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Editorial We live in an age of scandal. Hardly any event unfolds without being swept by waves of petitions, open letters, and boycotts. It may be a hopeless task to list them all, but what follows is a non-exhaustive catalogue, for the record and in lieu of a year-end review, of 2024’s film-related scandals. At Cannes,... Continue Reading Vol. 151 (January 2025)
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Review

Matevž Jerman and Jurij Meden’s Alpe-Adria Underground! (Ali je bilo kaj avantgardnega, 2024)

Vol. 151 (January 2025) by Isabel Jacobs
A love letter to the obscure figures of Slovenia’s underground cinema.
Interview

Jurij Meden on Alpe-Adria Underground!

Vol. 151 (January 2025) by Isabel Jacobs
Jurij Meden reveals the history behind his (and Matevž Jerman’s) film about Slovenia’s underground cinema.
Review

Dea Kulumbegashvili’s April (Aprili, 2024)

Vol. 151 (January 2025) by Moritz Pfeifer
An obstetrician in rural Georgia provides access to criminalized abortions.
Review

Pavel Vesnakov’s Windless (Bezvetrije, 2024)

Vol. 151 (January 2025) by Jack Page
A man returns home to bury his estranged father but ends up laying his younger self to rest.
Review

Arvo Kruusement’s A Woman Heats the Sauna (Naine kütab sauna, 1979)

Vol. 151 (January 2025) by Zoe Aiano
A seemingly pedestrian task unveils that not all is well for the new Soviet woman.
Essay

Wojciech Has: The Silent Rebel

Vol. 46 (October 2014) by Pau Bosch Santos
Pau Bosch Santos places some of Polish director Wojciech Has' artistic approaches in a biographical context.
Essay

The Philosophical Farce of Daisies

Vol. 88 (October 2018) by Daniel Brennan
Daniel Brennan brings out neglected aspects of Věra Chytilová's 1966 masterpiece through a reading that focuses on its use of farce.
Essay

The Polaroids of Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979-1983

Vol. 17 (May 2012) by Gawan Fagard
In his essay on the Polaroids of Andrei Tarkovsky, Gawan Fagard draws parallels between the ontology of the medium and the work of the Russian director.
Essay

Symbol and Tradition in Parajanov’s Caucasian Trilogy

Vol. 58 (October 2015) by Moritz Pfeifer
Moritz Pfeifer discusses the symbolic tradition of the pomegranate in the Caucasus and in Parajanov's films.
Interview

Mircea Daneliuc on his Work

Vol. 8 (August 2011) by Moritz Pfeifer and Ana Ribeiro
Mircea Daneliuc, born in 1943, was one of the few Romanian filmmakers resisting the Communist system. Films like Microfone Test (1980) or The Cruise (1981) did not pass censorship for their ridiculing critique...
Review

Jan Komasa’s Suicide Room (Sala Samobojcow, 2011)

Vol. 2 (February 2011) by Konstanty Kuzma
Jan Komasa enters into the lives of suicidal people who meet online to share their feelings with fellow-minded souls.
Essay

Věra Chytilová’s Daisies (Sedmikrásky, 1966)

Vol. 28 (April 2013) by Patricia Bass
Patricia Bass compares aspects of Věra Chytilová's Daisies to the American TV-Series The Jersey Shore.
Review

Jan Hřebejk’s The Holy Quaternity (Svatá Ctverice, 2012)

Vol. 23 (November 2012) by Anastasia Eleftheriou
Jan Hřebejk’s new film examines the endeavors of two couples to spice up their sex lives.
Essay

Srđan Spasojević’s A Serbian Film (Srpski Film, 2010)

Vol. 78 (October 2017) by Anna Batori
What is the intent and potential rationale behind Srdjan Spasojević's willingly degrading film?
Essay

How a Ukrainian Computer Game Transfigured Folkloric Processes of Remembering

Vol. 65 (May 2016) by Daniel Fuller
Daniel Fuller looks at the way a Ukrainian computer game transfigured folkloric processes of remembering, drawing parallels to Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker.
Review

Kornél Mundruczó’s Delta (2008)

Vol. 29 (May 2013) by Konstanty Kuzma
In this film by Hungarian helmer Kornél Mundruczó, a young man returns to his hometown to settle down.
Interview

Andrei Butica on Filming Sex

Vol. 78 (October 2017) by Zoe Aiano
We spoke to Romanian cinematographer Andrei Butica on the occasion of our sex-themed issue.
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