TagAlexandr Hackenschmied

Bezúčelná Procházka (Aimless Walk, 1930)

Alexandr Hackenschmied directs the landmark of Czechoslovak avant-garde cinema and one of the most influential of its genre.

REVIEWS

Ana Yurdu (Motherland) – Thessaloniki 56 Balkan Survey

Senem Tüzen explores if Motherland could be the place of reconciliation of past and present in an ongoing love-hate relationship between a mother and her daughter.

Gorod Zero (Zero City, 1988)

Kafkaesque absurdity meets Soviet reality during the years of the extremely bureaucratic Perestroika in this deadpan comedy by Karen Shakhnazarov.

Marionette (2007)

Minos Nikolakakis creates a dark minimalistic tale that comes closer to reality or a dark reality that touches the edges of chilling fantasy.

Tôkyô Sensô Sengo Hiwa (The Man Who Left His Will on Film, 1970)

Nagisha Ôshima is performing a requiem for Japanese New Wave and he is covering everything, from the sociopolitical changes till his own alienation that he feels as an artist.

A Blast – Sarajevo 20

Syllas Tzoumerkas' sophomore feature is a powerful sociopolitical drama that juxtaposes the cynicism of the troubled Greek society while the middle-class decays internally.

TagAlexandr Hackenschmied

Bezúčelná Procházka (Aimless Walk, 1930)

Ana Yurdu (Motherland) – Thessaloniki 56 Balkan Survey

Gorod Zero (Zero City, 1988)

Marionette (2007)

Tôkyô Sensô Sengo Hiwa (The Man Who Left His Will on Film, 1970)

A Blast – Sarajevo 20

Pasolini on Hope

TV vs. Cinema by Jean-Luc Godard

Kieślowski and the magic of screen

Monicelli: The elements of Italian comedy

Leos Carax and his island