The Garden (Blu-Ray)

One of Hollywood s most prolific directors, William A. Wellman was responsible for more than 80 features and a string of masterpieces including Wings, the first film to win the Best Picture Oscar, The Public Enemy, which made a star of James Cagney, screwball classic Nothing Sacred, the original A Star is Born and this […]

Don Cheadle directs and stars as Miles Davis in this biopic about the influential jazz musician. The film begins in the late 1970s during a dark and troubled time of Davis’s life in which, after giving up performing, he mostly lived as a recluse in his Upper West Side apartment in New York. When insistent […]

I filmen som allmänt betraktas som Bette Davis stora genombrott spelar hon Mildred Rogers, en cynisk servitris på jakt efter en framgångsrik man att gifta sig med. Hon träffar den klumpfotade läkarstudenten Philip Carey (Leslie Howard) som faller pladask för henne, trots hennes uppenbara förakt för honom. När han sedermera friar till henne, hånar hon […]

Aloof teenage Japanese tourists, a frazzled Italian widow, and a disgruntled British immigrant all converge in the city of dreams—which, in Mystery Train, from Jim Jarmusch (Stranger Than Paradise, Night on Earth), is Memphis. Made with its director’s customary precision and wit, Mystery Train is a triptych of stories that pay playful tribute to the […]

Christian Petzold har filmatiserat Anna Seghers roman ‘Transit Visa’ från 1942 på ett egensinnigt sätt. Historien om en ung judes flykt undan tysk ockupationsmakt är förflyttad till ett översaturerat nutida Marseille

Ett fruset Kristiania anno 1890. I detta ruckel till stad släpar sig den unge författaren Pontus fram. Utfattig, utmärglad, med en eskalerande hunger skrikande i sin kropp. Efter att ständigt ha blivit refuserad tvingas han ut på gatan med bara ett täcke i sin famn. För stolt för att ta emot den hjälp som erbjuds […]

From director Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front), Conclave follows one of the world’s most secretive and ancient events – selecting a new Pope. Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) is tasked with running this covert process after the unexpected death of the beloved Pope. Once the Catholic Church’s most powerful leaders have gathered from […]

Elisabeth Moss gives a tour-de-force performance as Shirley Jackson, one of the greatest horror writers of the 20th Century, in this unconventional biopic from the brilliant mind of director Josephine Decker (Madeline’s Madeline) and executive producer Martin Scorsese.