David Byrne’s American Utopia

From Academy Award-winning director and writer Sam Mendes, Empire Of Light is a moving drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times. Set in and around a faded old cinema in an English coastal town in the early 1980s, It follows Hilary (Olivia Colman) a cinema manager struggling with her mental health, and […]

När andra världskriget pågått några år började den svenska beredskapsfilmen ändra form. Kriget blev mer och mer verkligt även för neutrala Sverige när kunskapen om vidrigheterna som drabbade Europa började nå fram. Filmskaparna som dittills gjort aningslösa skildringar om käcka gossar och glada lottor i fält övergick till att berätta realistiska historier. Nu handlade det […]

For what would prove to be his final film, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami gave himself a challenge: to create a dialogue between his work as a filmmaker and his work as a photographer, bridging the two art forms to which he had dedicated his life. Setting out to reconstruct the moments immediately before and after […]

The director of the critically acclaimed White God employs his uniquely talented eye to create this riveting Palme d’Or nominated supernatural thriller. Adorned with heart-pounding car chases and sensational gunfights that are complemented by beautifully fluid and kinetic camerawork, Kornél Mundruczó brings spectacle that rivals any Hollywood production to tell a timely European story. A […]

Legendary director Nicholas Ray began his career with this lyrical film noir, the first in a series of existential genre films overflowing with sympathy for America’s outcasts and underdogs

Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin’s last outing as the Little Tramp, puts the iconic character to work as a giddily inept factory employee who becomes smitten with a gorgeous gamine (Paulette Goddard). With its barrage of unforgettable gags and sly commentary on class struggle during the Great Depression, Modern Times—though made almost a decade into the […]

On the surface, Jean Renoir’s brilliant satire is a series of interlinked romantic intrigues that take place during a weekend shooting party in a country château. But the film is, in fact, a study of the corruption and decay at the top of French society on the eve of the Second World War. Denigrated by […]

När Jorden är en syndfull sång hade biopremiär i Sverige 1974 fick den recensenterna att tävla om att bräcka varandra i superlativen. Men alla älskade inte dess råa och närgångna realism. Författaren Sara Lidman gick