The Man Who Fell To Earth – 40th Anniversary

Widely regarded as the greatest martial arts epic of all time, A Touch of Zen won awards worldwide (including at Cannes), smashed box-office records and had an incalculable influence on the genre as a whole. An unambitious painter named Gu (Shih Jun) lives with his mother in the vicinity of an abandoned mansion rumoured to be haunted. […]

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 […]

Donna Deitch’s swooning and sensual first narrative feature, Desert Hearts,was groundbreaking upon its release in 1985: a love story about two women, made entirely independently, on a shoestring budget, by a woman. In this 1959-set film, adapted from a beloved novel by Jane Rule, straitlaced East Coast professor Vivian Bell (Helen Shaver) arrives in Reno to […]

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 […]

Pietro och Bruno lär känna varandra under barndomens somrar i en italiensk bergsby. De har sina olikheter, men bland karga sluttningar och grönskande ängar växer en djup vänskap fram. Ödet skiljer dem åt och sammanför dem inte förrän många år senare. Nu är de vuxna, men för evigt sammanlänkade av sina minnen och en orubblig […]

One of the lesser-known Powell and Pressburger collaborations. During the Second World War, scientist Sammy Rice (David Farrar) works at a British research unit set up to solve the enemy’s methods of attack. Embittered after losing a foot in a bomb blast, Sammy is increasingly seeking solace in drink However, a budding romance with his […]

Vad ger man till en man som redan har allt? Brodern till den mäktige affärsmannen och multimiljardären Nicholas Van Orton ger honom inträdet til

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 […]