Retrospectives

Retrospectives
Reflections on stand-out films of the past.

Lucian Pintilie’s Niki and Flo (Niki Ardelean, colonel în rezervă, 2003)

Lucian Tion examines how the failure of Niki and Flo prefigures the successes of the Romanian New Wave.

Ira Österberg contrasts this early Soviet musical with Hollywood peculiarities of the genre.

Florian Hollerweger places Tarkovsky's scores within the 20th century tradition of musicalizing everyday sounds.

A history of Soviet Tajik musicals as presented by Sharofat Arabova.

Pantelis Lykoudis analyzes Eduard Artemyev's compositional approach through the lens of his collaboration with Tarkovsky.

Wolfgang Thiel retraces the development of the Soviet musical.

Oliver Banatvala addresses the iconoclastic tendencies of this short cinematic collage.

In the 1980s, Boris Yukhananov launched a series of VHS films that introduces his concept of "fatal editing".

Emily Nill emphasizes the critical potential of the Aleynikovs' engagement with the avant-garde.

Gordei Petrik returns to one of only two films of Parallel Cinema to be produced at the central Soviet studios.