Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

En krokodil med tandvärk, en närsynt häst, en plattfotad räv och en knuffodrag (en tvåhövdad lama alltså, det vet väl alla)… Alla får de hjälp av den vänlige doktor Dolittle, som lärt sig 498 djurspråk av sin kloka papegoja (som pratar allt, utom goja!). Och givetvis är gojan med på expeditionen när Dolittle sjösätter sin […]

In his controversial masterpiece The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic persona. Chaplin, in his first pure talkie, brings his sublime physicality to two roles: the cruel yet clownish “Tomainian” dictator and the kindly Jewish barber who is mistaken for him. […]

1948 föddes karaktären Fabian Bom, den pedantiske översittaren med prickmustacher som kom att bli en av Poppes mest populära rollfigurer på film. Den första filmen, Soldat Bom, blev en enorm succé och visades 48 veckor på Stockholmsbiograferna. Det gjordes sju Bom-filmer och bland de mest framgångsrika hör även Pappa Bom, från 1949, och Tull-Bom, från […]

A Star is Born stars four-time Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper and multiple award-winning, Oscar-nominated music superstar Lady Gaga, in her first leading role in a major motion picture. Cooper helms the drama, marking his directorial debut.  In this new take on the tragic love story, he plays seasoned musician Jackson Maine, who discovers – and […]

With Masculin féminin, ruthless stylist and iconoclast Jean-Luc Godard introduces the world to “the children of Marx and Coca-Cola,” through a gang of restless youths engaged in hopeless love affairs with music, revolution, and one another. French New Wave icon Jean-Pierre Léaud stars as Paul, an idealistic would-be intellectual struggling to forge a relationship with […]

Lucrecia Martel’s first film in 10 years premiered in Venice 2017 to huge acclaim. Zama, an officer of the Spanish Crown born in South America, waits for a letter from the King granting him a transfer from the town in which he is, to a better place. His situation is delicate. He must ensure that […]

With his eighth and most personal film, Alfonso Cuarón recreated the early-1970s Mexico City of his childhood, narrating a tumultuous period in the life of a middle-class family through the experiences of Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio, in a revelatory screen debut), the indigenous domestic worker who keeps the household running. Charged with the care of four […]

After the shocking suicide of their friend, a group of thirtysomethings reunite for his funeral and end up spending the weekend together, reminiscing about their shared past as children of the sixties and confronting the uncertainty of their lives as adults of the eighties. Poignant and warmly humorous in equal measure, this baby boomer milestone […]