The Witch – A New England folktale

Earning him an Oscar nomination, Willem Dafoe is mesmerising as Vincent van Gogh. Covering his time in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise, we find a complex, troubled soul who is seeking a new visual language, while also struggling to make sense of himself and his connection to those around him. 

This first feature by the legendary Hideo Gosha is among the most beloved chanbara (sword-fighting) films. An origin-story offshoot of a Japanese television phenomenon of the same name, Three Outlaw Samurai is a classic in its own right. A wandering, seen-it-all ronin (Tetsuro Tamba) becomes entangled in the dangerous business of two other samurai (Isamu […]

HIS WIFE. HIS MISTRESS. HIS CAREER. A DEADLY TRAP. In 1986, John Frankenheimer the director of The Manchurian Candidate, Seconds and French Connection II made the unlikely career move of working with schlockmeisters Cannon Films. Adapting Elmore Leonard s novel of the same name, 52 Pick-Up’s union brought about the perfect blend of high calibre […]

John Ajvide Lindqvists novell får nytt liv i Ali Abbasis egensinniga Cannesvinnare. Handlingen i Gräns kretsar kring tullpolisen Tina, som har ett sjätte sinne när det gäller att peka ut smugglare. Det är nästan som om hon kan lukta sig till när någon försöker dölja något. Ryktet om hennes skicklighet sprider sig inom poliskåren och […]

Giuseppe Tornatores nostalgiska mästerverk om vänskapen mellan en filmmaskinist på den italienska landsbygden och en filmtokig liten pojke är en av alla tiders mest älskade filmer. Cinema Paradiso belönades med både en Oscar och

Stanley Kubrick bent the conventions of the historical drama to his own will in this dazzling vision of brutal aristocracy, adapted from a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. In picaresque detail, Barry Lyndon chronicles the adventures of an incorrigible trickster (Ryan O’Neal) whose opportunism takes him from an Irish farm to the battlefields of the […]

Prodigious talent Xavier Dolan comes of age with his dazzling sixth film, It’s Only the End of the World, based on the play of the same name by Jean-Luc Lagarce and featuring an all-star cast of top French actors. After 12 years of estrangement a writer (Gaspard Ulliel) returns to his hometown, planning on announcing […]

Former police office, Asger Holm, settles into another shift at an emergency dispatch call centre. He takes calls. He sends help. Repeat. But when a call from a desperately distressed woman is abruptly cut off, Asger enters a race against time to find her using only his telephone and his wits.  This nail-biting, adrenaline-sapping […]