The Hollow Crown: The War of the Roses

Mai Zetterling (1925-1994) gjorde inte som någon annan. Hon var kaxig och trampade sig in på ett högst mansdominerat område. Mai tänkte annorlunda, var orädd, tog plats och ignorerade alla former av hinder. I början av 1960-talet när Mai Zetterling började göra långfilm var hon en av världens få kvinnliga regissörer. Och innan hon valde […]

Terrence Malick directs Christian Bale as disillusioned screenwriter Rick on an odyssey through the playgrounds of Los Angeles and Las Vegas as he undertakes a search for love and self. His quest to break the spell of his disenchantment takes him on a series of adventures with six alluring women: rebellious Della (Imogen Poots), his […]

Considered by many to be the last of the true 40s and 50s film noirs, Odds Against Tomorrow is the story of a daring robbery gone wrong. When ruthless killer Earle Slater (Robert Ryan) teams up with crooked ex-cop Dave Burke (Ed Begley), and gambler Johnny Ingram (Harry Belafonte) to rob a New York bank, things quickly start […]

With electric camp and epic swagger, the early years of Elton John are brought to the screen for an anthemic sing-a-long. Taron Egerton charms as the man once known as Reg Dwight, from his journey to unassuming prog-band keyboardist to bona fide pop royalty. With the help of his mother (Bryce Dallas Howard), lyricist Bernie […]

In the town of Twin Peaks, everybody has their secrets—but no one more than Laura Palmer. In this prequel to his groundbreaking 1990s television series, David Lynch resurrects the teenager found wrapped in

Tillsammans med Victor Sjöström, Ingmar Bergman och Bo Widerberg räknas Jan Troell som vår allra största filmskapare – både internationellt och här hemma. Under Troells över femtio år långa karriär har hans filmer nominerats till sju Oscars och belönats med sexton guldbaggar, tre Golden Globe-statyetter och tio priser i Berlin. En storslagen bedrift som ingen […]

Made in Spain while General Franco was still in power and shown clandestinely, Pere Portabella’s extraordinary Vampir Cuadecuc ostensibly follows the filming of Jess Franco’s shocker El conde Dracula (Count Dracula, 1970) starring Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom and the exquisite Soledad Miranda. This experimental ‘making of’ documentary and investigation into the myth of the vampire, […]

This heartrending masterpiece by Kenji Mizoguchi about the give-and-take between life and art marked the first full realization of the hypnotic long takes and eloquent camera movements that would come to define the director’s films