The Endless Summer

Mêle-sur-Sarthe är en charmig liten by i Normandie där alla känner alla. Men inte ens denna idyll är förskonad från den kris som drabbat bondesamhällen över hela Frankrike. Borgmästare Georges kämpar hårt för att rädda byn undan ruin och att få medierna uppmärksamma på deras situation, men intresset är iskallt. Av en slump passerar en […]

Billi (Awkwafina) is called back from New York to her native China because her beloved grandmother is facing her last days. Yet, in accordance with tradition, this news is kept from the matriarch herself. Keeping up the pretence of a family wedding while reconnecting and grieving, we follow Billi on a funny, deeply moving exploration […]

Italian director Stefano Sollimi is on the rise. Having recently directed the series Gomorrah this is his super stylish thrilling take on what happens to an amoral MP after a night of debauchery. Layering tension on top of tension and with a fantastic ensemble cast this is crime at its most exhilarating with a fearless […]

François Truffaut’s first feature is also his most personal. Told from the point of view of Truffaut’s cinematic counterpart, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups) sensitively re-creates

The Samurai Trilogy, directed by Hiroshi Inagaki and starring the inimitable Toshiro Mifune, was one of Japan’s most successful exports of the 1950s, a rousing, emotionally gripping tale of combat and self-discovery. Based on a novel that’s often called Japan’s Gone with the Wind, this sweeping saga fictionalizes the life of the legendary seventeenth-century swordsman (and writer and […]

Winner of the prestigious Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival (1976) and nominated for 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture (1976), Taxi Driver stars Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese’s classic film of a psychotic New York cabbie driven to violence by loneliness and desperation. Co-starring Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle […]

In this original movie based on David Milch’s acclaimed, Emmy-winning HBO series of the same name which debuted 15 years ago today, the indelible characters of the show are reunited after a decade to celebrate South Dakota’s statehood. Former rivalries are reignited, alliances are tested and old wounds reopened as all are left to navigate […]

Författaren Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy skrev den kultförklarade romanen Sarah, hängde med Smashing Pumpkins och producerade indiefilmer. Trodde alla. År 2006 avslöjade en reporter att JT LeRoy var en konstruerad författarpersona, en pseudonym för Laura Albert men förkroppsligad i offentligheten av skådespelaren Savannah Knoop. Efter ett decennium av skamlösa drev mot den så kallade ”bluffen” Laura […]