Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami

The Conversation is regarded as one of Francis Ford Coppola’s greatest films. Two-time Academy Award winner Gene Hackman (Unforgiven, The French Connection) plays a paranoid and personally-secretive surveillance expert who has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.  This tense thriller makes some remarkably advanced […]

Följderna av en brutal våldtäkt i en mörk tunnel spelas upp under en traumatisk natt i Paris, i omvänd kronologisk ordning. Gaspar Noés stora genombrott blev också startskottet för

Melodrama master John M. Stahl brings his exquisite restraint and almost spiritually pure visual style to this devastating, enduringly relevant story of mothers and daughters. Imitation of Life explores the friendship between two struggling single mothers: one (Claudette Colbert) a working-class white woman who ascends to the top of the business world, the other (Louise […]

Den 29 mars 1943 i Tromsö, högt upp i det kylslagna Norge. På en fiskebåt gömmer sig tolv norska motståndsmän när de plötsligt överraskas av tyska soldater och oskadliggörs. Men en av dem lyckas komma undan. Barfota, skottskadad och genomvåt flyr Jan Baalsrud genom det hänsynslösa landskapet med Gestapo i hälarna. Med svenska gränsen som […]

Lola Montès is a visually ravishing, narratively daring dramatization of the life of the notorious courtesan and showgirl, played by Martine Carol. With his customary cinematographic flourish and, for the first time, vibrant color, Max Ophuls charts the course of Montès’s scandalous past through the invocations of the bombastic ringmaster (Peter Ustinov) of the American […]

Jackie is a searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman). Jackie places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband’s assassination.  Known for her extraordinary dignity and poise, here we […]

Plötsligt en dag blir en fattig italiensk bilmekaniker en av världens mest berömda män! Hans namn är Guido Falcone och han har just ärvt sin amerikanske farbrors miljarder. Nu har han tjugo dagar på sig för att ta sig till San Francisco och underteckna avtalet. Annars tillfaller rubbet farbrorns girige VD, som förstås gör allt […]

Splice the mainbrace for this intense chamber piece set on a remote lighthouse post in 1890s New England. Ephraim (Robert Pattinson) arrives to play second mate to lighthouse keeper Thomas (Willem Dafoe). The two men start by needling each other about cooking and chores, but things take a turn for the unhinged, as Ephraim’s past […]