‘Georgia’ Archives
Paradjanov Festival 2010
Here's some genuinely thrilling news - March 2010 sees a major multimedia retrospective of the unclassifiable work of the great Armenian-born Soviet-persecuted filmmaker-artist Sergei Paradjanov, to be staged in multiple venues across London and Bristol. The website is already pretty comprehensive, even though it doesn't include full timetables [...]
Paradjanov on DVD: an update
About a year ago, I surveyed what were then all seven English-friendly DVD releases of the films of Sergo Paradjanov for Sight & Sound - concluding that, in general, the Russian Cinema Council (Russia) and Films Sans Frontières (French) releases were superior to the Kino ones (US). That opinion is almost certainly out of date, because Kino [...]
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) - [...]