A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Tanya Wexler, “Hysteria” (2011) A romantic comedy very loosely based on historical fact, “Hysteria” purports to tell how Dr Joseph Mortimer Granville invented the world’s first…
Reino Raamat, “Linn / City” (1988) Earnest and well-meaning, Raamat”s “Linn” is a moral tale of what happens when a town is overcome by industrialisation and…
Priit Pärn and Hille Kusk, “Aeg Maha / Time Out” (1984) “Aeg Maha” is animator Priit Pärn at his most defiantly surrealist best. The entire short…
Robert Stark, “The Stark Truth: Interview with Jim Goad” (Voice of Reason, 20 June 2012) I read Jim Goad’s “The Redneck Manifesto” over a decade ago…
Riho Unt and Hardi Volmer, “Nõiutud Saar (The Enchanted Island)” (1985) Another gem from Tallinnfilm studios and this time it’s a cute stop-motion animation short with…
Julian Assange, “The World Tomorrow (Episode 11: Anwar Ibrahim)” (Russia Today, 3 July 2012) In this final installment in his interview series, Assange goes over to…
Northern European Films, Russian and Soviet Films
Ando Keskküla, “Jänes (The Hare)” (1976) One of the trippiest animation films I have seen since starting this blog and I have seen a fair few,…
Priit Pärn, “Kolmnurk (The Triangle)” (1982) Yet another delightful animation short from this Estonian animator back in the 1980s and thankfully for a non-Estonian speaker like…
Northern European Films, Russian and Soviet Films
Priit Pärn and Hille Kuusk, “Eine Murul (Breakfast on the Grass)” (1987) Inspired by the Edouard Manet painting “Luncheon on the Grass”, this 25-minute short follows…
Rein Raamat and Kulno Luht, “Suur Tõll”(1980) In Estonian mythology Suur Tõll is a giant hero king who rules the island of Saaremaa off the coast…