Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

Rick Dalton has long been viewed as a great and bankable television star, thanks to his lead role in a popular western series, playing a self-confident and ruthless bounty hunter. But now his career is floundering and he realizes his success could be something of the past. Nevertheless…

The Last Movie

A young American, Kansas, who has settled down in a village in a lush corner of Peru gets hired as a horse wrangler in a movie set built nearby for a low-cost western production. The experience leaves him dissatisfied and instead of dreaming about filmmaking, he resumes a life that seems…

Bu san – Goodbye, Dragon Inn

This is nighttime and the weather is rainy. A distant figure is shot stepping stealthily, hurriedly, into a movie theater. And so begins a strange journey.
Entering a movie theater means anyway exploring a new world, designed by a crew, enlivened…

The Fabelmans

Cinema is a gift of life, given out of love.
It was not eagerly sought after: the first scene shows a boy stridently reluctant to go to the movies, with his parents trying their best to convince him he should give it a try. Subtly, their…

Menschen an Sonntag – People on Sunday

A man, name: Wolfgang won Waltershausen, flirts with a woman, name: Annie Schreyer, and invites her at a café; they get along and after he walks her back to her home she accepts to give spend the next day with him. Later on that Saturday afternoon, a taxi driver, name: Erwin Splettstößer…

Körkarlen – The Phantom Carriage

As she lies dying a young Salvation Army worker asks to meet a man she tried to help. Two of her colleagues scour the city right away, but quite unenthusiastic: David Holm seems to have been a hell of a problem, even a nuisance – as she wakes her daughter, Edit’s mother has begged…

Du som er i himlen – As in Heaven

Bad dreams open the film, raising the stakes for a day that should be unlike many others in the sprawling, wealthy farming estate of the Broholm family: this is the last day the elder daughter of the parents, Lisa, is spending with her relatives, as she is supposed to leave…

Night Watching

This is not the first time a film examines the life and works of great 17th century Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn – think of Alexander Korda in 1936 (“Rembrandt”) or Jos Stelling in 1977 (“Rembrandt fecit 1669”). What sets right away director Peter Greenaway’s effort apart…