Tag Archives: Hungarian cinema

the inescapable past (film: Tegnap/Yesterday – Bálint Kenyeres, 2018)

Posted on October 4, 2024 by admin

‘Tegnap’ / ‘Yesterday’ is the 2018 debut in feature film of Hungarian filmmaker Bálint Kenyeres. A late debut, he being already known as an actor, screenwriter and author of short films, and which has not yet been followed by a … Continue reading →

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dreams with deers (film: On Body and Soul / Teströl és lélekröl – Ildikó Enyedi, 2017)

Posted on August 9, 2024 by admin

‘Teströl és lélékröl‘ (‘On Body and Soul‘ in the English distribution), the film that won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 2017 and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards, is one of … Continue reading →

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amurg de imperiu (Film: Napszállta – László Nemes, 2018)

Posted on June 18, 2019 by admin

1913 is a year that fascinates me. It was the last year of an order that reigned in Europe and the world for almost a century, established at the Congress of Vienna that had traced in 1814-15 the borders of … Continue reading →

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Kafka in the Puszta (Film: Szegénylegények / The Round-Up – Miklós Jancsó, 1966)

Posted on December 24, 2018 by admin

Cinematography in Eastern Europe during the 40 years of the Communist regimes was subject to very close ideological and artistic supervision, as the rulers understood very well the power of cinema as a propaganda tool, either explicit in the newsreels … Continue reading →

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Hungarian lust and money drama (Film: A hentes, a kurva és a félszemü – János Szász, 2017)

Posted on October 21, 2017 by admin

We may have been among the first viewers of ‘The butcher, the whore and the one-eyed man‘ (‘A hentes, a kurva és a félszemü’ is the original title) at its projection in the first half of October at the Haifa … Continue reading →

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