Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict

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 […]

Mavis! is the first documentary on gospel/soul music legend and civil rights icon Mavis Staples and her family group, The Staple Singers. From the freedom songs of the 60s and hits like “I’ll Take You There” in the 70s, to funked-up collaborations with Prince and her recent albums with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, Mavis has stayed […]

Dina, an outspoken and eccentric 49-year-old in suburban Philadelphia, invites her fiancé Scott, a Walmart door greeter, to move in with her. Having grown up neurologically diverse in a world blind to the value of their experience, the two are head-over-heels for one another, but shacking up poses a new challenge. Scott freezes when it […]

Ethan Hawke stars in this horror thriller directed by Scott Derrickson. In the 1970s, five children went missing from a small town in Colorado. A short time later, 13-year-old Finney Shaw (Mason Thames) is kidnapped and held prisoner in a soundproofed basement. With no knowledge of where he is or how he can get out, […]

I Neruda får vi följa den chilenske senatorn och poeten Pablo Neruda under dennes tid på flykt efter att ha kritiserat den chilenska regeringen år 1948. Under poetens och hans frus flykt ur landet där han

Året är 1980. Michal och Juraj studerar teologi i den totalitära staten Tjeckoslovakien. Oroliga för att skolan ska stängas ner börjar lärarna styra om föreläsningarna för att göra det ledande kommunistpartiet nöjt. Men alla studenter har två val: ta den enkla vägen och anpassa sig till regimens sätt eller hamna i händerna på den hemliga […]

Trots att det var först som 22-åring Ohad Naharin tog sina första danslektioner har han blivit en av den samtida dansens mest intressanta och hyllade dansare och koreografer. Med över 1200 timmar råmaterial har vännen och filmaren Tomer Heymann mejslat fram ett nyanserat porträtt av Ohad – mannen som skapade ett nytt “dansspråk” kallat Gaga, […]

Filmmaker Greg Barker takes us inside Obama’s administration as they prepare to leave power after eight years inside the White House. With an election looming, The Final Year observes the foreign policy team as they work to cement their gains in international relations and secure their legacy.