Desert Hearts (Blu-Ray)

An acclaimed early work by Olivier Assayas, the long-unavailable, deeply felt coming-of-age drama Cold Water can at last be seen in the United States. Drawing from his own youthful experiences, Assayas revisits the outskirts of Paris in the early 1970s, telling the story of teenage lovers Gilles (Cyprien Fouquet) and Christine (Virginie Ledoyen), whose rebellions […]

Close to a nuclear power station, inside his modest, sparsely furnished home on the barren, windswept Dungeness coastline, Derek Jarman dreams. This intimate insight into Jarman’s inner world was beautifully shot on fragile Super 8 film with the help of friends and collaborators. Shifting from the personal to the political, it culminates in a near-mythic […]

Andrei Tarkovsky’s acclaimed epic about the life of 15th century icon painter Andrei Rublev. Rublev (Anatoli Solonitsyn) lives in a world consumed by feudal violence and human degradation, and the turmoil he sees all about him makes him lose the will to speak. After many years of silent travelling around medieval Russia, he meets a […]

Nio översättare har lyckats få ett riktigt drömjobb. Tillsammans ska de översätta den avslutande delen av en omåttligt populär fantasytrilogi. Hemlighetsmakeriet inför boksläppet är på den nivån att de får utföra arbetet isolerade i en lyxigt inredd bunker

I bröderna Dardennes mångfaldigt prisbelönta film (bland annat Palme D’Or och pris för bästa kvinnliga huvudroll i Cannes) möter vi tonåringen Rosetta (Émilie Dequenne). Hon söker jobb och en väg ut ur

Blind pianist Sofia overhears a struggle in the apartment above hers that leads to the death of her neighbour, Veronique. It is the start of a journey that pushes Sofia out of her depth and into contact with Veronique’s father, Zoran Radic, a Serbian businessman and alleged war criminal accused of committing acts of genocide […]

Paddington har flyttat in hos familjen Brown i London. Alla älskar den charmiga lilla björnen som sprider glädje och marmelad var han än går. När Paddington letar efter den perfekta presenten till sin faster Lucys hundraårsdag hittar han en bok i herr Grubers butik. För att ha råd att köpa boken måste Paddington ta en […]

This monumental mid-nineteenth-century epic from Jan Troell charts, over the course of two films, a Swedish farming family’s voyage to America and their efforts to put down roots in this beautiful but forbidding new world. Movie legends Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann give remarkably authentic performances as Karl Oskar and Kristina, a couple who […]