Take Out (Blu-Ray)

Östtyskland 1979. Utleda på diktaturens förtryck har familjerna Strelzyk och Wetzel i största hemlighet ägnat lång tid åt att själva sy och snickra ihop en luftballong. Deras plan är att fly till friheten i väst, men efter att deras första försök misslyckats vet regimen att något stort är på gång. Med den största styrka Stasi […]

John Curry transformed ice skating from a dated sport into an exalted art form. Coming out on the night of his Olympic win in 1976, he became the first openly gay Olympian in a time when homosexuality was not even fully legal. Toxic yet charming; rebellious yet elitist; emotionally aloof yet spectacularly needy; ferociously ambitious […]

Per Anders Fogelström är tveklöst vår främsta Stockholmsskildrare. Debutromanen ”Ligister”, som var förlagd till den del av Södermalm där ligistmentaliteten frodades som allra värst i mitten av förra seklet, filmades som ”Medan staden sover” 1950 på initiativ av Ingmar Bergman. Filmen skapade livlig debatt huruvida de unga brottslingar som skildrades kunde ha negativ inverkan på […]

The Night of the Hunter—incredibly, the only film the great actor Charles Laughton ever directed—is truly a stand-alone masterwork. A horror movie with qualities of a Grimm fairy tale, it stars a sublimely sinister Robert Mitchum as a traveling preacher named Harry Powell (he of the tattooed knuckles), whose nefarious motives for marrying a fragile […]

A deep look into the mind of one of rock s greatest living photographers: Mick Rock. Rock s work with some of the most accomplished personalities of the past forty years – David Bowie, Queen, Blondie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop created many of the images that would come to define them. Presented in his […]

Finland’s master of deadpan comedy, Aki Kaurismäki (Lights in the Dusk, Le Havre), returns with The Other Side of Hope, the story of an unlikely friendship between a Syrian asylum seeker and an elderly Finnish restaurant owner. Worthy winner of the 2017 Berlin Silver Bear for Best Director, it is a beautiful, timely film from […]

10-year-old Nicolas lives with his mother on a remote island, in a village inhabited solely by women and young boys. In a hospital overlooking the ocean, all the boys are subjected to a mysterious medical treatment. Only Nicolas questions what is happening around him. He senses that his mother is lying to him, and is […]

Tillsammans med Victor Sjöström, Ingmar Bergman och Bo Widerberg räknas Jan Troell som vår allra största filmskapare – både internationellt och här hemma. Under Troells över femtio år långa karriär har hans filmer nominerats till sju Oscars och belönats med sexton guldbaggar, tre Golden Globe-statyetter och tio priser i Berlin. En storslagen bedrift som ingen […]