Sinnenas rike + Passionernas rike

Recalling the recent Northern Soul, but mainly focused on the life and musical hopes of one young teenager, England Is Mine details the early life of Steven Patrick Morrissey. Rather than tell the story of The Smiths, the film instead focuses on the singer’s teens and the world that shaped him. It’s as much a paean to youthful […]

This portrait of Alberto Giacometti is dominated by a superb central performance from Geoffrey Rush as the brilliant artist. Set over a couple of weeks in 1964, Stanley Tucci’s first film in a decade as director focuses on the period when the artist chose to create a portrait of his friend, the art critic James […]

With her ravishingly sensual take on Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor, Claire Denis firmly established herself as one of the great visual tone poets of our time. Amid the azure waters and sunbaked desert landscapes of Djibouti, a French Foreign Legion sergeant (Denis Lavant) sows the seeds of his own ruin as his obsession with […]

Under andra världskriget döms den brittiske kassaskåpstjuven Eddie Chapman till 14 års fängelse att avtjänas på kanalön Jersey. När tyskarna ockuperar ön lyckas han vinna deras förtroende och utbildas till spion under nazismens fana. I fallskärm släpps han ner i England för att spränga en viktig krigsfabrik. Men det första han gör är att stega […]

12 Angry Men, by Sidney Lumet, may be the most radical big-screen courtroom drama in cinema history. A behind-closed-doors look at the American legal system as riveting as….

Written and directed by John Sayles, this wrenching historical drama recounts the true story of a West Virginia coal town where the local miners’ struggle to form a union rose to the pitch of all-out war in 1920. When Matewan’s miners go on strike, organizer Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper, in his film debut) arrives to […]

The Seasons in Quincy is the result of a five-year project by Tilda Swinton and Colin MacCabe to produce a portrait of this fascinating figure and celebrate his ideas, his art and the man himself. The four essay films that comprise The Seasons in Quincy combine different aspects of Berger s life in the Haute-Savoie […]

After years behind bars, Max Dembo faces Straight Time. He hopes it will mean a new life, a job, a place to call home, perhaps even a girl of his own. Instead, it’s a one-way ticket to disaster. Dustin Hoffman plays Max, a freed con trapped by an indifferent criminal system and his self-destructive bent. […]