Million Dollar Baby: No Guts, No Glory

Clint Eastwood and Hilary Swank. Photo: Warner As an actor, Clint Eastwood is a genuine American icon. His career as a director on the other hand looked quite uneven in…

Shadow of the Vampire: A Symphony of Horrors

Willem Dafoe. Photo: Lionsgate Anyone who has ever seen Nosferatu, F.W. Murnau’s marvelous, silent vampire flick, is likely to never forget the appearance of Count Orlok, the bald, rat-like bloodsucker…

Falcon Crest: Wine, Women and Power

Photo: CBS At first they all seem to have had realism in mind, the primetime soaps of the 1980s. The first episodes of Falcon Crest showed a middle-class family moving…

Ray 

Director Taylor Hackford tried to get this project off the ground for several years, a biopic on the life of soul giant Ray Charles. It is a fairly conventional film,…

The Beach 

Young American Richard (Leonardo DiCaprio), who’s backpacking in Thailand, finds a map that supposedly will take him to a paradise untouched by humans. John Hodge's novel is a modern classic…

The Piano Teacher 

Erika Kohut (Isabelle Huppert) is a Viennese piano teacher in her forties who agrees to have an affair with a much younger man (Benoît Magimel)… as long as he fulfills…

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

Fashion designer Petra von Kant (Margit Carstensen) begins a relationship with the much younger Karin Thimm (Hanna Schygulla), but is once again unable to find what she’s looking for. Who…

RKO 281 

The story of how a lauded theater man called Orson Welles got the chance to direct a movie, but his choice to make Citizen Kane damn near killed his career. Why? Because…

Bengbulan 

Tre barn mobbas av en märklig ung man kallad ”Bengbulan” (Simon Norrthon), som tycks ha psykiska problem. Mobbning och rasism i olika former har Suzanne Osten undersökt under 90-talet; den här…