About: smlgff
Posts by smlgff:
- Narratives of reflection: how Ukrainian cinema is reviving and reinterpreting the 1990s Posted on in Essay
- Bread and Salt: Damian Kocur’s portrait of small-town Poland at war with itself Posted on in Interview
- Soviet redux: personal and political collide in two recreations of the Stalinist past Posted on in Essay
- “A film that watches you”: Hungary’s Ádám Császi on the politics of Roma representation Posted on in Interview
- The Klassiki Companion: Márta Mészáros Posted on in The Companion
- Invisible republic: capturing Artsakh on film, from frozen conflict to mass emigration Posted on in Essay
- The Watchlist: Happy Halloween Posted on in The Watchlist
- In search of Ruritania: silent cinema, the Western gaze, and a fantasy Balkan kingdom Posted on in Interview
- The Watchlist: Klassiki Picks with Peter Bradshaw Posted on in The Watchlist
- What We Shared: bringing the bitter history of Abkhazia to the screen with Kamila Kuc Posted on in Interview
- Teona Strugar Mitevska bares all in her Covid allegory 21 Days Until the End of the World Posted on in Interview
- Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov’s Brother and the search for modern Tajik cinema Posted on in Interview
- Šimon Holý on And Then There Was Love…, his improvised take on modern heartbreak Posted on in Interview
- Ukraine’s Freefilmers on anti-capitalism, resistance, and “decolonial cinema” Posted on in Interview
- Kung fu gospel: Estonian eccentric Rainer Sarnet returns with The Invisible Fight Posted on in Interview
- The Klassiki Companion: The Yugoslav Black Wave Posted on in The Companion
- “The interesting stories are yet to come”: how Kosovo’s female directors went global Posted on in Essay
- “Our own national tragedy”: Andrei Kutsila on the crisis for independent Belarusian film Posted on in Interview
- Past and present collide at Karlovy Vary as eastern Europe’s finest festival returns Posted on in Festival Report
- Marching to the new beat: rising critics review Golden Apricot highlights Posted on in Review
- From wartime Bosnia to feudal Japan: rising critics review Golden Apricot highlights Posted on in Review
- Underground fairy tales: Kote Kalandadze explores Tbilisi’s dark side in The Drummer Posted on in Interview
- The poetry of insubordination: on Tengiz Abuladze’s “trilogy of truth” Posted on in Essay
- The Watchlist: Summertime Cinema Posted on in The Watchlist
- “Moments of paradise”: Sergei Dvortsevoy’s stories from the post-Soviet fringe Posted on in Interview
- The Watchlist: Klassiki Picks with Mark Cousins Posted on in The Watchlist
- The Klassiki Companion: The Polish Film School Posted on in The Companion
- The Watchlist: Cannes classics Posted on in The Watchlist
- Native Edition: reflections on indigenous cinema in the post-Soviet space Posted on in Interview
- Kyrgyzstan’s Aktan Arym Kubat confronts home truths in This Is What I Remember Posted on in Interview
- Where next for “post-Soviet” film? goEast Festival curators on working through war Posted on in Interview
- Intuitive information: composer Juliet Merchant on scoring Soviet silent films Posted on in Essay
- Mstyslav Chernov discusses filmmaking under fire for his 20 Days in Mariupol Posted on in Interview
- The Klassiki Companion: The Romanian New Wave Posted on in The Companion
- Goran Stolevski delves into his Balkan folk-horror hybrid You Won’t Be Alone Posted on in Interview
- A well for the thirsty: folklore and decolonisation on the Ukrainian screen Posted on in Essay
- The Watchlist: Ukrainian Poetic Cinema Posted on in The Watchlist
- Road to nowhere: Sergei Loznitsa and Russia’s wartime ghosts Posted on in Essay
- Shengelaia at 90: personal reflections on a Georgian film icon Posted on in Interview
- The Watchlist: Documentaries of the Soviet Avant-garde Posted on in The Watchlist
- Faith in images: the post-war visions of Miklós Jancsó and István Szőts Posted on in Essay
- The Klassiki Companion: Kira Muratova Posted on in The Companion
- The Watchlist: Winter Wonders Posted on in The Watchlist
- The Klassiki Companion: Baltic poetic documentary Posted on in The Companion
- “Still the second sex”: A Room of My Own and female intimacy in today’s Georgia Posted on in Interview
- Fractured love stories: Farewells and the surreal film career of Wojciech Has Posted on in Essay
- Laila Pakalniņa on the making of Dawn, her fever dream of Soviet film history Posted on in Interview
- Falling through rugs: Jirtdan and the rediscovery of Azerbaijani animation Posted on in Essay
- Persian poetry: the rise and fall of Tajikistan’s post-Soviet film culture Posted on in Essay
- A film archivist takes us inside the battle to save Ukraine’s Dovzhenko Centre Posted on in Essay
- “The noise grows loud”: how Juris Podnieks captured Latvia’s perestroika generation Posted on in Essay
- The Politics of Watching: documentary visions of the Ukrainian East Posted on in Essay
- Nora Martirosyan and Garegin Papoyan on filming the ironies of Stepanakert airport Posted on in Interview
- Landscapes of Collective Fate: the political resonances of nature in Armenian cinema Posted on in Essay
- Armenia’s Hemingway: the literary gifts and cinematic legacy of Hrant Matevosyan Posted on in Essay
- Julia Blue’s Roxy Toporowych on wartime romance and the Ukrainian diaspora Posted on in Interview
- Actor Yura Borisov on working with Kirill Serebrennikov and Covid-era shoots Posted on in Interview
- Time’s Tricks: fantasy and reality in Kirill Serebrennikov’s Petrov’s Flu Posted on in Essay
- How Soviet audiences fell in love with Sherlock Holmes Posted on in Essay
- Lev Kuleshov: the man who taught Soviet film to change the world Posted on in Essay
- Sakha Film: an interview with Dmitry Davydov Posted on in Interview
- Sakha Film: the history of a post-Soviet cultural phenomenon Posted on in Essay
- Sakha’s amateur film stars Zoya Popova and Stepan Petrov in their own words Posted on in Interview
- Actor Maks Sukhanov on his career as Russia’s cinematic tough guy Posted on in Interview
- Sergei Livnev on the wild 90s and returning to directing after 25 years Posted on in Interview
- Ali Khamraev and the idea of the Soviet auteur Posted on in Essay
- “Antonioni told me to sleep less”: Uzbek maestro Ali Khamraev on his unlikely career Posted on in Interview