L’Avventura (Blu-Ray)

With this film, the audacious Ken Russell vaulted onto the international stage, drawing on the psychosexual radicalism of D. H. Lawrence’s classic novel to shatter taboos in his own time

Kate Winslet as you’ve never seen her before, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Casey Affleck are just some of the stars in John Hillcoat’s (The Proposition, Lawless) new crime thriller. Betrayal, cooked cops, Russian mafia and some genuine seedy characters all feature whilst the film solidly ratchets up the tension towards one final heist and an audacious […]

Yorgos Lanthimos has crafted a sensational thriller brimming with unsettling humour and creeping dread, steeped in Greek tragedy, existential horror, Hitchcockian psychodrama, and riveting suspense. Darting confidently between genres to subvert our expectations at every turn, The Killing of a Sacred Deer firmly cements Lanthimos in the pantheon of world-class auteurs and marks him as […]

A peerless chronicler of the soul who specialized in supremely emotional, visually exquisite films about the circumstances of women in Japanese society, Kenji Mizoguchi had already been……

Mai Zetterling (1925-1994) gjorde inte som någon annan. Hon var kaxig och trampade sig in på ett högst mansdominerat område. Mai tänkte annorlunda, var orädd, tog plats och ignorerade alla former av hinder. I början av 1960-talet när Mai Zetterling började göra långfilm var hon en av världens få kvinnliga regissörer. Och innan hon valde […]

Året är 10191. I kampen om universums högt värderade krydda “melange”, som produceras på planeten Dune, måste unge hertig Paul Atreides kämpa mot kejsarens konspirationer och den slavdrivande klanledaren baron Harkonnen, gigantiska sandmaskar i öknen och försöka leda folken mot frihet i jakt på en stundande Messias. I David Lynchs episka mästerverk, baserad på Frank […]

Set against a backdrop of emerging teen culture and rising racial tension in late 50s London, Colin MacInnes’ cult novel is brought to the screen in Julien Temple’s lavish musical adaptation. Struggling young photographer Colin sees his ambitious, fame-seeking girlfriend Crepe Suzette slipping away as she ruthlessly pursues a career in fashion. To win her […]

In this hysterical satire of Reagan-era values, written and directed by Albert Brooks, a successful Los Angeles advertising executive (Brooks) and his wife (Julie Hagerty) decide to quit their jobs, buy a Winnebago