Showcasing a Myriad of Landscapes and Cityscapes: The Odessa International Film Festival Giuliano Vivaldi October 2018 Festival Reports Odessa boasts an impressive although often overlooked film history and the idea of staging Ukraine’s major international festival in this city is certainly a fortuitous one. Indeed, the festival organisers were...
Towards a History of Visceral Cinema: Flesh and Excess: On Underground Film, by Jack Sargeant Giuliano Vivaldi September 2017 Book Reviews Jack Sargeant’s latest book Flesh and Excess: On Underground Film is, as he says in the introduction to the volume, a return to, or re-articulation of, “fascinations, idées fixes and simple raw mania” that he h...
Portrait of an Eternal Outsider: The Cinema of Sergei Parajanov by James Steffen Giuliano Vivaldi September 2014 Book Reviews In light of the reputation of Parajanov as one of the giants of late Soviet cinema, and the canonical status of at least two of his most well-known works, the previous lack of an English-language study of his w...