Kinoeye | New perspectives on European film

Vol 1
Issue 1
3 Sept
2001

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EDITORIAL
Bringing the fringes
back into focus
Why Kinoeye exists and what its aims are

For three years, Kinoeye has existed happily as a column within another journal. Why is there now a need for it to spread its wings and find its independence? And does this mean a parting of ways with Central Europe Review?

Bela Tarr's Werckmeister Harmoniak (Werckmeister Harmonies, 2000) HUNGARY
The melancholy
of resistance
The films of Béla Tarr
Thanks to his opus magnus, Sátántangó, Tarr has long been admired internationally by cineastes. His latest film and a recent retrospective in London have broadened his appeal. Peter Hames examines his career so far.

KARLOVY VARY
Rich rewards in simpler forms
Russian films at the 36th Karlovy Vary film festival

A wide range of Russian films were presented at Karlovy Vary this year, encompassing everything from intense auteur films to lighter genre pieces. Andrew James Horton surveys what was on show.

Stefan Ruzowitzky's Anatomie (Anatomy, 2000) HORROR
Germany's
secret history
Stefan Ruzowitzky's
Anatomie (Anatomy, 2000)

Ruzowitzky successfully fuses elements of American genre film and modern European history in Anatomie, making a Gothic horror that draws on Germany's failure to come to terms with its Nazi past, argues Steffen Hantke.