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Radical Filmmaking & Killing Penises: An Interview with Miguel Llansó on Infinite Summer

"I first wanted to kill the penis."

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Infinite Summer

Perfectly fits into the contemporary Estonian film landscape with its ironic genre play, strange sexual verve, and popping embrace of quirky digital visuals.

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Laguna

Grief can be foreboding like a lagoon; it can simultaneously and contrapuntally be a site for a baptismal-like transformation. Laguna understands this.

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Interview with Director Valentyn Vasyanovych & Producer Volodymyr Yatsenko on To the Victory!

We would like to say to the readers of this article: pay attention to your family, to your friends. There probably is not that much time left, so have fun.

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To the Victory!

More hopeful than most of contemporary Ukrainian cinema.

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Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel

Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel resists the ordinary in favor of the idiosyncratic and renegade.

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Motorcycle Summer

Klassiki Journal

Video Essay: The Soviet Jean-Luc Godard Hollywood Forgot

“Our very own Godard”

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GO TO: Faithful unto Death (2024) dir. Ivars Zviedris

Faithful unto Death will be having its North American premiere this Saturday, May 17, at the West Newton Cinema.

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Rolands Kalniņš: riding the Baltic New Wave with “Latvia’s Godard”

One of the most important Latvians to ever stand behind a camera.

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The Klassiki Podcast: Jonas Mekas — a Lithuanian abroad

I was honored to join host Sam Goff on the Klassiki Podcast to discuss the life and work of the Lithuanian avant garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas.

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BBFF Interview: Tomas Vengris

Part of the Boston Baltic Film Festival 2025

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BBFF Interview: Laurynas Bareiša

Part of the Boston Baltic Film Festival 2025

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BBFF Dispatch #5: Period Pictures

Part of the Boston Baltic Film Festival 2025

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BBFF Dispatch #4: Cats and Sculptures

Part of the Boston Baltic Film Festival 2025

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BBFF Dispatch #3: Is It Easy to Be … Trilogy

Part of the Boston Baltic Film Festival 2025.

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BBFF Dispatch #2: Two Baltic Movies Prominently Featuring Lakes

Part of the Boston Baltic Film Festival 2025

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BBFF Dispatch #1: Three Highlights from Estonia, Latvia, & Lithuania

The following dispatch features reviews of Podnieks on Podnieks. A Witness to History; Five and a Half Love Stories in an Apartment in Vilnius, Lithuania; & Lioness.

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Orenda — Pirjo Honkasalo [IFFR ’25 Review]

Orenda is by no means a bad film and in fact mightily impresses in moments, its inconsistency undermines testimony of any genuine orenda.

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Year Ender: Joshua Polanski's Top Ten Films of 2024

In a year darkened by ethnic cleansing, global conflict, and hopeless elections, it’s beautiful that beauty, more than depravity, captivates the minds of our best artists.

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Black Velvet

A genre-defiant drama about depression with a formalist flare, the Latvian-Lithuanian co-production Black Velvet uses some killer editing and funky cinematography to zero in on the strangeness and alienating effect of that unique sadness.

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Anna LOL

Anna may not feel anything, but any audience even half paying attention will. Anna LOL is a remarkable film, and it is one of the best Baltic films I have seen so far this year.

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Deaf Lovers

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Life & Love

A good film about the psychology of desire, enticing and toxic power dynamics, and the messy pain of love.

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Tesa Man

The music speaks clearly enough.