The Garden (Blu-Ray)

Palme d’Or-winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Uncle Boonmee who can Recall his Past Lives) returns with the surreal and overtly political Cemetery of Splendour. Soldiers struck by a mysterious sleeping epidemic lie comatose in a temporary clinic. The memory-filled space becomes a revelatory world for housewife and volunteer Jenjira, as she watches over Itt, a handsome […]

In this second of Francis Ford Coppola’s back-to-back screen adaptations of novels by S. E. Hinton, the grand romanticism of The Outsiders was flipped to create an expressionist, monochrome vision of youthful passion and melancholy, and became one of Coppola’s most personal and dazzling works. Against a run-down, industrial Tulsa, Oklahoma, Coppola presents a vivid portrait of […]

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 […]

A bracing blend of Apocalypse Now, Lord of the Flies and Embrace of the Serpent, Monos is a psychedelic ride into the dark heart of mankind. Exiled on a mountainside, the Monos are a teenage guerrilla group. Far away from clear orders, they must watch over a cow and a single hostage. But things go […]

Stanley Kubrick’s painfully funny take on Cold War anxiety is one of the fiercest satires of human folly ever to come out of Hollywood. The matchless shape-shifter Peter Sellers plays three wildly different roles: Royal Air Force Captain Lionel Mandrake, timidly trying to stop a nuclear attack on the USSR ordered by an unbalanced general (Sterling Hayden); […]

A new adaptation of Thomas Cullinan’s novel of the same name as opposed to a remake of the ’71 Clint Eastwood vehicle, The Beguiled is a mesmerising drama from Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation, The Bling Ring) for which she won Best Director at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. In the American Civil War, an injured Union soldier […]

The wildly prolific German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder paid homage to his cinematic hero Douglas Sirk with this update of that filmmaker’s 1955 All That Heaven Allows.….

This wry, melancholic comedy from Aki Kaurismäki, a response to the ongoing global refugee crisis, follows two people searching for a place to call home. Khaled (Sherwan Haji), a displaced Syrian