Showing Up (Blu-Ray)

Based on Herman Bang s 1902 novel of the same name, Dreyer’s film is a fascinating fin-de-siècle study of a decadent elderly artist (Benjamin Christensen) driven to despair by his relationship with his young protégé and former model, Michael (Walter Slezak). With suffocatingly sumptuous production design by renowned architect Hugo Häring (his only film work), […]

Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, Kwaidan features four nightmarish tales adapted from Lafcadio Hearn s classic Japanese ghost stories about mortals caught up in forces beyond their comprehension when the supernatural world intervenes in their lives: “The Black Hair”, “The Woman of the Snow”, “Hoichi the Earless”, and “In a Cup of […]

Joan Castleman (Glenn Close) is “the perfectly devoted wife”. Forty years spent sacrificing her own talent, dreams and ambitions to fan the flames of her charismatic husband Joe (Jonathan Pryce) and his skyrocketing literary career. Ignoring his infidelities and excuses because of his ‘art’ with grace and humor. Their fateful pact has built a marriage […]

Academy Award and BAFTA nominee actor Viggo Mortensen explores the fractures and contrasts that make up a modern family in his directorial debut, Falling, an intimate drama about a son’s relationship with his ageing father.  John Petersen (Mortensen) lives with his partner Eric (Chan) and their adopted daughter Monica in Southern California. His father […]

Var fick han allt ifrån? Och hur läskig var han själv? Med sina detaljrika och fantasifulla teckningar har den enormt produktive konstnären Hans Arnold, (1925-2010) fyllt det svenska medvetandet med skräck, sex, sagor och surrealism. Hans Arnold var det underfundiga visuella geniet bakom otaliga bokillustrationer, t.ex Astrid Lindgrens “Allrakäraste syster”, skivomslag såsom ABBAs ikoniska “Greatest […]

Set in and around the corridors of power, Bodyguard tells the story of David Budd (Richard Madden), a heroic but volatile war veteran now working as a Specialist Protection Officer for the Royalty and Specialist Protection Branch (RaSP) of London’s Metropolitan Police Service. When he is assigned to protect the ambitious and powerful Home Secretary […]

Ny utgåva av den allra första Harry Potter-boken, med fantastiska illustrationer – perfekt för högläsning. Sexton år efter utgivningen av den första Harry Potter-boken i Sverige kommer nu en alldeles ny, genomillustrerad utgåva. Harry Potters fantastiska värld fångas mästerligt i Jim Kays makalösa bilder. Låt dig sugas in i en magisk upplevelse! Böckerna om Harry […]

Christian Petzold har filmatiserat Anna Seghers roman ‘Transit Visa’ från 1942 på ett egensinnigt sätt. Historien om en ung judes flykt undan tysk ockupationsmakt är förflyttad till ett översaturerat nutida Marseille