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Essay

James Napier Robertson’s The American (Joika, 2023) & Xawery Żuławski’s Kulej. All That Glitters Isn’t Gold (Kulej. Dwie Strony Medalu, 2024)

Vol. 156 (Summer 2025) by Moritz Pfeifer
The authoritarian turn of Polish cinema’s long-standing preoccupation with history.
Essay

Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain (2024)

Vol. 156 (Summer 2025) by Moritz Pfeifer
Escaping the representability debate.
Essay

Radu Jude’s Sleep #2 (2024)

Vol. 156 (Summer 2025) by Antonis Lagarias
Radu Jude visits the grave of Andy Warhol from the comfort of his armchair.
Essay

Radu Jude’s Dracula (2025)

Vol. 156 (Summer 2025) by Anastasia Eleftheriou and Moritz Pfeifer
Dracula enters the age of social media and AI.
Essay

Violence, Art, and the Ethical Limits of Cinematic Realism

Vol. 153 (March 2025) by Travis Cooper
This essay questions the moral cost of artistic integrity and interrogates whether artistic beauty and honesty justify brutality.
Essay

Radu Jude and Christian Ferencz-Flatz’s Eight Postcards from Utopia (Opt ilustrate din lumea ideală, 2024)

Vol. 153 (March 2025) by Konstanty Kuzma
On whether advertisements can speak to us, and on Radu Jude becoming camp.
Essay

Vatroslav Mimica’s Kaja, I’ll Kill You! (Kaja, ubit ću te!, 1967)

Vol. 150 (December 2024) by Anna Doyle
Kaja, I'll Kill You has all the elements of a Yugoslav war drama yet always moves away from mere historical reconstruction.
Essay

Sean Baker’s Anora (2024)

Vol. 149 (November 2024) by Moritz Pfeifer
The traditional economy of domination gives way to a new economy of moral exhibitionism.
Essay

Łódź’s Workshop of the Film Form

Vol. 147 (September 2024) by Anna Doyle
Anna Doyle revisits the 1970s and a film group formed by students of the National Film School in Łódź.
Essay

The Collective Body in the Sports Films of Bogdan Dziworski (1970s–1980s)

Vol. 147 (September 2024) by Margarita Kirilkina
Margarita Kirilkina reflects on Bogdan Dziworski’s peculiar depiction of bodies in motion.
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