Swedish Cinema

THE MAGICIAN — THE CRITERION COLLECTION

Black and White, Capsules Blog, Classic Cinema, Criterion Channel, Criterion Collection, FIVE STARS, LGBTQ, Swedish Cinema, Women's Cinema

October 24, 2024

This lush film is a stone-cold classic by any measure. “The Magician” is a really fun movie to return to…

MIDSOMMAR — SHOCKTOBER!

BDSM, Black Comedy, Capsules Blog, Cult Film, Dystopia, FOUR STARS, Magical Realism, Serial Killer, sex, SHOCKTOBER!, , Surrealism, Swedish Cinema, Transgressive Cinema, Women's Cinema

September 28, 2024

All you need to know going into this transgressive (if surrealistic) film is that it covers: animal abuse, cannibalism, incest,…

NIGHT GAMES — SHOCKTOBER!

Black and White, Capsules Blog, Classic Cinema, Criterion Collection, Cult Film, FIVE STARS, Horror, LGBTQ, sex, Sexploitation, SHOCKTOBER!, , Swedish Cinema, Transgressive Cinema, Women Filmmakers, Women's Cinema

November 5, 2023

“Night Games” retains its ability to shock viewers after over 50 years due to Mai Zetterling’s intuitive ability to dig…

HOUR OF THE WOLF — SHOCKTOBER!

Criterion Collection, FIVE STARS, Horror, Psychological Thriller, Reviews Blog, SHOCKTOBER!, Swedish Cinema

September 30, 2023

Impeccably conceived and executed, “Hour of the Wolf” is an eloquent thing of cinematic perfection. Max von Sydow and Liv…

HOUR OF THE WOLF — SHOCKTOBER!

Black and White, Capsules Blog, Criterion Collection, FIVE STARS, Horror, Psychological Thriller, SHOCKTOBER!, Swedish Cinema

September 30, 2023

Impeccably conceived and executed, “Hour of the Wolf” is a thing of cinematic perfection. Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann…

TRIANGLE OF SADNESS — THE CRITERION COLLECTION

Capsules Blog, Criterion Collection, , Swedish Cinema, TWO STARS

July 31, 2023

Welcome! Groupthink doesn't live here, critical thought does.This ad-free website is dedicated to Agnès Varda and to Luis Buñuel. Get…

THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY

Food and Drink, Reviews Blog, Romantic Fantasy, Swedish Cinema, THREE STARS, Video Essay, Women's Cinema

August 4, 2014

The foodie romance genre has been oddly absent from American cinema lately. It’s been five long years since “Julie &…

WILD STRAWBERRIES — THE CRITERION COLLECTION

Capsules Blog, Classic Cinema, Criterion Collection, FIVE STARS, Swedish Cinema, Video Essay

July 22, 2014

Ingmar Bergman drew considerably on his own dreams, nightmares, and personal regrets in telling the daylong story of an aging…

EASY MONEY

Capsules Blog, Crime Drama, FOUR STARS, Swedish Cinema

July 5, 2012

Unlike its routine title, “Easy Money” is a knotty crime thriller set in Stockholm’s criminal underworld where Middle Eastern thugs…

THE SEVENTH SEAL — THE CRITERION COLLECTION

Capsules Blog, Classic Cinema, Criterion Collection, FIVE STARS, Foreign, Swedish Cinema

October 27, 2010

Although it has been relentlessly parodied as a pejorative example of an “art film,” “The Seventh Seal” is a rowdy…

THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST

Crime Drama, Literary Adaptation, Punk, Reviews Blog, Swedish Cinema, TWO STARS, Women's Cinema

October 24, 2010

The same exponential decrease in story complexity that occurred between the first and second cinematic installments of Stieg Larsson’s posthumously…

PERSONA — THE CRITERION COLLECTION

Art Film, BDSM, Capsules Blog, Classic Cinema, Criterion Collection, Experimental, FIVE STARS, LGBTQ, Swedish Cinema, Women's Cinema

October 20, 2010

Bergman’s clear-eyed artistic study of the rules of interplay between opposite, ill-equipped dominant and submissive characters, expresses universal ideas about…

THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE

Literary Adaptation, Reviews Blog, Swedish Cinema, THREE STARS, Women's Cinema

July 11, 2010

The story takes on a few too many pulpy B-movie tropes to support an otherwise serious tone that the filmmakers…

THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE

Capsules Blog, Literary Adaptation, Swedish Cinema, THREE STARS, Women's Cinema

June 28, 2010

The second installment in the filmic adaptation of the late Stieg Larsson’s large-scale crime trilogy “Millennium” pales in comparison to…

EVERLASTING MOMENTS — THE CRITERION COLLECTION

Capsules Blog, Classic Cinema, Criterion Collection, FIVE STARS, Swedish Cinema, War, Women Filmmakers, Women's Cinema

February 27, 2009

Its naturalistic performances and rough-hewn style carry the film into a range of unfettered human emotion and experience appropriate to…

THE MAGICIAN — THE CRITERION COLLECTION

HOUR OF THE WOLF — SHOCKTOBER!

HOUR OF THE WOLF — SHOCKTOBER!

THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY

WILD STRAWBERRIES — THE CRITERION COLLECTION

EASY MONEY

THE SEVENTH SEAL — THE CRITERION COLLECTION

THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST

PERSONA — THE CRITERION COLLECTION

THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE

THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE

EVERLASTING MOMENTS — THE CRITERION COLLECTION

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