The Assassin (Blu-Ray)

As an unidentified virus sweeps the country, the Korean government declares martial law. As the country descends into chaos, one city, Busan, is rumoured to have successfully fended off the virus outbreak and remains the only beacon of hope for those not yet infected. But when the virus breaks out on an express train to […]

Alain Resnais’s Muriel, or The Time of Return, the director’s follow-up to Last Year at Marienbad, is as radical a reflection on the nature of time and memory as its predecessor. The always luminous Delphine Seyrig stars a

Östtyskland 1979. Utleda på diktaturens förtryck har familjerna Strelzyk och Wetzel i största hemlighet ägnat lång tid åt att själva sy och snickra ihop en luftballong. Deras plan är att fly till friheten i väst, men efter att deras första försök misslyckats vet regimen att något stort är på gång. Med den största styrka Stasi […]

In the seventies William Friedkin made The French Connection, The Exorcist and Sorcerer. In the eighties he equalled them with To Live and Die in L.A., one of the most stylish thrillers the decade had to offer. When his partner is murdered just days before retirement, Secret Service Agent Richard Chance (William Petersen, Manhunter) begins […]

Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, Requiem for a Dream) helms this claustrophobic allegorical thriller starring Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, and Michelle Pfeiffer. A couple live in their perfect house – but with the arrival of strangers, things turn very, very strange. Aronofsky takes home invasion to a new level in this much-anticipated return to form. Special […]

Montparnasse 19, a film about the tragic final years in the life of Italian painter and sculptor Amadeo Modigliani, was itself beset by tragedy. Max Ophuls, the famed director of Letter from an Unknown Woman and Le Plaisir, died during its production, leaving his friend Jacques Becker to complete the picture. Its lead performer too, […]

Ville Kanin bor i sin bur på en gård. En dag rymmer han. I skogen träffar han Vilda Kanin som plåstrar om en sårad hare. Ville och Vilda plockar lingon och svamp. En gammal kråka skrämmer slag på Ville me

The accomplished multidisciplinary Chilean artist’s latest cinematic work is a retelling of his young adulthood between 1940 and 1950. In Santiago de Chile, during the thrilling years of the 40s and the 50s, 20-year-old “Alejandrito” Jodorowsky decides to become a poet against the will of his family. He is introduced in the inner circle of […]