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I’m interested in the edge of human existence | Interview with Oscar-winning director, Elizabeth Chai Vásárhelyi
The most astonishing free solo climb in human history, rescuing the Thai youth soccer team from a cave, swimming from Cuba to Florida—these are all stories that the world got to know through Elizabeth Chai Vásárhelyi’s films. At the graduation ceremony of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design,
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Oppenheimer’s partners from Central and Eastern Europe
Christopher Nolan’s new film tells the story of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb. The latter, of course, required many other scientists—many of whom came to the United States from Central and Eastern Europe.
Throughout the twentieth century, many
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Miyazaki Hayao’s new film to be released in North America this year
US-based distributor Gkids has acquired North American rights to Japanese animation director Miyazaki Hayao’s final movie. It will release it as The Boy and the Heron.
The highly-anticipated film released in Japanese theaters earlier on Friday as Kimitachi wa Do Ikiruka (“How Do You Live”). Producer Studio Ghibli made
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Czech-made glassware features in the new Barbie film
The pink glasses and drinking jugs featured in the upcoming movie hail from the Czech workshops of the Klimchi company.
One of the most anticipated films of the summer, Barbie opens in Czechia this week, on 20 July, and viewers will feel a hint of pride when they see one
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New Karlovy Vary Film Festival trailer filmed in Budapest with Johnny Depp
In this humorous video, the Hollywood star is interviewed at the Gellért Hotel in Budapest about why he hasn’t won an award at the Czech Film Festival yet.
From 30 June to 8 July, the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the region’s most prestigious film event, will take
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Exhibition including original sets from Wes Anderson’s new film opens in London
Fans, attention! In addition to the many objects used during the filming, which are characteristic of the director’s aesthetic, the exhibition will also recreate one of the key locations of the story.
Wes Anderson’s latest film, which premiered at Cannes, is about to hit cinemas worldwide. Asteroid City
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Now you too can move into a movie fashion icon’s home | Manhattan home of the Prada-wearing Devil Boss for sale
The Devil Wears Prada is a true classic among fashion fans, as viewers get a behind-the-scenes look at the operation of a fashion magazine, complete with amazing outfits, New York parties, and a trip to Paris. But what’s also memorable is the Upper East Side home of Miranda Priestly,
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A film shot in Prague wins the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film
All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues) is the first German-language adaptation of Remarque’s famous war-themed novel, and it won several awards at Sunday night's Academy Awards.
All Quiet in the Western Front, a film about the horrors of the First World War, based on Erich
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New Alien movie to be shot in Budapest
In addition to the cast, 20th Century Studios has also announced that shooting of the ninth Alien film will begin on 9 March in Budapest.
While the premise for the yet-to-be-titled movie has been kept under wraps, the studio did reveal that the film will follow “a group of young
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Hollywood celebrities, Ukrainian war analysis, and regional films at the 2023 Berlinale
Kristen Stewart, Steven Spielberg, Bono, and even Zelenskyy made an appearance at the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival, where besides Sean Penn’s war documentary, several regional films made their debut.
Although the Berlinale is a little less glamorous than its Mediterranean sisters, Cannes and Venice, its independence from Hollywood
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BAFTA awards Czech sound engineer
Czech sound engineer Viktor Prasil has won the BAFTA award for the best sound for his work in the film All Quiet on the Western Front.
The new film adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s book has won seven awards—the most ever for a non-English language film. Much of
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Estonian-Croatian animated film Eeva premieres at the Berlinale
The Estonian-Croatian short animated film Eeva will have its international premiere at the Berlinale Film Festival in Germany on the 16th of February.
The film was made by Morten Csinakov and Lucija Mrzljak and is a collaboration between Eesti Joonisfilm and Adriatic Animation. The plot follows Eeva on the day
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Sean Penn’s documentary on Ukraine to premiere at Berlinale
The movie Superpower will premiere out-of-competition in February at the Berlin Film Festival.
After the outbreak of war, the world was filled with commentary from Sean Penn, who was in Ukraine making a film about President Zelenskyy when the war broke out. So the planned documentary turned into something very
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Jerzy Skolimowski’s film shortlisted for the Oscars
Jerzy Skolimowski’s latest film, EO, is nominated in the Best International Feature Film category.
EO is a vision of modern Europe seen through the eyes of a donkey on a journey, meeting different people and experiencing joy and pain.
EO has already won the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize,
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Slovenian Film Day launches tomorrow in Budapest
On the occasion of the event, the director of Sanremo, Slovenia’s Oscar nominee this year, will also visit Budapest.
On Thursday 27 October 2022 at 8 pm, the sixth Slovenian Film Days will begin with the screening of Slovenia’s 2022 Oscar nominee Sanremo at the Toldi Cinema in
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Brutalism and personal stories in the spotlight | Film and Architecture Festival 2022
During the event, 34 short and feature films will be screened in 24 cities in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and participants are invited to discussions with filmmakers and experts.
The festival aims to draw attention not only to renowned figures in the profession, but also to the lesser-known creators
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Thanks to Airbnb, anyone can spend a night in the Scooby-Doo van
Unbelievable, but this summer marks the 20th anniversary of the cult classic live-action film adaptation of Scooby-Doo. To celebrate, Shaggy actor Matthew Lillard has joined Airbnb to host some lucky fans in the Mystery Machine.
