Louder than Bombs

This unnerving procedural thriller painstakingly details an all-too-plausible nightmare scenario in which a mechanical failure jams the United States military’s chain of command and sends the country hurtling toward nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Working from a contemporary best seller, screenwriter Walter Bernstein (The Front) and director Sidney Lumet (Network) wrench harrowing suspense from the doomsday fears of […]

Inspired by the true story of Danish painter Einar Wegener and his California-born wife, this tender portrait of a marriage asks: What do you do when someone you love wants to change? It starts with a question, a simple favour asked of a husband by his wife on an afternoon chilled by the Baltic wind […]

Widely misunderstood at the time, The Long Goodbye is now regarded as one of Altman s best films and one of the outstanding American films of its era……

This wild tale of wacky wedlock from Preston Sturges takes off like a rocket and never lets up. Joel McCrea and Claudette Colbert play Tom and Gerry, a married New York couple on the skids, financially and romantically. With Tom hot on her trail, Gerry takes off for Florida on a mission to solve the […]

Mêle-sur-Sarthe är en charmig liten by i Normandie där alla känner alla. Men inte ens denna idyll är förskonad från den kris som drabbat bondesamhällen över hela Frankrike. Borgmästare Georges kämpar hårt för att rädda byn undan ruin och att få medierna uppmärksamma på deras situation, men intresset är iskallt. Av en slump passerar en […]

In 1977, legendary Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal, Persona) teamed up with the equally legendary Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis (La strada, Danger: Diabolik) for what would be the director s one and only Hollywood feature. Berlin, 1923. Out-of-work circus performer Abel Rosenberg (David Carradine) is living in poverty. When his brother commits […]

In a beautifully realised adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s novel, Saoirse Ronan shines as Eilis, a young Irish woman who travels to America in order to find work and build a new life. Matters of the heart, on both sides of the Atlantic, soon play a major factor and she is forced to choose between two […]

Harry Scheins livshistoria saknar motstycke i den svenska nutidshistorien. Trots att han uträttade storverk för svensk kultur blev han avskydd av en hel generation unga filmare. I början av 50-talet, innan han ens fyllt 30, säger Harry till sina vänner att han har två mål i livet; han ska bli miljonär och gifta sig med […]