The Breaking Point

Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern (Frances McDormand) packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad. The third feature film from director Chloé Zhao, Nomadland features real nomads Linda May, Swankie and Bob Wells as Fern’s mentors […]

The provocative Italian filmmaker Elio Petri’s most internationally acclaimed work is this remarkable, visceral, Oscar-winning thriller. Petri maintains a tricky balance between absurdity and realism in telling the Kafkaesque tale of a Roman police inspector (A Fistful of Dollars’ Gian Maria Volonté, in a commanding performance) investigating a heinous crime—which he committed himself. Both a […]

Drama written and directed by Robert Budreau which follows legendary jazz trumpeter Chet Baker (Ethan Hawke) as he launches an unlikely comeback in the late 1960s. After being cast as himself in a movie about his early life and struggles with heroin addiction, Chet falls for co-star Jane (Carmen Ejogo). While out on their first date […]

Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart ride high in this superb comedic western, both a boisterous spoof and a shining example of its genre. As the brawling, rough-and-tumble saloon singer Frenchy, Dietrich shed her exotic love-goddess image and launched a triumphant career comeback, while Stewart cemented his amiable everyman persona, in his first of many westerns, […]

Få skådespelerskor har överösts med så mycket beröm som Isabelle Adjani fick för Possession. Men priset hon fick betala var högt. Skräckslagen över att se sig själv på detta sätt i den färdiga filmen försökte stjärnan begå självmord.

Blue was to be a very special final creative act by Derek Jarman and perhaps one of his singularly iconic works. Numerous musicians, including Simon Fisher Turner, Coil, Scanner and Brian Eno, provide the highly textured soundscape in which the director and his close friends weave a rich vocal account of his life and loves. […]

Året är 1945. Mathilde, en ung fransk läkare, jobbar för Röda korset i Polen för att hjälpa överlevande från andra världskriget. En dag kommer en polsk nunna och ber Mathilde om hjälp. Hon blir ledd till ett kloster där hon får träffa ett flertal gravida nunnor som blivit ofredade av en grupp sojvetsoldater. Medan de […]

A glorious mixture of the riotously morbid and joyously life-affirming, Hal Ashby s Harold and Maude was an instant counter-culture favourite on its release in 1971…..