Top of the Lake: China Girl

François Truffaut’s late-career drama features mesmerising performances from two icons of French cinema, Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu, in a powerful character study set in German-occupied Paris. The Last Metro explores the fortunes of the Montmartre Theatre as its owner (Deneuve) battles censorship and compromise while hiding her Jewish husband from Nazi persecution. When a […]

“One of the few bona fide counter-cultural films to be produced by a major studio, The Swimmer is a sun-scorched and surreal suburban satire that boasts a fine performance from Burt Lancaster (Castle Keep, Buffalo Bill and the Indians) as Ned Merrill, the all-American man who one day determines to swim home to his Connecticut […]

Arvid Stjärnblom är en fattig journalist som träffar den levnadsglada Lydia Stille. De har ett kort men passionerat förhållande. Lydia gifter sig dock med en betydligt äldre baron. Strax därefter gifter sig även Arvid. Många år senare träffas de igen och passionens lågor har aldrig slocknat…

Maiden is the story of how Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook in charter boats, became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World in 1989. Tracy’s inspirational dream was opposed on all sides: her male competitors thought an all-women crew would never make it, the chauvinistic yachting press […]

Janis Joplin is one of the most revered and iconic rock & roll singers of all time, a tragic and misunderstood figure who thrilled millions of listeners and blazed new creative trails before her death in 1971 at age 27. With Janis: Little Girl Blue, Oscar-nominated director Amy Berg (Deliver Us from Evil, West of Memphis) […]

A cornerstone of the French New Wave, the first feature from Alain Resnais is one of the most influential films of all time. A French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) engage in a brief, intense affair in postwar Hiroshima, their consuming mutual fascination impelling them to exorcise their own scarred memories […]

Originally conceived as an hour-long video based on the Pet Shop Boys 1987 album, Actually, It Couldn’t Happen Here turned into a full-scale feature film directed by Jack Bond (The Blueblack Hussar). The first feature-length film starring the Pet Shop Boys alongside Joss Ackland, Gareth Hunt and Barbara Windsor finds Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe […]

Det är tidig morgon. Solen går sakta upp över Louisianas vidsträckta träskmarker när lugnet bryts av en trupp hemvärnsmän. Fullt fältutrustade brakar de ut i vildmarken för en övning med lösa skott. Men de är inte ensamma i träsket. Lek blir plötsligt blodigt allvar när fienden ger sig till känna i en skur av skarpa […]