Greetings cinephiles! I need a little help here! This evening I’m off to the summer meeting of our local film club. We are going to discuss which films we are going to screen next autumn. Have I done my homework, got up to speed on recent releases and checked out all the latest winners from Cannes, Sundance and Berlin? Have I hell!

To save my bacon, I now really could do with some help from the AW cinematic hivemind. Have any of you seen or read about any movies in the past twelve months that might appeal to a Stockholm suburban film club?

My colleagues on the committee do quite rightly tend to go for rather serious films. Genocide, suicide, patricide, we’ve had the lot. And I’m glad we’ve shown them. But I still have nightmares about, for example, Eric Poppe’s chilling Utoya July 22 about the Breivik massacre and Jasmina Zbanic’s magnificent but deeply upsetting Quo Vadis Aida.

I see my role in the group as coming with suggestions that are a little less glum, not too Bergmanesque or depressingly kitchen-sinky. Films that are fluffier and bouncier. I’m more than keen to find a good comedy drama. Knives Out » Continue Reading.

Last week was a turning point for live events here in Sweden. After 6 months during which the largest audience for any kind of cultural or sporting event was eight people, the restrictions have now been eased and 50 socially distanced people are now permitted. Not enough to generate much income, but definitely a step in the right direction for those in the culture sector.

Time for a cinema thread! here’s a place for some meanderings on cinema present, cinema past, cinema future.

Adieu les cons! (Bye bye morons!) is a wickedly funny, 2020 French road movie by Albert Dupontel which I saw as a preview at the weekend. I‘ll tell you more later.

Hiveminders! What are the new films that you are looking forward to seeing at the cinema? Which movies should we all be looking out for?

Farväl fåtöljerna!!(Swedish for Goodbye cinema seats). Last week, some geezers came to Biograf Reflexen in Kärrtorp where I am a volunteer and removed almost all the seating. After 40 years of noble service to the bottoms of Stockholm, they are off to that great multiplex in the sky. I got a little sentimental and cinematic memories came thick and fast. (The » Continue Reading.