The Falling

This playful, profound, and immensely moving docu-fantasia by Kirsten Johnson is a valentine to the director’s beloved father, Dick Johnson, made as she is beginning to face the reality of losing him to dementia. Using the language of cinema both to defy death and to confront it head-on, Johnson mischievously envisions an array of ways […]

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Steven Spielberg’s much-anticipated new adventure – an adaptation of Ernest Cline’s hugely popular 2011 sci-fi novel – is the perfect vehicle for Hollywood’s supreme entertainer. The future is a dystopia of a never-ending city. To escape it, millions enter the virtual world of OASIS. Its creator has planted an Easter Egg somewhere in this world […]

This energetic, enigmatic indictment of capitalism is a late masterpiece by Bresson, imbued with a fierce cinematic power and tautly positioned amid the coldly structured complexities of human behaviour. Adapted from a novella by Leo Tolstoy, Bresson’s portrait of an ordinary man driven to evermore extreme crimes by social and financial forces beyond his control […]

Beguiling and decadent, Jaromil Jire Valerie and Her Week of Wonders mixes horror, fairytale, surrealism and Freudian symbolism to depict the phantasmagorical world inhabited by a young girl on the threshold of adulthood. Haunting and dreamlike, the film is a work of pure imagination, and has become a cult classic. With its stunning visuals and […]

Efter att ha undkommit en säker död åtta gånger faller Louis Drax från en hög klippa på sin nionde födelsedag och hamnar i koma. Var det en olycka eller knuffade någon honom? Medan polisen undersöker fallet tas Louis om hand av den berömde neurologen Dr. Pascal, som använder sig av högst okonventionella metoder för att […]

From visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes this noir-style psychological thriller starring Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett. When a manipulative carnival man (Cooper) teams with an equally deceptive psychiatrist (Blanchett) to grift the wealthy in 1940s New York society, he learns that his new partner in crime might be his most formidable opponent yet. Nightmare […]

BASERAD PÅ DEN BÄSTSÄLJANDE ROMANEN AV FIONA SHAW 1952. I en liten skotsk by kämpar Lydia hårt i fabriken för att få råd till mat och hyra efter att hennes man lämnat henne för en annan kvinna. I skolan blir hennes lille son bekant med en återinflyttad läkare och tillika biodlare, Jean, som erbjuder dem […]