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Bryan Cranston has picked up BAFTA and Oscar nominations for his performance as the titular Dalton Trumbo, a Hollywood screenwriter blacklisted in 1947 by the House of Un-American Activities. Writing in secret, Dalton and a group of other blacklisted writers were able to produce scripts for some of the biggest pictures of the day, in […]

In The Last Jedi the Skywalker saga continues as the heroes of The Force Awakens join the galactic legends in an epic adventure that unlocks age-old mysteries of the Force and shocking revelations of the past. The film stars Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong’o, Andy Serkis, Domhnall […]

A profound masterpiece from one of the most revered filmmakers in the history of cinema, Robert Bresson’s Au hasard Balthazar follows the donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is […]

Per Anders Fogelström är tveklöst vår främsta Stockholmsskildrare. Debutromanen ”Ligister”, som var förlagd till den del av Södermalm där ligistmentaliteten frodades som allra värst i mitten av förra seklet, filmades som ”Medan staden sover” 1950 på initiativ av Ingmar Bergman. Filmen skapade livlig debatt huruvida de unga brottslingar som skildrades kunde ha negativ inverkan på […]

En förbjuden relation mellan tjänsteflickan Sada och hennes husbonde får ett tragiskt slut – en verklig händelse som skakade kejsardömet Japan 1936. När japanska nya vågen-regissören Nagisa Oshima tolkade den gripande historien

Based on the infamous urban legend and featuring one of the most famous and gripping opening scenes in horror movie history (homaged by Wes Craven in the opening of Scream), Fred Walton’s When a Stranger Calls is a masterclass in suspense that has rarely been equalled. A student babysitter has her evening disturbed when the […]

This unorthodox dream western by Robert Altman may be the most radically beautiful film to come out of the New American Cinema. It stars Warren Beatty and Julie Christie as two newcomers

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 […]