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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 […]

De främsta och mest efterfrågade ”pilsnerfilmerna” i urval av Thor Modéen-sällskapet TOFS’ medlemmar. Kollapsande solstolar och män i kjol fick filmkritiker på sin tid att kalla….

Det är inte hjärtan som smälter när New Yorks luffare faller för brännvinet “Tenafy Viper” – det är hela kroppar! En skrupelfri och girig ägare av en spritbutik i Brooklyn har hittat en dammig låda med gamla buteljer i sin källare och bestämmer sig för att kränga rävgiftet till traktens alkisar – trots att bäst […]

Winner of Sundance 2019’s Grand Jury Prize, The Souvenir is the compelling, semi-autobiographical drama from award-winning director/writer Joanna Hogg (Unrelated, Archipelago, Exhibition). A young, quietly ambitious film student (Honor Swinton Byrne) embarks on her first serious love affair with a charismatic and mysterious man (Tom Burke).  She tries to disentangle fact from fiction as […]

Seberg is inspired by true events about the French New Wave darling and Breathless star, Jean Seberg (Kristen Stewart), who in the late 1960s was targeted by the FBI because of her support of the civil rights movement and romantic involvement with Hakim Jamal (Anthony Mackie), among others. In Benedict Andrews’ noir-ish thriller, Seberg’s life […]

Stanley Kubrick’s painfully funny take on Cold War anxiety is one of the fiercest satires of human folly ever to come out of Hollywood. The matchless shape-shifter Peter Sellers plays three wildly different roles: Royal Air Force Captain Lionel Mandrake, timidly trying to stop a nuclear attack on the USSR ordered by an unbalanced general (Sterling Hayden); […]

Våren 1946 i Texarkana. Två ungdomar smiter iväg i sin bil för att ha sex på en öde väg när en maskerad man lösgör sig ur skuggorna och misshandlar dem brutalt. Exakt tre veckor senare slår mannen till mot ett nytt kärlekspar, men dessa överlever inte. Skräcken sprider sig snabbt i den lilla staden, där […]

In 1971, Frederick Forsythe shot to bestseller status with his debut novel, The Day of the Jackal taut, utterly plausible, almost documentarian in its realism and attention to detail. Two years later, director Fred Zinnemann (High Noon) turned a gripping novel into a nail-biting cinematic experience. August 1962: the latest attempt on the life of […]