The lives of two sisters change dramatically after they have been hypnotized by a mystical vinyl record from the 1970’s. Intriguing horror film about a pair of sisters who discover a supernatural vinyl record whose self-help mumbo jumbo unearths dopplegangers wanting to break on thru to the other side. Filmmaker Adrian Garcia Bogliano taps into many sub genres: Cronenbergian body horror; Lynch doubles; Craven dreamscapes; ‘RING’ like overtones (audio instead of video), ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ viscera and even echoes of giallo. It plays like a greatest hits of modern-day terror.Read More »
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Adrian Garcia Bogliano – Svart Cirkel AKA Black Circle (2018)
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Ingmar Bergman – Sommarlek AKA Summer Interlude (1951) (HD)
1951-1960DramaIngmar BergmanRomanceSwedenA lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years prior during a brief summer vacation.Read More »
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Ingmar Bergman – Sommarnattens leende AKA Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) (HD)
1951-1960ComedyIngmar BergmanRomanceSwedenIn Sweden at the turn of the century, members of the upper class and their servants find themselves in a romantic tangle that they try to work out amidst jealousy and heartbreak.Read More »
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Börje Larsson – En trallande jänta AKA Miss Swing (1942)
Drama1941-1950Börje LarssonMusicalSwedenInger, a parentless country girl of 17, dreams of being a professional singer. Through donations from the commune she gets the opportunity to go to the city for proper singing lessons, and a lot of swing on the sly…Read More »
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Claes Eriksson – Leif (1987) (HD)
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“The weapons factory in Rotum is selling weapons illegally,” ‘Leif’ writes in the local newspaper. He must be stopped, even if what he has written happens to be true. Gunnar Volt and some of the other workers at the factory set out to get him.Read More » -
Gunvor Nelson – Moons Pool (1973)
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The explicit body politics in Gunvor Nelson’s popular Take Off is developed further in her highly personal Moons Pool. The film begins with shots of naked bodies in a bath and transgresses into depicting male and female bodies swimming naked underwater. The latter part of the film is almost totally liberated from speech, and has a dreamlike, complex soundtrack consisting of sounds of waves, voices, water and music woven together into a seamless web of sounds. (John Sundholm)Read More » -
Jesper Ganslandt – Jimmie (2018)
2011-2020DramaJesper GanslandtSwedenA four-year-old boy and his father set out to find safety when violent conflict erupts in their native Sweden.Read More »
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Ronnie Sandahl – Tigrar AKA Tigers (2020)
Sweden2011-2020DramaRonnie SandahlThe true story of teenage football talent Martin Bengtsson’s life-and-death journey through a modern-day football industry where everything, and everyone, has a price tag.
Busan International Film Festival 2020 – Best Film
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Jean Rouch & Raoul Ruiz & Titte Törnroth – Brise-glace (1988)
1981-1990DocumentaryExperimentalJean RouchRaoul RuizSwedenTitte TörnrothQuote:
Beyond a film, Icebreaker is in 1987 the first media composition, construction of 3 original works made on the Swedish icebreaker Frej, and involving the main means of expression. “Bateau Givre” by Jean Rouch (35′), carries the principles of direct cinema. Rouch discovers in his camera, without the artifice of a commentary, without the help of a third language, the work and the days of the icebreaker and the men who serve it. “Hans Majestäts Statsisbrytaren Frej” by Titte Törnroth (20′), offers a second approach, where the characters, who have acquired a mysterious presence with Rouch, evoke their work, their emotions, in their activities as well as in their moments of relaxation. This film answers the questions left unanswered in the previous one. Raoul Ruiz’s “Tales of Ice” (34′); when the viewer thinks he has gone around a reality that has become familiar, makes it tip over into a profusion of fictions; three stories weave together in this fantastic film where ice plays the central role, where the icebreaker becomes a strange vessel wandering on the edge of the world.Read More »