Michael Haneke's adaptation of Franz Kafka's The castle is an ingenious, faithful interpretation evoking Kafka's vision of a dystopian society hobbled by paperwork and bled dry by conformism and convolution.

An apocalyptic roar of a movie, Derek Jarman's (Sebastiane) dizzying The last of England is a lament for the country he once knew and what he feared it would become. One of Jarman's most experimental and overwhelming works, he has Oscar winner Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton) stalk through the remnants of industrial England, encountering visions of fascistic slaughter and sacrifice. These nightmares are cut together with his family's idyllic home movies,...

In a time when all-powerful 'judges' act with supreme authority of both the police force and legal system, Judge Dredd is the most feared law enforcer of them all. When a former judge devises a sinister plot to bring him down, Dredd with stop at nothing to even the scales of justice!

Join an award-winning professor on a tour through literature's utopian dreams and dystopian nightmares.