Bright Lights Film Journal

“It is an opportunity to film people and events that could be recalled at any time to affirm, lament, or challenge a moment in time in this troubled region.” A…

“The tourist says that it’s a lot to carry and the worker agrees, then gets on with his work.” Fifteen years after the fall of the Iron Curtain and the…

And other tasty subjects Fruit Chan’s Dumplings provoked unprecedented attention at the 2005 Melbourne International Film Festival, first and foremost because of its controversial and idiosyncratic narrative, but also because…

Out of the pastoral Unlike the overwhelming majority of films about the war in the former Yugoslavia, Life Is a Miracle (Kad je zivot bio cudo) teems with character, passion and humour. Kusturica’s…

It’s the visuals, stupid I was recently working on an article about Korean film at the Melbourne International Film Festival. The article was written for a Korean website, in English,…

He composed “Lili Marleen” and, oh yeah, hundreds of other songs and scores When Norbert Schultze, one of the most famous film composers of the twentieth century, died in 2002,…