SLOVAKIA Conserving the Rusyn flower in the bouquet of Europe Juraj Jakubisko's Farebné kamienky (Painted Pebbles, 2002) Jakubisko for the first time explores his Carpatho-Rusyn identity in this EU-sponsored documentary promoting tolerance. However, the film avoids examining the material circumstances of the Rusyns, as Brian J Požun reports. CZECH REPUBLIC As I was lying Alice Nellis's Výlet (Some Secrets, 2002) Nellis's second film has won awards from San Sebastián and Thessaloniki and still seems to be gathering pace on the festival circuit. Andrew James Horton looks at this delightful collision of the family crisis and road movie genres.

HORROR The "wonderfully scary monster" and the international reception of horror Ridley Scott's Hannibal (2001) In this cutting-edge research article, Ernest Mathijs analyses the ancillary discourse surrounding the international release of Hannibal to show just how (and the extent to which) "elements of reception... are not limited to extra-textual discussions," but have an impact on how we think about and classify films themselves.

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