My Life As a Dog

In Beginners, director Mike Mills offered up a loving portrait of his father. This time it’s the turn of his mother and Annette Bening gives a barnstorming, career-best performance as Dorothea Fields, flawlessly delivering zingers like “Wondering if you’re happy is just a shortcut to being depressed”. Unvarnished and oozing charisma, Bening radiates in this […]

Two years of stalking the streets as the Batman, striking fear into the hearts of criminals, has led Bruce Wayne deep into the shadows of Gotham City. With only a few trusted allies amongst the city’s corrupt network of officials and high‐profile figures, the lone vigilante has established himself as the sole embodiment of vengeance […]

Kwaidan är japanska för spökhistoria, vilket avslöjar innehållet i Kobayashis klassiska skräckantologi. Beskriven av legendariska filmkritikern Roger Ebert som “en samling spökhistorier som hör till de vackraste filmer jag sett”, vinnare av jurypriset i Cannes samt nominerad till Oscarn för bästa utländska film.

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 […]

First-time filmmaker Léonor Serraille and the dazzling Laetitia Dosch burst onto the scene with Jeune Femme, a raucous and playful portrait of a woman in her early 30s in Paris. Anarchic, complicated and undeniably charming, this is the French hot-mess heroine we’ve long been waiting for.

‘Half man, half god’ Diego Maradona was one of football’s true geniuses. From an Argentinian shanty town, his talents commanded record fees and international glory. In this inspired documentary portrait from Asif Kapadia (Amy, Senna), we follow him as he arrives at Naples in 1984, leading the club to their first ever title. But this […]

This first feature by the legendary Hideo Gosha is among the most beloved chanbara (sword-fighting) films. An origin-story offshoot of a Japanese television phenomenon of the same name, Three Outlaw Samurai is a classic in its own right. A wandering, seen-it-all ronin (Tetsuro Tamba) becomes entangled in the dangerous business of two other samurai (Isamu […]

Danmark, 1913, strax före första världskriget. En afton blir den noble kadetten Anton inviterad till bal på baron Løvenskjolds praktfulla herrgård. Intet ont anande bjuder han upp baronens vackra dotter Edith, men eftersom hon är lam i båda benen hamnar hon i en ytterst pinsam situation. Plågad av skuldkänslor blir Anton en ofta förekommande gäst […]