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Terrence Malick’s exquisite first film, in a new digital restoration. Badlands announced the arrival of a major talent: Terrence Malick. His impressionistic take on the notorious Charles Starkweather killing spree of the late 1950s uses a serial-killer narrative as a springboard for an oblique teenage romance, lovingly and idiosyncratically enacted by Martin Sheen and Sissy […]

With The Music Room (Jalsaghar), Satyajit Ray brilliantly evokes the crumbling opulence of the world of a fallen aristocrat (the beloved actor Chhabi Biswas) desperately clinging to a fading way of life. His greatest joy is the music room in which he has hosted lavish concerts over the years—now a shadow of its former vivid self. An […]

In July 1967, a police raid erupted into a street riot that besieged a large expanse of Detroit for five days. Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal, the director-and-writer team behind The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, recount these events with from the perspective of various characters, resulting in a film with powerful themes that […]

Italian filmmaker Ermanno Olmi’s acute ability to draw naturalistic performances from nonprofessional actors is the principal attraction of Tree of the Wooden Clogs…

England 1959. Krigsänkan Florence anländer till en idyllisk liten kuststad för att öppna ortens första bokhandel – och stöter på oväntat motstånd. Framför allt från generalens inflytelserika fru, som plötsligt får för sig att inreda en konstsalong i den sedan länge övergivna lokalen, men som mest är ute efter att starta bråk. Snart är hela […]

In this Oscar-winning farce, Cary Grant (in the role that first defined the Cary Grant persona) and Irene Dunne exude charm, cunning, and artless affection as an urbane couple who, fed up with each other’s infidelities, resolve to file for divorce. But try as they might to move on, the mischievous Jerry can’t help meddling in […]

A fairy tale grounded in poignant reality, the magnificent, Manhattan-set The Fisher King, by Terry Gilliam, features Jeff Bridges and Robin Williams in two of their most brilliant roles…..

1960-talet är en av de mest intressanta perioderna i svensk filmhistoria. Det var då som Harry Schein drev igenom skapandet av Svenska Filminstitutet och vår första riktiga filmskola. Det var då Bo Widerberg skällde ut den svenska filmen i debattboken Visionen i svensk film och kallade hatobjektet Ingmar Bergman ”vår andes dalahäst i världen”. Och det var […]