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Jean-Pierre Melville (1917 – 1974) is one of the most revered French film directors of all time. Born in Paris during WW1, he was to become a member of the French resistance in the Second World War, an experience which he drew on in his later career as a film director, routinely plunging his characters […]

From Oscar-nominated filmmaker Brett Morgen, director of Cobain: Montage of Heck and The Kid Stays in the Picture, Moonage Daydream is an immersive cinematic experience; an audio-visual space odyssey that not only illuminatesthe enigmatic legacy of David Bowie but also serves as a guide to living a fulfilling and meaningful life in the 21st Century. […]

Den 29 mars 1943 i Tromsö, högt upp i det kylslagna Norge. På en fiskebåt gömmer sig tolv norska motståndsmän när de plötsligt överraskas av tyska soldater och oskadliggörs. Men en av dem lyckas komma undan. Barfota, skottskadad och genomvåt flyr Jan Baalsrud genom det hänsynslösa landskapet med Gestapo i hälarna. Med svenska gränsen som […]

Astrid Lindgrens ungdomsbok Mästerdetektiven Blomkvist blev omåttligt populär efter att den vunnit Rabén & Sjögrens deckartävling 1946. Och en lika stor succé blev filmatiseringen, som var den allra första

At once a vital portrait of contemporary African American life and an intensely personal and poetic meditation on identity, family, friendship, and love, Moonlight is a groundbreaking piece of cinema that

The French writer Guy de Maupassant has inspired many great filmmakers. Among those to adapt his short stories and novels were Jean-Luc Godard, Kenji Mizoguchi, Walerian Borowczyk, Harry Kümel, Luis Buñuel and Christian-Jacque. But it was arguably Max Ophuls, with his 1952 feature, Le Plaisir, who proved to be the most adept. Le Plaisir takes […]

Ingen man kommer få penetrera min kropp. Vare sig med sitt svärd eller något annat”. Orden kommer från Hundra, amazonstammens argaste, vackraste och skickligaste svärdsvingare. Hennes hat mot män når nya nivåer efter att hela hennes stam slaktats av fienden. Hennes hämnd blir väldigt blodig, men som ättens enda överlevande måste hon också finna en […]

In 1971, Frederick Forsythe shot to bestseller status with his debut novel, The Day of the Jackal taut, utterly plausible, almost documentarian in its realism and attention to detail. Two years later, director Fred Zinnemann (High Noon) turned a gripping novel into a nail-biting cinematic experience. August 1962: the latest attempt on the life of […]