Kes (Blu-Ray)

It s a rare person who would give up fame and fortune to toil in obscurity for someone else s creative vision. Yet, that s exactly what Leon Vitali did after his acclaimed performance as Lord Bullingdon in Stanley Kubricks Barry Lyndon. The young actor surrendered his thriving career to become Kubrick s loyal right-hand […]

Tag plats för en skräckfylld resa med Stephen King bakom ratten! I New York möter vi en storbolmare (James Woods) på en antirök-klinik med minst sagt udda, men ytterst effektiva, metoder. Men så drivs kliniken också av en maffiafamilj. I Atlantic City beskådar vi när en stackars tennisstjärna (Robert Hayes) övertalas till vadslagning och tvingas […]

Grappling with the unexpected death of her husband (Nasser Memarzia), Mary Hussain is tidying his things in their Dover home when she stumbles upon a secret connection he had across the Channel, in Calais. Armed with just a bag and his cell phone, she sets off to uncover the truth. Beautifully directed by Aleem Khan […]

Elio Petri’s savage, Palme d’Or-winning takedown of capitalism and industrial corruption. Gian Maria Volonté (A Fistful of Dollars), stars as Lulu, a man on the verge of a nervous breakdown, in one of provocative filmmaker Elio Petri’s (Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion) most politically charged films. Too tired to sleep with his girlfriend, cut […]

Master filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino (Youth, The Great Beauty) teams up once again with longtime collaborator Toni Servillo (Il Divo) to reveal the scandalous and, until now, unseen private life of Italy’s most infamous politician Silvio Berlusconi. Packed with sensational satirical sting, biopics don’t come more unauthorised than this! 

Italian filmmaker Ermanno Olmi’s acute ability to draw naturalistic performances from nonprofessional actors is the principal attraction of Tree of the Wooden Clogs…

Kyssen på kryssen är en uppvisning i svenskt leklynne à la Hasse Ekman och Arne Mattsson. Historien tilldrar sig under en filminspelning ombord på en kryssning och driver glatt med 1950-talets svenska filmbransch. Gunnar Björnstrand parodierar framgångsrikt Ingmar Bergman i sin roll som demonregissör och Annalisa Ericson är härligt rolig i sin dubbelroll. Filmen kastar […]

Political documentarian Zhao Liang draws inspiration from ‘The Divine Comedy’ for this intoxicating and terrifying glimpse at the ravages wrought upon Inner Mongolia by its coal and iron industries. Beautiful grasslands are being overrun by mountains destroyed by coal mining, blackening the surrounding landscape and poisoning its people. Behemoth tours exploding hillsides, dank mine shafts, […]