Spionen som levde två gånger

Byron Orlok (Boris Karloff) is a retiring horror-star bidding farewell to the limelight. Bobby Thompson (Tim O’Kelly) is an unassuming but disturbed Vietnam veteran who suddenly embarks on a murderous shooting rampage. As Byron makes one final public appearance, the two’s worlds collide as Bobby brings carnage to a suburban Los Angeles drive-in cinema. Both […]

Melodrama master John M. Stahl brings his exquisite restraint and almost spiritually pure visual style to this devastating, enduringly relevant story of mothers and daughters. Imitation of Life explores the friendship between two struggling single mothers: one (Claudette Colbert) a working-class white woman who ascends to the top of the business world, the other (Louise […]

With his provocative feature debut, twenty-six-year-old Steven Soderbergh trained his focus on the complexities of human intimacy and deception in the modern age. Housewife Ann (Andie MacDowell) feels distant from her lawyer husband, John (Peter Gallagher), who is sleeping with her sister, Cynthia (Laura San Giacomo). When John’s old friend Graham (a magnetic, Cannes-award-winning James […]

Originalversionen byggd på Hjalmar Söderbergs tidlösa klassiker, ansedd som den svenska litteraturens mest betydande kärleksroman. 1912 skrev Hjalmar Söderberg Den allvarsamma leken som kommit att bli en odödlig klassiker. Den mångbottnade historien om journalisten Arvid Stjärnbloms komplicerade romans med den självständiga Lydia Stille har beskrivits som den svenska litteraturens mest betydande kärleksroman och upphör aldrig […]

Farid Bentoumis andra film är samproducerad med bröderna Dardenne, kända för bland annat Löftet, Cannesvinnarna Rosetta och Unge Ahmed. I huvudrollen har vi Césarvinnaren Zita Hanrout, mest lovande skådespelerska för

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 […]

In his anarchic debut feature, Boots Riley sets fire to the modern world and blasts off to brilliantly original territory. Starring Lakeith Stanfield (Get Out, Atlanta) and Tessa Thompson (Thor: Ragnarok, Creed), this is 2018’s most timely feature. Cash (Stanfield) is a black call centre worker, who is asked to ‘sound white’ in order to […]

BFI Flipside presents…a previously unavailable Irish folk horror written and directed by the writer of Blood on Satan’s Claw. Set in an isolated rural community in pre-famine Ireland when poverty and magic were rife, The Outcasts sees introverted farm girl Maura (Mary Ryan) discover a magical world of the imagination through ‘a wild, ungodly man’, […]