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For what would prove to be his final film, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami gave himself a challenge: to create a dialogue between his work as a filmmaker and his work as a photographer, bridging the two art forms to which he had dedicated his life. Setting out to reconstruct the moments immediately before and after […]

Jackie is a searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman). Jackie places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband’s assassination.  Known for her extraordinary dignity and poise, here we […]

E.L. Doctorows väldiga krönika över USAs tidiga 1900-tal har i Milos Formans händer blivit en storslagen film myllrande av händelser. Via slumkvarterens folkvimmel och societetens lyxliv hamnar

Måns Månsson och Axel Peterséns Toppen av ingenting är uttagen i huvudtävlan till Berlins filmfestival. Toppen av ingenting är den första svenska filmen som blivit uttagen i stora tävlingssektionen på Berlin filmfestival sedan 2009. Efter ett liv i sus och dus och månatligt underhåll ärver Nojet, 68, en hyresfastighet av sin nyligen avlidne far. Det hon […]

A stunning new restoration of Joseph Loseys 1963 masterpiece The Servant. Adapted from Robin Maugham’s short story, The Servant marked the first of three collaborations between Joseph Losey and celebrated playwright Harold Pinter. Nominated for five BAFTA ‘s and winning three, including best actor for Dirk Bogarde and Best Cinematography for Douglas Slocombe, The Servant […]

A cult classic of gooey greatness, The Blob follows the havoc wreaked on a small town by an outer-space monster with neither soul nor vertebrae, with Steve McQueen playing the rebel teen who tries to warn the residents about the jellylike invader. Strong performances and ingenious special effects help The Blob transcend the schlock sci-fi and […]

Produced by the Safdie brothers, Owen Kline’s directorial debut is a coming-of-age tale about a wannabe cartoonist reaching a crucial point in his life. A scuzzy dark comedy that makes you gag and laugh at the same time. Robert (Daniel Zolghadri, Eighth Grade) believes that to be an artist is to suffer. So, he gives […]

For her award-winning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong (Little Women) drew on teenage author Miles Franklin’s novel, a celebrated turn-of-the-twentieth-century Australian coming-of-age story, to brashly upend the conventions of period romance. Headstrong young Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis, in a star-making performance), bemoans her stifling life in the backcountry, where her writerly ambitions receive little encouragement, […]