Scribbles and Ramblings

Twilight ( Szürkület, 1990,  György Fehér) Courtesy: Arbelos Films György Fehér's  Twilight  looks and feels like Béla Tarr's Damnat...

Béla Tarr’s Contemplative Cinema Jan 6, 2026. Béla Tarr’s camera has stopped. No more pans, no more movements. Tarr announced his retireme...

 “ THE GREATEST HUNGARIAN FILM DIRECTOR OF ALL TIME ” - Béla Tarr The above words by Tarr are featured on Kino Lorber’s recent six film disc...

Hungary has a rich cinematic history and has produced many stellar films over the past seven decades. However, many classic films from Hunga...

Buick Riviera (2008, Croatia, Goran Rusinovic) Goran Rusinovic’s brilliant film illustrates how hatred can persist through generations an...

October was supposed to be a relaxed month in terms of film viewing after all the film festival movies that I saw between Sept 20-Oct 4. But...

I am almost at the end of the Eastern European cinema & soccer spotlight. Plenty of themes have emerged from all the films but for thi...

The Eastern Europe series continues to provide rich cinematic viewing. The previous collections involved only watching features but this se...

Part I -- Collapse, Part II -- Immigration and displacement and now Part III starts off with rebuilding.... Democracy and Rebuilding: P...

6 new films with 3 being co-productions. Here are the films in no particular order: One of the major themes of part I of Eastern Europea...

The films, in order of viewing: The beginning What came first -- soccer or cinema? The answer from both a historical and perso...