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Panchevo city – the zone of the dead

June 9, 2008

“In the industrial town of Pančevo a dangerous biochemical toxine becomes airborne in the middle of the night, poisoning the inhabitants. The infection spreads all over the town and it seems like the Armageddon is happening.
Meanwhile, a police-escorted prisoner transport supervised by Interpol sets off to Belgrade. A seemingly routine assignment escalates into a hellish [...]

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Life and death of Serbian cinema

February 4, 2008

An interesting trailer for an upcoming low budget movie that could shake the stale Serbian cinematography:
The Life and Death of a Porno Gang – (Zivot i smrt porno bande – trejler) directed by Mladen Djordjevic
Porn, blood, gore, violence, drugs and rocknroll. We definetely need more films like this.
The author is already pretty famous after his [...]

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Yippee-ki-yay…

January 18, 2008

Very much aware of the danger that lurks everytime Kusturica is mentioned on this blog, and in any kafana politics conversation, for that matter, this recent case of Kusta’s insanity is too much for me to let it go by unnoticed:
„God forgive Bruce Willis for all his earthy sins that he commited on and off [...]

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The Golden Plum Awards – Serbian Razzies

July 11, 2007

Bloggers and readers of B92 blog managed to do the impossible in the past week – to choose the worst Serbian films, actors and actresses, among other things, and practically founded Golden Plum Awards – our version of Razzies. It seems that this event will be marked as a historic one, because the idea found [...]

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King Alexander and Cinematography

July 9, 2007

Well dear friends, we supposed you were slightly paniked when you saw that Belgrade 2.0 was down for a while, since our database had an error. We’re now online, full with ideas and read to kick, so now we continue with an unconventional subject, the murder of king Alexander of Yugoslavia.
From many considered to be [...]

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Gorski Vijenac – the movie

June 6, 2007

The upcoming student movie Gorski Vijenac (eng. Mountain Wreath) is based on a poem of the same name by Petar Petrovic Njegos, a 19th century Serbian-Montenegrin ruler and a poet. Njegos was in charge of what today is Montenegro, in turbulent times while the Ottoman occupation of todays Balkan was coming to an end. Gorski [...]

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In the Beginning there was Kryptonite

April 27, 2007

If there’s something common to all the people around the world, it’s probably that cute eagerness to come up with the most hilarious excuses and alibis when facing their own responsibility for their misery is dangerously close to the point where they have to question their own good nature and abilities. Even in such a [...]

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Belgrade Film Festival recap – FEST 2007

March 5, 2007

Another Belgrade FEST came to an end, so i think it’s time to post impressions here.
I managed to see a lot of movies this year, most of them in Sava Centar. This was maybe a mistake because the movies that played in other cinemas, Dvorana kulturnog centra, Dom sindikata and Kinoteka were smaller movies that [...]

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Kusturica awarded with France’s Order of the Knight of Arts and Literature of the first degree

February 11, 2007

The Serbian filmmaker from Sarajevo Emir Kusturica received recently in Paris the France’s Order of the Knight of Arts and Literature of the first degree by the French Minister of Culture, Rennaud Donnadieu de Vabres. After this great event, Kusturica is the third personality from former Yugoslavia to receive such an order, along [...]

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Rocky Balboa coming to Serbia

February 7, 2007
You probably think that I’m going to write about the film now. No, I haven’t seen it yet, but I plan to. Well, the 6th “Rocky” is not going to be the subject of this post, but another curiosity (are we getting used to them by now?) In case you haven’t heard about it yet [...]
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Urban Belgrade myths: Belgrade phantom (Beogradski fantom)

December 3, 2006

Belgrade Phantom (Serbian: Beogradski Fantom) is a nickname of the guy who night after night repeatedly managed to run away in a white Porsche from the cops who were driving their Zastava’s in the late seventies. His real name was Vlada Vasiljevic, a small time crook apparently very good in stealing cars and with particular [...]

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Chinese movie “Summer Palace” banned in Serbia

November 30, 2006

Just minutes before the movie Summer Palace (Serbian: Letnja Palata) that was supposed to open Novi festival autorskog filma in Dvorana Kulturnog Centra cinema rolled, Serbian authories came to the rescue and pulled the movie off the Festival because apparently China threatened to freeze all diplomatic activities with Serbia if the movie is shown. Infact, [...]

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More Yugoslav / Serbian film

August 9, 2006

At the risk of lack of variety more on film. An opinion and news about funding for the Serbian film industry.
This probably isn’t the right place for me to start preaching about how much more there is to former Yug film than just Kusturica (and now Tanovic, or even Zbanic) but I will do so [...]

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Kinoteka – Yugoslav Film archive

July 28, 2006

This is a slight departure for the Belgrade blog but nonetheless deserves attention.
Some will have heard about the Yugoslav film archive Kinoteka – reputedly it has one of the richest collections in Europe and is estimated to be worth millions of Euros. In recent years many films have been stored in poor conditions and its [...]

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