Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

Jacques Audiard (A Prophet, Dheepan) makes his first English-language film with this revisionist Western set in 1851. Eli (John C. Reilly) and Charlie Sisters (Joaquin Phoenix) are brothers and assassins, on the trail of a chemist (Riz Ahmed) who has a formula that can highlight gold in rivers. A detective (Jake Gyllenhaal) is hot on […]

1920-talet brukar ses som den svenska filmens första guldålder. Den andra inföll på 1960-talet och den som drog upp ridån för den och i hög grad kom att prägla den var Bo Widerberg, en svårstyrd skåning som…..

Jacques Cousteau var under 1940- till 1970-talet världens ledande havsutforskare. Genom hans filmer och tv-serier fick vi uppleva en värld vi aldrig tidigare sett. I filmen om hans liv, Jacques – Havets utforskare, uppfinner Cousteau ”aqualungan” – den första kommersiellt gångbara dykarutrustningen där inandningsluften inte återanvänds. Utrustningen tas med på skeppet Calypso, där ett manskap […]

Efter att jättetroll har invaderat trollbyn ger sig Poppy, världens lyckligaste lyckotroll, och den överdrivet försiktiga Kvist ut för att försöka rädda sina vänner. Tillsammans måste det udda paret ge sig ut på ett äventyr långt ifrån den värld de känner till. Med musik av bland andra Justin Timberlake blir denna musikaliska feel-good-flm årets största […]

Melodrama casts noirish shadows in this portrait of maternal sacrifice from Hollywood master Michael Curtiz. Its iconic performance by Joan Crawford as Mildred, a single mother hell-bent on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship, solidified Crawford’s career comeback and gave the actor her only Oscar. But as Mildred pulls herself up by […]

In this original movie based on David Milch’s acclaimed, Emmy-winning HBO series of the same name which debuted 15 years ago today, the indelible characters of the show are reunited after a decade to celebrate South Dakota’s statehood. Former rivalries are reignited, alliances are tested and old wounds reopened as all are left to navigate […]

Based on Herman Bang s 1902 novel of the same name, Dreyer’s film is a fascinating fin-de-siècle study of a decadent elderly artist (Benjamin Christensen) driven to despair by his relationship with his young protégé and former model, Michael (Walter Slezak). With suffocatingly sumptuous production design by renowned architect Hugo Häring (his only film work), […]

A young woman in a small Kansas town survives a drag race accident, then agrees to take a job as a church organist in Salt Lake City. En route, she is haunted by a bizarre apparition that compels her toward an abandoned lakeside pavilion….