Eraserhead

A psychological thriller (based on a true story) in which Jeremy Irons plays both Elliot and Beverly Mantle, a pair of gynaecologist twins who have always shared everything – until Claire (Genevieve Bujold) walks into their clinic. Initially toying with her affections, sibling rivalry gradually increases until the two threaten to pull each other apart. […]

Sinister events bring together a writer (David Soul) fascinated with an old hilltop house; a suave antiques dealer (James Mason) whose expertise goes beyond bric-a-brac; and the dealer’s mysterious, pale-skinned “partner” (Reggie Nalder) in Salem’s Lot – a blood-curdling shocker based on Stephen King’s novel and directed by Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist).

Oscar-winning set and costume designer, photographer, writer and painter Cecil Beaton was not only a dazzling chronicler of his time, but a supreme arbiter of its tastes. From the Bright Young Things, to the front lines of World War II, and from the international belle monde and the pages of Vogue to a role as […]

The Newport Jazz Festival was created in 1954 by Rhode Island socialites Elaine and Louis Lorillard, and it couldn’t have come at a better time in history. With a few exceptions, the big band jazz scene had waned in the early 1950s and, in its place, smaller groups and solo performers took centre stage, which […]

Belle är en intelligent, vacker och självständig ung kvinna som tas till fånga av Odjuret och fängslas i hans slott. Trots sin rädsla blir hon vän med slottets förtrollade invånare och lär sig se bortom Odjurets skräckinjagande yttre. Belle inser att det finns ett gott hjärta och en sann prins under odjurets yta. Nu kommer […]

När Alvin Straight får veta att hans bror inte har lång tid kvar att leva bestämmer han sig för att fara i väg och sluta fred med honom. Alvins hälsa är dålig och hans syn är ännu sämre, men envishet och

The Seasons in Quincy is the result of a five-year project by Tilda Swinton and Colin MacCabe to produce a portrait of this fascinating figure and celebrate his ideas, his art and the man himself. The four essay films that comprise The Seasons in Quincy combine different aspects of Berger s life in the Haute-Savoie […]

The debut feature by the great Andrei Tarkovsky, Ivan’s Childhood is a poetic journey through the shards and shadows of one boy’s war-ravaged youth. Moving back and forth between the traumatic realities of World War II and serene moments of family life before the conflict began, Tarkovsky’s film remains one of the most jarring and […]