Our Little Sister

Truman Capote’s best seller, a breakthrough narrative account of real-life crime and punishment, became an equally chilling film in the hands of writer-director Richard Brooks. Cast for their unsettling resemblances to the killers they play, Robert Blake and Scott Wilson give authentic, unshowy performances as Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, who in 1959 murdered a […]

1905. Efter tio år som missionär i Afrika återkallas Charles Fortescue till London. Nu ser den charmige och timide pastorn fram emot att gifta sig med sin ungdomskärlek, kyrkoherdens dotter, och leva ett stilla och syndfritt liv. Men problemen hopar sig när Londons biskop ger honom i uppdrag att missionera bland East Ends prostituerade. Den […]

Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or winner The Square is a knife-sharp satire on art, culture and communication in the digital age, starring Claes Bang (The Bridge), Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale, Mad Men) and Dominic West (The Wire). Christian (Bang) is a divorced but devoted father of two, and the respected curator of a contemporary art […]

Robert Bresson (Au hasard Balthazar) plumbs great reservoirs of feeling with Mouchette, one of the most searing portraits of human desperation ever put on film. With a dying mother, an absent, alcoholic father, and a baby brother in need of care, the teenage Mouchette seeks solace and respite from her circumstances in the nature of […]

Following his release from prison, Oscar Wilde spent his last years a shadow of the character that he once was. Not that his waspish humour left him, as star and director Rupert Everett highlights in this intelligent and moving portrait. It’s a superb performance by Everett, conveying both the pain and preening of the noted […]

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.

John Cleese är Brian Stimpson, en diktatorisk rektor med ett sjukligt klockdille. Beundrad för sitt ordningssinne utses han till ordförande för den nationella rektorskonferensen. Det här ska bli hans livs stora dag.

Two ordinary inner-city Chicago kids dare to reach for the impossible – professional basketball glory – in this epic chronicle of hope and faith. Filmed over a five-year period, Hoop Dreams, by Steve James, Frederick Marx, and Peter Gilbert, follows young Arthur Agee and William Gates and their families as the boys navigate the complex, […]