Taxi Driver: 40th Anniversary Edition

Det är inte hjärtan som smälter när New Yorks luffare faller för brännvinet “Tenafy Viper” – det är hela kroppar! En skrupelfri och girig ägare av en spritbutik i Brooklyn har hittat en dammig låda med gamla buteljer i sin källare och bestämmer sig för att kränga rävgiftet till traktens alkisar – trots att bäst […]

I många år har den gamle träsnidaren Mr Chameleon underhållit traktens barn med sina historier om den farliga draken som bor långt in i den djupa skogen. För hans dotter Grace, som jobbar som skogsvaktare är dessa berättelser inte mer än överdrivna historier, tills hon möter Peter, en 10-åring utan vare sig hem eller familj. […]

Spike Lee’s hugely enjoyable and politically timely film uses this unbelievable case to lift a lid on racism in America, both past and present. It’s frequently hilarious, particularly in highlighting the idiocy of the Klan, but never misses a moment to comment on racial inequality.  Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) was a black Colorado […]

It might have begun as a publicity stunt for ageing tennis player Bobby Riggs (Steve Carrell), but his challenging star women’s player Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) to a tennis match ignited a series of issues that shone a light on the sport’s sexist attitudes. It’s a smart choice of material for the directors of […]

First-time filmmaker Bing Liu s Oscar-nominated documentary Minding the Gap is a coming-of-age saga of three skateboarding friends in their Rust Belt hometown hit hard by decades of recession. In his quest to understand why he and his friends all ran away from home when they were younger, Bing follows 23-year-old Zack as he becomes […]

David Lynch’s 1977 debut feature, Eraserhead, is both a lasting cult sensation and a work of extraordinary craft and beauty. With its mesmerizing black-and-white photography by….

Few filmmakers have enjoyed a decade quite so diverse or quite so prolific as Rainer Werner Fassbinder did during the seventies. Amid the likes of The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant and Fear Eats the Soul, it s easy to forget some of the lesser-known and more singular works, two of which are presented […]

He was a boy from Tupelo who grew up to become the biggest star in music. Along the way, he absorbed a staggering range of influences, creating a revolutionary sound in his lifelong search for self-expression. Following his creative journey from childhood through the final 1976 Jungle Room recording sessions, two-part presentation Elvis Presley: The […]