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A slow-burning depiction of economic degradation in Thatcher’s England, Mike Leigh’s Meantime is the culmination of the writer-director’s pioneering work in television. Unemployment is rampant in London’s working-class East End

Ousmane Sembène was one of the greatest and most groundbreaking filmmakers who ever lived, as well as the most renowned African director of the twentieth century—and yet his name still deserves to be better known in the rest of the world.

Jens Assurs hyllade långfilmsdebut är en fysisk filmupplevelse utöver det vanliga. Med sitt egensinniga och kompromisslösa berättande har Assur skapat en modern klassiker som snabbt blivit en festivalfavorit världen över. Korparna är ett psykologiskt lantbruksdrama som skildrar småbonden Agnes desperata kamp för överlevnad i en tid då jordbruket moderniseras och förändras. Reine Brynolfsson gör sitt […]

In this beautifully shot, psychologically complex western, Van Heflin is a mild-mannered cattle rancher who takes on the task of shepherding a captured outlaw (played with cucumber-cool charisma by Glenn Ford) to the train that will deliver him to prison. This apparently simple mission turns into a nerve-racking cat-and-mouse game that tests each man’s particular […]

George C. Scott stars in this chilling ghost story, one of the most acclaimed and terrifying horror films of all time. Following the tragic death of his wife and daughter in a car crash, composer John Russell leaves the city and retires to an old mansion in the hope of rebuilding his life. The peace […]

Studio 54 was the epicenter of 70s hedonism – a place that not only redefined the nightclub, but also came to symbolize an entire era. Its co-owners, Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell, two friends from Brooklyn, seemed to come out of nowhere to suddenly preside over a new kind of New York society. Now, 39 […]

Samlingsbox med fem filmhistoriska klassiker: Ärans Väg (Stanley Kubrick), Rom Öppen Stad (Roberto Rossellini), Spelets Regler (Jean Renoir), Matteusevangeliet (Pier Paolo Pasolini) och Soluppgång (F.W. Murnau).

Kumail is a Pakistani comic who meets an American graduate student named Emily at one of his stand-up shows. As their relationship blossoms, he soon becomes worried about what his traditional Muslim parents will think of her. When Emily suddenly comes down with an illness that leaves her in a coma, Kumail finds himself developing […]