Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan

Libyen 1942. Efter att landet invaderats av nazisterna får den brittiske kaptenen Anson i uppdrag att köra en ambulans med personal genom den obarmhärtigt heta öknen till Alexandria. Kaptenens nerver är redan tidigare söndertrasade, ambulansen är närmast skrotfärdig och rutten går rakt genom fiendens linjer. Ständigt drabbade av minerade områden, pansarkolonner, kvicksand och en stigande […]

In 78 setups and 52 cuts, the deliriously choreographed two-minute shower sequence in Psycho ripped apart cinema s definition of horror. With a shocking combination of exploitation and high art, Alfred Hitchcock upended his own acclaimed narrative structure by violently killing off a heroine a third of the way through his film, without explanation, justification, […]

Winner of the prestigious Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival, The Legend of the Holy Drinker is another classic from the great Italian director Ermanno Olmi (Il posto, The Tree of Wooden Clogs). Adapted from the novella by Joseph Roth, the film tells the story of Andreas Kartack, a homeless man living under […]

Michael Cimino’s epic masterpiece The Deer Hunter has been stunningly restored with a brand new 4k restoration. Winner of no less than five Academy Awards in 1978 including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Supporting Actor for Christopher Walken, The Deer Hunter is widely acknowledged as one of cinema’s great masterpieces and contains some of […]

From Luchino Visconti — the master director of such classics as La terra trema, Bellissima, and The Leopard — comes this epic study of family, sex, and betrayal. Alongside Fellini’s La dolce vita and Antonioni’s L’avventura, Visconti’s Rocco and His Brothers [Rocco e i suoi fratelli] ushered Italian cinema into a new era, one unafraid […]

Donald (Brendan Gleeson) lives on Hampstead Heath. Emily lives on its edge (Diane Keaton). They seem to have little in common, but when developers want to remove Donald from his home the two find themselves fighting alongside each other. Inspired by a true story, Joel Hopkins’ (Last Chance Harvey) gentle comedy drama profits from the […]

1969 var Tiny Tim en av USA:s mest kända personer. Bara månlandningen hade fler tv-tittare än hans bröllop. Sen gick allt utför. Med hjälp av hans egna dagböcker, familj och vänner berättas historien om hur Amerikas kanske galnaste artist också blev den största!  Berättelsen om Herbert Khaury, som inte kände att han passade in […]

Sharon Stone är en mordmisstänkt femme fatale med en tunga lika vass som hennes ishacka. Michael Douglas är en snut med uppdrag att granska henne, vilket han gör lite väl djupgående