Ivan’s Childhood (Blu-Ray)

An astounding array of talent came together for the big-screen adaptation of John Fowles’s novel The French Lieutenant’s Woman, a postmodern masterpiece that had been considered unfilmable. With an ingenious script by the Nobel Prize–winning playwright Harold Pinter, British New Wave trailblazer Karel Reisz transforms Fowles’s tale of scandalous romance into an arresting, hugely entertaining […]

Prague, 1942. The Third Reich is at its zenith, controlling most of Europe. Reinhard Heydrich, aided by his wife Lina, has risen to the top of the Nazi Party as head of the SS, the Gestapo, and the architect of the “Final Solution”. His brutal and oppressive rule of occupied Czechoslovakia leads to Hitler dubbing […]

Hösten 1902 kliver Joe Hill och hans bror ombord på ett fartyg och emigrerar till New York. Joe lyckas få jobb, men upprörs av de orättvisor som arbetarna utsätts för och blir aktiv i en förbjuden fackförening. Demonstrationer är otillåtet

A bittersweet buddy comedy, Robot Dreams follows Dog, who is lonely, whiling away long evenings in his Manhattan studio apartment. Tired of his solitary life, he decides to purchase a friend, Robot, a fun-loving companion. After an idyllic day on the beach, they soon become separated. Devastated at the loss of his friend, Dog does […]

Joachim Triers dramakomedi Världens värsta människa är den avslutande delen av Triers Oslo-trilogi (Reprise och Oslo, 31 augusti). En film om kärlek och att finna mening. Julie fyller snart 30 år och hennes liv är en enda stor röra. Hon har kastat bort sin talang och hennes äldre pojkvän, Aksel – en framgångsrik serietecknare – […]

In Ruben Östlund’s wickedly funny Palme d’Or winner, social hierarchy is turned upside down, revealing the tawdry relationship between power and beauty. Celebrity model couple, Carl (Harris Dickinson) and Yaya (Charlbi Dean), are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged boat captain (Woody Harrelson). What first appeared instagrammable ends catastrophically, […]

A true twentieth-century trailblazer, Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his assassination in 1978, he continues to inspire disenfranchised people around the world. The Oscar-winning The Times of Harvey Milk, directed by Robert Epstein and produced by Richard […]

In the same year as winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film with A Fantastic Woman, Sebastián Lelio delivers the English-language Disobedience, starring Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams. When her father, a Rabbi in a north London Synagogue, passes away, Ronit returns from New York to her childhood home to pay her respects. She […]