Creation Stories (Blu-Ray)

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, […]

A bracing blend of Apocalypse Now, Lord of the Flies and Embrace of the Serpent, Monos is a psychedelic ride into the dark heart of mankind. Exiled on a mountainside, the Monos are a teenage guerrilla group. Far away from clear orders, they must watch over a cow and a single hostage. But things go […]

As an unidentified virus sweeps the country, the Korean government declares martial law. As the country descends into chaos, one city, Busan, is rumoured to have successfully fended off the virus outbreak and remains the only beacon of hope for those not yet infected. But when the virus breaks out on an express train to […]

An acclaimed early work by Olivier Assayas, the long-unavailable, deeply felt coming-of-age drama Cold Water can at last be seen in the United States. Drawing from his own youthful experiences, Assayas revisits the outskirts of Paris in the early 1970s, telling the story of teenage lovers Gilles (Cyprien Fouquet) and Christine (Virginie Ledoyen), whose rebellions […]

Granted exclusive access to hundreds of private drawings and paintings by Orson Welles, filmmaker Mark Cousins dives deep into the visual world of this legendary director and actor, to reveal a portrait of the artist as he’s never been seen before – through his own eyes, sketched with his own hand, painted with his own […]

All ten episodes from the fourth season of the biographical drama based on the life of Queen Elizabeth II. The story picks up in 1979 as Margaret Thatcher (Gillian Anderson) is elected Britain’s first female Prime Minister. Under pressure from his family to find a suitable wife, Prince Charles (Josh O’Connor) begins dating Lady Diana […]

Bretagne, Frankrike, 1760. Konstnären Marianne har fått i uppdrag att göra ett porträtt av Héloïse, en ung kvinna som just lämnat klostret. Héloïse ska giftas bort och den presumtiva brudgummen vill se hur hon ser ut. Men hon vill inte gifta sig och Marianne måste måla henne i smyg. Hon iakttar Héloïse om dagen och […]

Often acknowledged as one of the best prison films ever made, Birdman of Alcatraz was director John Frankenheimer s first huge success and received rave reviews for its performances, cinematography (by the great Burnett Guffey; From Here to Eternity, Bonnie and Clyde) and Frankenheimer s directing. Burt Lancaster stars as the notorious prisoner, Robert Stroud, […]