Frantz

Greta Gerwig has long been the darling of the American indie scene. Her graduation to more mainstream fare was inevitable, but she lost none of what made her such a compelling on-screen presence.

Recalling the recent Northern Soul, but mainly focused on the life and musical hopes of one young teenager, England Is Mine details the early life of Steven Patrick Morrissey. Rather than tell the story of The Smiths, the film instead focuses on the singer’s teens and the world that shaped him. It’s as much a paean to youthful […]

Among the most exciting voices in genre cinema to emerge in recent years, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead return with their third feature, The Endless. Benson and Moorhead play brothers, former members of a crazy UFO death cult , who receive a mysterious video cassette in the mail. The tape contains an eerie calling card […]

A cornerstone of the French New Wave, the first feature from Alain Resnais is one of the most influential films of all time. A French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) engage in a brief, intense affair in postwar Hiroshima, their consuming mutual fascination impelling them to exorcise their own scarred memories […]

Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, Kwaidan features four nightmarish tales adapted from Lafcadio Hearn s classic Japanese ghost stories about mortals caught up in forces beyond their comprehension when the supernatural world intervenes in their lives: “The Black Hair”, “The Woman of the Snow”, “Hoichi the Earless”, and “In a Cup of […]

There are mad films. And then there are films that exist on a whole different level, whose vision is best described as… crazy. And we don’t just mean the American spelling of ‘color’. Richard Stanley’s long-awaited return to cinema totally fits the bill. The director of early 1990s cult classics Hardware and Dust Devil has […]

On a space station orbiting the ocean-covered planet Solaris, cosmonaut Kris Kelvin arrives to investigate a series of mysterious and bizarre occurrences among the crew. What he discovers are supernatural phenomena that cause repressed and haunting memories to take on physical form, including that of Kelvin s late wife. Through her, Kelvin attempts to communicate […]

Störst, bäst och vackrast! När Gösta Ekman begravdes den 18 januari 1938 i Stockholm följdes likfärden av 100 000 människor som ville visa den store aktören sin uppskattning. En liknande massmanifestation har vårt land aldrig varit med om sedan dess. Studio S är stolta att ha samla sex av Ekmans bästa filmer i en och samma box […]