‘Slovakia’ Archives
Alpine alliances
A three-day co-production market is being staged as a sidebar of the Les Arcs Film Festival in the eponymous French ski resort.Projects being discussed and hopefully packaged include new features from Attila Gigor (whose The Investigator was one of the brightest Hungarian debuts in recent years), his compatriots Bálint Kenyeres, Réka Kincses and [...]
Off Cinema: the winners
The 13th Off Cinema documentary festival was held in Poznań, Poland, between last Wednesday and Sunday, during which a jury comprising documentary-makers Maciej Drygas and Edyta Wróblewska, critics/historians Andrzej Kołodyński and Michael Brooke and festival programmer Piotr Kotowski watched forty films and picked five winners, namely:• [...]
Senses of Cinema
The latest edition of online journal Senses of Cinema has several lengthy articles devoted to aspects of central and eastern European cinema, including: Sweet Movie: The Gentle Side of "Destructive Art" by Dušan Makavejev The World Tasted: Dušan Makavejev’s Sweet Movie by Lorraine Mortimer Slovak Cinema of the 1970s Revisited by Peter [...]
Best Foreign Film Oscar longlist announced
According to the Hollywood Reporter, a record 63 films are on the initial longlist for the Best Foreign Film Oscar. The full list is here, and these are the Central and Eastern European submissions: Azerbaijan: Caucasia (d. Farid Gumbatov) Bosnia and Herzegovina: It's Hard to Be Nice/Teško je biti fin (d. Srđan Vuletić) - [...]
Latcho Drom
Technically a French film, but you'd never know, Tony Gatlif's 1993 film Latcho Drom (which translates as 'Safe Journey') is an enthralling Cinemascope panorama tracing the thousand-year passage of the gypsies from India to Western Europe via Egypt, Turkey, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia. There's no dialogue or conventional narrative: everything [...]