45 Years: Solid and Fragile

Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling. Photo: BFI My parents have been married for 44 years. I’m fascinated by couples who have stayed together that many decades. I find it almost…

Dunkirk: Surviving the Beach

Photo: Warner About 25 years ago, Christopher Nolan and his wife Emma Thomas were crossing the English Channel together with a friend. They were in a small sailing yacht headed…

The Bunker 

An account of the last days of the Nazi leadership as they were hunkering in a Berlin bunker, waiting for the end – and for Adolf Hitler to understand that…

L’Avventura: The Mystery of Anna

Gabriele Ferzetti and Monica Vitti. Photo: Cino del Duca The Cannes film festival is famous for its tumultuous screenings, but I wonder if there has ever been a change of…

Jackie: After Dealey Plaza

Caspar Phillipson and Natalie Portman. Photo: Fox Searchlight Pictures Chilean director Pablo Larraín was about to make his first American film, but had doubts. He had been offered a biopic…

Moonlight: Three Shades of Blue

Alex Hibbert and Mahershala Ali. Photo: A24 I love the poster for this film. The colors are deep shades of blue, purple and cyan and the three faces of the…

No 

In 1988, dictator Augusto Pinochet allows the people of Chile to vote on the future of his regime; ad man René Saavedra (Gael García Bernal) is hired by the opposition…

Looking 

One of the most explicit TV series ever made about gay men followed a group of friends in San Francisco, with focus on the 29-year-old game designer Patrick (Jonathan Groff)…

Virgin Spring: Faith and Fury

Birgitta Pettersson and Tor Isedal. Photo: SF Perhaps the most controversial of Ingmar Bergman’s films, The Virgin Spring was banned in Fort Worth, Texas because of its infamous rape scene,…

Torment: Hell in a Classroom

Stig Järrel and Alf Kjellin. Photo: SF This was the first screenplay Ingmar Bergman got filmed. According to one of his autobiographies, it was also his first experience of actually…