Tale of Tales

Regissören Frank (Frank LaLoggia) får allt större problem med slutförandet av filmen A Peacock’s Tale. Och ingenting blir lättare av att någon börjar ta död på människor skenbart inspirerade av hans verk. Men är detta verklighet eller bara produkten av en överhettad och sönderstressad hjärna?  Nightmare Symphony är en blodig slängkyss till Giallo i […]

A breathtaking fusion of poetry, ethnography, and cinema, Sergei Parajanov’s masterwork overflows with unforgettable images and sounds. In a series of tableaux that blend the tactile with

This is the definitive counterculture blockbuster. The down-and-dirty directorial debut of former clean-cut teen star Dennis Hopper, Easy Rider heralded the arrival of a new voice in film, one pitched angrily against the mainstream. After the film’s cross-country journey—with its radical, New Wave–style editing, outsider-rock soundtrack, revelatory performance by a young Jack Nicholson, and explosive ending—the American […]

Baserad på den sanna historien om den tjeckiska herbalisten Jan Mikolášek som under tidigt 1900-tal diagnostiserade och botade miljontals människor. En livshistoria som utspelar sig under Europas krigstid och efterkrigstid om en man som med hjälp av sig intuition och goda kännedom om växtriket hjälpte både fattiga människor och inflytelserika politiska figurer. I takt med […]

Winner of the Grand Prix at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen’s Compartment No. 6 is a warming and unexpected tale of adventure, self-discovery and human connection. Young Finnish archaeology student Laura (Seidi Haarla) is convinced by her lecturer – and lover – to take a trip to an ancient site of […]

Director Kaneto Shindo’s documentary-like, dialogue-free portrayal of daily struggle is a work of stunning visual beauty and invention. The international breakthrough for one of Japan’s most innovative

In his controversial masterpiece The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic persona. Chaplin, in his first pure talkie, brings his sublime physicality to two roles: the cruel yet clownish “Tomainian” dictator and the kindly Jewish barber who is mistaken for him. […]

A singular work in film history, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles meticulously details, with a sense of impending doom, the daily routine of a middle-aged widow