‘Yugoslavia’ Archives
Remnants of the Black Wave
Via Popkitchen, a brief introduction to Yugoslav cinema's 1960s 'black wave'.
Short Animated World
I've just discovered the Short Animated World blog, dedicated to chronicling all 100 entries on the recent Annecy Film Festival/Studio Magazine/Variety poll of thirty animation historians to establish the best animated films of all time. There's no original critical material, but each entry offers links and - in most cases - a streaming copy of [...]
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 [...]
Derek Malcolm’s Century of Cinema
While researching something else (as is always the way), I stumbled upon former Guardian critic Derek Malcolm's A Century of Films - a survey of his personal Top 100, with a robust defence of each film's inclusion. And on glancing down the list again for the first time since 2001, I notice that nine of his choices came from central and eastern [...]