Belgrade, Serbia

Belgrade, Serbia

Tihana from Ergo and other sci-fi

Just when James Cameron thought he will get away with plagiarism, he’s caught! Yugoslavian author Predrag Urosevic claims that his novel from 1984, Tihana iz Erga (Eng: Tihana from Ergo) served as a plot for Cameron’s Avatar. There are at least three similarities with Avatar’s plot, says Urosevic. The man

Attention! Paznja! Achtung!

First of all, the screaming title is there just to get your attention for a somewhat important announcement – if you are linking from your site to the old Belgraded address, (belgrade.org.yu), a quick note to let you know that you are now sending your readers to nowhere – that

What Just Happened?

An interesting way of fighting movie piracy: movie distributor Tuck decided not to run film “What Just Happened” in Belgrade cinemas because the copy of the movie is already freely available on the internet but it’s also possible to buy it at black market stands in the city.

Panchevo city – the zone of the dead

“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

Life and death of Serbian cinema

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.

Yippee-ki-yay…

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

The Golden Plum Awards – Serbian Razzies

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

Gorski Vijenac – the movie

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

In the Beginning there was Kryptonite

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

Belgrade Film Festival recap – FEST 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


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