Muriel, or The Time of Return

Mozart’s immortal opera is masterfully reworked for the screen by the great Ingmar Bergman in this sublime rendering of one of the composer’s best-loved works a cheerful and charming operatic celebration of love, forgiveness and humanity. This marvellously melodic visual treat is available for the first time on Blu-ray and DVD in the UK, The […]

Äntligen kan vi likt Karl-Bertils familj förenas i ”den gemensamma känsla av andakt som endast en gammal långfilm på TV kan förunna människorna” som Tage Danielsson uttrycker det i Sagan om Karl-Bertil Jonssons julafton

Där Metin bor gäller de oskrivna lagarna och förortens egna domstolar har alltid det sista ordet. Här är ungdomarna lika rastlösa som bortglömda. Metins största problem är att han älskar att skriva. Han skriver om allt han ser, hör och gör. Namn och platser dokumenteras i minsta detalj. Så när han en dag upptäcker att hans […]

One of the most singular auteurs of the horror and science fiction genres, David Cronenberg has wowed audiences with his depictions of body transformations and explorations of society, this collection of his early short and feature films shows a master learning his craft and exploring many of the themes that would dominate his most celebrated […]

Forty years after its original release, audiences will get the chance to experience Apocalypse Now Final Cut, a never-before-seen and newly restored cut of Coppola’s spectacular cinematic masterpiece in a way which the director believes “looks better than it has ever looked and sounds better than it has ever sounded”.  Restored from the original […]

Joan Castleman (Glenn Close) is “the perfectly devoted wife”. Forty years spent sacrificing her own talent, dreams and ambitions to fan the flames of her charismatic husband Joe (Jonathan Pryce) and his skyrocketing literary career. Ignoring his infidelities and excuses because of his ‘art’ with grace and humor. Their fateful pact has built a marriage […]

Glamour has never been more grotesque than in Female Trouble, which injects the Hollywood melodrama with anarchic decadence. Divine, director John Waters’ larger-than-life muse, engulfs the screen with charisma as

I filmen som allmänt betraktas som Bette Davis stora genombrott spelar hon Mildred Rogers, en cynisk servitris på jakt efter en framgångsrik man att gifta sig med. Hon träffar den klumpfotade läkarstudenten Philip Carey (Leslie Howard) som faller pladask för henne, trots hennes uppenbara förakt för honom. När han sedermera friar till henne, hånar hon […]