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Lola Montès is a visually ravishing, narratively daring dramatization of the life of the notorious courtesan and showgirl, played by Martine Carol. With his customary cinematographic flourish and, for the first time, vibrant color, Max Ophuls charts the course of Montès’s scandalous past through the invocations of the bombastic ringmaster (Peter Ustinov) of the American […]

Maj 1940. Charles de Gaulle har just utnämnts till general och lämnar sin hustru och de tre barnen i östra Frankrike för att arbeta för regeringen i Paris. Här ställs han öga mot öga med statschefen och hans män som är redo att lägga sig på knäna inför Hitler, medan han själv är fast besluten […]

Oscar winner Asghar Farhadi (A Separation) returns with The Salesman, a characteristically taut drama exploring how unexpected cracks can form in the foundations of a seemingly happy marriage. The future looks promising for amateur actors Emad (Shahab Hosseini) and Rana (Taraneh Alidoosti) as they prepare for opening night on their production of Arthur Miller’s ‘Death […]

From Oscar-nominated filmmaker Brett Morgen, director of Cobain: Montage of Heck and The Kid Stays in the Picture, Moonage Daydream is an immersive cinematic experience; an audio-visual space odyssey that not only illuminatesthe enigmatic legacy of David Bowie but also serves as a guide to living a fulfilling and meaningful life in the 21st Century. […]

In 1953, before any American studio exec used the phrase “high concept”, Henri-George Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear boasted a premise…

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 […]

There are mad films. And then there are films that exist on a whole different level, whose vision is best described as… crazy. And we don’t just mean the American spelling of ‘color’. Richard Stanley’s long-awaited return to cinema totally fits the bill. The director of early 1990s cult classics Hardware and Dust Devil has […]

Two ordinary inner-city Chicago kids dare to reach for the impossible – professional basketball glory – in this epic chronicle of hope and faith. Filmed over a five-year period, Hoop Dreams, by Steve James, Frederick Marx, and Peter Gilbert, follows young Arthur Agee and William Gates and their families as the boys navigate the complex, […]