Desert Hearts (Blu-Ray)

Born in 1940, Frank Zappa – self-taught composer, musician, bandleader, producer and independent thinker -first transcribed his avant-garde, Varèse-influenced compositions onto paper at fourteen. He only began to write lyrics in his early twenties. Nevertheless, upon the ’66 release of his debut album, Freak Out! (with The Mothers of Invention), he swiftly became the most […]

First-time filmmaker Léonor Serraille and the dazzling Laetitia Dosch burst onto the scene with Jeune Femme, a raucous and playful portrait of a woman in her early 30s in Paris. Anarchic, complicated and undeniably charming, this is the French hot-mess heroine we’ve long been waiting for.

Södra Frankrike under 1950-talet. Gabrielle är inte som andra flickor. Lika passionerad som temperamentsfull – och galen, enligt vissa – gör hon alltid vad som faller henne in. Hett förälskad i sin lärare ställer hon till skandal när hon blir avvisad och blir därför bortgift med den stabile José i ett kärlekslöst äktenskap. Men när […]

Wim Wenders’ adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley’s Game is dominated by the electric interplay of Bruno Ganz and Dennis Hopper. Ganz plays Jonathan Zimmermann, a picture framer with a terminal medical condition. Through a series of encounters and machinations, he accepts money to kill a criminal in order to support his family after his death. […]

With electric camp and epic swagger, the early years of Elton John are brought to the screen for an anthemic sing-a-long. Taron Egerton charms as the man once known as Reg Dwight, from his journey to unassuming prog-band keyboardist to bona fide pop royalty. With the help of his mother (Bryce Dallas Howard), lyricist Bernie […]

Till min dotter är en dokumentär olik alla andra. När de flesta krigsskildringar är filmade under begränsad tid av ditresta män som är vana vid krigszoner, är denna film gjord av en ung kvinna som själv bor mitt i krigshärden och som spenderar fem år åt att låta sin kamera rulla. Platsen är Aleppo i […]

Mirror is the celebrated Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky’s most autobiographical work in which he reflects upon his own childhood and the destiny of the Russian people. The film’s many layers intertwine real life and family relationships – Tarkovsky’s father, the poet Arseny Tarkovsky, reads his own poems on the soundtrack and Tarkovsky’s mother appears as […]

When a reporter and cameraman are assigned to cover the daily routine of a nuclear power plant, they witness and record an accident which could have wiped out the whole of Southern California, but their bosses refuse to broadcast the footage. Starring Jane Fonda (The Chase, Klute), Jack Lemmon (Some Like It Hot, Missing) and […]