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Essay

István Szabó’s Mephisto (1981)

Vol. 43 (July 2014) by Moritz Pfeifer
Moritz Pfeifer compares the plot of István Szabó's Mephisto (1981) to the controversy surrounding Kathryn Bigalow's Zero Dark Thirty (2012).
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Jan Kidawa-Błoński’s In Hiding (W ukryciu, 2013) & Jerzy Skolimowski’s Four Nights with Anna (Cztery noce z Anna, 2008)

Vol. 43 (July 2014) by Konstanty Kuzma
Konstanty Kurma's comparison of two recent Polish films makes him wonder why freedom and democracy made Polish cinema more dogmatic than it previously was.
Essay

Krzysztof Zanussi’s Illumination (Iluminacja, 1973)

Vol. 42 (June 2014) by Moritz Pfeifer
Moritz Pfeifer looks at how Zanussi depicts science and scientists, and how his approach relates to other works on the same topic.
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Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s Night Train (Pociag, 1959)

Vol. 40 (April 2014) by A. G. Khandros
Aaron Khandros analyzes Night Train with regards to the new normative order of post-War Poland, relating it to unsolved episodes and traumas of Poland's recent past...
Essay

Back to the Past: Mnemonic Themes in Contemporary Hungarian Cinema

Vol. 39 (March 2014) by László Strausz
László Strausz (Eötvös Loránd University) surveys the narrational and stylistic tactics engaged by contemporary Hungarian directors in their representation of the historical past.
Essay

Anka and Willhelm Sasnal’s Parasite (Huba, 2014)

Vol. 39 (March 2014) by Moritz Pfeifer
Polish artist-couple Anka and Willhelm Sasnal’s new film juxtaposes the life of a retired worker and a fresh mother in unexpectable ways.
Essay

Karpo Godina’s Red Boogie (Rdeci boogie ali Kaj ti je deklica, 1982)

Vol. 36 (December 2013) by Vedrana Madžar and Zorka Obrenić
Vedrana Madžar and Zorka Obrenić retrace the ways in which Godina surveys the connections between art and labor.
Essay

On Historical Avant-Garde Corrections in Karpo Godina’s film Splav Meduze

Vol. 36 (December 2013) by Sezgin Boynik
Sezgin Boynik examines the Marxist-Leninist Roots of Zenitism, a Yugoslav avantgarde movement of the 1920s.
Essay

The Early Works of Karpo Godina

Vol. 36 (December 2013) by Gal Kirn
Gal Kirn situates three shorts by Godina from the early 1970s within the framework of Jacques Rancière’s theory of the “Aesthetics of Politics”.
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Kaveh Bahtiari’s L’Escale (Stop-Over, 2013)

Vol. 36 (December 2013) by Anastasia Eleftheriou
This masterly documentary accompanies the lives of clandestine immigrants living in an appartment in Athens.
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