Gilda (Blu-Ray)

In this jazzy gangster film, reformed killer Phoenix Tetsu’s attempt to go straight is squashed when his former cohorts call him back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang. This onslaught of stylized violence and trippy colours got director Seijun Suzuki (Branded to Kill) in trouble with Nikkatsu studio heads, who were put off […]

Paweł Pawlikowski follows his Oscar-winning Ida with the stunning Cold War, an epic romance set against the backdrop of Europe after World War II. In the ruins of post-war Poland, Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) and Zula (Joanna Kulig) fall deeply, obsessively and destructively in love. As performing musicians forced to play into the Soviet propaganda machine, […]

En kultfilm kan ha varit en flopp. En kultfilm kan ha varit gjord före sin tid. En kultfilm är aldrig att förväxlas med en kalkonfilm. För kultfilmens storhet kom att dröja tills någon förstod sig på den. Studio S presenterar här ett snillrikt urval av svenska filmer som tidningarna på sin tid kallade ”spekulativa”, ”farliga” […]

Has dialogue ever been more perfectly hard-boiled? Has a femme fatale ever been as deliciously evil as Barbara Stanwyck? And has 1940s Los Angeles ever looked so seductively sordid? Working with cowriter Raymond Chandler, director Billy Wilder launched himself onto the Hollywood A-list with this paragon of film-noir fatalism from James M. Cain’s pulp novel. […]

In a legendary performance, three-time Academy Award winner Jack Nicholson stars as private eye Jake Gittes. Hired by a mysterious woman to investigate Hollis Mulwray, the chief engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Gittes’ sleuthing brings him into contact with Mulwray’s wife (Academy Award winner Faye Dunaway), a stunning socialite with […]

I New Yorks beryktade Chinatown regerar Triaden efter sina tusenåriga traditioner med korruption, utpressning och lönnmord. Hit delegeras kommissarien och vietnamveteranen Stanley White för att röja upp. Med hänsynslösa metoder tränger White allt djupare in i den kinesiska maffians verksamhet och inser snart att Chinatown är en bomb redo att brisera. Triaden måste stoppas till […]

Hur kunde en fattig fransk bondflicka, som saknade såväl allmän som militär skolning, bli en av historiens största hjältinnor

In this classic film noir, an ambitious but unscrupulous lawyer (John Garfield, The Postman Always Rings Twice) works for the mob, and scents the prospect of a personal fortune when he helps concoct a plan that will merge all of New York City s numbers rackets into a single powerful and unbreakable operation. But one […]