Arrow Video The Lukas Moodysson Collection
Karl Fredrik Lukas Moodysson is a Swedish short story writer, novelist and director who started his creative career as a poet but became known by directing 1998’s Show Me Love before undergoing a series of films that continually shift styles. After Show Me Love won four Guldbagge Awards — best film, best actress (shared by the […]
Arrow Video The Lukas Moodysson Collection: We Are the Best! (2013)
After the experimentation and bleak outlook of the past few Lukas Moodysson movies, We Are the Best! is a charming look at growing up young and punk rock in 1982 Stockholm. It’s based on his wife’s autobiographical graphic novel Never Goodnight. Bobo and Klara are 13-year-old girls ostracized by their peers for their love of punk rock. […]
KINO LORBER BLU RAY RELEASE: The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
Columbia Pictures president Harry Cohn got this movie from Orson Welles — he promised to write, produce and direct it for just $55,000 — because he helped him pay for Welles’ production of Around the World, a musical stage adaptation of the Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days. In Spine Tingler! The William […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: En busca del dragón dorado (1983)
Jess Franco never seemed satisfied. How else do you explain not only making Vaya luna de miel in 1980 as an adaption of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Gold Bug yet also making a movie for kids with the same inspiration? A child movie from Franco? I’m as surprised as you. Also, not surprising: Franco would try to make […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: Vaya luna de miel (1980)
Found by Jess Franco scholar Álex Mendíbil in the Filmoteca Española archive after being lost for forty years, this is pure joy on film. Yolanda (Lina Romay, never more charming, vivacious or just, man, I want to hug her; just look at her in this cowboy hat in the movie and tell me that Jess […]
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