Ivan’s Childhood

Denmark’s Official Submission to the 2023 Academy Awards, Holy Spider is a gripping and darkly atmospheric crime thriller inspired by the true story of Iran’s most notorious serial killer. Set in the holy city of Mashhad, Ali Abbasi’s haunting latest feature follows journalist Rahimi (Zar Amir Ebrahimi), as she investigates the murders of several sex […]

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, […]

I filmen som allmänt betraktas som Bette Davis stora genombrott spelar hon Mildred Rogers, en cynisk servitris på jakt efter en framgångsrik man att gifta sig med. Hon träffar den klumpfotade läkarstudenten Philip Carey (Leslie Howard) som faller pladask för henne, trots hennes uppenbara förakt för honom. När han sedermera friar till henne, hånar hon […]

När Takashi Miike släppte loss Audition i slutet av förra seklet var publiken totalt oförberedd. Från filmfestivalen i Rotterdam rapporterades om ett lämmeltåg av chockade åskådare som lämnade bion innan filmen var slut (och då missade de ändå det värsta!). Med ens hade en helt ny genre fötts,

Based on Julian Barnes’ Man Booker Prize-winning novel, Ritesh Batra’s (The Lunchbox) drama is a subtle and engrossing study of ageing, memory and the need to let go of the past. Jim Broadbent is perfect as Tony Webster, a man facing up to the decisions he made in his life, while Charlotte Rampling offers strong […]

Academy Award nominee Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game, Sherlock) stars alongside Kelly Macdonald (Boardwalk Empire, Trainspotting), Stephen Campbell Moore (The History Boys, The Go-Between) and Saskia Reeves (Luther, Shetland) in Stephen Butchard’s adaptation of Ian McEwan’s award-winning novel, The Child In Time. Set two years after his daughter went missing, The Child In Time follows […]

Det är ingen underdrift att kalla Thor Modéen och Åke Söderblom för det mest älskade och kritikerhyllade komikerparet som den svenska filmen skådat. Deras filmer har roat generationer och står för en komisk stil som inte bara definierar en epok utan också skapat ett arv som hyllas än idag. Missa inte heller stora namn som […]

Emerging from the primordial soup of glamour, gutter sleaze, and feverish creativity that was New York’s 1960s underground culture, the Velvet Underground redefined music with its at once raw and exalted blend of experimentation and art-damaged rock and roll. In his kaleidoscopic documentary The Velvet Underground, Todd Haynes vividly evokes the band’s incandescent world: the […]