The Garden (Blu-Ray)

An intoxicating, time-bending experience bathed in the golden glow of oil lamps and wreathed in an opium haze, this gorgeous period reverie by Hou Hsiao-hsien traces the romantic intrigue, jealousies, and tensions swirling around four late-nineteenth-century Shanghai “flower houses,” where courtesans live confined to a gilded cage, ensconced in opulent splendor but forced to work […]

Ett fartyg anländer till San Francisco från Palermo. Ombord finns ett stort, värdefullt 1700-talskors som är en gåva från en maffiaboss till biskopen. Men i korset finns en hålighet som döljer ett stort heroinparti. Någon är ute efter att sätta dit bossen, som nu ger sin advokat Ulysses i uppdrag att finna de skyldiga. Till […]

It’s the year 2073, and the worst fears of modern life have been realised. Surveillance drones fill the burnt orange skies and militarised police roam the wrecked streets, while survivors hide away underground, struggling to remember a free and hopeful existence. In this ingenious mixture of visionary science fiction and speculative nonfiction, Academy Award-winning filmmaker […]

A classic tale is reborn through the inspired imagination of cinematic dream-weaver Guillermo del Toro, directing alongside Mark Gustafson. Realized through boundary-pushing, breathtakingly intricate stop-motion animation, this dark rendering of the fable of the puppet boy and his maker—which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature—daringly transfers the story to Italy, where the irrepressible […]

During a long hot summer in south London Jamie is bunking off school more than usual, scurrying back to the TV and the flat in the Thamesmead estate where he lives with his mother Sandra. Whilst his neighbour Leigh, who’s been kicked out of school, spends her days listening to Mama Cass records. In the […]

A collection of strange stories, all signed by the master of body horror – David Cronenberg. The set features four of the auteur’s most celebrated movies, including his big breakthrough with the techno-sexual Videodrome, surrealist William S. Burroughs adaptation Naked Lunch, Cannes Special Jury Prize-winning Crash, and the lush life exposé Cosmopolis. See James Woods’ […]

Mathieu Kassovitz’s landmark mid-90s drama, newly restored in 4K to mark the film’s 25th anniversary. Turning the camera away from iconic Paris to the concrete banlieue, Mathieu Kassovitz’s second film as a director changed the cultural landscape of French cinema when it landed at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995, where it won the prize […]

When the most important friend in her life seems to have disappeared without a trace, Elena Greco, a now elderly woman immersed in a house full of books, turns on her computer and starts writing the story of their friendship. She met Raffaella Cerullo, whom she has always called Lila, in the first year of […]