Williams (Blu-Ray)

En kärlekshyllning, en sorgesång och en människoskildring som både skakar om och berör. ”Jag föddes påtänd”. Orden kommer från MonaLisa som kämpar med att lägga heroinet på hyllan. Dokumentärfilmaren Jessica Nettelbladt har följt den hårt prövade, men långt ifrån knäckta, MonaLisa under åtta år. Resultatet är en lika ärlig som rå film om en kvinnas […]

Jack Nicholson… Heath Ledger…  Phoenix. Batman’s nemesis has become a peach of a role, a swirling ball of chaos upon which to imprint their own madness. Todd Philips (War Dogs, The Hangover) delivers a new standalone origin story for the clown with the cracked smile. Phoenix plays Joker as a lightning rod for a sick world. […]

Directed by Gabe and Ben Turner, Hitsville: The Making of Motown focuses on the period beginning with the birth of the company in Detroit in 1958 until its relocation to Los Angeles in the early 1970s. The story of Motown is told through interviews with the label’s visionary founder, Berry Gordy, and many of its […]

Based on the infamous urban legend and featuring one of the most famous and gripping opening scenes in horror movie history (homaged by Wes Craven in the opening of Scream), Fred Walton’s When a Stranger Calls is a masterclass in suspense that has rarely been equalled. A student babysitter has her evening disturbed when the […]

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 […]

Peter Turner met Hollywood legend Gloria Grahame at a London lodging in the late 1970s. They fell in love and embarked on an intense if short-lived affair. Paul McGuigan’s touching film, based on Turner’s memoir, recalls that time and their subsequent encounter in Liverpool a few years later. It’s a beautiful and evocative drama, with […]

Paris, Texas är den tyske regissören Wim Wenders mest kända film vid sidan av Himmel över Berlin. Den vann Guldpalmen i Cannes 1984 och både filmen och Ry Cooders filmmusik genljuder än i dag som ett av de starkaste populärkulturella minnena från 1980-talet.

Dansfilmens okrönte kung, Fred Astaire, bjuder upp Charlie Chaplins dåvarande fru och motspelerska Paulette Goddard – och får tuff konkurrens av dubbelt Oscarnominerade Burgess Meredith, mest känd  som Rocky Balboas tränare Mickey i Sylvester Stallones Rocky-filmer! Danny O’Neill (Astaire) och Hank Taylor (Meredith) spelar båda trumpet i en liten orkester på sitt college, och trivs […]