Ukraine Cinema: Films That Explore the Human Toll of Russia’s Aggression Some of Ukraine’s filmmakers have been exploring the trauma that followed Russia’s invasions of Crimea and the Donbas region. REFLECTION COURTESY OF NEW EUROPE FILM SALES/FORE FILMS Ambitious Ukrainian filmmakers have made various features exploring the human toll of Russia’s military aggression. Such cinema […]
Batman, The: Warner Pulls from Russian Release
February 28, 2022 by
Warner has pulled The Batman from its Russian release calendar at the 11th hour. The decision comes as Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine and follows Disney’s move to pause its upcoming releases in the country.
Film Theory: Eclecticism
February 28, 2022 by
Eclecticism is not a theory, but a method of pragmatic or practical criticism.
Stranger on the Third Floor (1940): First Film Noir? Released Same Year as Hitchcock’s “Rebecca” and a Year before “Maltese Falcon”
February 28, 2022 by
Boris Ingster’s Stranger on the Third Floor is often mentioned as the first real film noir, though there are elements of noir in Fritz Lang’s first American movies in the late 1930s.
Homeward (2019): Directed by Nariman Aliev–Ukraine Cinema of Protest
February 28, 2022 by
The tale unfolds as a road trip across Ukraine, which becomes fractious and action-filled, taking in a brush with traffic police, an enforced stop in a sleepy village, a lakeside robbery and a clash with border guards.
