Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival is an unique event combining a feature film festival with the sub-festivals of animated films, student films and children/youth films. The festival aims to present Estonian audiences a comprehensive selection of world cinema in all its diversity with the emphasis on European films, providing a friendly atmosphere for interaction between the audience, Estonian filmmakers and … Read more

Hungary and Poland, to a large degree, have parallel and interlocking histories. Krzysztof Rucinski looks at how the two film masters of these nations have presented the past and themes of oppression in their early masterpieces. A parallel history of two nations “Pole, Hungarian: dear kin / Both, to saber and to drink!” claims an old bilingual proverb that encapsulates … Read more

Analyzing the shock tactics of the film, the paper discusses Takashi Miikes film AUDITION as an example of a corporeal cinema, in which the body of the spectator is employed as a medium of the film’s narration. The article shows how the film’s strategies of visceral engagement are indebted to a radical aesthetic modernism. In recent years, scholars have given … Read more

“In Turin on 3rd January, 1889, Friedrich Nietzsche steps out of the doorway of number six, Via Carlo Albert. Not far from him, the driver of a cab is having trouble with a stubborn horse. Despite all his urging, the horse refuses to move, whereupon the driver loses his patience and takes his whip to it. Nietzsche comes up to … Read more

The difficulty of “living in truth” under an oppressive political regime, a consistent theme in the writings of Václav Havel, is a useful starting point for a consideration of two Hungarian films, Angi Vera (1978) and Colonel Redl (1984). Angi Vera is set in Stalinist Hungary and Colonel Redl in the Austro-Hungarian Hapsburg Empire, but it does not require much of an imaginative stretch to see a parallel … Read more

Máté, a lonely, divorced real estate agent is put in charge by his boss to sell a suburban storage building. The storage is rented by the Chinese, who keep their semi-legal goods here before selling them on the market. The stock comprising of several thousands of boxes is guarded by a Chinese man, Wu, who also lives in the storage. … Read more

Kinoblog is built on foundations laid by two earlier, somewhat over-specialised blogs – FilmJournal?s Closely Watched DVDs and an unpublished earlier effort from 2004 (also called Kinoblog), and I?ll be porting all the pieces I wrote for them over here in due course. The problem I had with them was that their focus (on Czech and Soviet cinema, respectively) was … Read more

The article deals with Benedek Fliegauf?s Milky Way (Tejút, 2007), trying to establish the kinds of narrative structures and levels of this visual material, how far they determine its medial form, and what kinds of  perceptive-receptive mechanisms its cinema and installation medial form offer, namely, how it can function as a movie and as an installation. While the article focuses … Read more

The paper focuses on Satantango (Sátántangó, 1994), Werckmeister Harmonies (Werckmeister Harmóniák, 2000) and The Man From London (A londoni fér?, 2007), particularly on the manner in which the key notion at the core of Tarr?s universe ?nds a development within those ?lms: the relation between the narrative and its (?entropic,? so to speak) excess. Notably, the Point Of View proves … Read more