Rook Lane Blog

September 20, 2016

This atmospheric and satirical study of moral bankruptcy is played out on the sleazy side of the tracks in small-town post-war Germany. Fassbinder’s film is a garish and flamboyant cautionary tale with a wonderfully abandoned performance by Barbara Sukowa in the title role.

March 24, 2016

Set in a tiny, remote village in the Argentinean mountains, the film gets its narrative from the growing friendship between a shepherd boy and a teacher from the city.

March 21, 2016

This Tehran-based road movie features a journey, but the route is somewhat circular and unfulfilled and the end unconventional. “A beautiful and emotionally complex meditation on life and death”,

March 21, 2016

The story of a woman’s chance encounter with the man she believes shattered her life 15 years earlier. A tense triangle of revenge and retribution that takes place in a single night and questions how trauma may be addressed and reconciliation may be found.

February 8, 2016

Special screening of Groundswell Rising, a documentary about fracking in America and the social movement which has emerged from affected communities. Informative, daunting, inspiring and hopeful all at once.

September 2, 2015

Percy Adlon’s cult film is as subdued as it’s cinematography is flamboyant. Touching, funny and unpredictable this is an unexpectedly warm-hearted cult classic.

March 24, 2015

A truck driver stops at a small family-run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business in a story intertwined with vignettes about the relationship of love and food.

January 9, 2015

The story of Ingmar Bergman’s parents, and a fasciating insight into how 19th century Sweden might have been.

January 9, 2015

Young nobleman Baron Sergio Giuramondo, after discovering that his bride-to-be was the king’s mistress, leaves Naples in disgust to become a monk in this sumptuous Italian drama.

January 9, 2015

The third title in the Satyajit Ray’s “Apu” Triolgy kicks off our new season of rare films.