Manchester By the Sea

E.L. Doctorows väldiga krönika över USAs tidiga 1900-tal har i Milos Formans händer blivit en storslagen film myllrande av händelser. Via slumkvarterens folkvimmel och societetens lyxliv hamnar

Strange, sumptuous and visually stunning, this wildly melodramatic tale of a Kabuki female impersonator who exacts a long-delayed revenge on the men who drove his parents to suicide is played out against a colourful backdrop of comic rivalries between thieves in the Tokyo underworld. Kazuo Hasegawa stars, in the dual role of the actor and […]

First-time filmmaker Bing Liu s Oscar-nominated documentary Minding the Gap is a coming-of-age saga of three skateboarding friends in their Rust Belt hometown hit hard by decades of recession. In his quest to understand why he and his friends all ran away from home when they were younger, Bing follows 23-year-old Zack as he becomes […]

The best film ever made – Jarvis Cocker One of the most beloved and iconic British films of all time (voted in the top 10 of all time by the British Film Institute), Ken Loach’s breakthrough cinematic feature Kes is a cornerstone of naturalistic filmmaking whose influence is felt up to the present day. Portraying with remarkable detail and […]

Following hot on the heels of his recent Jackie, Pablo Larraín’s latest film is a stylised biopic of the Chilean poet, diplomat and politician. Beloved poet Pablo Neruda (Luis Gnecco) is also the most famous communist in post-WWII Chile. When the political tides shift, he is forced underground, with a perseverant police inspector (Gael García […]

Liam Gallagher: As It Was tells the honest and emotional story of how one of the most electrifying rock’n’roll frontmen went from the dizzying heights of his champagne supernova years in Oasis to living on the edge, ostracised and lost in the musical wilderness of booze, notoriety and bitter legal battles.  Starting again alone, […]

Greta Gerwig has long been the darling of the American indie scene. Her graduation to more mainstream fare was inevitable, but she lost none of what made her such a compelling on-screen presence.

Det notoriska busfröet Kalle stör friden på Söder i 1930-talets Stockholm genom otaliga hyss och driver de flesta till vansinne, inklusive sin mor Anderssonskan. Men framför allt är det grannfruarna Pilgrenskan och Bobergskan och kvarterets patrullerande poliskonstapel Jonsson som blir utsatta för hans illdåd. Buskisregissören Arne Stivell stod för regin och SvD-krönikören Gits Olsson för […]