The Fisher King (Blu-Ray)

Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach is a funny, provocative and revealing account of the life and career of one of Britain’s foremost filmmakers, Ken Loach, as he turns eighty and looks back at over fifty years of filmmaking, encompassing classics such as Kes (1969) and The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Palme […]

A sophisticated supernatural Hollywood comedy whose influence continues to be felt, Here Comes Mr. Jordan stars the eminently versatile Robert Montgomery as a working-class boxer and amateur aviator whose plane crashes in a freak accident. He finds himself in heaven but is told, by a wry angel named Mr. Jordan (Claude Rains), that his death […]

A sudden bereavement throws Luke, a fiercely independent young man with Down syndrome, into a daunting new environment where he finds unexpected support from his feisty streetwise carer and a local heir dealing with his own demons. As friendships bloom and long-buried secrets are revealed, Luke verges dangerously close to disaster. My Feral Heart is […]

For her award-winning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong (Little Women) drew on teenage author Miles Franklin’s novel, a celebrated turn-of-the-twentieth-century Australian coming-of-age story, to brashly upend the conventions of period romance. Headstrong young Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis, in a star-making performance), bemoans her stifling life in the backcountry, where her writerly ambitions receive little encouragement, […]

Ethan Hawke stars in this horror thriller directed by Scott Derrickson. In the 1970s, five children went missing from a small town in Colorado. A short time later, 13-year-old Finney Shaw (Mason Thames) is kidnapped and held prisoner in a soundproofed basement. With no knowledge of where he is or how he can get out, […]

Director Jim Jarmusch followed up his brilliant breakout film Stranger Than Paradise with another, equally beloved portrait of loners and misfits in the American landscape. When fate brings together three hapless men—an unemployed disc jockey (Tom Waits), a small-time pimp (John Lurie), and a strong-willed Italian tourist (Roberto Benigni)—in a Louisiana prison, a singular adventure […]

Flyktingen Francis försöker hitta sin plats i ett kallt Berlin utan papper eller arbetstillstånd. Han tar tillfälliga jobb och försöker hålla huvudet högt, men lockas snart av den karismatiske knarklangaren Reinholds erbjudande att tjäna lätta pengar. Francis dras in i stadens pulserande, kriminella nattliv och förälskar sig i prostituerade Mieze. Drömmen vaknar om att skapa […]

Den Gyllene Handsken är namnet på 1970-talets sjaskigaste bar i Hamburg, belägen i de slitna sexkvarteren. Här vältrar sig stammisar som Anus, SS-Norbert och Tampong-Günther i billig vodka, stark tobak och mänskligt sönderfall. Och så har vi herr Honka förstås! En vanställd och aggressiv suput som raggar upp de mest förfallna kvinnorna för att släpa […]