet av 1970-talet skapar en grupp musiker dagens musik. En hyllning till de kvinnliga pionjärerna inom elektronisk musik. Året är 1978 i Paris och folk har börjat tröttna på den musik som skvalar ur stadens högtalare. Det är dags för en ny sorts musik att träda fram. Ana trotsar den mansdominerade musikbranschen och skapar […]

Prague, 1942. The Third Reich is at its zenith, controlling most of Europe. Reinhard Heydrich, aided by his wife Lina, has risen to the top of the Nazi Party as head of the SS, the Gestapo, and the architect of the “Final Solution”. His brutal and oppressive rule of occupied Czechoslovakia leads to Hitler dubbing […]

The extraordinary, internationally embraced Yi Yi (A One and a Two . . .), directed by the late Taiwanese master Edward Yang, follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of one year, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral. Whether chronicling middle-age father NJ’s tentative flirtations with an old flame or […]

Maj 1940. Charles de Gaulle har just utnämnts till general och lämnar sin hustru och de tre barnen i östra Frankrike för att arbeta för regeringen i Paris. Här ställs han öga mot öga med statschefen och hans män som är redo att lägga sig på knäna inför Hitler, medan han själv är fast besluten […]

Nu blåser vi snuten I & II, Cannonball Run I & II och Ingen blåser Hooper… Burt Reynolds och regissören Hal Needham stod bakom alla de största bilåkarkomedierna, vilka resulterade i att Reynolds rankades som

Oscar-winning set and costume designer, photographer, writer and painter Cecil Beaton was not only a dazzling chronicler of his time, but a supreme arbiter of its tastes. From the Bright Young Things, to the front lines of World War II, and from the international belle monde and the pages of Vogue to a role as […]

First-time filmmaker Bing Liu s Oscar-nominated documentary Minding the Gap is a coming-of-age saga of three skateboarding friends in their Rust Belt hometown hit hard by decades of recession. In his quest to understand why he and his friends all ran away from home when they were younger, Bing follows 23-year-old Zack as he becomes […]

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, […]