The Sun Shines Bright (The Masters of Cinema)

Jean-Pierre Melville (1917 – 1974) is one of the most revered French film directors of all time. Born in Paris during WW1, he was to become a member of the French resistance in the Second World War, an experience which he drew on in his later career as a film director, routinely plunging his characters […]

Maj 1940. Charles de Gaulle har just utnämnts till general och lämnar sin hustru och de tre barnen i östra Frankrike för att arbeta för regeringen i Paris. Här ställs han öga mot öga med statschefen och hans män som är redo att lägga sig på knäna inför Hitler, medan han själv är fast besluten […]

Sparks fly both on and off the court in this groundbreaking feature debut by writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood (The Old Guard), which elevated the coming-of-age romance by giving honest expression to the challenges female athletes face in a world that doesn’t see them as equal. Sanaa Lathan (Alien vs. Predator) and Omar Epps (Higher Learning) make […]

An acclaimed early work by Olivier Assayas, the long-unavailable, deeply felt coming-of-age drama Cold Water can at last be seen in the United States. Drawing from his own youthful experiences, Assayas revisits the outskirts of Paris in the early 1970s, telling the story of teenage lovers Gilles (Cyprien Fouquet) and Christine (Virginie Ledoyen), whose rebellions […]

Ricky Gervais writes, directs and stars in this documentary-style comedy, reprising his role as ‘The Office’ character David Brent. Taking place 15 years after the British sitcom, the film follows the former office manager as he takes time off from his day job as a sales rep to tour with his rock band Foregone Conclusion. […]

Stanley Kramer followed his Oscar-winning Judgment at Nuremberg with this sobering investigation of American greed. Ah, who are we kidding? It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, about a group of strangers fighting tooth and nail over buried treasure, is the most grandly harebrained movie ever made, a pileup of slapstick and borscht-belt-y one-liners performed by a nonpareil cast, […]

Svart cirkel är ett psykedeliskt skräckdrama med en gammal hypnos-LP i centrum. Skivan ska göra en lycklig och framgångsrik om man lyssnar på den när man sover, men den har tyvärr oönskade biverkningar. Två systrar återfinner varandra tack vare en hypnos-LP från 70-talet. Teorin är att den som lyssnar på skivan i sömnen ska bli […]

Based on Nikos Kazantzakis’ novel about Christ’s last days on Earth –,The carpenter Jesus of Nazareth, tormented by the temptations of demons, the guilt of making crosses for the Romans, pity for men and the world, and the constant call of God, sets out to find what God wills for him. But as his mission […]