My Life As a Dog

1940, London, the Blitz; with the country’s morale at stake, Catrin (Gemma Arterton; Gemma Bovery), an untried screenwriter, and a makeshift cast and crew, work under fire to make a film to lift the nation’s flagging spirits; and inspire America to join the war. Partnered alongside fellow screenwriter, Buckley (Sam Claflin; Me Before You), the […]

När Ulf Lundells roman JACK släpptes i april 1976 orsakade den en rusning till bokhandlarna utan dess like. Utropad till ”70-talets stora generationsroman” blev den en snackis som ALLA skulle läsa och upplagan ökade snabbt från ursprungliga 2000 ex till makalösa 200 000 ex. Filmatiseringen, med manus av Lundell och regissören Jan Halldoff, kom redan […]

Andrei Tarkovsky’s debut feature is an extraordinarily moving and powerful story of war and revenge. Determined to avenge his family’s death at the hands of the Nazis, 12 year-old Ivan joins a Russian partisan regiment as a scout, where he becomes indispensable for his ability to slip unnoticed behind enemy lines. But, as his missions become […]

Dakota Fanning stars in this supernatural horror written and directed by Ishana Night Shyamalan. On her way to transport a valuable parrot across Ireland, pet shop worker Mina (Fanning) suddenly finds herself stranded in the middle of a deep, remote forest. As she sets out to find help, she encounters a woman named Madeline (Olwen […]

För tio år sedan försvann gästarbetaren Bill Markhams sjuårige son spårlöst i Amazonas oändliga regnskogar. År efter år återvänder han till djungeln för att söka. Under ännu en expedition blir Bill och hans följeslagare överfallna. Svårt sårad lyckas Bill fly och står plötsligt öga mot öga med en indiankrigare, beväpnad och stridsmålad. Denne man var […]

Addiction, nonmonogamy, and female sexual liberation: decades before such ideas were widely discussed, Dorothy Arzner, the only woman to work as a director in 1930s Hollywood, brought them to the screen with striking frankness, sophistication, and wit—a mature treatment that stands out even in the pre-Code era. Fredric March (in one of four collaborations with […]

Initially banned on its release, Weekender – the film of Flowered Up’s classic acid house cri de cœur – is today hailed as one of the most innovative music films ever made. Now WIZ’s pioneering meditation on the British rave experience is celebrated in I Am Weekender, Chloé Raunet’s documentary about the film’s making, impact […]

Andrei Tarkovsky’s final Soviet feature is a metaphys­ical journey through an enigmatic postapocalyptic landscape, and a rarefied cinematic experience like no other. A hired guide—the Stalker—leads a writer and a professor into the heart of the Zone, the restricted site of a long-ago disaster, where the three men eventually zero in on the Room, a […]