Janis: Little Girl Blue

One of Mexico’s most highly regarded works of political cinema, Canoa: A Shameful Memory reimagines a real-life incident that had occurred just eight years before its release

Loïe Fuller förförde en generation med sin virvlande serpentindans. Nu plockar Stéphanie Di Giusto upp hennes öde i en färgsprakande filmupplevelse för alla sinnen. Marie Louise växer upp i fattigdom och ser sin pappa mördas av rivaliserande guldgrävare. Utan ett öre på fickan söker hon sig till New York där motgångarna fortsätter. Men plötsligt uppenbarar […]

Meet Big and Little Edie Beale: mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, and reclusive cousins of Jackie Onassis. The two manage to thrive together amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton, New York, mansion, making for an eerily ramshackle echo of the American Camelot. An impossibly intimate portrait, this 1976 documentary by Albert and […]

Made in Spain while General Franco was still in power and shown clandestinely, Pere Portabella’s extraordinary Vampir Cuadecuc ostensibly follows the filming of Jess Franco’s shocker El conde Dracula (Count Dracula, 1970) starring Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom and the exquisite Soledad Miranda. This experimental ‘making of’ documentary and investigation into the myth of the vampire, […]

Marina, en ung transkvinna i Santiago, jobbar som servitör men drömmer om att sjunga. Hon är tillsammans med Orlando, en betydligt äldre man som plötsligt går bort efter en fest. Men istället för att ges tid att sörja måste Marina kämpa för sin rätt att få vara sig själv, mot alla som inte kan acceptera […]

I Saw the Light is the story of the legendary country western singer Hank Williams (Tom Hiddleston), who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his meteoric rise to fame and its ultimately tragic effect on his health and personal life. Also starring Elizabeth […]

On a beautiful June weekend in 1967, at the beginning of the Summer of Love, the Monterey International Pop Festival roared forward, capturing a decade’s spirit and ushering in a new era of rock and roll. Monterey featured career-making performances by Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Otis Redding, but they were just a few of […]

Stanley Kubrick bent the conventions of the historical drama to his own will in this dazzling vision of a pitiless aristocracy, adapted from a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray