David Byrne’s American Utopia

Oscar för bästa utländska film, 2021! Det finns en teori om att människan är född med en halv promille för lite. Vi känner alla till att alkohol i blodet öppnar sinnet för omvärlden, problemen verkar mindre och kreativiteten ökar. Efter det första glaset flyter samtalen lättare och nya möjligheter öppnar sig. Martin är gymnasielärare. Han […]

The world of Gilbert and Sullivan comes to vivid life in director Mike Leigh’s extraordinary dramatization of the staging of the duo’s legendary 1885 comic opera The Mikado. Jim Broadbent and Allan Corduner brilliantly inhabit the roles of the world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, who, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal […]

Kumail is a Pakistani comic who meets an American graduate student named Emily at one of his stand-up shows. As their relationship blossoms, he soon becomes worried about what his traditional Muslim parents will think of her. When Emily suddenly comes down with an illness that leaves her in a coma, Kumail finds himself developing […]

Året är 1967. Franska nya vågens främsta affischnamn Jean-Luc Godard (Louis Garrel) har precis färdigställt sitt senaste opus La Chinoise. Under arbetet har tycke uppstått mellan Godard och filmens huvudrollsinnehavare tillika hans musa Anne Wiazemsky. Allt borde vara upplagt för frid och fröjd och ett “så levde de lyckliga i alla sina dagar”. Det visar […]

One of the fastest, funniest, and most quotable films ever made, His Girl Friday stars Rosalind Russell as reporter Hildy Johnson, a standout among cinema’s powerful women. Hildy is matched in force only by her conniving but charismatic editor and ex-husband, Walter Burns (played by the peerless Cary Grant), who dangles the chance for her to scoop her fellow […]

Blessed with astonishing power and poise, Sergei Polunin took the dance world by storm and became the Royal Ballet’s youngest ever principal. At the peak of his success, aged 25, he walked away, driven to the brink of self-destruction by stardom – his talent more a burden than a gift. Here is an unprecedented look […]

Leviatan har fått sitt namn efter sjöodjuret i Bibeln och berättar historien om den lilla människan och den stora maktlösheten. Och det med sådan styrka att filmen piskat upp en hetsig debatt i hemlandet….

In this second of Francis Ford Coppola’s back-to-back screen adaptations of novels by S. E. Hinton, the grand romanticism of The Outsiders was flipped to create an expressionist, monochrome vision of youthful passion and melancholy, and became one of Coppola’s most personal and dazzling works. Against a run-down, industrial Tulsa, Oklahoma, Coppola presents a vivid portrait of […]