Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach

Jim Jarmusch’s new film Gimme Danger chronicles the story of The Stooges, one of the greatest rock-n-roll bands of all time. Emerging from Ann Arbor Michigan amidst a countercultural revolution, The Stooges powerful and aggressive style of rock-n-roll blew a crater in the musical landscape of the late 1960s. Assaulting audiences with a blend of rock, blues, […]

On the surface, Jean Renoir’s brilliant satire is a series of interlinked romantic intrigues that take place during a weekend shooting party in a country château. But the film is, in fact, a study of the corruption and decay at the top of French society on the eve of the Second World War. Denigrated by […]

Blue Note Records: Beyond The Notes is a revelatory, thrilling and emotional journey behind the scenes of Blue Note Records, the pioneering label that gave voice to some of the finest jazz artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. When the German Jewish refugees Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff started Blue Note in 1939 in […]

Céline (Juliet Berto), a magician, and Julie (Dominique Labourier), a librarian, meet in Montmartre and wind up sharing the same flat, bed, fiancé, clothes, identity and imagination. Soon, thanks to a magic sweet, they find themselves spectators, then participants, in a Henry James-inspired ‘film-within-the-film’ – a melodrama unfolding in a mysterious suburban house with the […]

Sextio år fyllda med tovigt skägg, ett haltande ben och slitna kläder är Lefty Brown långt ifrån någon hjältetyp. Under fyra decennier har han ridit sida vid sida med westernlegenden Eddie Johnson, men alltid i hans skugga. Strax efter att Eddie valts till ämbetet som Montanas senator blir denne brutalt mördad och Lefty tvingas att […]

Renowned Belgian directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Two Days, One Night) continue their empathetic examinations of the compromises faced by everyday people in their psychologically complex new drama The Unknown Girl. Rising French actor Adèle Haenel (Water Lilies, Les Combattants) stars as Jenny Davin, a talented doctor who refuses to open the door of her […]

Året är 1910 när tidningsmagnaten Lord Rawnsley utlyser världens första stora flygtävling, med 10.000 pund i pris till den som lyckas ta sig snabbast över engelska kanalen till Paris. Flygare anländer från världens alla hörn för att kämpa om att bli luftens konung med alla medel som står till buds – både tillåtna och otillåtna! […]

In the same year as winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film with A Fantastic Woman, Sebastián Lelio delivers the English-language Disobedience, starring Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams. When her father, a Rabbi in a north London Synagogue, passes away, Ronit returns from New York to her childhood home to pay her respects. She […]