Kinoeye:  The fornightly journal of film in the new Europe

Vol 2
Issue 20
16 Dec
2002

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Roman Polanski's The Pianist (2002)POLAND
Weirdness through simplicity
Roman Polanski's The Pianist (2002) in relation to Władysław Szpilman's book

Polanski triumphed at Cannes but has also received critical flak for the lack of engagement in his Holocaust drama. Wojtek Kość argues that this intensely personal film is all the more disquieting for the absence of Polanski's trademark "oddity."

Maya DerenAVANT GARDE
Fragmented self in a shattered mirror
Martina Kudláček's
In the Mirror of Maya Deren (2001)

An Austrian documentary charts how a Ukrainian refugee from Kiev's pogroms managed to become the goddess of the New York experimental film scene. Andrei Khrenov takes a look.

The weight of history

Kinoeye presents two articles on contemporaneous German films that have different takes on the process of coming to terms with a difficult past.

Various directors, Deutschland im Herbst (Germany in Autumn, 1978)GERMANY
Montage, music
and memory

Remembering Deutschland im Herbst (Germany in Autumn, 1978)

Deutschland im Herbst juxtaposes differing narrative styles in order to confront audiences with Germany's crises that stemmed from present-day terrorism and the legacy of the past. Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith looks back at this classic omnibus film.

Werner Herzog's Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (Nosferatu the Vampyre, 1979)HORROR
An adaptation with fangs
Werner Herzog's
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht
(Nosferatu the Vampyre, 1979)

Detailing the cultural background, production history, and critical reception of Herzog's Nosferatu remake, Garrett Chaffin-Quiray explains the film's complex relationship to the horror genre while providing insight into the filmmaker's "purposefully austere aspiration to beauty."

From the archive

Kinoeye articles on the legacy of Europe's Nazi past in film:

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