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Paweł Pawlikowski follows his Oscar-winning Ida with the stunning Cold War, an epic romance set against the backdrop of Europe after World War II. In the ruins of post-war Poland, Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) and Zula (Joanna Kulig) fall deeply, obsessively and destructively in love. As performing musicians forced to play into the Soviet propaganda machine, […]

Romance becomes psychodrama in the elegantly crafted Rebecca, Alfred Hitchcock’s first foray into Hollywood filmmaking. A dreamlike adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 novel, the film stars the enchanting Joan Fontaine as

The life and controversial death of Vincent van Gogh as told by his paintings and by the characters that inhabit them. Beginning a year after his demise, this portrait of the artist is built via a series of interviews conducted by Armand Roulin (Douglas Booth) – a regular model for the artist’s portraits – who […]

A singular work in film history, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles meticulously details, with a sense of impending doom, the daily routine of a middle-aged widow

A uniquely prolific and chameleonic figure of world cinema, Kon Ichikawa delivered a burst of stylistic bravado with this intricate tale of betrayal and retribution. Set in the cloistered world of

1630 råder fred i Japan och landet myllrar av herrelösa samurajer som inte bara förlorat sin försörjning, utan också sin stolthet. Något som gör att många samurajer nu väljer att avsluta sina liv för egen hand. Till klanen Ivys herresäte anländer den ärrade samurajen Hanshiro för att framlägga sin önskan om att på deras gårdsplan […]

Berättelsen om Johnny Bode är en fantastisk historia, som till viss del liknar skrönor som Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann eller Forrest Gump. Men den är alldeles sann! Schlagerstjärnan, skojaren, kleptomanen, operettkungen och snuskmusikinnovatören Johnny Bode hade stora succéer både i Sverige och Europa, men ändå är han idag helt utskriven ut […]

Susan Seidelman established her distinctive vision of New York City with this debut feature, the lo-fi original for her vibrant portraits of women reinventing themselves. After escaping New Jersey, the quintessentially punk Wren (Susan Berman)—a spark plug in fishnets—moves to the city with the mission of becoming famous. When not pasting up self-promotional flyers or […]