A Serbian Film

Notorious for its disturbing content, this film has been slightly edited for its American theatrical debut.

"...Sergej Trifunovic, Jelena Gavrilovic and Slobodan Bestic. Is A Serbian Film one of the most artistically audacious anti-war statements..."

May 13, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Film Review: A Serbian Film

"...is a good reason why this is called A Serbian Film: Only the Balkan nation of Serbia could produce..."

March 26, 2010 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival Announces Second Wave of Films

Jeff Nichols' Loving gets a Texas premiere

"...The Austin Film Festival dropped more of its 2016 lineup today, announcing..."

Aug. 23, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

SXSW Film Reviews

Capsule reviews

March 26, 2010 Screens Feature

Fall Film Previews

September

"...fate with that of the best man. The Italian film is set on the last day of the 19th..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Screens Feature

A-B-C-Dethklok

'Metalocalypse' director for Drafthouse anthology plus contest news

"...The list of directors for Drafthouse Film's upcoming horror anthology The ABCs of Death reads like..."

Aug. 28, 2011 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The ABCs of Death

Horror anthology does it down to the letter.

"...A good concept yields scattershot results in this horror-film anthology. The film’s producers lined up 26 directors and..."

March 22, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Obscene Beauty

New series Sunday Bloody Cinema makes the weekend transgressive

"...Blood. Gore. Mutilation. Art. This weekend, new film series Sunday Bloody Cinema will be accentuating the creativity..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Friggin' Genius

SXSW Film announces feature film lineup

"...Think film festivals are all about dour, arty indie pics? Yeah,..."

Feb. 4, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

One Letter Short for 'ABCs of Death 2'

25 director teams announced: Can you bring the mayhem for 'M'?

"...Break out your primers and blood-resistant drop cloths. Drafthouse Films, Timpson Pictures and Magnet have announced the roster of..."

Aug. 14, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

A, B, C, Die!

Alamo Drafthouse/Timpson Films film contest opens

"...room for one more? That would be the Drafthouse Films, Timpson Films, and Magnet Releasing's ABCs of Death, "a..."

June 13, 2011 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Fest Gets Inappropriate

Bumper competition launched

"...Calling all film makers: Fantastic Fest needs a bump. And if that..."

Sept. 6, 2010 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sundance Review: The Sacred, the Profane, and the Silly in Realm of Satan

Playful portrait of the Church of Satan is a Rorschach test

"...There are certain films which serve as a kind of Rorschach test of..."

Feb. 3, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Other Worlds Austin: Other Halves

Start-up shocker is a contentious joy

"...There's always something giddily exciting about a film that splits audiences. And we're not talking dropping The..."

Dec. 8, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

FF2012: 'The Warped Forest'

Fantastic Fest continues its celebration of Japanese oddities

"...a bad thing, and this is not an A Serbian Film-style warning. It's that The Warped Forest is so..."

Sept. 24, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Ass Paddling the Danish Way: 'Klown'-Style

The 'Klown' Rolling Roadshow Canoe Trip gets crunk, drunk, wet

"...with a good stiff paddle, a bunch of tipsy film critics and filmmakers, a flotilla of dodgy canoes, and..."

July 1, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Beautiful People

"...Dzandzanovic and Julian Firth. Beautiful People is the best film about the English immigrant situation since Stephen Frears' My..."

March 31, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bosna!

"...Holocaust. Many of the sights are indelible: an imprisoned Serbian soldier describing his methods of rape and execution, the..."

Nov. 11, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Summit

One of mountaineering's worst disasters remains a deadly mystery despite this documentary's attempt to learn more.

"...some of it horrifying – taken by the American, Serbian, South Korean, Pakistani, and Italian teams – and it..."

Oct. 18, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

La llorona

Supernatural horror explores the wailing soul of a nation denied justice

"...In La Lorrona, the chilling supernatural drama by Guatemalan filmmaker Jayro Bustamante, the grief is that felt by the..."

Aug. 14, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest: 'The Life and Death of a Porno Gang'

Sex and death make a bloody mess in Serbia

"...Porno Gang treads very similar ground to A Serbian Film, the extreme shocker that stretched even the hardest..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Layer Cake

A contemporary gangster film that both looks and feels like a Britnoir classic filtered through the Jam’s bang-on sense of style, Layer Cake takes a realistic approach to Britain’s criminal underclass.

"...number of exquisite King's Cross clothiers. A contemporary gangster film that both looks and feels like a Britnoir classic..."

June 3, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Black Bomber

"...fighting to topple the current dictator, a sort of Serbian Big Brother. Aiding him in his subversive mission is..."

Nov. 3, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Farewell

Loosely based on historic events surrounding the end of the Cold War, this French espionage film shows how some spies are just regular folks.

"...Dafoe, David Soul and Niels Arestrup. This French espionage film, which is loosely based on historic but little-known events,..."

Aug. 20, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Excess Baggage

"...to star in, co-produce, and help cast her own film. Personally, though, I admit to some confusion over why..."

Sept. 5, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Everything Went Black: Let's Talk About Pron

Why cineastes should give a fuck about anti-porn rhetoric

"...censoring, or harassing the people who make or exhibit films such as Midnight Cowboy or A Serbian Film and..."

Sept. 5, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Underground

Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes, this is a sprawling, epic, comic tale of life during Yugoslavian wartime.

"...Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, this sprawling, epic tale of life during wartime..."

May 15, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

In the Land of Blood and Honey

Angelina Jolie steps behind the camera to helm this picture she also wrote, which focuses on the emotional fallout of the Bosnian War.

"...Jolie’s debut as a writer/director most effective – the film’s gritty and realistic depiction of the horrors of ethnic..."

Feb. 24, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Five Films Improved by a Stiff Drink

We laughed, we cried, we passed out

"...The Big Lebowski (1998): Has any one film done more to ruin a drink? Ever since the..."

July 21, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Top 10 Festival Films You Haven't Seen Yet

Fox fairies, ultra-violence, and amnesia dominated 2015

"...you ate that sandwich, or that bill passed. But films get weird in a town like Austin, where the..."

Jan. 2, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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