Guests can profit from the experience offered by the Mystery Machine for only $20 a
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Artist duo | Anna Pakosz & Dañila Kostil
Anna Pakosz is an artist known for her paintings portraying female figures with a characterful aesthetic, and she brings them closer to the viewer through multi-sensory events. Her partner, Dañila Kostil works as a director on international music videos and commercials, and in his spare time he often experiments
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This is why we love “The Informant” | Interview with production designer Imola Láng
Citrus yellow portable MINI-VIDI, pastel blue plastic milk carton holder, red leatherette club chairs, pink minyon (Hungarian cream-filled cake—The Transl.) on metal drawer cabinet. These all appear in the show called “The Informant.” Being object-obsessed design theorists, we were immediately sucked in by the film. It was a no-brainer
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From The French Chef to Göcsej pecsenye
Gastronomy and food are almost everywhere: in high art and in the various products of mass culture. In our current HypeLAB episode, we look at the food that appears in the cinema and on the TV screen. What does a Michelin-starred Hungarian chef have to do with Pixar’s popular
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Award-winning Ukrainian films everyone should watch at least once
Since its independence, Ukraine has placed great emphasis on national film production. During the 30 years, cinema has gone through different periods, from stagnation to rebirth, and then to the international awards it received at the Cannes, Berlin, Locarno and Karlovy Vary film festivals. Unfortunately, the Ukrainian film heritage was
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What happens when an exhausted repairman, a frustrated wife and a depressed deer meet? Nothing good. | Watch SH_T HAPPENS!
An absurd love triangle in a panel building, where the only thing that can grant absolution for the characters is a pigeon with an olive branch in its beak. Or not even that?
“When all hell strikes…” perhaps this is how the essence of the Czech film SH_T HAPPENS
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The house from the Polish animated film was built in real life
Polish architect Bogusław Barnaś and his brother, the visualization artist Rafał, have created something unique on the borderline between architecture and animation: an award-winning animated short film from an architectural design, which has now been built in reality. The Polish Farmhouse is ready!
Bogusław Barnaś founded the BXB studio in
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It's like suddenly finding yourself in Squid Game
The characteristic world of the record-breaking South Korean Netflix production is brought to life in the interior of a Chinese guesthouse. The colors, the shapes, the winding staircases are straight out of the show, but there’s a twist: the designers were not inspired by the show.
The reference is,
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Behind the scenes with the art director of Wes Anderson’s latest film
After a long time, the movie world is in Wes Anderson fever again as The French Dispatch has debuted. The film’s plot revolves around the foreign bureau of an American journalist, as expected, it promises to be the most “Wesandersonal” film of all time.
As usual, Wes Anderson’s
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Designers and manufacturers—Part 4 | Balázs Botos and Gyula Mihály
Without a kiln of his own, Balázs Botos used to seek out other designers for contract firing, but now he has found a partner with whom he can work with mutual support. This is Gyula Mihály, a silicate design artist, and his unusual workshop, where there are many other treasures
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Animated short film about the legendary boxer Laci Papp wins award
The Cinemira KIDS International Children’s Film Festival, featuring a wide range of sold-out events, closed with an awards ceremony over the weekend. The Golden Squirrel Award for the Best Short Film for Children from Hungary went to the animation entitled Papp Laci, directed by Ervin B. Nagy.
The Cinemira
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Wes Anderson has transformed an entire French city for his latest film
Wes Anderson’s films are well known for their characterful, dreamlike sets, and this will be no different with The French Dispatch, coming on 22 October.
Instead of shooting the film in several different locations, the Andersons looked for a small French town, Angoulême, which they transformed one to one.
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East by MADA_Belgrade | 5 songs and 1 film that'll get you in the Belgrade mood
Belgrade’s musical symbols, the city’s favorite artist, a song evoking the eighties and a film, or rather an urban comedy in the Belgrade night: today, we recommend songs and a movie.
This time, Nikola Andonov, Aleksandar Ristović, and Stefan Stojanović, the founders of architecture studio MADA, help us
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Eastern European directors at Friss Hús Festival! | Part 1
Thanks to the Friss Hús Short Film Festival, Budapest’s Toldi Cinema will once again be filled with life between May 27 and June 2. Now we asked a few directors of movies related to Eastern Europe in one way or another about their thoughts of Budapest, what they would
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Special museums in Eastern Europe | TOP 5
We usually imagine a visit to a museum as a time travel between many, many artifacts, but nowadays there are more and more unusual, interactive, unique themed exhibitions that are much more fun than you might think at first. In our selection today, we present museums in which a tour
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Preserving memories | The Memory
Nowadays, we store thousands of recordings of our loved ones on our mobile, which fills us with relief. “Yes, we got it, we recorded it”: a child’s first steps, grandma’s birthday, the first apartment together and we could list more. At the same time, the question arises as
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Concept to reality | Epic Creations
Looks like a hundred-ton body, yet it weighs almost nothing; it’s sharp but
couldn’t harm a fly; could be made for three months, but can only be seen for a
few seconds on screen. What are we talking about exactly? With the help of
Budapest-based Epic Creations, we
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Movie posters | Concepción Studios
We found the super cool posters of Concepción Studios a few weeks back and we
immediately browsed through their entire feed, it’s all so rad! We suspected
Spanish roots behind the brand name at first, but it turned out that it’s a
Californian studio, who have worked with