YUGOSLAVIA In search of happiness Želimir Žilnik interviewed Žilnik is still employing the creative and provactive style that brought him to prominence in the late 1960s. Igor Pop Trajkov talks to the director.

RUSSIA The infinite journey Aleksandr Sokurov's Elegiia dorogi (Elegy of a Voyage, 2001) Sokurov's latest addition to his series of filmic "elegies" takes viewers on a trip that transcends time and space. Andrew James Horton explores the film's themes. Articles on Sokurov from the archive Rich rewards in simpler forms: Aleksandr Sokurov's Telets (Taurus, 2001) at Karlovy Vary The elusive Hitler: Aleksandr Sokurov's Moloch (1999) Staring into the soul: Aleksandr Sokurov's Povinnost' (Confessions, 1998) Angels or UFOs?: Aleksandr Sokurov's Dni zatmeniia (Days of the Eclipse, 1988) Sokurov links and resources

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BOOK REVIEW Screening the Balkans Dina Iordanova's Cinema of Flames: Balkan Film, Culture and the Media Cinema of Flames is more than just a study of culture from the Balkans; it is of interest to anyone interested in how images and politics interact, as Alexei Monroe explains.

HORROR Sympathetic spectators Roman Polanski's Le Locataire (The Tenant, 1976) Le Locataire, one of Polanski's lesser-known films, utilises both an "unreliable" narrator and manipulates an "unreliable" audience to achieve it's horror effect. Aaron Smuts analyses the film.

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