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I en nära framtid har brottsligheten ökat med 400% och hela Manhattan har gjorts om till en fängelseö omgärdad av skyhöga murar. Regeln är enkel: den som stängs in här släpps aldrig ut igen

On hearing the news that his brother Joe (Kyle Chandler) has died, Lee (Casey Affleck) returns home to the small Massachusetts fishing town. Discovering that Joe has made him sole guardian of his son Patrick (Lucas Hedges), Lee realises that he is going to have to confront the events that drove him away. Kenneth Lonergan’s […]

Efter ett gräl med sin fru inser Alex Schulman att han måste ta itu med sin vrede. En ilska som gått i arv i generationer. Släktens alla konflikter och vendettor tycks börja hos en och samma person: morfar Sven Stolpe. I “Bränn alla mina brev” följer vi Karin och Sven Stolpe, och den korta affär […]

Opening with a starkly symbolic dream sequence, Wild Strawberries follows Professor Isak Borg as he journeys by car in the company of his daughter-in-law to collect an award from his former university. The trip occasions a series of reminiscences and reveries, as the ageing Borg revisits the scenes of his youth and reflects on an […]

How far will a 32 year-old virgin go to possess a 19 year-old boy? Just prior to his career breakthrough M*A*S*H, Robert Altman made this memorably unsettling psychological thriller, which originally premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Frances Austen, a young, wealthy spinster, invites a mute teenager into her apartment after finding him freezing in the park next […]

Andrei Tarkovsky’s final Soviet feature is a metaphys­ical journey through an enigmatic postapocalyptic landscape, and a rarefied cinematic experience like no other. A hired guide—the Stalker—leads a writer and a professor into the heart of the Zone, the restricted site of a long-ago disaster, where the three men eventually zero in on the Room, a […]

”Ni har aldrig sett något liknande!” Detta har sagts om många filmer, men den här gången är det faktiskt sant! Ingen annan film i världshistorien innehåller ett blint skinhead som ska köpa tv PLUS galna frälsningssoldater, en våldsbenägen flygvärdinna, en bar bartender och familjen Cosby på finska (”Cosbylainen”). Dessutom får vi uppleva favoriter som dr […]

As one of a disparate group of fortune-seekers bound for Africa, hard-up Billy Dannreuther (Humphrey Bogart) faces the swindling machinations of his fellow travellers as they await passage from a picturesque port on Italy’s Amalfi coast. But with scheming aplenty, will this motley crew miss the boat completely? Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida and Peter Lorre […]