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The Conversation is regarded as one of Francis Ford Coppola’s greatest films. Two-time Academy Award winner Gene Hackman (Unforgiven, The French Connection) plays a paranoid and personally-secretive surveillance expert who has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.  This tense thriller makes some remarkably advanced […]

With this trailblazing musical, writer–director–star John Cameron Mitchell and composer-lyricist Stephen Trask brought their signature creation from stage to screen for a movie as unclassifiable as its protagonist. Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig (Mitchell) undergoes a traumatic personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an “internationally […]

Året är 1967. Franska nya vågens främsta affischnamn Jean-Luc Godard (Louis Garrel) har precis färdigställt sitt senaste opus La Chinoise. Under arbetet har tycke uppstått mellan Godard och filmens huvudrollsinnehavare tillika hans musa Anne Wiazemsky. Allt borde vara upplagt för frid och fröjd och ett “så levde de lyckliga i alla sina dagar”. Det visar […]

Fleeing an ecological disaster past the point of no return, what s left of humanity must escape the hell on Earth they ve created and fly to the stars. Giant interstellar cruise liners, outfitted with every luxury money can buy, take the human race on a three-week journey to their new home: Mars. On one […]

Pedro Almodóvar returns with his latest feature, Parallel Mothers. Two women, Janis and Ana, meet in a hospital where they are about to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident. Janis, middle-aged, has no regrets and is exultant. The other, Ana, an adolescent, is scared and repentant. Janis tries to encourage her […]

Based on the novel by Will Heinrich, Sam Peckinpah’s only war film is an intense and uncompromising affair that brilliantly reflects both the futility of conflict and the director’s fascination with individuals confronted by events beyond their control. A World War II tale told from the German perspective, Cross Of Iron follows a platoon of […]

There are mad films. And then there are films that exist on a whole different level, whose vision is best described as… crazy. And we don’t just mean the American spelling of ‘color’. Richard Stanley’s long-awaited return to cinema totally fits the bill. The director of early 1990s cult classics Hardware and Dust Devil has […]

En gång i tiden var Liliane känd under artistnamnet LAURA. Laura var en sångstjärna på uppgång som nådde sin karriärs höjdpunkt när hon kom tvåa efter ABBA i Eurovision Song Contest 1974 med sin pärla ”Souvenir”. Idag är hon bortglömd, och alla tecken på framgång är som bortflugna där hon står vid det löpande bandet på […]