Fox and His Friends & Chinese Roulette (Blu-Ray)

It’s death, Japanese style, in the rollicking and wistful first feature from maverick writer-director Juzo Itami. In the wake of her father’s sudden passing, a successful actor (Itami’s wife and frequent collaborator, Nobuko Miyamoto) and her lascivious husband (Tsutomu Yamazaki) leave Tokyo and return to her family home to oversee a traditional funeral. Over the […]

Amid the filth and muck of England in the Dark Ages, a fearsome dragon stalks the land, casting a shadow of terror upon the kingdom of Bruno the Questionable. Who should emerge as the only possible savior but Dennis Cooper (Michael Palin), an endearingly witless bumpkin who stumbles onto the scene and is flung into […]

Martin Scorsese and co-screenwriter Jay Cocks’ (The Age of Innocence) adaptation of Shūsaku Endō’s acclaimed novel tells the extraordinary tale of two 17th-century Jesuit priests (Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver) who travel to Japan in search of their mentor (Liam Neeson). He is rumoured to have committed apostasy and turned his back on the church. […]

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 […]

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. […]

Written and directed by John Sayles, this wrenching historical drama recounts the true story of a West Virginia coal town where the local miners’ struggle to form a union rose to the pitch of all-out war in 1920. When Matewan’s miners go on strike, organizer Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper, in his film debut) arrives to […]

Valentina flyttar med sin mamma till en småstad på den brasilianska landsbygden för att börja om på nytt. Hon skaffar vänner på skolan och börjar skapa sig en tillvaro på det nya stället. Men hela tiden finns i bakgrunden det hot om våld som så många transkvinnor tvingas leva med.

Dubbelt begär berättar historien om den unga kvinnan Chloé (Marine Vacht), som benägen till depression påbörjar terapi och där blir förälskad i sin psykoterapeut Paul (Jérémie Renier). Efter ett par månader flyttar hon in hos sin nya älskare men upptäcker snabbt att han döljer en del av sin identitet för henne. Dubbelt begär (L’amant Double) […]