Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami

1980s Detroit, riven by racial tension and suffering a crack epidemic. Step into frame Rick Wershe (Richie Merritt): hustler, drug kingpin and FBI informant, all before the age of 16. Yann Demange (’71) directs Matthew McConaughey, Bruce Dern and Bel Powley (The Diary of a Teenage Girl) as Rick’s family of small time crooks in […]

A showcase for some of the most unexpected and surprising turns in the great director’s prolific career: The Whole Town’s Talking is a screwball comedy about a law-abiding man (played by Edward G Robinson) who happens to be the doppelganger of Public Enemy No. 1, ‘Killer’ Mannion; The Long Gray Line is a Ford military […]

1960-talet är en av de mest intressanta perioderna i svensk filmhistoria. Det var då som Harry Schein drev igenom skapandet av Svenska Filminstitutet och vår första riktiga filmskola. Det var då Bo Widerberg skällde ut den svenska filmen i debattboken Visionen i svensk film och kallade hatobjektet Ingmar Bergman ”vår andes dalahäst i världen”. Och det var […]

In 1970, filmmaker Luchino Visconti travelled throughout Europe looking for the perfect boy to personify absolute beauty in his adaptation for the screen of Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice. In Stockholm, he discovered Björn Andrésen, a shy 15-year-old teenager whom he brought to international fame overnight and led to spend a short but intense part […]

Detta är den sanna och skakande historien om familjen Braude – den löftesrike boxaren Charles som just träffat kvinnan i sitt liv, hans bröder Isak och Harry samt föräldrarna Sara och Benzel. Huvudrollen innehas av

William Oldroyd directs this British drama adapted from Nikolai Leskov’s novel. Set in the remote English countryside, the story follows teenage bride Katherine (Florence Pugh) as she is forced to marry shady mining boss Alexander (Paul Hilton). Deeply unhappy with her new situation, Katherine soon finds an escape in the form of servant Sebastian (Cosmo […]

In 1971, Frederick Forsythe shot to bestseller status with his debut novel, The Day of the Jackal taut, utterly plausible, almost documentarian in its realism and attention to detail. Two years later, director Fred Zinnemann (High Noon) turned a gripping novel into a nail-biting cinematic experience. August 1962: the latest attempt on the life of […]

The latest from the unique imagination of Peter Strickland (The Duke of Burgundy), In Fabric is a typically distinctive, idiosyncratic and evocative tale that blends Giallo-infused horror with absurdist dark humour, to ghostly effect.  Set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales period at a mysterious Thames Valley department store, the film follows […]