The Sun Shines Bright (The Masters of Cinema)

Det ståndar bröllop på bonden Victor Palms gård. Yngsta dottern Hildur ska giftas bort med den förmögne slaktaren Hilmer Westlund, som är dubbelt så gammal och ökänd som traktens värsta

Following hot on the heels of his recent Jackie, Pablo Larraín’s latest film is a stylised biopic of the Chilean poet, diplomat and politician. Beloved poet Pablo Neruda (Luis Gnecco) is also the most famous communist in post-WWII Chile. When the political tides shift, he is forced underground, with a perseverant police inspector (Gael García […]

Pedro Almodóvar’s intensely personal 21st film is a scrapbook of the director’s memories. Director Salvador Mallo (Antonio Banderas) is called to revisit one of his early career triumphs. But the new restoration connects him with estranged friends, and shakes loose old memories. We move back and forth between recollections of his mother (Penélope Cruz), his […]

As devout Jehovah’s Witnesses, sisters Alex and Luisa and their mother, Ivanna, are united in The Truth. Alex looks up to her confident older sister, while striving to follow in Ivanna’s footsteps as a ‘good Witness’. But when Luisa starts to question the advice of the Elders, she makes a life-altering transgression that threatens to […]

One of Andrei Tarkovsky’s most influential works, a mesmerizing collage of his own memories and dreams A subtly ravishing passage through the halls of time and memory, this sublime reflection on twentieth-century Russian history by Andrei Tarkovsky (Stalker) is as much a poem composed in images, or a hypnagogic hallucination, as it is a work […]

Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s intense drama about racial tensions starring Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier… A pivotal early film in the wave of racially progressive dramas of the 1950s and 60s, Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s No Way Out is an electrifying film-noir about a doctor whose ethics are put to the test when he comes into conflict […]

The fire of Barbra Steisand. The magnetism of Kris Kristofferson. The reckless world of big-time rock ‘n’ roll. All three bring anew passion and timelessness to A Star Is Born, one of the screen’s classic love stories (previously filmed in 1937 and 1954) and winner of five Golden Globe Awards, including Best Picture, Actress and […]

Offering an experience of the First World War like no other, Sam Mendes (Skyfall) retells a true episode from the Great War in this supremely immersive race against the clock. Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman) and Schofield (George MacKay) are picked to deliver a message across enemy lines. If they fail to arrive on time, hundreds of […]