INTERVIEW with the programmer of Changing Channels at IFF Rotterdam, Inge de Leeuw – MARTIN KUDLÁČ – Slovenská verze rozhovoru je zde. Slovak version of the interview is here. The 42nd edition of Rotterdam's Film Festival did equally zealously and progressively as features and shorts screened also TV and web series. Festival dramaturgy focused one of its sections exclusively on episodic storytelling. The vi ...

BOOK REVIEW: Nightmare Alley. Film Noir and the American Dream (Mark Osteen, 2013) - MILAN HAIN -  Česká verze recenze je dostupná zde / Czech version of the review is available here With literally hundreds of books about film noir (and with new additions to the noir bibliography each month) it is extremely difficult to come up with an unexplored topic or a fresh historiographical/analytical approach. In hi ...

DOUBLE BOOK REVIEW: JUNK JET N°6: HERE AND WHERE (ingmade.edition, Stuttgart 2012) & Linear Manual (TLTRPreß  &  PAF, 2012) – MARIE MEIXNEROVÁ – Junk Jet is a zine-jet, a collaborative format set up to discuss speculative works on topics of media, aestheetics, and electronics. Junk Jet is an irregular series of medial events, and a low-fi paper publication (including irrational special gifts) on a n ...

BOOK REVIEW: The Films of Victor Mature (James McKay, 2013) – JANA BÉBAROVÁ (translated by ALŽBĚTA RYCHTECKÁ) –  Českojazyčná verze recenze je dostupná zde / Czech-language version of the review is available here “Beautiful hunk of a man” – a nickname which would have been fitting for a number of male idols in Hollywood. Most often, however, it was connected with Victor Mature (1913–1999), a well-built dark ...

TOPIC – SAMUEL FULLER: INTERVIEW with Michael Rund, the museum director in the town of Sokolov – JANA BÉBAROVÁ (translated by DANIELA VYMĚTALOVÁ) - As already mentioned in the introductory profile article of Samuel Fuller (see part 1 here), this Hollywood screenwriter, who has only later become himself a film director, participated actively as an infantryman in the World War II. By the end of his war-journe ...

AN INTERNMENT FILM: And the Fifth Rider is Fear (d. Zbyněk Brynych, 1964) – TOMÁŠ UHER – Translation: TOMÁŠ KOMÍNEK – Původní článek v češtině je zde. / The article in Czech language can be found here. The movie And the Fifth Rider is Fear (...a pátý jezdec je Strach), directed by Zbyněk Brynich, was created in 1964 as the middle part of his trilogy subjected with the matters of the Second World War (Transp ...

BOOK REVIEW: A Companion to Early Cinema (eds. André Gaudreault, Nicolas Dulac, Santiago Hidalgo, 2012) – MILAN HAIN – Českojazyčná verze recenze je dostupná zde / Czech-language version of the review is available here Early cinema (approximately until 1915) has been the focus of intense historiographic attention since the Brighton congress in 1978. The multitude of research projects, academic surveys and f ...

BOOK REVIEW: Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles (Mark Shiel, 2012) – MILAN HAIN – Česká verze recenze je dostupná zde / Czech version of the review is available here Los Angeles as a geographically specific location is an inherent part of the history of cinema, yet not many publications are devoted entirely to its role and significance. Among the exceptions we can find a recently published book by Ma ...

REFLEXION - Watching Martin Kohout: Watching clip-2010-05-19 21;23;39 1.mov  (Martin Kohout, 29. 5. 2010, 0:27) - MARIE MEIXNEROVÁ (translated by MONIKA KUBEŠOVÁ) Video Watching clip-2010-05-19 21:23:39 1.mov is part of Martin Kohout’s extensive internet project, Watching Martin Kohout. (If his name feels familiar, you could have heard it a year and half ago when Kohout’s elderly work, Moonwalk, 2008, was s ...

BOOK REVIEW: Raoul Walsh. The True Adventures of Hollywood's Legendary Director (Marilyn Ann Moss, 2011) - JANA BÉBAROVÁ (translated by JIŘÍ SLAVÍK) - Česká verze recenze je dostupná zde / Czech version of the review is available here In light of film history, Raoul Walsh (1887-1980) is one of the most formative hollywood director and this significant position is undeniable. Although he was crucial in shapi ...