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Alejandro Jodorowsky is one of world cinema s most fabled iconoclasts. Often venerated as the ultimate cult film director, the Chilean artist shot to prominence as a 1970s counter-cultural icon thanks to the masterful movies presented on this collection: Fando y Lis, El Topo and The Holy Mountain. These extraordinary films, presented here alongside his […]

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 […]

Strange, sumptuous and visually stunning, this wildly melodramatic tale of a Kabuki female impersonator who exacts a long-delayed revenge on the men who drove his parents to suicide is played out against a colourful backdrop of comic rivalries between thieves in the Tokyo underworld. Kazuo Hasegawa stars, in the dual role of the actor and […]

Chris Pine and Ben Foster play Texan brothers in David Mackenzie’s muscular new film. We meet them as they are committing a series of bank robberies across the state and as the motives become clear the stakes get higher as grizzled lawman, Jeff Bridges, sets out to catch them. A smart, witty and modern take […]

1943 har britterna lidit stora nederlag och är desperata. Ett flyganfall mot de tre dammarna i Ruhrområdet, den tyska krigsindustrins centrum, skulle kunna vända krigslyckan. För ändamålet utvecklas en

Sol Nazerman (Rod Steiger), a survivor of the concentration camps, which took the lives of his wife and children. Managing a New York pawn shop, he is bereft of hope and takes refuge in condemnation of humanity while seemingly numb to the circumstances of the prostitutes, pimps and thieves that frequent his store. Yet there […]

Drömsk och våldsam. Sådan är berättelsen om hur en vanlig svensk tonåring transformerar sig själv och antar gestalten av den internationellt framgångsrika hip hop-stjärnan Yung Lean. Han möter Los Angeles, kokain och dollarsedlar – så väl som depression, död och raseri. Yung Lean: In my head är regisserad av Henrik Burman, med Jonatan Leandoer Håstad […]

In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper (Jessie Buckley) retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to have found a place to heal. But someone or something from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her. What begins as simmering dread becomes a fully-formed nightmare, inhabited by her darkest memories and fears in […]