Our Little Sister

WWF wrestler “Rowdy” Roddy Piper plays John Nada, a homeless, unemployed construction worker who discovers a pair of sunglasses that when worn, suddenly reveal a world run by capitalist, yuppie aliens intent on keeping the human race sedate and brainwashed with subliminal messages fed through advertising and the media. Luckily for us all Nada is […]

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 […]

A cornerstone of the French New Wave, the first feature from Alain Resnais is one of the most influential films of all time. A French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) engage in a brief, intense affair in postwar Hiroshima, their consuming mutual fascination impelling them to exorcise their own scarred memories […]

Director Ken Loach teams once again with I, Daniel Blake screenwriter Paul Laverty for another powerful indictment of the capitalist forces shaping modern Britain. No one else is making films with the urgency of Loach, and the performances here have a raw honesty that cuts to the humanity of complex political problems.  Ricky is dreaming […]

Ett fruset Kristiania anno 1890. I detta ruckel till stad släpar sig den unge författaren Pontus fram. Utfattig, utmärglad, med en eskalerande hunger skrikande i sin kropp. Efter att ständigt ha blivit refuserad tvingas han ut på gatan med bara ett täcke i sin famn. För stolt för att ta emot den hjälp som erbjuds […]

James Franco lovingly portrays the making of Tommy Wiseau’s cult-classic The Room, the ‘best bad movie’ ever made.

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 […]

Award winning legendary British director Peter Greenaway (The Cook The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, The Belly of An Architect) directs this black comedy revolving around three generations of women called Cissie Colpitts – Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson & Joely Richardson When each of the women decides to drown their husband, they enlist the […]